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  1. So as a speedway fan without a club to support, last night did become interesting, and despite the rain and what Tatum kept saying, I thought there were some good racing moments. I didn't see Sheffield pulling it back, and fair play to them. But.... I have always said speedway is ridiculous having play-off's to decide the league title winners. Makes no sense, it makes the entire league season somewhat pointless. With so few teams in the league over half the league qualify, and as it was last night the 3rd/4th place league finishes contested the final. To give speedway some credibility the league season winners should be automatically seeded to the final and get choice of 1st/2nd leg. The 2nd/3rd place teams content a semi-final. And for a slightly improved weather situation the final should be the middle of September.
  2. As a neutral onlooker I don't think it was. It was embarrassing and unprofessional.
  3. TheReturn

    SGP wild cards 2024

    From a sporting spectacle a GP at Belle Vue would offer amazing racing, and I would welcome Belle Vue over Cardiff every day of the week. But it's become clear that the GPs are only minimally about the sport these days.
  4. TheReturn

    SGP wild cards 2024

    When it becomes more about commercial considerations and less about sporting achievement (in qualifying) then we the fans, have lost.
  5. TheReturn

    SGP wild cards 2024

    I hope he does repeat history, but let’s be honest based on his recent form I don’t see him finishing top 6.
  6. TheReturn

    SGP wild cards 2024

    Not a surprise, but not sure Woffinden deserved another wildcard. It makes a mockery of the sporting contest where you can be selected because your face fits or because of being a world champion five years ago, rather than because you earned the right to be there based off form over the last 12 months. Wildcards should only ever be reserved for riders who were on target for qualification but injury prevented.
  7. Possibly, but the race off was an empty stadium, so arguably could make it more commercially viable if home fans do go to both events. Especially if they offer tickets for the final at a hugely discounted price when purchased with the race-off (not sure if they do that already), could mean more income than fans just attending the final.
  8. Last night was a good event, good close racing. My only gripe is that the hosts (Poland) should never be seeded straight to the final. They should be made to earn their place in the final, and that means if seeding to the race off (if the hosts have to be seeded somewhere). Poland are too good and would have perhaps won anyway, but feels wrong the hosts go straight to the final, it gives them an unfair advantage.
  9. Disagree. The two man format gives more nations the chance due to more evenly matched top pairs compared to less evenly matched top 4 riders. It also allows for team riding, which should be the point of a team event. Just my opinion.
  10. Bit of a farce competition so far, and seemingly the local crowd not at all interested for the first three meetings as their nation not involved yet. The semi-final's should be hosted in a country where one of the semi-finalists is from, this generates at least a home crowd cheering for three of the four competition meetings, and that added atmosphere only good for TV audience too. That means the semi-final race-off will have to pre-selected and means potentially an half empty stadium but also means, if one nation runs away with it like tonight, it's a pointless meeting. The competition needs to stop seeding the host to the final, which I have always felt makes them an unworthy finalist from a sporting perspective, especially if it is the Poles every other year. If you need to seed the home nation, put them to the race-off which guarantees a good crowd for that and all four finalists have had to earn their final spot. So the final would be the two semi-final winners, plus the top two from the race-off. There is a risk the final will not include the home nation, but perhaps a small risk and even if that happened, hopefully fans would flock to see the best speedway nations in the final anyway.
  11. Got to agree, the drone coverage is awful during a race. By all means show a different angle in the replay after a race, but during the race it doesn't add to coverage it takes away from it.
  12. Thank you I was just coming to ask the same, I cant hear any commentary just the stadium noise.
  13. TheReturn

    Wolves 2023

    Sorry to read this news Wolves fans. I hope you can find a new home. I left Long Eaton area not long after the sport finished there, so have not driven past very often in the last 25 years, but happened to drive past last week and it still angers me to drive past the old car park entrance from Nottingham Road to see a bland housing estate and the street name of 'Circuit Drive' and 'Speedway Close' which feels like a slap in the face from the developers. I hope you find a way to get back into your stadium or somewhere else locally.
  14. TheReturn

    Brandon Update

    Echos of what happened at Long Eaton. A mysterious fire burned the empty pub next to the Station Road car park down, and then another mysterious fire burned the empty stadium pavilion down not long after (or may have been other way around)..... but yes, two mysterious fires left the way clear for the developers to build on it. I had hoped as the decades past the truth might have surfaced on that!
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