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Perfectly balanced, enjoyed the racing, the track was good, mildy really had eastie by the gooleys but never pushed on. Dunno if wood had a bike issue not to be in ht15. mildy def favs but at half way it looked a rout, eastie battled well

Shocking stuff

Panto season just round the corner, this lot of rubbish is the warm up, what a tragic sport speedway has become in england

People will blame Eastbourne for a gung ho effort to try and race yest and they fell 45 mins short, today is the prime reason there are fans leaving speedway in bucket loads, beautiful day , what a joke.

after 5 hours in the pissing rain , wind and cold at fontwell I couldn't wait to get home

Next weekends long range fc isnt good either

fyi its buxton 60-30 eastie if they ever get round to running that

well don smederna, excellent thruout the final, dackarna were bloody awful mind

Like it or not there are 3 leagues, what is being mooted will probably put the weak sides in the nl out of business immediately. For me speedway and greyhound racing are along similar lines, mobbed in the 60s to the end of the 90s, in steady decline ever since and only heading one way.

Exactly, the kent forum warrior didn't think before he posted last night, sorry for Georgie and a bit sick for eastie too

My only thoughts are too many sides having chasms between meetings and the largest gulf between best and worst in any league ever

Yep, i think if i was mildys boss thats where i would go

essentially everyones riding for 2nd place anyway, but it beggars belief why sides have 5-6 wk breaks with no meetings in mid summer. It could even be that the only side with the remotest sniff of giving mildy a match over 2 legs wont qualify

Nobody cares, 4 heat leaders and 3 second strings, utter shoite

Hottest summer for 40 yrs and teams are flapping and squawking trying to complete fixtures by a given date.

Its just scary how good mildy are this year, theyve lost at least 7 points with josh bailey out and still won easy. Just no stopping them

the race night is a massive positive wether you are from herts, Essex, surrey, Timbuctoo or anywhere

that's probably the most sensible thing to have happened in speedway for about 25 yrs, I feel for the rye fans but they've local riders in the lakeside team and I think they will get belting crowds at hoddesdon of a Saturday night

from national league evidence I was amazed Swindon signed smith, his form away from belle vue is pretty modest tbh, tom has limited experience of the bigger tracks but is excellent on the smaller ones, his big plus is he has good kit too.

just the worst thing to happen, the 3rd heatleader to get crocked with play offs looming, irreplacable

Last heat decider, i think its a massive neg for kent having hurry in for injured bowen and mr boxhall

clegg needs to get out of the stoke side, they've dragged him into the gutter with themselves

Im not anti the third tier, I enjoy it, however its very hard to find a competitive match to go and see week in week out with 2 closely matched sides . As the previous poster says, if these potential changes to the 2nd tier are mooted then the relevant parties need to know asap.

Plenty of doom n gloom in speedway at the moment ,but in its guise as the 3rd tier does this league have any future long term?. As in most divisions money definitely talks, weve got a chasm between good and bad sides and it seems to be growing year on year. One could argue that maybe Eastbourne, brum and possibly mildy or even kent if they sorted the curfew would be capable and have the facilities to move up a division if required. Weve got sides that are struggling badly , buxton , the iow despite the best promotion are struggling to be competitive , Coventry are in a permanent state of flux, moving on to stoke that really are a bit of a disgrace in all honesty with never ending track issues and a poor side. Plymouth, despite its outpost and terrible injuries seem to be doing ok . What happen if sides in the championship go pop and there is lots of restructuring to be done?.

The feel bad factor at stoke, good grief,every rider that goes there regresses so fast, getting walloped by a side with top 2 missing and no reps. Great stuff from kent btw , stoke are rank