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All I am interested is in how good the racing is. The Plymouth 3TT the other week was NDL riders with a few young Championship lads. The racing was close, exciting, got better as the night went on and ended with a last-heat decider which was won in the final yard. Perfect recipe in my book. This may also mark a changing of the guard --- some of the older riders bowing out and making room for the exciting Young Guns. Scott was exciting Young Gun and pushed aside others....that's how it works.

I I certainly did. Excellent speedway meeting and the racing got better as the meeting went on as more lines developed. Good presentation, although I think the announcer muddled the scores at least once. Last race with Tom chasing down Henry was as good as speedway gets...and in a last heat decider. Good atmosphere, good track, crowd all looked well spaced...I think Plymouth did a great job and served up some excellent speedway. Couldn't ask for more. The locals were all very friendly too. By the way, Plymouth Speedway was more Covid-19 safe than Dartmouth was the next day. The town was rammed. I drove round, couldn't find a parking space, thought about park and ride which was also crowded so headed to the more refined delights of Totnes, which was busy but not crowded.

Mark Phillips got the weather perfect on Tuesday. Sun shone. Hope he can do the same again for the next meeting.

Great night, great racing...very enjoyable evening

Great news. Plymouth have done so well all round on this.

Eastbourne have 3 youngsters in their 2020 CL team. Two are in the team to go to Devon. Drew is an Ipswich rider. Nathan Ablitt I guess starts college around that time and maybe wants to get settled before taking a day off. Also, gives Eagles a chance to look at someone else.

What a strange thing to say: "Out for a ride." I very much doubt Tom Brennan and Jason Edwards are "out for a ride". Tom needs as much bike time as possible because he is competing in the U21 European final and Jason has been in the U19 Euros. With Bowtell, Brennan, Edwards and Ben Morley you have some of the best NDL riders around. Jake Knight is a 9pt NDL rider and wants to himself in the "shop window". Atkins is on his way up and needs every race he can get and Coles is decent too. You could argue that the standard of this meeting is a slightly higher calibre than Scunny v Lions on Sunday but I wouldn't want to get into an argument about that because this year any live speedway is good speedway in my book. Connor King is an interesting one and at his age he will want to impress and what better chance has he got than this. It may be that King will be part of the Eastbourne young rider academy, which I have heard whispers of. Apparently the academy will link to Polish and Swedish clubs. If you were a youngster, you want to be in that sort of academy and perhaps King has got wind of that too. Definitely not "out for a ride" sort of match for him and the others too. We should be celebrating the chance of seeing some live, competitive speedway in 2020. Many fans, sadly, will not get that chance.

Easy process to buy. Works well.

It is green for go at Plymouth for some speedway from next month. Promotion must have worked hard on that, now I hope they get the reward with fans going.

VAT to come out of those figures too?

speedwaygb said 6 at some stage in last week

Thank you for the confirmation on that point -- I can now see/hear Mike and he was very good at those sort of phrases to give the riders some individual character....Milk it Millsy, is another I recall.

Quite a few other continental places as well look like coming on to the list.

Brave decision by Speedway Star to pull out of supplying Smith's. I understand the cost factor but WHS has shops in most High Streets. It means, in the town where I live, that the SS will disappear. The alternative is to subscribe. In the season, I would be happy - March to October. In the winter, with all the features, it is pot luck. If they scrapped the Burford bollocks, it would be a better read and we could all get on with our lives that much sooner. That bloke bores for Britain. Why use one word when you can use twenty, seems to be his style? Cannot understand why his articles are not properly edited.... so, what am I to do?

Look West - Plymouth looking to use their stadium 364 days a year. Yes, an aspiration but shows the way forward.

Today's Speedway Star rightly gives a lot of space to Robert Lambert for his SEC win. However, the headline refers to Rambo Lambo. Surely Rambo Lambo was Simon Lambert.

Good statement, I thought, from Matt Ford.

All across Meridian TV tonight....Tom Brennan’s remarkable story. Great coup for the Eagles to lead the region’s sport bulletin in 6 o clock news.

If you keep doing the same thing, you will inevitably get the same results. Some promoters don't shake things up and are amazed at no increase in crowds. Others do make changes, and get more fans through the gate. As you say, it ain'r rocket science. Ps: Good luck to Adam in Poland. Glad he's got the chance.

Whatever the reason(s), Bickley missed a chance to get continental racing experience which Flint/Brennan got while Rowe rides in Poland.

I'm sure you Brian and most Birmingham fans were thankful for the NDL, as we were at Eastbourne. Now we are both back in the middle tier.

I have seen that Brennan has been to Plymouth a couple of times and was with the Eagles at King's Lynn. I'm not sure what Leon has done this year but full credit to him for going. He will have learned loads...as Tom did when he did the U-19s a couple of years ago. Riding in Europe is the way forward for these youngsters as has been shown by Robert Lambert; an extraordinary talent who has raced in the hard leagues of Poland where the promoters are, to coin a phrase, Ruthless.

Tom Brennan 4th in u21 semi today. Qualifies for the final. Well done Tom. What a result.

Not this year. No-one has done a lap at Eastbourne this year ...stadium is closed for renovations. Tom been to Plymouth and Kings Lynn.

I would say today's statement from Eastbourne Speedway is a model of how to communicate with supporters in a transparent and open way. It sets out what's been happening, the decisions that have been made and the reasons. Now we know where we stand. It's all on the website.