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Fixtures announced for Kent Kings
Fixtures announced for Kent Kings

Kent SLYDE Kings Speedway club has announced its full fixture listing for the forthcoming season.Kent KingsIt will be a campaign when the Sittingbourne-based club will carry the county’s hopes again in the dirt track motorcycle racing sport’s National League [NL].

The NL is going from strength to strength with two new clubs entering the fray for 2016.  Belle Vue Colts will be based at the brand-new National Speedway stadium in Manchester, with the SLYDE Kings’ first ever visit to the country’s newest Speedway venue occurring over the August Bank Holiday weekend; before that, the first visit to Central Park of the Mancunian club (the most famous club name in the sport having competed in every season of league racing since 1929) will take place in June.

The other newcomers are the rebranded Isle of Wight Warriors – the track in Ryde on the holiday island in Hampshire returning after two years out of the sport.  And the Smallbrook circuit will become something of an early season home from home for the SLYDE Kings, with visits scheduled across the Solent three times before the end of June in, respectively, the National Trophy (NT), the Knock-out Cup (in a two-legged tie) and the NL. Kent Kings2

The Warriors first (also of three, of course) visit to Central Pak on the Bank Holiday Monday, May 2nd. will be the first leg of that Cup tie and opens the home competitive season.  Before that as previously announced, the SLYDE Kings will limber up with a two legged challenge versus local rivals Eastbourne and then take on highly-regarded King’s Lynn over a busy Easter weekend and then see the GB Under 21 semi-final staged at Central Park.

There’s an important change of date for fans’ calendars, with the GB semi now a week earlier than previously slated – the major individual event now being held on Monday April 4th.
The Fans Day including Supporters Forum moves now to April 11th with an Amateur meeting (details to follow) happening on April 18th.

The inaugural Invicta Pairs was such a success last year that it returns in 2016 and is again sponsored by fans of the former Crayford club – with as many ex-riders from the much-missed club from the north-west of the county hoping to be in attendance.  That meeting on April 25th. will also include a first for Central Park: a ‘Development League’ style match pitching  a Junior Kings outfit against the 2014 Midland Development League champions, the Milton Keynes Knights.

There are early challenges for the Kent side under the captaincy of new number one Luke Bowen in April though, with quick fire visits to Bowen’s old club Rye House in the NL, an early match-up with Eastbourne also in the NL (when the practice gained from the visit to Arlington on Good Friday will doubtless prove invaluable) and then getting their NT campaign underway the very next day at Mildenhall.Kent-Kings-vs-Chadley-Heathens-Elizabeth-Leslie

The Fen Tigers from Suffolk are the second Bank Holiday visitors in May (in the NL) and June opens with three away days to the Isle of Wight again, to Coventry and then the long journey into the Peak District to take on Buxton.

Kent Speedway is the only track in the NL with a full weekly programme of home fixtures and the action at Central Park is certainly thick and fast from May through to August, with the pursuit of a top four place (and therefore qualification into the restored end of season championship play offs – last reached by Kent in 2014) likely to be decided by the time September dawns.

August also sees the two set piece events the National Fours and the National Pairs (both back again at respectively, Coventry & King’s Lynn) – the Kings will go into both events with great confidence: last year only an injury to James Shanes prevented the SLYDE backed outfit taking the Fours’ crown and of course there was glorious triumph up in Norfolk in the Pairs.

In addition to the official events there’s time too for some enduringly popular events: the individual championship, the Laurels for the WJ Cearns Trophy, the annual clash with a side representing Wimbledon for the John Cearns Cup and the return after being defeated by the weather last term of the Tunnel Trophy.

 

KENT SLYDE KINGS FIXTURES 2016

Home fixtures in BOLD UPPER CASE   Away fixtures in lower case

All HOME meetings 6.30pm start unless stated

Friday March 25  Away              Eastbourne (GFC) [12 noon]

FRIDAY MARCH 25  HOME      EASTBOURNE (GFC)

MONDAY  MARCH 28  HOME   KING’S LYNN  (ET) [3.00pm] 

Sunday April 3 Away                 Rye House  (NL)

MONDAY APRIL 4 HOME          GB UNDER 21 SEMI-FINAL (Ind)

Saturday April 9 Away                 Eastbourne  (NL)

Sunday April 10  Away               Mildenhall (NT)

MONDAY APRIL 11 HOME        FANS DAY [6.00pm]  

MONDAY APRIL 18  HOME       AMATEUR EVENT

Thursday  April 21 Away             Isle of Wight  (NT)

MONDAY APRIL  25  HOME      CRAYFORD INVICTA PAIRS & vs. MILTON KEYNES

MONDAY. MAY 2       HOME      ISLE OF WIGHT    (KOC) [3.00pm]

Wednesday May 4      Away        Birmingham (NL)

MONDAY  MAY 9   HOME          MILDENHALL (NT)  

MONDAY  MAY  16  HOME        RYE HOUSE (NL)

MONDAY  MAY 23   HOME        RESERVED

MONDAY MAY 30  HOME          MILDENHALL (NL) [3.00pm]

MONDAY  JUNE 6   HOME         ISLE OF WIGHT (NT)

Tuesday June 7   Away                Isle of Wight (KOC)

Friday June 10  Away                   Coventry  (NL)

Sunday June 12  Away                 Buxton    (NL)

MONDAY  JUNE 13  HOME         RYE HOUSE (TT)

MONDAY JUNE 20   HOME         COVENTRY   (NL).

Thursday June 23    Away             Isle of Wight  (NL)

MONDAY JUNE 27   HOME          BELLE  VUE  (NL).

MONDAY  JULY 4    HOME           BUXTON   (NL)

MONDAY  JULY 11   HOME          WIMBLEDON (JCC)

MONDAY  JULY 18   HOME          BIRMINGHAM (NL)

MONDAY JULY 25    HOME          STOKE   (NL)

MONDAY  AUG.  1    HOME          ISLE of WIGHT (NL)

Sunday   Aug   7   Away                  Mildenhall  (NL)

MONDAY  AUG  8     HOME           KING’S LYNN  (NL)

Sunday  Aug  14                              NL Fours –  Coventry

MONDAY  AUG  15    HOME          RESERVED  K.O.CUP HOME

MONDAY   AUG 22    HOME          KENT LAURELS (Ind)

Friday Aug 26   Away                      Belle Vue  NL

Saturday Aug 27                             NL Pairs –  King’s Lynn

MONDAY AUG 29 HOME              EASTBOURNE  (NL) [3.00pm]

Saturday  Sept 3  Away                  Stoke  (NL)

MONDAY  SEPT 5 HOME              CRADLEY (NL)

MONDAY  SEPT 12  HOME            RESERVED PLAY/OFFS

Monday Sept  19  Away                  Cradley    (NL)

MONDAY SEPT  19  HOME           AMATEUR EVENT

 

To Be Arranged: KENT COUNTY FOURS

NL = National League
NT = National Trophy
KOC = Knock-out Cup
GFC+ Good Friday Chase
ET = Easter Trophy
Ind = Individual
TT = Tunnel Trophy
JCC = John Cearns Cup

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