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Welcome to the Speedway Tower. 
Enjoy your stay. 

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Welcome to the Speedway Tavern. 
What's the news today? 

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Have a drink, have your say. 
All opinions here today. 

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Welcome to the Speedway time. 
Enjoy your stay, wedding GA and 

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man. 
I'm here today. 

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Welcome to the Speedway Time. 
So we have a six team top league

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and thank God for that. 
Except I am old enough to know 

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and stop sniggering in the back.
I'm old enough to remember 

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leagues of over 20 teams. 
Still, we have to admit it's 

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better than it could have been 
and better than we feared. 

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So we can now say welcome to the
Premiership, to our newest team,

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Northampton, a team that will be
promoted by well we don't know. 

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The team will be named we don't 
know with colours we don't know,

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and the team will consist of 
seven riders that we also don't 

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know. 
The first match will be well we 

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know that. 
April the 20th, we think. 

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Also welcome to Robert Coleman, 
who's just taken over a tip 

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switch, who says that the 
product is not the problem, that

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the promotion of the problem has
been the problem, and his 

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ruffled feathers in the process.
Only in Speedway. 

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Love it, Love it. 
Good evening, gentlemen. 

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In the studio we have Chris 
Webby Brown, we've got Matt, 

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Buck and myself. 
Am I going by Michael these days

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or am I going by GA now? 
OK, idiot, idiot. 

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That'll idiot work as well. 
Before we get started, it is 

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strange when you hear of one of 
your heroes because in your mind

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that hero is still as they used 
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Hearing that that person is 70 
years old and Les Rumsey was one

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of my heroes, was a a rider that
I I we'll have seen Rowford 

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Canterbury much of his career 
and won the title with them. 

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Sadly passed away the week just 
a week or so ago. 

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So we'd just like to say all of 
our thoughts are with Les 

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Romsey's family. 
Rest in peace. 

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Bit before my time was very very
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He was in the bill. 
Fated National League season in 

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81, yeah. 
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that's his family and friends, 
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probably the club that he's best
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Associated with. 
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So anyway, oh, Webbie's joining 
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Hello. 
He's. 

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Got boards sitting around there 
so he decided to come round 

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here. 
We should tell everybody we have

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a new or spangled system that. 
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Good, isn't it? 
Yeah, it does look good. 

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Yeah. 
That Webbie spent a pound on. 

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Likely See what we've done with 
the prediction legs. 

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Well, there are things that you 
can do with that, which Chris 

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will tell you about in a moment,
but basically you can join in 

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this show a lot easier now 
without using your pennies on 

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your telephone. 
You don't need to download 

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anything like Zoom either. 
You just need your computer, 

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basically. 
I'm all right, Yeah. 

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And and the muttering in the in 
the background there was Chris 

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saying yes, Yep, we don't give 
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Microphone when he's up here so.
So, OK, so we have a new team 

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which we can't say an awful lot 
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We would have loved to have 
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we just don't know what's going 
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Well, it's still not really 
ideal, is it 6 teams? 

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It's not, it's not ideal either 
of the fact that we're in onto 

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the 10th of March and we've only
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I mean, we, we know who the team
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We've we've known for weeks. 
But we spoke about this last 

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time. 
It's just this big. 

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Secret that nobody allowed to 
talk about, I think, But I think

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even at this stage, you know, we
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yet and I think they've already 
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because we can't be in a 
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line where this happens again. 
Surely that lad are looking at 

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it, Surely. 
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talking about. 
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saying but beyond the end of the
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Now, sometimes not this, 
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say, and there's the first one 
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Hey, hey, I'm like to say I'm 
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disappointed. 
You'll surely get somebody to to

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do this on purpose, wouldn't 
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And there's another. 
Reason. 

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There you go. 
Oh, sorry for the second one. 

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Yeah. 
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I mean, and it's it's absolutely
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Northampton team doesn't just 
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without, I don't want to bring 
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happened last season with, well,
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barely winning a meeting. 
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How do they avoid it that I 
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pull something out of the bag 
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Well, you'd like to think that, 
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been made. 
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the obvious 1 really is John 
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being fixed up with Bellevue 
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So he's pretend, I mean, right, 
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Australian championship. 
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strongest of fields in that 
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he could sit, he could still, 
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that could be, you know, come 
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Northampton. 
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E rider as well, because it's 
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knows what the track is going to
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We've seen photographs of the 
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It looks a pretty good venue, 
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there. 
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been a fair amount of money 
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And obviously for now, much like
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to get to Northampton as well. 
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for us on a wide day visit this 
well, all the all the way David.

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It's for me nowadays, but. 
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I did have a look at where it 
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not too bad. 
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half away from where I live. 
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probably a bit closer of you, 
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So other than that. 
Got a chance? 

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Yeah, Yeah. 
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Well, we wish them well and 
it's, it's, you know, it's, it's

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nice as well that we've got 
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getting a track opening rather 
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what we've had over the last few
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And positive that Ipswich has 
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Now we've got a little bit more 
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guess including, I mean, he's 
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We should say that. 
I forgot his name. 

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Richard. 
Richard Carman, thank you. 

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Is part of the company, Mayfield
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rights to the FIM Speedway World
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So he knows what he's talking 
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He's done a few other things as 
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is involved with Red Bull in one
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I can't remember which one, but 
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going to guess, but yeah. 
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he's come out and said and. 
I did think we might talk about 

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this to be honest. 
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feathers and the the first thing
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well I know has ruffled some 
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said our main concerns were also
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league as a whole and the 
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in the UK. 
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imagine they're going well. 
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us. 
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and I think there should be more
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I think there should be more, 
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More of the the concern of the 
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your interest. 
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attitude that has brought things
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In this In this. 
Mess. 

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Exactly, he's gone on to say. 
I'm just reading from the speed 

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by star, by the way. 
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It's one of the best 
publications, sports 

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publications around, I think. 
Yeah, don't take it for granted,

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people. 
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is that it is not promoted in 
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During my address to the FIM 
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went off on a tangent about the 
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Darts was huge in the 70s and 
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was dying. 
Total revenue was 6.5 million in

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2006. 
Today it is 59 million. 

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We'd like to 2.6 million. 
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overweight men stood at the 
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a board the crowd cannot see. 
So now he's now upset everybody 

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that likes darts. 
I cannot say without a big 

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screen. 
The sport is promoted extremely 

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well. 
It is fun, there's a great 

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atmosphere and the players 
stories are told, all their 

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rivalries, history and drama. 
Our sport is so rich in this 

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regard and yet woefully 
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Allow me my blissful ignorance, 
but Ipswich needs to be a loud 

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voice within the BSPL and the 
other teams and we need to lead 

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by example. 
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rugby, I don't think in the 
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I don't, yeah, I don't think it 
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I mean, I've heard, I've heard 
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It's going to be interesting to 
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a few people on the programme to
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year. 
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Can't really disagree with that 
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I can't, I think I can't I. 
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has been promoted properly, you 
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now. 
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that there's nothing to stop 
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today's age. 
It has a short format, doesn't 

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require a big attention span. 
It's exciting. 

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It's 500CC motorbikes with no 
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The product itself is not the 
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The promotion of that product 
has been the problem. 

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Which is what has he been 
listening to our show? 

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Because that's what we've been 
saying for a long time. 

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Yeah, the only thing I would 
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bit of 20 years ago when Reading
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Sports and they came in with all
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I was going. 
Within 18 months, they'd 

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obviously pulled out. 
And, you know, The upshot is, of

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course, reading only ran for 
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I'm not saying that was 
Benfield's fault. 

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No, no, I don't think that 
helped. 

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The problem that the possible 
potential problem is that he's 

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come in so brash and bold and 
he's ruffles too many feathers 

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and I don't let him do that. 
He's going to he's, he's got a 

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battle ahead, ahead ahead of him
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of. 
John John Berry wasn't was first

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to ruffle with a few feathers 
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No, he was a hugely successful 
priority for for many, many 

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years. 
It's he's he's not the first 

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from after that's come in and 
and done that. 

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Speedway was in a much better 
position than it was than it 

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than it is now. 
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And at the end of the day, it's 
like, you know, if you keep 

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doing this, it's it's a sign of 
madness, isn't it? 

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If you keep doing the same thing
and expecting a different 

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result, it's just not, you know,
that's madness. 

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Yeah. 
There you go. 

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Who brought the Turkey in? 
Pete Clark, says Totney. 

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He'll probably get He'll 
probably find him totally got 

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fond for wearing a hat. 
So breath of fresh air, I think 

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I mean, so some of the things 
that you spoke about nothing 

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wrong with Speedway. 
It's a short format. 

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It's not a short format, not the
way it's done, not the way it's 

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done. 
It's it's a lot. 

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There's just too much downtime, 
far too much downtime. 

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And that's that's needs to be 
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It needs to be made more 
exciting in the same way that 

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dart as as he speaks about 
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thing. 
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time coming on to the match than
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I'm not personally a huge darts 
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I do see you can't dispute that 
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you know, there's a real 
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And, you know, you can sense 
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amongst the crowd for, for the 
action to start. 

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And that's something that 
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It's got all, it's got all the 
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to be a, you know, really 
exciting sport. 

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But quite often it's just one 
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around on the territory and. 
Asking something to happen and 

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and the clientele again, older 
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new people are we're just 
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weather. 
It it needs to be improved. 

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It needs to have technology 
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and so on. 
I mean, I've said this for a 

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long time. 
I cannot believe, yeah, that 

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we're in 2026 and there is not 
an official British Speedway 

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app. 
I can't believe it. 

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Well, you can. 
Well, you can't just. 

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It's just every other 
professional sport. 

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Their governing bodies got one, 
haven't they? 

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So was that for me to read? 
Yeah, it doesn't matter. 

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Now, OK, you've got nothing. 
Now I've got nothing there and. 

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You're missing a really great 
show, yeah. 

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French, Graham says A comment 
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promoters of the Championship 
and BSPL and Premiership do not 

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talk to each other, so this 
could be a reason, Seymour. 

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Is it so, Seymour? 
Yeah. 

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Oh no, I can't do that anymore. 
Oh. 

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You can't do it. 
No, no, no. 

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Oh, I can't read. 
Sorry Fred, I can't read the 

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rest of your comments. 
There we go. 

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Can you read it now? 
Nope. 

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You must be up to Nope. 
It's on Facebook. 

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Let's not, let's not, let's not 
have a row on the air. 

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Oh, let's have a row on the air 
that would be speed by. 

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Can you see it here? 
We go never. 

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The twine shell mate comes to 
mind. 

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That could be a reason why one 
big league didn't happen. 

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Well, I think it's quite well 
known that, I mean, the 

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Premiership and the Prep 
Championship are almost prompted

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as separate identities, aren't 
they really? 

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I don't think helps. 
Yeah, I don't. 

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I don't think it helps. 
I can't believe it didn't become

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one league, one big league. 
But I think the nail was hit 

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firmly on the head there that 
they don't talk to each other. 

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They don't. 
They've got a different way of 

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doing things, haven't they? 
And you have to, I guess you 

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have to say at the moment the 
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successful league. 
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well supported the club as all 
there are only ever known as 

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being a top flight club. 
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probably looking forward to the 
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and I'm watching the Premiership
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as a neutral. 
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And obviously we will be, we 
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Championship teams obviously as 
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are constructed. 
So we are going to start sort of

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now that we've got all the 
nonsense out of the way, then we

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can. 
Start looking at who we think's 

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going to win the damn thing and 
get it totally wrong as per as 

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per normal. 
Yeah, Phil Tyler says. 

