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I was in Barcelona before Christmas and as I was on a tour bus I saw banner for the Superprestigio. Greta I though, I'll pop along and see that, see Marques and hopefully a speedway rider or two as they have competed in recent years - just my luck that no Marques and no speedway riders (Kylmakoprpi having retired and Lindgren being injured I guess) but I still had a decent evening out for about £20. The racing was OK, there was passing (100% up the inside) but the actual show itself was better. There was noise, a light and razzmatazz. OK it's a one off but surely that just makes all them things more expensive to do? Why does British Speedway do it best to be as boring and dull as possible before, after and between heats?

Yet go to youtube and watch any meeting on there from the 70s, then one from the 80s and then one from today and tell me it was better back then. It really was not. The sport today is more exciting than ever. Yet still the promoters are managing the kill the sport!

TBF, he finished 42 in the Polish league averages. What 8 riders didn't ride in Poland that you would say are top 50 in the World to knock him out of the top 50? Bearing in mind you also have to replace any top 50 riders who already have Premiership averages (like Lindgren, Doyle etc). I'd suggest he should be higher than 4, 5 seems more than fair. He averaged the same as Przedpełski who is a 7 and not a lot less than Thorssell who is 8.5! He got more than Musliak who is about 7.5 too.

It makes me laugh when people decide to base a rider entire next 12 months in Europe based on a meeting or 3 in Australia on weird tracks and probably on weird bikes. Holder, Kurtz, Fricke, Tungate and Pickering have all ridden between 30 and 100 meetings in Europe the last 12 months for you to know how good they are. The idea that 1 meeting is going to suddenly make them good or bad is laughable. People do this with Mason Campton year after year, he does alright in Aus then people are shocked that he's still rubbish in the UK - like themn previous years of being rubbish in the UK don't matter!

They want a degree in English. Surely a degree in marketing would be much more useful?! Also whoever takes over will have to spend hours unblocking everyone! They blocked me when they switched twitter accounts because they wanted to rebrand and I tweeted them saying they should keep the old account with it's followers and just change the header and logo on the account. How was that worthy of a block? It was decent advise, why throw away the 1000s of followers you already had for no reason?

Because he has a 4.5 average from 2013 when he rode for Kings Lynn. Could also be argued its only 4.33 from the meeting he actually did using the Max Clegg rule.

TBF if they really were after Bees fans they wouldn't bother with that twit Hans.

Maybe it was great to be at. But to watch it on Youtube/video/DVD and it's rubbish. Maybe it worked because it was promoted and presented well and people were actually fooled bt this into thinking the speedway was good? Maybe promoters these days need to replicate that. If I was to show someone a video of great speedway I wouldn't pick the 1981 World Final, not by a long way.

They're every 20 years, you on the other hand have conveniently picked years at random

It was rubbish, I've said as much before and got stick for it. Most GPs are better.

Maybe, just maybe this is a route speedway should go down? More betting on races at the track.

What you have done there to prove social media is not an echo chamber is describe it as an echo chamber

Good luck with that, what with being an Aussie and all that. He can work quite freely in Australia.

If he’s not working here he doesn’t need a visa does he?

Except this fails at the first hurdle because they’ve blocked more fans than they’ve ever interacted with.

Could anyone actually place a bet with Ladbrokes anyway?

What does in contradict? You could argue it's unfair. I'd argue it's stupid that if you ride Championship and Premiership and get a Premiership average over 6 its unfair you can double up/drop down but a rider who only rode Premiership and averaged 6.01 can't but it's not contradictory.

The very fact that people people harp on about complex rules and contradictions but are never able to list any says it all. It's a lie, a myth, a red herring. What is an issue is the wilful ignorance of the rules by the powers that be and the way any rule can be ignored if someone with enough power doesn't like it. Or the fact that some teams have signed riders on an old average from 2018 while others have signed riders on a converted average from another league thats more recent but nobody in power is explaining why. Maybe if the BSPA twitter had not blocked so many people we could ask them, but then asking them questions is a blockable offence it would seem!

It amazing the amount of commercial property that council have been buying in recent years. It's a scandal but nobody seems to care. The government should be looking at what any local council spends on commercial property and taking twice that figure form next years budget, 1 lots because they clearly don't need it and a second lot because they still have last years to spend (albeit they not have to sell the property). Local councils should not be investing anything in no public projects. Mind you, lets not forget most of them lost a fortune when Icelandic banks went bust.

Which he only rode in if he'd done well in his programmed rides because he had Lindgren, Masters and Schlein in the team to take away the pressure. There will be no hiding when he#s at number 1.

6th in the away averages where he rode in heat 14 and probably got 3 points vs riding in heat 13 and getting 0.

I've been thinking about this. Lakeside were told no Kennett/Nicholls, maybe the sweetner was they could have Morley and Zach on their old averages?

While in theory I agree with you, I think Thorsell is so good at home it'll make zero difference there. Where the heat 14/13 difference will tell is away from home where a dodgy meeting from him is still too likely. If you're looking at "long term prospects" I suggest you stop looking at both Ashley Morris and Max Clegg. Neither have "it" and neither will amount to much more than they are now any time soon. They might both make it to Championship heat leader level but that could be years from now. They're "OK" riders to have as your number 7 but thats about it really.

Should be 2.56 (Championship 3.33 / 1.3) Ash Morris for Wolves is 3.75 - which pretty much confirms that Sarj will be 2.56

The issue is that referees have gone power mad and decided that there is no way some riders can be as good as they are so when they do make a start they call it back, unfairly. How much of a kick in the balls do you think it is for Sarj every time he makes a start to have it called back. It’s not as if he’s rolling. If the referees are that good at telling Sarj has jumped get them in a bike instead because their reactions are immense.