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Even Plymouth have an app this 
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can get one up and running so. 
You, you would, you would think,

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I mean, I have spoke to 
different promoters at times 

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about this and they've all come 
up with the answer that it costs

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too much. 
And I've said, well, I know 

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somebody that's in in university
at the moment that would do it 

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for you. 
And in fact, he even started 

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started doing it on my sci 
scisis start start putting it 

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together. 
And he did, which is my son, 

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because he was in university 
learning computer science and he

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would have done it as a project 
for, for university for I think.

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You've told me this story before
and it was just, you know, there

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wasn't any interest. 
Wasn't. 

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There no interest whatsoever so 
hopefully yeah yeah people 

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realise that the. 
Jim Turrell says the new 

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promoter of the Witches has got 
it right. 

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Basically, kick out the Deadwood
and let fresh grass grow. 

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Too many promoters stuck in 
their own ways and not for the 

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better of the sport. 
The sport is run by individual 

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clubs and this and it, It 
shouldn't be run by individual 

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clubs, it should be run for the 
sport, not for the clubs. 

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And as soon as you have that 
situation, I can't think of 

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another sport that does that. 
No, I can't. 

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It doesn't happen anywhere else.
May have a say, but not to the 

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extent that they do in Speedway.
No, it's yeah, I find it 

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frustrating is what I find it 
because this is a great sport. 

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And the other thing that it was 
talking about excitement that 

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always promote Speedway as 
family sport or families ain't 

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turning up anymore. 
What do families want? 

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Extreme excitement, extreme 
sports, isn't it? 

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Yeah. 
You look at all the stuff going 

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on the Winter Olympics, all the,
all the, the sports that are up 

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and coming that are getting the 
bigger crowds are, are things 

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like the snowboarding and the, 
the, the snowboard cross and, 

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and you know, the, the extremes,
the, the ones where they do like

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go up in the air and you know 
those, that's what you need to 

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look at. 
I don't, I don't think it's like

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that, that people have got a 
short attention span at the 

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moment. 
I think it's just that they used

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to their hours being filled with
something and sitting down or 

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standing, twiddling your thumbs 
while the tractor goes round. 

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And maybe you can't avoid the 
tractor going round, but there 

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are other things that you could 
be doing while the tractor's 

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going round. 
So anyway, that's it. 

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We've, we've, we're all, all in 
agreement. 

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I hope, I hope it works out for 
you. 

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I'm sorry, just hope it works 
out for you. 

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Have we got any comments on the?
Yeah, Simon Corbett, the I 

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should say Simon, the former 
Prediction League champion, 

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robbing it a bit. 
Robbing it if if you've got a 

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solid side. 
I would agree with that to be 

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honest, with all the stuff 
that's been going on in the side

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being put together light. 
It's it's not bad. 

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It's not got it's not obviously 
not got the the razmatazz of 

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having daughter. 
It's offered off at the top end.

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Obviously we will talk about the
Premiership more in the next 

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couple of weeks I think once we 
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who's going to be running in the
Northampton time. 

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But I think having Scott Nichols
particular, that one stood out 

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for me because that sort of adds
more respectful fuel to the 

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speculation that Scotty's 
looking to make this his last 

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season, this season. 
Final. 

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Obviously a final season that 
he's at his home town club. 

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How old is he now? 
4849 Sorry, Scott. 

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Sorry Scott, I've got that 
wrong. 

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I think it's 48. 
I think. 

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I think you're right. 
Same ages, mate. 

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Yeah. 
How long ago was that? 

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And then it was the same age as 
you. 

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Same. 
Ages my trousers. 

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Yeah, yeah. 
And he'll, he'll do it. 

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I mean, I don't think the league
is as strong as it was last 

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year. 
No, it isn't. 

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It's it's, you know, it's 
effectively a Championship 

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League with one or two extra 
right, with one or two extra big

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names. 
And I think you know. 

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I think TOB tob is much like 
it's going to be a a good sign 

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for them as. 
Well, yeah, certainly do. 

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Well, it depends on which muse 
like they get always. 

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But you know. 
So it's always done well at 

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Ipswich though, hasn't it? 
Yeah, So. 

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Just too expensive for the 
standard of riders in top league

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to pay, said Simon Korbic. 
Well, Bellevue have managed to 

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get Julie and Kurtz again, 
haven't they? 

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So they they certainly won't 
have come cheap. 

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Nope, certainly not. 
So I mean really and truthfully,

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if you go and buy top end 
strength in the in the top 

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league at the moment Bellevue 
look at shoulders I think at 

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the. 
Moment, yeah, I would agree on 

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the. 
Strongest side so. 

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I would agree we don't ever want
to see it, but there's always 

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that whole thing of injuries, 
how do you replace, how do you 

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replace those riders if they get
injured and. 

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Peacock just says 47. 
That's Scott's Nichols age, I 

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think. 
Oh, yeah, right. 

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OK. 
Oh, he's not bragging about 

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anything then. 
OK. 

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That's that's not what I owe him
or anything. 

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Families want excitement and to 
be honest, far too many races 

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are won from the gate, says 
Barry Young. 

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Do you agree with that 
statement? 

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Before I? 
Before I. 

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I agree to a point. 
I think one or two of these 

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clubs put, you know, the 
emphasis on their team winning 

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the meeting as opposed to, you 
know, would you, would, you 

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know, I suppose I think some of 
these promoters would rather a 

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comfortable or maybe not 
comfortable because obviously 

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there were bigger wins, man, 
they have to shell out more. 

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Shell out more money, yeah? 
Prize money, but I think a 

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comfortable, reasonably 
comfortable home win against a 

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team, against a team that sort 
of, you know, maybe struggles to

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win the matches on the home 
track, but. 

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This. 
We've almost, I think we've in a

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sense we've almost made winning 
too important, really. 

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I. 
Think this speaks back to what 

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we was talking about of it being
clubs own interests that come to

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the fore rather than the sport. 
And if the sport was run 

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properly there would be 
something in place to say if a 

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track didn't meet certain 
standards they got fined or 

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something. 
Yeah. 

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You know, as far as I'm aware, 
nothing like that's in place, 

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although maybe somebody at the 
end of. 

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The day the home provider or the
home club, they can set the 

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truck up as they like because at
the end of the day, they're 

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they're going to want the truck 
set up the way their riders want

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it. 
So I mean, we saw last season. 

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And it's been like that for and 
it's not, you know, it's been 

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like that for a very long time. 
Well. 

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We saw in the championship 
playoff final last season, 

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didn't we? 
In the first leg of pull was 

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pretty turgy, wasn't it? 
Not much in the form of great 

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racing. 
And the second leg of Glasgow 

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was an absolute cracker. 
Absolutely. 

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But Paul Wool, Paul will turn 
around and say well, we won the 

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title, so. 
And which is, which again speaks

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to that what I'm saying it's, 
it's you can't blame them as an 

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entity for wanting to do, Oh no,
absolutely the best for their 

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team. 
So you have to take that side of

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it out of the equation. 
Tracks are so important for our 

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for our sport. 
What was it in the act of the 

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crowd? 
He got spent like four or five 

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years without losing a home 
meeting. 

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They were they were not just 
winning our meetings, they were 

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winning our meetings about 6030 
most weeks. 

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But now I don't think the 
crowded fans are too fussed 

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about that because they just 
wanted to see their team win, 

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win. 
So which you know, it's fair 

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enough. 
At the end of the day, you do 

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want to see your team win. 
I want, I want, always wanted to

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see Wolves win, but I wanted to 
see good racing as. 

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Well, racing, yeah, that's what 
brings people in at the end of 

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the day. 
If you if you win by two points,

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the feeling you get. 
What's the old sign? 

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Happiness. 
It's 403040304446 doesn't quite.

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Doesn't scandal it, but yeah, so
it was ever the last. 

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So that, that, that for me, 
that's, that's one of the things

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that needs to change, let's say 
by the by the clubs, yes, saying

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how they promote to an extent, 
but even that they should, they 

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should have to fulfil certain 
targets and there should be a 

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lot of the promotion should be 
done on a national scale, not 

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club scale also. 
So it should be, you know, 

449
00:25:24,840 --> 00:25:29,400
centralised in that sense. 
While we're on the while 

450
00:25:29,400 --> 00:25:33,160
changing the subject, in fact we
should give a mention to 

451
00:25:33,160 --> 00:25:38,520
Leicester talking about tracks 
had their stadium damaged over 2

452
00:25:38,520 --> 00:25:45,320
separate nights, hydro scanned 
arena, badly damaged the track 

453
00:25:45,320 --> 00:25:49,880
equipment and the perimeter 
fencing, and they actually 

454
00:25:49,880 --> 00:25:55,240
started a Gofund page with the 
aim of raising £10,000. 

455
00:25:55,240 --> 00:25:57,360
I'll just had a look at it 
before we came out. 

456
00:25:57,800 --> 00:25:59,640
It's got up to 13,000. 
Oh wow. 

457
00:26:00,120 --> 00:26:02,880
Yeah, pretty good. 
Yeah, by the way, that won't 

458
00:26:02,880 --> 00:26:03,920
just be less defiance, by the 
way. 

459
00:26:04,000 --> 00:26:05,520
That'll be that'll be Speedway 
things. 

460
00:26:05,520 --> 00:26:10,200
Yeah, absolutely. 
Because we keep being spoken 

461
00:26:10,200 --> 00:26:13,720
about of as a Speedway family. 
Yeah, but it does come together 

462
00:26:13,720 --> 00:26:19,680
in one thing Split has always 
been very good at is always, you

463
00:26:19,680 --> 00:26:22,200
know, when when things like this
happen, it always sort of comes 

464
00:26:22,200 --> 00:26:24,480
together and helps opposite 
other teams out so. 

465
00:26:25,560 --> 00:26:27,120
Right. 
So unless we've got some more 

466
00:26:27,800 --> 00:26:28,880
comments to go through, there's 
a. 

467
00:26:29,360 --> 00:26:31,480
Big one there. 
You want to read that big one 

468
00:26:31,480 --> 00:26:32,480
from Phil? 
It's gone now. 

469
00:26:32,720 --> 00:26:34,240
OK, I'll read it, I'll review. 
OK. 

470
00:26:34,680 --> 00:26:36,360
Who decides the dates of 
meetings? 

471
00:26:36,360 --> 00:26:40,240
Is it the promoter or the BSPA? 
As Plymouth, Edinburgh and 

472
00:26:40,240 --> 00:26:44,160
Berwick away like most seasons 
the same weekend and a great 

473
00:26:44,160 --> 00:26:47,440
weekend it is. 
But this season it is when the 

474
00:26:47,440 --> 00:26:51,160
Commonwealth Games are on and 
hotel prices have tripled. 

475
00:26:51,600 --> 00:26:54,880
If you ask me, that's ridiculous
decision to have one of its one 

476
00:26:54,880 --> 00:26:58,240
of one of its not longest 
journeys of the season whilst 

477
00:26:58,240 --> 00:27:05,360
the games are on. 
I think they guess it. 

478
00:27:05,800 --> 00:27:07,960
Yeah. 
And then they circulate it 

479
00:27:07,960 --> 00:27:10,600
around all the promoters and 
they say, well, I don't want to 

480
00:27:10,600 --> 00:27:11,480
do that. 
And you want to. 

481
00:27:11,480 --> 00:27:13,000
Yeah. 
And, and, and then that comes 

482
00:27:13,000 --> 00:27:15,640
back and then they rehash it 
again and then it goes to the 

483
00:27:15,640 --> 00:27:19,000
promoters again and they talk 
and they talk about it amongst 

484
00:27:19,000 --> 00:27:21,160
themselves as well. 
I think they like ring each 

485
00:27:21,160 --> 00:27:23,440
other up and say, well, do you 
want to, you know, that date 

486
00:27:23,440 --> 00:27:25,280
that you got there against such 
and such? 

487
00:27:25,280 --> 00:27:26,920
We'd prefer to that. 
Is that OK? 

488
00:27:26,960 --> 00:27:29,640
Would you, can you do a swap and
and all of that sort of. 

489
00:27:29,640 --> 00:27:32,440
So, so you get an idea. 
They're sorting to it. 

490
00:27:32,800 --> 00:27:35,080
But whether they think about 
things like the Commonwealth 

491
00:27:35,080 --> 00:27:40,520
Games, I'm not sure. 
I must admit I missed that. 

492
00:27:40,520 --> 00:27:42,600
I didn't realise the 
Commonwealth Games was on this 

493
00:27:42,600 --> 00:27:50,160
this year and I love the 
Commonwealth Games, so yeah, I 

494
00:27:50,160 --> 00:27:52,360
can't. 
I can't remember whether whether

495
00:27:52,360 --> 00:27:54,520
it really affected Birmingham, 
of course, when Birmingham won 

496
00:27:54,520 --> 00:27:56,880
the games. 
Yes, it did, because we we 

497
00:27:56,880 --> 00:28:00,400
weren't allowed to run for a 
couple of weeks, as simple as 

498
00:28:00,400 --> 00:28:03,720
that, because it was virtually 
on our doorstep. 

499
00:28:04,440 --> 00:28:07,480
And they changed all the roads, 
of course. 

500
00:28:07,480 --> 00:28:12,960
Yeah, made it awful. 
Glasgow's promoted said that 

501
00:28:13,160 --> 00:28:16,240
after last year's playoff, semis
and finals, the sport was the 

502
00:28:16,240 --> 00:28:18,000
winner. 
We had big crowds in both 

503
00:28:18,000 --> 00:28:22,520
matches, over 2000 at both and 
lots of new fans to our sport 

504
00:28:22,960 --> 00:28:26,800
ready to come back in at 2026, 
says Fred Graham. 

505
00:28:27,440 --> 00:28:30,200
I I didn't see the semi final 
against Edinburgh but I know you

506
00:28:30,200 --> 00:28:31,280
didn't. 
You said it was an absolute 

507
00:28:31,280 --> 00:28:31,960
crack. 
In the. 

508
00:28:31,960 --> 00:28:34,520
Final, final. 
The final was, was was fantastic

509
00:28:34,520 --> 00:28:38,160
in in itself really. 
I mean, there was always going 

510
00:28:38,160 --> 00:28:40,520
to be a big crowded thing for 
especially for the semi fall 

511
00:28:40,520 --> 00:28:42,120
because it's classic against 
Edinburgh. 

512
00:28:42,120 --> 00:28:46,600
There's a huge rival. 
So David Albright says hope 

513
00:28:46,680 --> 00:28:48,200
Northampton are going to get an 
air fence. 

514
00:28:48,200 --> 00:28:51,320
Looking at photographs, they've 
got a metal fence for the stock 

515
00:28:51,320 --> 00:28:52,320
cars. 
Well, they will have an air 

516
00:28:52,320 --> 00:28:53,600
fence. 
They'll have they can't run 

517
00:28:53,600 --> 00:28:55,120
without an air fence, as simple 
as that. 

518
00:28:56,880 --> 00:29:00,640
One of the reasons we guess that
they're taking such a long time 

519
00:29:02,080 --> 00:29:04,760
to get together, They've got to 
put a lot of things in place. 

520
00:29:05,000 --> 00:29:06,920
Looks looks a nice shape. 
Yeah, it does, yeah. 

521
00:29:06,920 --> 00:29:09,480
So I'm really looking forward 
to, you know, obviously at some 

522
00:29:09,480 --> 00:29:12,240
point this scene, hopefully 
we'll be going down there to 

523
00:29:12,240 --> 00:29:12,960
have a look at it. 
So. 

524
00:29:13,440 --> 00:29:16,400
Just hope that the fact that the
stock cars run there as well, 

525
00:29:18,160 --> 00:29:19,760
that's a worry because it 
doesn't. 

526
00:29:19,760 --> 00:29:21,720
They're not always great 
bedfellows. 

527
00:29:22,200 --> 00:29:24,120
Well, you know that from 
obviously when Birmingham 

528
00:29:24,160 --> 00:29:28,760
burning at Bosley, Sir. 
Yeah, yeah, it's trouble is the 

529
00:29:28,760 --> 00:29:31,520
standard of riders in most of 
the races is vast. 

530
00:29:31,520 --> 00:29:35,320
Say Bully Cairns spread out. 
Yeah, that's going to be a 

531
00:29:35,320 --> 00:29:36,840
problem. 
I think some of the meetings in 

532
00:29:36,840 --> 00:29:39,160
the in the especially involved 
in Bellevue, I mean, you're 

533
00:29:39,160 --> 00:29:43,520
going to have one rider 30 yards
in front, one rider still 

534
00:29:43,520 --> 00:29:45,880
starting back, two in the 
middle. 

535
00:29:45,880 --> 00:29:50,080
It's not it's, you know, not 
really a spread, even common 

536
00:29:50,080 --> 00:29:53,320
races, isn't that really? 
So Jeff Daniels is also woke up 

537
00:29:53,320 --> 00:29:54,880
on this summer could affect 
crowds. 

538
00:29:54,920 --> 00:29:58,320
Well, obviously it's in America,
isn't it? 

539
00:29:58,320 --> 00:30:00,720
America, Canada. 
And it's all different in the 

540
00:30:00,760 --> 00:30:04,320
time zone, so. 
Yeah. 

541
00:30:05,040 --> 00:30:07,880
That's everybody refuses to go 
because it's Trump, so we. 

542
00:30:08,000 --> 00:30:10,080
Won't go there, I think. 
I think it's more likely he's 

543
00:30:10,080 --> 00:30:11,920
refusing to let people in at the
moment. 

544
00:30:14,240 --> 00:30:17,520
Yeah, we went there instead. 
Yeah, Pete Clocks, it's nice to 

545
00:30:17,520 --> 00:30:19,200
hear the British final is on a 
Saturday. 

546
00:30:19,400 --> 00:30:21,640
Pity it will clash with 
Championship fixtures. 

547
00:30:21,840 --> 00:30:23,680
Well, of course the British 
final was on Saturday a couple 

548
00:30:23,680 --> 00:30:26,360
of years ago. 
Didn't really understand why 

549
00:30:26,360 --> 00:30:29,160
they changed it back to Monday. 
Last no, we we spoke about this 

550
00:30:29,160 --> 00:30:31,800
at the time, didn't we? 
So I'm delighted and that's 

551
00:30:31,800 --> 00:30:33,640
definitely something I've got 
Pence. 

552
00:30:33,640 --> 00:30:36,680
I think it's August the 15th, so
it's it's later in the season 

553
00:30:36,680 --> 00:30:38,560
than normal. 
Two days after my birthday. 

554
00:30:38,680 --> 00:30:40,040
Not. 
Not that I'm telling anybody 

555
00:30:40,040 --> 00:30:40,400
that. 
Yeah. 

556
00:30:41,520 --> 00:30:44,080
So that's what you want and you 
you can't do 2 tickets for the 

557
00:30:44,080 --> 00:30:45,960
British idols. 
That'll that'll do me. 

558
00:30:47,280 --> 00:30:51,880
Just one will do me to be fair. 
Yeah. 

559
00:30:51,880 --> 00:30:54,320
I mean a lot of that's going to 
be interesting to see what the 

560
00:30:54,320 --> 00:30:58,000
price it's going to be on that 
as well. 

561
00:30:58,000 --> 00:31:00,280
I. 
Think there's got a few people 

562
00:31:00,280 --> 00:31:02,880
not very happy with the price 
for the Grand Prix tickets for 

563
00:31:02,880 --> 00:31:06,240
Bellevue but. 
Obviously. 

564
00:31:07,600 --> 00:31:11,120
We'll probably talk about more. 
As the as we come close to it, 

565
00:31:14,400 --> 00:31:17,960
yeah. 
So yeah, 13,000 lbs. 

566
00:31:17,960 --> 00:31:20,200
I have like just reading some of
my notes. 

567
00:31:21,120 --> 00:31:24,000
BSN are covering all the 
matches. 

568
00:31:24,000 --> 00:31:30,360
They have 1 ticket price for the
Championship, 1 ticket price for

569
00:31:30,360 --> 00:31:33,840
the Premiership or a ticket 
price for combined. 

570
00:31:33,840 --> 00:31:37,640
I think they're a little bit a 
little bit more expensive than 

571
00:31:37,640 --> 00:31:39,400
last year. 
I think they are, yeah. 

572
00:31:39,400 --> 00:31:41,880
I mean, obviously, you know they
all this is the only. 

573
00:31:42,160 --> 00:31:44,200
It's the only channel you watch 
them speed, right? 

574
00:31:44,280 --> 00:31:47,320
Now, so they all I suppose you 
can't really blame them for 

575
00:31:47,320 --> 00:31:49,520
doing that, but it's still I 
think a reasonable, reasonable 

576
00:31:49,520 --> 00:31:51,640
deal. 
I mean, the quality of the 

577
00:31:51,640 --> 00:31:54,960
coverage is when we've talked 
about before, it's probably 1 

578
00:31:54,960 --> 00:31:56,640
of. 
The best things and something to

579
00:31:56,640 --> 00:32:01,920
British, if anybody, I will say 
this now, if anybody, any sort 

580
00:32:01,920 --> 00:32:05,800
of television company out there 
are thinking of saying do you 

581
00:32:05,800 --> 00:32:08,520
know what, let's give Speedway a
go, they should go. 

582
00:32:08,840 --> 00:32:12,120
They should hire BSN to do it. 
That's it, Absolutely. 

583
00:32:12,800 --> 00:32:18,360
Because it's just, it's just the
best I've ever seen, even going 

584
00:32:18,360 --> 00:32:22,520
back to the old days of what's 
his Dave Lanning? 

585
00:32:25,160 --> 00:32:27,200
Anybody out there remember Dave 
Lanning? 

586
00:32:29,360 --> 00:32:31,480
Well, Simon's just asked the 
question about how it works with

587
00:32:31,480 --> 00:32:33,880
the wild cards. 
Well, this is actually in the in

588
00:32:33,880 --> 00:32:36,760
the statement. 
With the FIM Speedo Grand Prix 

589
00:32:36,760 --> 00:32:39,360
of Manchester taking place 
before the British final on the 

590
00:32:39,680 --> 00:32:42,840
weekend of June, the 5th and 6th
proposals for the wild card and 

591
00:32:42,840 --> 00:32:46,600
track positions in the SGP will 
be made by the BSBL Board of 

592
00:32:46,600 --> 00:32:48,640
Directors to the Speedo Control 
Bureau. 

593
00:32:49,800 --> 00:32:50,680
Oh. 
So. 

594
00:32:53,840 --> 00:32:56,680
Promoters saying we won our 
rider in and we won our, that's 

595
00:32:56,680 --> 00:33:02,840
what that that'll be. £20 more 
than last season for a combined 

596
00:33:02,840 --> 00:33:05,080
combined coverage. 
Not too bad. 

597
00:33:05,280 --> 00:33:10,440
Jeff, no, it's not too bad when 
you consider how many matches is

598
00:33:10,440 --> 00:33:13,160
there less matches in the in the
Premiership this year than there

599
00:33:13,160 --> 00:33:13,840
was last year? 
Well. 

600
00:33:14,040 --> 00:33:15,920
You've got Premiership and 
Championship, do they have some 

601
00:33:15,920 --> 00:33:17,600
National League meetings as well
occasionally? 

602
00:33:18,920 --> 00:33:21,880
Do you know what I don't know? 
I'm I've got it in my mind that 

603
00:33:21,880 --> 00:33:24,600
they have shown one or two 
National League meetings, but 

604
00:33:24,800 --> 00:33:27,640
that might be me, Sir. 
I'm sure somebody out there will

605
00:33:27,760 --> 00:33:32,560
be able to, right? 
So shall we start going through 

606
00:33:32,560 --> 00:33:35,560
the championship we've got? 
25 minutes so. 

607
00:33:35,600 --> 00:33:39,520
Yeah, very quickly. 
So we'll we'll just sort of and 

608
00:33:39,520 --> 00:33:44,200
then give our predictions. 
Don't go a very quick overview 

609
00:33:44,200 --> 00:33:48,040
of of of of riders, OK? 
Right. 

610
00:33:48,040 --> 00:33:50,200
So we'll start off with the 
Berry Bandits. 

611
00:33:50,200 --> 00:33:55,400
So they've got Peter Kilderman, 
Nick Morris, Victor Povera, 

612
00:33:55,800 --> 00:33:58,960
Lassie Frederickson, Joy 
Etheridge, Jack Smith and Reed 

613
00:33:58,960 --> 00:34:01,960
Batty. 
That's the Bandits team for 

614
00:34:01,960 --> 00:34:05,240
2026. 
Out to 10 I'd. 

615
00:34:07,280 --> 00:34:09,239
Say 5 or 6, I'd say that's 
middle order. 

616
00:34:09,239 --> 00:34:12,760
I don't see that as AI, don't 
see that as a playoff team. 

617
00:34:12,760 --> 00:34:16,239
Nick Morris obviously made, you 
know, a, you know, pretty 

618
00:34:16,239 --> 00:34:18,440
successful, reasonably 
successful come back at the end 

619
00:34:18,440 --> 00:34:22,719
of last season. 
Jack Smith. 

620
00:34:22,719 --> 00:34:25,320
I think there's a is a is a 
Cayman for them because you 

621
00:34:25,320 --> 00:34:27,280
know, I would duck. 
There's a doubt. 

622
00:34:27,280 --> 00:34:29,400
I mean, you obviously you saw 
him at Birmingham movies. 

623
00:34:29,400 --> 00:34:31,840
You had a real big impression 
when he wrote for the 

624
00:34:31,840 --> 00:34:33,800
International League. 
But he's not wild. 

625
00:34:34,960 --> 00:34:40,800
It's 10 years ago, isn't it now?
So basically killed him when you

626
00:34:40,800 --> 00:34:42,840
know, always an exciting rider, 
but. 

627
00:34:44,120 --> 00:34:46,760
He's at the towards the end, 
going towards the end autumn. 

628
00:34:47,520 --> 00:34:52,840
Korean Air so I I see that as AI
see that as a bottom half team 

629
00:34:52,920 --> 00:34:56,400
in the championship myself, I 
don't see that as a as a playoff

630
00:34:56,400 --> 00:35:01,000
team but yeah end of the season 
we'll be congratulating better 

631
00:35:01,000 --> 00:35:02,280
because isn't they win the 
league but. 

632
00:35:03,040 --> 00:35:05,280
Yeah, and the next one. 
The next one is the Edinburgh 

633
00:35:05,560 --> 00:35:07,680
Monarchs. 
They are the one up with Dan 

634
00:35:07,680 --> 00:35:12,120
Thompson, George Lofthurst, 
Justin Sedgman, Jonathan Grant, 

635
00:35:12,640 --> 00:35:16,080
Mitchell Clough, Kyle Thompson 
and Paco Castania. 

636
00:35:16,800 --> 00:35:21,080
That's the Monarchs team for 
2026. 

637
00:35:21,240 --> 00:35:24,320
I don't don't see them as a 
championship winning side. 

638
00:35:24,880 --> 00:35:27,880
I think they might maybe 
struggle at reserve. 

639
00:35:27,960 --> 00:35:30,520
It's good, solid enough top 
five. 

640
00:35:30,640 --> 00:35:33,040
I mean, they weren't fancied to 
do that well last season, but 

641
00:35:33,040 --> 00:35:37,640
they finished in the in the 
playoffs and they they really 

642
00:35:37,800 --> 00:35:40,680
for me, they let Glasgow off the
hook in the semi fall at one 

643
00:35:40,680 --> 00:35:42,000
point. 
I mean at one point in the semi 

644
00:35:42,000 --> 00:35:43,320
final they were about 20 points 
in. 

645
00:35:43,320 --> 00:35:45,040
Front. 
That's right, it's all the last 

646
00:35:45,040 --> 00:35:47,000
couple eights. 
Glasgow got back into it and got

647
00:35:47,000 --> 00:35:48,600
a bit of momentum and then did 
the job. 

648
00:35:49,480 --> 00:35:52,400
Sort of crumbled. 
Really, But I think that's I 

649
00:35:52,400 --> 00:35:56,240
think it's just I think it'll be
on the fringes of the playoffs 

650
00:35:56,520 --> 00:36:01,160
this season. 
So OK, so the next one is the 

651
00:36:01,840 --> 00:36:03,560
Glasgow Tigers. 
They'll be looking to bounce 

652
00:36:03,560 --> 00:36:07,320
back after the missing out 
obviously against Paul in the 

653
00:36:07,320 --> 00:36:11,440
final, so they line up with 
Freddie Hodder, Sam Hagen, Carl 

654
00:36:11,440 --> 00:36:15,960
Howarth, Kevin Yule, Peterson, 
Leon Flint, Mario Hassell and 

655
00:36:15,960 --> 00:36:19,920
the Bomber Chris Harris. 
Solid all the way through. 

656
00:36:20,560 --> 00:36:23,880
Yeah, good side. 
Big year for. 

657
00:36:24,000 --> 00:36:25,920
So a few, few unknown quantities
there. 

658
00:36:25,920 --> 00:36:27,920
Aren't they really in in that 
side to be honest? 

659
00:36:30,720 --> 00:36:32,920
Freddie Hodder, I think I was 
impressed with him. 

660
00:36:34,000 --> 00:36:36,480
Obviously we've seen him ride a 
couple of times at Burton in the

661
00:36:36,480 --> 00:36:38,400
second-half there, but that was 
the first time we've seen him in

662
00:36:38,400 --> 00:36:41,600
a higher level and he would look
quite impressive in the he's. 

663
00:36:42,480 --> 00:36:43,960
Learnt a bit. 
Yeah, Carl, how? 

664
00:36:43,960 --> 00:36:45,400
It's obviously a good value in 
that league. 

665
00:36:45,680 --> 00:36:48,000
Chris Harris is just Chris 
Harris, you know, he just never 

666
00:36:48,000 --> 00:36:50,280
ages, does he? 
The Bomber, Leo Flint's made 

667
00:36:50,280 --> 00:36:51,760
good progress over the last few 
years. 

668
00:36:51,760 --> 00:36:53,880
They've got a good again, 
They've got a good top end. 

669
00:36:53,880 --> 00:36:58,680
I think they'll be, they'll be 
in there, they'll be definitely 

670
00:36:58,680 --> 00:37:00,520
in the mix. 
So I'll have them as a as a top 

671
00:37:00,520 --> 00:37:01,840
four team. 
Me too. 

672
00:37:02,160 --> 00:37:05,200
Yeah, OK, so we'll go for the 
Oxford Cheetahs next. 

673
00:37:05,200 --> 00:37:08,560
Only year Championship and 
National League for Oxford this 

674
00:37:08,560 --> 00:37:11,880
season. 
So they line up with Anders 

675
00:37:11,880 --> 00:37:17,200
Rowe, Sam Masters, Eric Riss, 
Luke Colleen, Rich Mcdemid, 

676
00:37:17,520 --> 00:37:22,600
Daryl Richings and Dale Wood. 
I don't know what to make of 

677
00:37:22,600 --> 00:37:25,400
this time. 
Strong top five, I think think 

678
00:37:25,400 --> 00:37:27,800
so Reserve might be a little bit
of an issue, but they're top 

679
00:37:27,800 --> 00:37:29,680
five I think. 
It's nice to see that Anders 

680
00:37:29,680 --> 00:37:34,720
Rose got a job. 
Yeah, I saw certainly the two 

681
00:37:34,720 --> 00:37:36,200
Aussies. 
I saw them in Mitch McDermott 

682
00:37:36,200 --> 00:37:37,840
and Dale Wood. 
I was quite impressed with them 

683
00:37:37,840 --> 00:37:40,960
in the Australian Championship. 
They sort of, you know, they, I 

684
00:37:40,960 --> 00:37:42,560
mean they were never, neither 
them ever looked like winning 

685
00:37:42,560 --> 00:37:45,560
game. 
Mitch McDermott reminded me a 

686
00:37:45,560 --> 00:37:48,120
little bit of Lee Adams. 
Similar sort of similar current 

687
00:37:48,120 --> 00:37:52,120
similar, right, not not 
massively similar riding style, 

688
00:37:52,120 --> 00:37:54,800
but certainly look like in terms
of the the Leathers, if you like

689
00:37:54,800 --> 00:37:57,520
with the the red, the classic 
red and black that the Leigh 

690
00:37:57,520 --> 00:38:01,440
Adams used to have look fairly 
comfortable on the bike as well.

691
00:38:02,800 --> 00:38:05,040
I think that's a good strong top
five for Oxford. 

692
00:38:05,040 --> 00:38:08,040
And I think that for me that I'd
have there was a top four team. 

693
00:38:09,120 --> 00:38:11,160
I kind of there's certain 
there's a few that agree with 

694
00:38:11,160 --> 00:38:14,880
you right in on the you remember
the BSF. 

695
00:38:15,480 --> 00:38:20,240
I don't go on that very often. 
OK, so the next one is the 

696
00:38:20,320 --> 00:38:23,600
Plymouth Gladiators. 
So they've gone for Scott 

697
00:38:23,600 --> 00:38:29,920
Nichols, Danny King, Joe Joe 
Thompson, Daniel Cleaner, Tobias

698
00:38:29,920 --> 00:38:35,120
Thompson, Tom Spencer. 
And Ben Barker, it's not a bad 

699
00:38:35,120 --> 00:38:36,880
looking side, is it? 
That's a good side. 

700
00:38:37,200 --> 00:38:38,280
Obviously they've got some, you 
know. 

701
00:38:38,480 --> 00:38:41,080
They've got a few fanciers on 
the on the BSF actually. 

702
00:38:41,880 --> 00:38:44,640
Yeah, they have a lot of the 
look of that team, to be honest.

703
00:38:44,640 --> 00:38:46,400
They've got the obviously 
they've got a lot of experience 

704
00:38:46,400 --> 00:38:51,240
at the top end in Nichols, King 
and Barker, Tobias Thompson, I 

705
00:38:51,240 --> 00:38:53,760
think all you know, I mean, 
obviously we saw it. 

706
00:38:53,760 --> 00:38:56,560
Was it was it Birmingham last 
season? 

707
00:38:56,560 --> 00:38:58,560
Yeah, he pressed at times, 
didn't he? 

708
00:38:58,560 --> 00:39:00,520
He did, yeah. 
Obviously the plural track is 

709
00:39:00,520 --> 00:39:02,960
completely different to anywhere
bar was. 

710
00:39:05,200 --> 00:39:08,320
Yeah, the Scandinavian riders 
seem to quite like short tracks.

711
00:39:08,720 --> 00:39:10,040
Yeah. 
And obviously I will be going 

712
00:39:10,040 --> 00:39:11,560
down there again this season at 
some point. 

713
00:39:11,560 --> 00:39:14,040
So it's I think Scunthorpe is 
the main thing I'll be doing in 

714
00:39:14,040 --> 00:39:15,040
May. 
So I'll be looking. 

715
00:39:15,040 --> 00:39:16,120
Forward to that one. 
A good one. 

716
00:39:16,280 --> 00:39:21,440
Yeah. 
So, but yeah, I think they've 

717
00:39:21,440 --> 00:39:24,280
done things right with, you 
know, it's obviously they've 

718
00:39:24,280 --> 00:39:27,600
started out with, you know, as 
you've said many times, tracking

719
00:39:27,600 --> 00:39:30,040
a field, nice little set up 
there. 

720
00:39:31,400 --> 00:39:35,080
Yeah, I think they'll be whether
they'll get top four or not 

721
00:39:35,080 --> 00:39:37,200
maybe not so sure, but I think 
they'll they'll be certainly mid

722
00:39:37,200 --> 00:39:39,320
table, sort of higher, higher 
mid table I think. 

723
00:39:40,760 --> 00:39:44,080
OK, so the next one is the poor 
Pirates. 

724
00:39:44,080 --> 00:39:46,160
So they will. 
They line it with Richard 

725
00:39:46,160 --> 00:39:51,040
Lawson, Will Cairns, Fraser 
Burrows, Louis Kerr, Dan Gilkes,

726
00:39:51,040 --> 00:39:54,320
Zack Cook, Zack Cook and Cooper 
Russian. 

727
00:39:55,920 --> 00:40:00,160
A lot of good young riders 
there. 

728
00:40:00,200 --> 00:40:02,640
Yeah, Richard Lawson, obviously 
excellent, number one. 

729
00:40:02,640 --> 00:40:05,560
He's very, very good at Wimborne
Rd. 

730
00:40:07,480 --> 00:40:09,600
Yeah, you you would. 
Cooper, Russian. 

731
00:40:09,600 --> 00:40:12,400
Will Carnes. 
Cooper Russian. 

732
00:40:12,400 --> 00:40:14,840
I was really impressed with him 
when I saw him at Perry Barr 

733
00:40:14,840 --> 00:40:20,440
last year. 
Yeah, they, yeah, they and they 

734
00:40:20,440 --> 00:40:22,240
look, they look solid all the 
way through as well. 

735
00:40:22,240 --> 00:40:23,800
I think you'd be you'd be hard 
pressed. 

736
00:40:24,440 --> 00:40:27,720
To one thing you know about Paul
is if things aren't working, 

737
00:40:27,720 --> 00:40:29,920
they'll fix it. 
Yeah, absolutely. 

738
00:40:30,240 --> 00:40:32,440
No, that's, I suppose that's, 
that's their credit. 

739
00:40:32,720 --> 00:40:35,600
Like, I know it doesn't always 
go down well with a lot of 

740
00:40:35,600 --> 00:40:39,720
people, but yeah, you'd be you'd
be a fool to write Paul off. 

741
00:40:40,440 --> 00:40:42,440
So the Red Car Bears are the 
next one. 

742
00:40:42,440 --> 00:40:44,840
They've obviously done pretty 
well over the last few seasons, 

743
00:40:44,920 --> 00:40:48,960
so they line up with Charles 
Wright, Jake Mulford, Jason 

744
00:40:48,960 --> 00:40:53,600
Edwards, Jordan Jenkins, Jake 
Allen, Ace Piper and Jodie 

745
00:40:53,600 --> 00:40:59,720
Scott. 
Feel, feel a little bit scared 

746
00:40:59,720 --> 00:41:04,360
for them, Explain. 
I'm just just don't think 

747
00:41:04,360 --> 00:41:06,600
they're a they're, I think 
they're a bottom of the league 

748
00:41:06,600 --> 00:41:11,400
sort of team, I think. 
I mean, they've got a good #1 

749
00:41:11,800 --> 00:41:13,920
Charles Wright, obviously he 
knows that place like the back 

750
00:41:13,920 --> 00:41:16,720
of his hand, doesn't he? 
So whether he'll get enough 

751
00:41:16,720 --> 00:41:20,360
support on, on some of the away 
tracks, he's maybe a bit of a, 

752
00:41:21,520 --> 00:41:23,680
that might be a bit, that might 
catch up with Red Car a little 

753
00:41:23,680 --> 00:41:24,960
bit. 
But I, I think that's a good 

754
00:41:24,960 --> 00:41:27,480
solid team myself. 
I think they, they, they seem to

755
00:41:27,480 --> 00:41:30,920
do it every year now. 
Don't think Red car, they're a 

756
00:41:30,920 --> 00:41:32,680
good example, I think in a lot 
of ways, aren't they? 

757
00:41:32,680 --> 00:41:35,800
Because for for a long, long 
time, Red car always seemed to 

758
00:41:35,800 --> 00:41:38,600
struggle in though they always, 
you know, seem to get the the 

759
00:41:38,600 --> 00:41:40,720
rides that nobody else wanted 
and they were always near the 

760
00:41:40,720 --> 00:41:42,520
bottom of the leg. 
But they've built it well in 

761
00:41:42,520 --> 00:41:44,680
recent seasons, so they'll be 
happy. 

762
00:41:44,680 --> 00:41:48,800
And that continues. 
So our Next up are the 

763
00:41:48,800 --> 00:41:51,560
Scunthorpe Scorpions and they 
line up with Josh Pickering, 

764
00:41:51,920 --> 00:41:56,160
Ryan Ingram, Connor Mountain, 
Luke Harrison, Michael Palmtoft,

765
00:41:56,560 --> 00:42:03,320
Nathan Ablett and Simon Lambert.
Simon Lambert at Reserve might 

766
00:42:03,320 --> 00:42:06,480
well be a a trump card for them.
Yeah, they've got a very good 

767
00:42:06,480 --> 00:42:07,960
number one, I think in Josh 
Pickering. 

768
00:42:07,960 --> 00:42:11,520
Yes, I think getting him is a 
real and that's. 

769
00:42:11,520 --> 00:42:13,680
Good for them. 
That's a good track for him as 

770
00:42:13,680 --> 00:42:15,040
well. 
I think that that track will 

771
00:42:15,040 --> 00:42:18,080
suit his style. 
Yeah, again, I think they'll do 

772
00:42:18,080 --> 00:42:23,640
well at home, Scunthorpe maybe, 
maybe not do quite so well on 

773
00:42:23,640 --> 00:42:27,240
the road, I think. 
Yeah. 

774
00:42:27,640 --> 00:42:31,480
So in the mix, I think 
Scunthorpe, but I don't I don't 

775
00:42:31,480 --> 00:42:33,960
see them winning it. 
But I think interesting quite a 

776
00:42:33,960 --> 00:42:37,880
lot of BSF have got them in last
place but. 

777
00:42:38,600 --> 00:42:41,800
Apparently Matt, you're you're 
an honourary Glaswegian now 

778
00:42:42,160 --> 00:42:45,840
drinking Orenburg. 
So he's Fred Graham. 

779
00:42:48,560 --> 00:42:50,560
No, he just got caught shortly. 
It's the. 

780
00:42:51,120 --> 00:42:53,200
Same colour, isn't it? 
Yeah, Yeah, I thought so. 

781
00:42:53,320 --> 00:42:56,080
Yeah. 
So let's move on then to the 

782
00:42:56,080 --> 00:42:58,080
final team that is the 
Workington Comets. 

783
00:42:58,080 --> 00:43:00,280
So they signed. 
They have signed Johannes 

784
00:43:00,280 --> 00:43:04,400
Yepperson, Tate Zisk, Vinny 
Ford, Troy Batchelor, Craig 

785
00:43:04,400 --> 00:43:08,240
Cook, Nicholas Hom Jacobsen and 
Jamie Etheridge. 

786
00:43:09,600 --> 00:43:14,160
I mean, you have to say that the
whole of the championship looks 

787
00:43:14,520 --> 00:43:17,760
very similarly built. 
I think it's going to be good. 

788
00:43:17,920 --> 00:43:19,960
I think it's going to be a good 
solid league this season. 

789
00:43:21,760 --> 00:43:24,040
I think the biggest question is 
probably I've it's going to be 

790
00:43:24,040 --> 00:43:26,840
over there that their top tier 
orders and bachelor and cook, 

791
00:43:26,840 --> 00:43:30,360
because on the day they're 
they're very good riders. 

792
00:43:30,440 --> 00:43:32,280
It's just whether they're going 
to be consistent enough. 

793
00:43:33,520 --> 00:43:37,240
Yes, you know, we we know Craig 
Cook has had these problems in 

794
00:43:37,240 --> 00:43:40,400
the past. 
You know, hopefully he's put 

795
00:43:40,400 --> 00:43:44,400
them. 
I hope so, because it's not nice

796
00:43:44,400 --> 00:43:48,960
to see some of the vitriol that 
has followed him. 

797
00:43:48,960 --> 00:43:52,360
And I know he's made some, 
should we say, unwise decisions,

798
00:43:52,400 --> 00:43:54,800
but there are reasons behind it.
Yeah. 

799
00:43:54,920 --> 00:43:59,440
And so anyway, that's. 
Yeah, I, I, I mean, so hopefully

800
00:43:59,440 --> 00:44:01,320
this season, that's another 
track that I'm hoping to get up 

801
00:44:01,320 --> 00:44:03,680
to at some point during the 
working team because obviously 

802
00:44:03,840 --> 00:44:06,040
there's a lot of, you know, 
praise for the quality of the 

803
00:44:06,040 --> 00:44:08,600
racing up there. 
Yeah, I've never never been in 

804
00:44:08,600 --> 00:44:11,200
there yet, so that would be a 
good one for me to go to see. 

805
00:44:11,520 --> 00:44:14,800
Still wonder really whether they
might be when they've been to 

806
00:44:14,800 --> 00:44:16,600
the Championship, maybe before 
they were ready. 

807
00:44:16,600 --> 00:44:19,200
I mean, obviously we saw last 
season they had to curtail the 

808
00:44:19,200 --> 00:44:20,600
season for a few weeks, didn't 
they? 

809
00:44:21,080 --> 00:44:22,960
Because. 
Of issues they had off the 

810
00:44:22,960 --> 00:44:25,200
track, hopefully they're behind 
them now and they'll be looking 

811
00:44:25,200 --> 00:44:30,320
forward to to a good season. 
OK, so that's your full 

812
00:44:30,320 --> 00:44:35,400
breakdown of the championship. 
Obviously we have sort of rushed

813
00:44:35,400 --> 00:44:37,640
to it a little bit, but we 
obviously we're up against the 

814
00:44:37,640 --> 00:44:39,160
clock a little bit. 
So, but we have obviously looked

815
00:44:39,160 --> 00:44:45,240
at the, looked at the sides. 
So now it's time to put your 

816
00:44:45,240 --> 00:44:47,760
money where you're, is it top, 
top 4? 

817
00:44:47,800 --> 00:44:49,280
Isn't it in the target now 
because? 

818
00:44:49,280 --> 00:44:51,520
He has been top six in the past 
isn't it Sir? 

819
00:44:52,360 --> 00:45:04,720
OK so I will go for a top four 
of Pool Oxford Red Car Glasgow. 

820
00:45:05,920 --> 00:45:10,440
OK, I'm going to go for a top 
four of Pool. 

821
00:45:11,200 --> 00:45:12,080
Oxford. 
Yeah. 

822
00:45:13,240 --> 00:45:15,120
Glasgow. 
Yeah, Plymouth. 

823
00:45:16,560 --> 00:45:19,840
That's a big shout, Wouldn't 
that they could, they could do 

824
00:45:19,840 --> 00:45:20,080
it. 
That's. 

825
00:45:20,080 --> 00:45:21,480
What they just. 
They've got the experience at 

826
00:45:21,480 --> 00:45:23,840
the top end. 
Obviously Nichols and King and 

827
00:45:24,360 --> 00:45:26,520
and obviously Ben Barker knows 
that place off the back of his 

828
00:45:26,520 --> 00:45:27,520
hand. 
He's obviously from that. 

829
00:45:28,080 --> 00:45:31,760
And just, and also there's a big
part of me that would just feel 

830
00:45:31,760 --> 00:45:33,960
like I'd like them to do it 
because it's a bit of. 

831
00:45:33,960 --> 00:45:35,480
An A bit of an underdog, aren't 
they? 

832
00:45:36,040 --> 00:45:40,880
You know, they've, they've say 
so yeah, very friendly place. 

833
00:45:40,880 --> 00:45:43,120
You know, I really enjoyed it 
when I when I went down there 

834
00:45:43,200 --> 00:45:46,680
last year, so. 
Never know, I might be able to 

835
00:45:46,680 --> 00:45:48,400
find a way down there. 
It's a long way. 

836
00:45:48,520 --> 00:45:49,880
It's a long way. 
It's a. 

837
00:45:49,880 --> 00:45:51,960
Long way you need teenagers to 
be going down there for a 

838
00:45:51,960 --> 00:45:53,240
holiday really to get down 
there. 

839
00:45:53,240 --> 00:45:56,560
But yeah and I think I mean 
certainly I mean Scott Nichols 

840
00:45:56,560 --> 00:45:59,520
there we'll get them a lot of 
you know a lot of good press as 

841
00:45:59,520 --> 00:46:01,280
well. 
You know 7 times British 

842
00:46:01,280 --> 00:46:04,520
champion. 
We we the the general consensus 

843
00:46:04,520 --> 00:46:07,840
as I said earlier in the show is
that it's this might be his last

844
00:46:07,960 --> 00:46:12,360
year of of racing. 
I think, you know, as I say, 

845
00:46:12,360 --> 00:46:13,960
going back to it, push as well 
as he. 

846
00:46:14,160 --> 00:46:17,280
Had a bad career, I say. 
He's had a remarkable career and

847
00:46:17,360 --> 00:46:20,160
he's, you know, he's still on 
his day capable of getting the 

848
00:46:20,160 --> 00:46:21,560
big points. 
He's, you know, he's not OK. 

849
00:46:21,560 --> 00:46:26,240
He's not the rider that he was 
20 years ago, but he's still 

850
00:46:26,280 --> 00:46:29,240
more than capable of getting he.
Did a job for Birmingham, didn't

851
00:46:29,240 --> 00:46:31,120
he? 
It was. 

852
00:46:31,160 --> 00:46:33,680
A brief period, yeah. 
Brief period he did quite. 

853
00:46:36,800 --> 00:46:40,080
Yeah, it was the best ride. 
I thought I would settle up. 

854
00:46:41,200 --> 00:46:43,680
Matt, when you come to Plymouth 
you know where to stand with all

855
00:46:43,680 --> 00:46:47,120
the bar bandits and you will be 
most welcome as always. 

856
00:46:47,120 --> 00:46:48,960
Thank you very much, Phil. 
Is that Phil or Phil? 

857
00:46:49,400 --> 00:46:51,400
Yeah. 
It's all going to be how much 

858
00:46:51,400 --> 00:46:56,080
did that cost you, your friend? 
You can't remember how much? 

859
00:46:56,160 --> 00:46:57,360
I can't. 
Remember now? 

860
00:46:57,440 --> 00:47:00,640
So to be fair, I was having, I 
was having, I was on, I was 

861
00:47:00,640 --> 00:47:02,680
going to be on doing a long 
drive back home the following 

862
00:47:02,680 --> 00:47:03,520
day. 
So I didn't. 

863
00:47:04,080 --> 00:47:06,120
No, I meant for him to say that.
How much did it cost you for him

864
00:47:06,120 --> 00:47:08,360
to say that? 
Gosh. 

865
00:47:08,640 --> 00:47:09,960
I'm not telling you that. 
Anyway, that's OK. 

866
00:47:11,400 --> 00:47:14,240
Simon's going for Paul, Glasgow,
Edinburgh, Plymouth. 

867
00:47:15,840 --> 00:47:21,720
Leaving red car out then. 
Remember you guys, you are 

868
00:47:21,720 --> 00:47:25,760
welcome on Glasgow on a Friday 
night anytime and then you could

869
00:47:26,160 --> 00:47:28,720
go to work. 
It's on a Saturday, 1st beer on 

870
00:47:28,720 --> 00:47:30,680
me. 
Make it up to the Theatre of 

871
00:47:30,680 --> 00:47:33,400
Speed. 
As it happens, I might well be 

872
00:47:33,400 --> 00:47:37,400
making a trip up to Scotland in 
the summer for a little holiday,

873
00:47:37,400 --> 00:47:39,040
so OK. 
You can do a Ricky. 

874
00:47:39,680 --> 00:47:42,360
Yep. 
It's not confirmed yet, but. 

875
00:47:43,240 --> 00:47:44,440
See if they allow us up there 
it's. 

876
00:47:44,840 --> 00:47:47,360
Funny is it the the only places 
that we welcome seem to be a 

877
00:47:47,360 --> 00:47:51,560
long way away. 
On yeah, yeah, but is it any any

878
00:47:51,560 --> 00:47:54,240
places a long way away in the 
Speedway world at the moment For

879
00:47:54,240 --> 00:47:58,760
for for Midlands fan, yeah, 
Scotland seems to be the the 

880
00:47:58,760 --> 00:48:00,600
hotbed of Speedway at the moment
really. 

881
00:48:01,160 --> 00:48:02,520
It does. 
It's going well there, isn't it?

882
00:48:02,560 --> 00:48:05,960
So obviously with Berwick as 
well running so. 

883
00:48:06,200 --> 00:48:08,400
Red cars not. 
Yeah, working is not too far off

884
00:48:08,400 --> 00:48:11,320
across the border as well, so. 
So was there a time when 

885
00:48:11,320 --> 00:48:14,160
Scotland was was was not on the 
Speedway map? 

886
00:48:14,440 --> 00:48:15,720
I don't think so. 
I think there's always been 

887
00:48:15,720 --> 00:48:18,560
there's. 
Always been there's always been 

888
00:48:18,760 --> 00:48:20,680
a presence of for Speedway in 
Scotland, isn't there? 

889
00:48:20,680 --> 00:48:22,480
So. 
Yeah, Glasgow, Edinburgh Rally. 

890
00:48:22,480 --> 00:48:25,920
Was they were they Scottish? 
Yeah, Paisley weren't like 

891
00:48:26,000 --> 00:48:26,960
Paisley as well. 
Yeah, so. 

892
00:48:27,680 --> 00:48:30,840
So is Derrick Cluster. 
Scottish, it has been. 

893
00:48:31,160 --> 00:48:33,120
I don't, I don't think at this 
current time. 

894
00:48:33,120 --> 00:48:37,080
I think it's, it's South of the 
border, yeah, but it has been 

895
00:48:37,080 --> 00:48:39,400
north of the border before now. 
Yeah. 

896
00:48:41,400 --> 00:48:42,600
I think I'm right in saying 
that. 

897
00:48:42,600 --> 00:48:44,400
Somebody will tell me if I've 
got it wrong, I'm sure. 

898
00:48:44,400 --> 00:48:46,400
Well, they play, they play in 
the Scottish League, don't they?

899
00:48:46,400 --> 00:48:51,160
In football they are just so, so
you see, I mean, I have been to 

900
00:48:51,160 --> 00:48:53,520
Berwick, I think he's literally 
right on the border. 

901
00:48:53,520 --> 00:48:58,160
So it is, yeah. 
Yeah, it is excellent. 

902
00:48:59,040 --> 00:49:03,360
Are we going to explain how our 
new league is going to work or 

903
00:49:03,520 --> 00:49:06,680
do we need more time? 
I can do, yeah, so. 

904
00:49:07,000 --> 00:49:08,680
Because there are matches coming
up, aren't they? 

905
00:49:08,760 --> 00:49:09,920
So we could. 
Yeah. 

906
00:49:09,920 --> 00:49:12,960
Well, the, I think the first 
meeting is on the 22nd. 

907
00:49:12,960 --> 00:49:17,440
So the first meeting will be 
posted up on the 21st. 

908
00:49:17,480 --> 00:49:23,200
So we will post a link. 
So obviously in previous years, 

909
00:49:23,200 --> 00:49:25,840
obviously you've just posted 
your scores on the Facebook 

910
00:49:25,840 --> 00:49:28,120
page, but we are putting a link 
on there so that you can select 

911
00:49:28,120 --> 00:49:31,360
all your scores from a drop down
and it will, it will. 

912
00:49:31,440 --> 00:49:33,800
We're going digital. 
Yes, yeah, we will. 

913
00:49:34,200 --> 00:49:36,560
You know, I'm I'm pretty much 
happy with what I've set up site

914
00:49:36,560 --> 00:49:38,360
for. 
I had a sneaky look. 

915
00:49:38,360 --> 00:49:39,520
You look good. 
Yep. 

916
00:49:39,560 --> 00:49:43,560
So we'll all will be revealed. 
We will, we will try and you 

917
00:49:43,560 --> 00:49:46,920
know, make an idiot's guide for 
for using it so. 

918
00:49:47,480 --> 00:49:49,200
Hopefully it'll be easier for 
you as well. 

919
00:49:49,200 --> 00:49:52,840
Yeah, you know, So, yeah. 
The first first actual match is 

920
00:49:52,840 --> 00:49:56,880
the Time Tease Trophy, which is 
Red Car Bears versus the 

921
00:49:56,880 --> 00:49:58,800
Newcastle Diamond select, so 
it's not a. 

922
00:49:59,120 --> 00:50:01,040
Well, we'll obviously it's not 
going to be classy in that one 

923
00:50:01,040 --> 00:50:04,480
because it's not a. 
But the 22nd is the Scunthorpe 

924
00:50:04,480 --> 00:50:06,360
versus Red car, yeah. 
That's the first one, I think. 

925
00:50:06,800 --> 00:50:08,840
Yeah, Well, of course before 
that, of course, we got Nicola 

926
00:50:08,840 --> 00:50:11,040
Clinton's. 
Testimony and the Peter Craven 

927
00:50:11,240 --> 00:50:13,280
more real as well. 
Yeah, but we don't, obviously 

928
00:50:13,280 --> 00:50:14,560
we're not going to be including 
those matches. 

929
00:50:14,560 --> 00:50:17,640
So it is going to be league 
matches, possible exception of 

930
00:50:17,640 --> 00:50:22,240
the Grand Prix and British final
as well, but all will be 

931
00:50:22,240 --> 00:50:23,920
revealed. 
Motherwell also held Speedway. 

932
00:50:23,920 --> 00:50:26,320
I don't remember that. 
That's got to be a long time 

933
00:50:26,320 --> 00:50:28,400
ago, isn't it? 
I don't remember. 

934
00:50:28,400 --> 00:50:30,640
It so it must be a very, very 
long time ago. 

935
00:50:31,560 --> 00:50:33,320
Cowbridge as well. 
Yeah, Bridge, I remember. 

936
00:50:33,680 --> 00:50:35,400
Yes. 
Yes, Cowbridge, I remember. 

937
00:50:35,400 --> 00:50:38,880
Yeah. 
Gosh, I mean, it's all these 

938
00:50:38,880 --> 00:50:40,680
teams. 
And where have they gone? 

939
00:50:42,120 --> 00:50:44,040
Claude says that Swindon could 
be back. 

940
00:50:44,360 --> 00:50:46,840
The council have refused 
Speedway demolition. 

941
00:50:47,800 --> 00:50:50,320
OK. 
That's there was I was hearing 

942
00:50:50,440 --> 00:50:52,760
sort of. 
Rumblings about. 

943
00:50:52,760 --> 00:50:56,640
That yeah, rumblings and and are
not good rumblings, but that 

944
00:50:56,640 --> 00:51:00,160
sounds positive. 
I'm still like you have my 

945
00:51:00,160 --> 00:51:04,800
doubts about whether that's. 
And our online historian Linda 

946
00:51:04,800 --> 00:51:08,160
Book The town of Berwick has 
changed hands between Scotland 

947
00:51:08,160 --> 00:51:11,560
and England 14 times. 
OK to. 

948
00:51:11,600 --> 00:51:13,280
Scotland at the moment, so I 
think. 

949
00:51:13,440 --> 00:51:14,680
Nobody wants it. 
Is that the? 

950
00:51:16,560 --> 00:51:20,680
I've been through it. 
Ling Lithgow as well. 

951
00:51:20,880 --> 00:51:22,720
Oh yeah, that was. 
And that was a conference lead 

952
00:51:22,720 --> 00:51:24,000
team, wasn't it, Pete? 
Ling Lithgow. 

953
00:51:24,400 --> 00:51:26,520
Ling Lith is, that is, that is. 
That a real name. 

954
00:51:26,600 --> 00:51:28,600
Is that Welsh? 
No, it's in Scotland, yeah. 

955
00:51:28,720 --> 00:51:31,560
I don't know where I'm not just 
I'm not totally sure of 

956
00:51:31,560 --> 00:51:36,040
whereabouts in Scotland it is 
so, but it was only a, it was 

957
00:51:36,040 --> 00:51:38,240
only a small little train track.
I don't think it's not there 

958
00:51:38,240 --> 00:51:41,240
now, but. 
Where is can I just ask this? 

959
00:51:41,240 --> 00:51:47,840
Where is the furthest away 
Speedway ground stadium in in in

960
00:51:47,840 --> 00:51:51,120
the UK? 
Furthest away from from here. 

961
00:51:51,320 --> 00:51:54,560
From here? 
Probably Paul or Plymouth I 

962
00:51:54,560 --> 00:51:56,560
would have thought. 
I would have said Plymouth. 

963
00:51:56,600 --> 00:52:00,440
I think it would be Plymouth or 
possibly one of the two Scottish

964
00:52:00,440 --> 00:52:02,080
clubs, right? 
OK. 

965
00:52:02,560 --> 00:52:04,440
I would say it's Plymouth. 
A guess. 

966
00:52:05,120 --> 00:52:06,640
I'll have a look on Google 
later, yeah. 

967
00:52:07,960 --> 00:52:11,840
Muswell's track also held a few 
long track meetings, says Fred. 

968
00:52:13,000 --> 00:52:15,160
OK. 
I don't. 

969
00:52:15,160 --> 00:52:15,760
Good to know. 
Yeah. 

970
00:52:15,960 --> 00:52:17,920
That's that's got a that's going
back a long, long time. 

971
00:52:17,920 --> 00:52:20,000
I don't remember Motherwell ever
staging speed. 

972
00:52:20,000 --> 00:52:21,720
Are you not in more years of 
watching it so. 

973
00:52:22,400 --> 00:52:25,280
So, well, we've got just a few 
more minutes left. 

974
00:52:27,280 --> 00:52:33,840
Shall we have bets? 
I mean, it's just stupid on who 

975
00:52:33,840 --> 00:52:37,760
we think is going to be he's. 
Real money. 

976
00:52:38,000 --> 00:52:41,760
The Northampton promoter, is it 
going to be somebody new, 

977
00:52:42,360 --> 00:52:46,480
Somebody that we know of? 
Nigel Toler, you think well. 

978
00:52:48,320 --> 00:52:50,600
I've heard nothing I'm not so. 
Sure, that means you've heard 

979
00:52:50,600 --> 00:52:51,240
something. 
I'm. 

980
00:52:51,760 --> 00:52:53,960
Not so sure of myself. 
No, I've heard nothing about 

981
00:52:53,960 --> 00:52:55,920
that. 
I think, I think he might be in 

982
00:52:55,920 --> 00:52:58,240
trouble with somebody if he gets
back involved in Speedway again,

983
00:53:00,920 --> 00:53:04,360
yeah. 
I've no, I haven't heard 

984
00:53:04,360 --> 00:53:05,880
anything to that, to that 
effect. 

985
00:53:06,200 --> 00:53:09,680
I just, I just thought it's sort
of a bit like his MO, isn't it 

986
00:53:10,560 --> 00:53:13,640
coming in late into the season, 
last one to get to get the team 

987
00:53:13,640 --> 00:53:15,400
together. 
Are you? 

988
00:53:16,000 --> 00:53:18,520
I don't, I haven't heard 
anything, but I would not be 

989
00:53:18,520 --> 00:53:20,440
surprised if Peter Adams is 
involved. 

990
00:53:21,040 --> 00:53:23,680
Interesting. 
I haven't heard anything, but I 

991
00:53:23,680 --> 00:53:27,520
know that he's, you know, he 
hasn't ruled out getting back 

992
00:53:27,520 --> 00:53:29,720
involved with speed. 
I think he's obviously his 

993
00:53:29,720 --> 00:53:32,280
preferred option would be wolves
because he's a wolves man. 

994
00:53:32,280 --> 00:53:36,000
But you know, at the moment that
seems there's nothing going on 

995
00:53:36,000 --> 00:53:37,960
with wolves at the moment that 
I've heard so. 

996
00:53:38,560 --> 00:53:44,040
Haley, Haley, says Pete Adams. 
Silent Corpus is Chris Lewy been

997
00:53:44,040 --> 00:53:45,280
an interesting one. 
I mean, just walked. 

998
00:53:45,400 --> 00:53:48,000
Just. 
Left there. 

999
00:53:48,280 --> 00:53:50,280
Used to be Speedway at Hampden 
Park. 

1000
00:53:51,400 --> 00:53:54,240
Yes, there was for a couple of 
years, wasn't there in the early

1001
00:53:54,320 --> 00:53:55,400
70s that's. 
A big stadium? 

1002
00:53:55,400 --> 00:53:57,080
I don't know that one. 
That's a big stadium. 

1003
00:53:57,320 --> 00:54:02,040
Yeah, yeah, OK. 
Simon's gone for Chris. 

1004
00:54:02,040 --> 00:54:05,480
Lewis Well, that would be 
interesting, wouldn't it? 

1005
00:54:06,280 --> 00:54:10,320
Ipswich fans would not be 
impressed with that, I don't 

1006
00:54:10,320 --> 00:54:12,560
think, Paul. 
Would be very very surprised if 

1007
00:54:12,560 --> 00:54:13,960
Chris Lily picks up somewhere 
else. 

1008
00:54:14,440 --> 00:54:18,120
I mean, it could be a syndicate.
All of the above could be part 

1009
00:54:18,120 --> 00:54:25,280
of it. 
What about Phil Morris? 

1010
00:54:25,280 --> 00:54:27,240
Oh. 
Yeah, be a conflict of interest,

1011
00:54:27,240 --> 00:54:27,920
wouldn't there? 
If he's the. 

1012
00:54:28,240 --> 00:54:29,720
Would you have to leave one to 
go to? 

1013
00:54:29,800 --> 00:54:34,560
Never stopped any other. 
I don't think the I don't think 

1014
00:54:34,560 --> 00:54:38,400
the chairman of the chief 
executive the able to run his 

1015
00:54:38,400 --> 00:54:41,640
own club in that league. 
He could be part of a consortium

1016
00:54:41,640 --> 00:54:43,720
though. 
No, I don't. 

1017
00:54:43,720 --> 00:54:45,320
I don't. 
I don't see being Phil Morris, 

1018
00:54:45,720 --> 00:54:49,400
but there's a few, there's a few
names being being banded around.

1019
00:54:49,400 --> 00:54:52,000
But I said I don't. 
I mean, obviously it's not going

1020
00:54:52,000 --> 00:54:54,040
to be 1 because you're only 
allowed to have one. 

1021
00:54:54,640 --> 00:54:55,960
You're not allowed to have one 
prior Troy. 

1022
00:54:55,960 --> 00:55:00,760
Now obviously the rules change 
after sad loss of Tim Stone, 

1023
00:55:03,480 --> 00:55:06,840
yeah, but I personally wouldn't 
be wouldn't be tightly shocked 

1024
00:55:06,840 --> 00:55:13,240
if Pate Adams is involved there.
Alan Phillips, Well, I don't 

1025
00:55:13,240 --> 00:55:14,760
know him down there, do they? 
No. 

1026
00:55:14,760 --> 00:55:17,440
Is. 
He still around. 

1027
00:55:17,520 --> 00:55:20,200
He's not involved in Speedway. 
No, no, no, no, no, no. 

1028
00:55:20,200 --> 00:55:23,840
That was his one and only. 
He run us into the ground and 

1029
00:55:23,840 --> 00:55:27,320
then, yeah, that was his only 
involvement in Speedway. 

1030
00:55:28,160 --> 00:55:31,320
Everybody breathes a huge sigh 
of relief. 

1031
00:55:32,960 --> 00:55:33,880
But he must. 
He must have been. 

1032
00:55:33,880 --> 00:55:35,600
He must have been a Speedway 
supporter. 

1033
00:55:36,120 --> 00:55:37,680
Before then, well, he always 
claimed he was didn't. 

1034
00:55:37,680 --> 00:55:38,840
It's a little clog. 
To be honest. 

1035
00:55:38,920 --> 00:55:43,080
I'd never seen him but very well
in the US before he took over 

1036
00:55:43,080 --> 00:55:45,400
there. 
Well, no, they both claimed 

1037
00:55:45,560 --> 00:55:47,000
because there was two of them 
originally. 

1038
00:55:47,000 --> 00:55:48,160
I can't remember the other guy's
name. 

1039
00:55:48,160 --> 00:55:50,040
Oh, Chris Lewsey. 
Was it the other guy? 

1040
00:55:50,040 --> 00:55:52,600
Something like that, but they 
both claimed to be Speedway fans

1041
00:55:52,600 --> 00:55:55,720
and he later admitted he'd never
watched Speedway match in his 

1042
00:55:55,720 --> 00:56:00,000
life and it was Alan Phillips. 
Enthusiasm, I suppose, brought 

1043
00:56:00,000 --> 00:56:05,560
him in, but let's not go over 
those old comments. 

1044
00:56:05,560 --> 00:56:06,960
Well, we did have him on the 
show, didn't we? 

1045
00:56:08,040 --> 00:56:09,360
Anna Philip, she was in here, 
wasn't it? 

1046
00:56:09,440 --> 00:56:10,320
Was. 
There, Yeah. 

1047
00:56:10,760 --> 00:56:12,680
Sat in that corner there. 
He did, yeah. 

1048
00:56:12,920 --> 00:56:14,560
On his own we sat to have rod of
it. 

1049
00:56:14,560 --> 00:56:17,640
Oh. 
Dear Yeah. 

1050
00:56:20,400 --> 00:56:23,320
Right. 
Well, it's going to be an 

1051
00:56:23,320 --> 00:56:28,480
interesting couple of weeks. 
Now I'm watching the BSPL site 

1052
00:56:28,480 --> 00:56:34,440
like a hawk to find out who is 
going to be promoting it. 

1053
00:56:34,520 --> 00:56:36,280
We don't even know what the. 
Nickname is yet do we? 

1054
00:56:36,600 --> 00:56:38,400
We don't know what it's. 
Listed on the fixture list, it's

1055
00:56:38,400 --> 00:56:40,240
just Northampton Speedway at the
moment, so. 

1056
00:56:40,560 --> 00:56:42,320
Yeah. 
Have you, have you looked at the

1057
00:56:42,320 --> 00:56:44,600
Northampton? 
Have you looked at their 

1058
00:56:44,600 --> 00:56:46,200
website? 
I haven't. 

1059
00:56:46,520 --> 00:56:50,120
No, it's interesting reading. 
It's just, it's just one of 

1060
00:56:50,120 --> 00:56:54,040
these, is it Fastnet? 
I think just holding the site. 

1061
00:56:54,320 --> 00:56:57,400
There's nothing on it at all. 
Oh, holding, holding page. 

1062
00:56:57,400 --> 00:56:58,320
Holding page. 
Yeah, OK. 

1063
00:57:00,200 --> 00:57:04,040
Absolutely nothing on it. 
So I mean. 

1064
00:57:04,120 --> 00:57:05,360
Boxes, Harry Redknapp. 
Good. 

1065
00:57:05,360 --> 00:57:09,000
Great. 
What I was going to say, what 

1066
00:57:09,000 --> 00:57:11,680
happened to him, He read. 
Interestingly, Harry Redknapp 

1067
00:57:11,680 --> 00:57:15,560
was on Radio 5 Live Today, just 
happened to turn the radio on 

1068
00:57:15,560 --> 00:57:19,120
and he was on Radio 5 live and 
he was talking about Cheltenham,

1069
00:57:19,120 --> 00:57:21,680
he was talking about Spurs, he 
was talking about lots of 

1070
00:57:21,680 --> 00:57:22,280
things. 
I saw that. 

1071
00:57:23,280 --> 00:57:25,760
You mentioned Speedway. 
Not the time that I heard him. 

1072
00:57:26,040 --> 00:57:29,480
I mean, maybe it happened before
I got on there, but I I don't 

1073
00:57:29,480 --> 00:57:34,080
think Speedway was mentioned. 
It wasn't, no. 

1074
00:57:34,080 --> 00:57:34,920
So did you hear it? 
Yeah. 

1075
00:57:35,160 --> 00:57:37,520
He bought bought bought 36 
horses a parallel something. 

1076
00:57:38,160 --> 00:57:39,840
Right. 
He brought 36 horses. 

1077
00:57:39,840 --> 00:57:41,880
Yeah. 
He bought a whole stable of 

1078
00:57:41,880 --> 00:57:44,160
them, yeah. 
He well, he loves his horses. 

1079
00:57:44,240 --> 00:57:46,280
He does, yeah. 
Well, that's the yeah, I mean, 

1080
00:57:46,280 --> 00:57:48,680
he was talking about Cheltenham 
and stuff, but you know, you, 

1081
00:57:48,680 --> 00:57:50,960
you'd have thought he was, if 
he's brought in to promote 

1082
00:57:50,960 --> 00:57:54,240
Speedway, that that would have 
been a perfect oh. 

1083
00:57:54,520 --> 00:57:56,480
Crikey, yeah. 
Opportunity for him, even if 

1084
00:57:56,480 --> 00:57:58,320
they're not asking him the 
questions, it would have been a 

1085
00:57:58,560 --> 00:58:00,160
cap. 
It would have been a perfect 

1086
00:58:00,160 --> 00:58:02,000
opportunity for him to say 
something. 

1087
00:58:02,160 --> 00:58:04,560
Yeah, definitely. 
When they say well, like when 

1088
00:58:04,560 --> 00:58:05,680
they said, well, what are you up
to? 

1089
00:58:05,680 --> 00:58:07,360
I think they said something 
along the lines of what are you 

1090
00:58:07,360 --> 00:58:10,800
doing? 
Well, yeah, This great sport. 

1091
00:58:11,080 --> 00:58:12,360
Yeah, yeah. 
But great. 

1092
00:58:13,160 --> 00:58:15,320
Sports, yeah. 
Maybe he's not involved anymore.

1093
00:58:15,320 --> 00:58:16,600
I've heard nothing at all. 
I'm going. 

1094
00:58:17,280 --> 00:58:18,680
To talk to the Speedway Taverns,
yeah. 

1095
00:58:19,800 --> 00:58:21,800
Yeah, that'd be good. 
Probably best not to open me on 

1096
00:58:21,800 --> 00:58:22,800
the show when he's. 
For years. 

1097
00:58:25,160 --> 00:58:26,480
No. 
I think it'd be much better to 

1098
00:58:26,480 --> 00:58:28,200
have you on the show. 
That sounds like fun. 

1099
00:58:28,200 --> 00:58:32,320
Let's do it. 
Let's do it. 

1100
00:58:33,160 --> 00:58:35,120
OK. 
So as soon as you say that's it,

1101
00:58:35,120 --> 00:58:37,920
that'll be it. 
Will it really well that's it 

1102
00:58:37,920 --> 00:58:44,280
then so OK before that's it in 
actual fact we will oh you have 

1103
00:58:44,280 --> 00:58:46,120
not talked talked about your new
system. 

1104
00:58:47,360 --> 00:58:49,880
Let's just tell everybody all 
well, well, I. 

1105
00:58:50,840 --> 00:58:52,040
Don't know what to say about it 
really. 

1106
00:58:52,280 --> 00:58:55,200
Well, it's a, it's a new system.
We've got, we've got, we've got 

1107
00:58:55,200 --> 00:58:59,080
new machine, we've got new 
cameras, we've got new mics and 

1108
00:58:59,080 --> 00:59:00,400
we've got new software. 
There you go. 

1109
00:59:00,640 --> 00:59:02,760
But how does that? 
How does that benefit? 

1110
00:59:02,760 --> 00:59:06,360
There's a lot more interaction 
when you get your screen. 

1111
00:59:06,480 --> 00:59:08,360
You'll be able to see the 
comments flash up on your 

1112
00:59:08,360 --> 00:59:09,160
screen. 
Mm hmm. 

1113
00:59:09,680 --> 00:59:12,160
Yeah, without, without going 
somewhere else to have a look 

1114
00:59:12,160 --> 00:59:13,680
at. 
OK, but as I understand it, if 

1115
00:59:13,680 --> 00:59:16,360
people want to take part in if. 
Anybody knows if anybody wants 

1116
00:59:16,360 --> 00:59:17,760
to take part? 
In this is the important bit. 

1117
00:59:17,760 --> 00:59:20,680
Come on, you will. 
Not need any software, you will 

1118
00:59:20,680 --> 00:59:22,800
not need Zoom or anything like 
that. 

1119
00:59:22,800 --> 00:59:25,720
All you'll all you'll need is a 
link that we'll provide and 

1120
00:59:25,720 --> 00:59:29,200
that'll bring you straight into 
our studio amongst these 

1121
00:59:29,280 --> 00:59:31,200
vagabonds there. 
You go. 

1122
00:59:31,320 --> 00:59:33,840
So yeah, what we're what we're 
saying is we would really. 

1123
00:59:33,840 --> 00:59:36,320
Love it works as well. 
Yeah, it works OK. 

1124
00:59:36,480 --> 00:59:40,560
We would really love you guys to
take part. 

1125
00:59:40,560 --> 00:59:42,920
What would they do? 
Just tell you on the shout box 

1126
00:59:42,920 --> 00:59:43,600
or what? 
How? 

1127
00:59:43,600 --> 00:59:46,000
What? 
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. 

1128
00:59:46,160 --> 00:59:48,040
I'll just send them a link for 
next week's show. 

1129
00:59:48,040 --> 00:59:51,200
Or, you know, next time you do 
it, they can come in. 

1130
00:59:51,360 --> 00:59:53,160
There you go. 
So we'll have a few of you say. 

1131
00:59:53,200 --> 00:59:55,120
For 5 minutes, 10 minutes, you 
know, just pop in. 

1132
00:59:55,200 --> 00:59:57,520
So we'll have a few of you on 
the show talking about, you 

1133
00:59:57,520 --> 01:00:00,400
know, matches that you've been 
to in the in the week. 

1134
01:00:00,400 --> 01:00:02,360
We would love that this year. 
We'd love that this year to be 

1135
01:00:02,360 --> 01:00:05,360
fair, if we could have somebody 
from, you know, giving us 

1136
01:00:05,360 --> 01:00:07,560
reports from matches that 
they've been to in their areas 

1137
01:00:07,560 --> 01:00:10,520
because obviously as you say, 
we're both obviously on the on 

1138
01:00:10,520 --> 01:00:12,720
the scrapbook now with our clubs
not running at the moment, so. 

1139
01:00:13,720 --> 01:00:15,120
So there you go. 
Right. 

1140
01:00:15,120 --> 01:00:18,400
And with that, thank you 
everybody for joining in. 

1141
01:00:19,040 --> 01:00:21,400
Two weeks I think we're good at.
Being back, aren't we? 

1142
01:00:21,400 --> 01:00:24,560
We will see you in two weeks 
because I'm off to Prague. 

1143
01:00:27,040 --> 01:00:28,720
See you soon guys. 
Enjoy your Speedway. 

1144
01:00:28,720 --> 01:00:39,160
Bye bye. 
Sweet white, White, white, 

1145
01:00:43,280 --> 01:00:49,000
white, white. 
Welcome to the Speedway Tavern. 

1146
01:00:50,480 --> 01:00:56,400
Enjoy your stay. 
Welcome to the Speedway Tavern. 

1147
01:00:57,440 --> 01:01:01,960
What's the news today? 
Have a drink. 

1148
01:01:02,960 --> 01:01:10,720
Have you saved all opinions here
today Welcome to the Speedway 

1149
01:01:10,760 --> 01:01:18,160
time hunt. 
Enjoy your stay Where the GA and

1150
01:01:19,880 --> 01:01:21,680
man. 
I'm here today. 

1151
01:01:23,280 --> 01:01:26,080
Welcome to the Speedway time 
hunt. 

1152
01:01:27,200 --> 01:01:28,440
Come and have you saved.