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Maybe the FA could adopt it? Add a bit of spice to the coin toss for ends 😀

First and last visit to Perry Barr last night! As a Somerset and now a Plymouth fan I saw my best meeting of the season so far at the Coliseum on Saturday and possibly the worst one last night! Gate and go by Sheffield for easy easy win but Birmingham just couldn't make a start. Track was awful, was stood between start gate and first bend in front of the grandstand and it was like Motocross bumping into bend one. Quite amazed only Jeppesen fell! I can imagine the Barker nomination in heat 15 was that he was up for it when others weren't. You always get max effort from Ben but it certainly wasn't a surface that he thrives on! My son said when are they using a tac sub but in honesty it wouldn't have made any difference. Probably the easiest max Jack has ever scored and probably same goes for Leon too. Picko was good value as always and managed one of the only passes of the night around the outside. Finally the guy on the centre green, how quicky did he want to announce the riders on parade and why bother talking over the final lap of a race????

MDL CHAMPIONS WOLVES COME FROM BEHIND TO VICTORY OVER THE BUFFALOES 2025 Midland Development League champions the WOLVES were given a tough battle by the SUPPORTERS CLUB BUFFALOES who led 13-11 with two heats to go. But their chances of snatching a win were hit by a first bend fall by skipper Eli Meadows and the WOLVES posted a 5-1 to lead for the first time 16-14. Harrison Rogers ensure victory with a decisive pass of the unbeaten Max Broadhurst with guest Joe Crewe covering for the unavailable Dylan Huthwaite getting the better of Will Boraston to secure the Wolves a 20-16 win. Harley Driscoll-Freeman had his best return of the season for the champions with paid 7. After the meeting three of the regular Wolves were presented with their league winning medals and skipper Ryan Ashcroft the MDL shield . The clash concludes a highly successful MDL season where the progress of all riders has been marked with several getting National League team spots . The final track action for the MDL riders is next Monday August 11th when the Alan Grahame memorial individual is staged . In the supporting 125cc races Oscar Berwick won his three heats whilst girl racer Lily Bence was unbeaten in her three outings with Cody Smith notching three second spot and AJ Bence was down on power but completed his three outings. WOLVES 20 ( Harrison Rogers 3r 6+1. Ryan Ashcroft 3r 6+1, Harley Driscoll-Freeman 3r 5+2, Joe Crewe 3r 3) SUPPORTERS CLUB BUFFALOES 16 ( Max Broadhurst 3r 8, Eli Meadows 3r 6, Will Boraston 3r 1, Jake Breeze 3r 1) Agg : Wolves 35 Buffaloes 34 M W D L F A PTS BONUS TTL WOLVES 8 6 1 1 162 120 13 6 19 BULLS 8 4 1 3 139 124 9 2 11 BUFFALOES 8 1 0 7 102 159 2 0 2

yes he was gifted a point when Jeppesen fell in his first ride where he moved at the start then missed it (and had a warning from the ref after the heat) but after that he was in the mix every race. Another couple of meetings and he is going to make a lot of doubter's eat there words.

I stopped attending KL after the fiasco a few years back against Leicester when they only had 1 ambulance at the track and the meeting was held up for over an hour before being abandoned... I then gave them a reprieve when they ran into difficulties after the Brady/Laguta issues and started going again, only to be rewarded by going over from Leicester 3 times last season and not seeing a single meeting raced... needless to say they are back on my banned list again.

It looks a good nights entertainment at Plymouth.Results don’t really matter these days.

It's not something I can't get too excited about either way tbh... on the one hand I do enjoy an extra heat with pretty high stakes, a whole league point... but on the other hand it seems a pretty easy way to get a league point with the one race that normally would take 15 to achieve and is obviously stacked in favour of the team that has 2 big guns. On balance, it's probably not something the sport "needed"

Heat 8 looked bad especially when you see Mulford who was not great miles in front.

Hey Roger by my reckoning using the score sheet even if Lidsey had won his first 2 races, we would still have been 6 points behind by heat 7 so would have still been able to use Brady as a T/S. so based on that and the fact R/R only got 5 points, i think it safe to assume that BV won have almost certainly won a drawn meeting with Lidsey riding. Glad to clear it up:)

From the early days of Mr Bowden to where plymouth are now. It's like chalk and cheese. Yes the current promotion have made a few questionable decisions along the way. But right now Pkymouth speedway is probably in the best place it's been in recent years. Plymouth is hindered by its location (although it's always been here,as far as im aware ) and transport infrastructure. On a positive note regarding Klindt,with all the guests used,the management are in a good position to see who rides the arena well for next year.

So whoever does the Proboards updates blamed the lack of grip on the start line for Lynn's woes, as it played into the Lions hands (or should that be paws). Obviously this person has never been to Leicester in the last 5 seasons as they rip the start line before the meeting to produce what I feel is the grippiest start in British Speedway. This was the last meeting that I will attend at Kings Lynn this season as the last three times been there has been a delayed start for whatever reason which causes me to miss the end of the meeting as I need to be on the last train back to London at 21:42. I cannot think of another sport that is so amateurish as to have delayed starts. At times the sport does not help itself. Last week delayed for a big crowd, this week for additional track prep.

Whilst it is almost certain Belle Vue would have won with Lidsey, you can't start a home meeting like that, if Lidsey had been riding Belle Vue would still have been 8 down after 2 races. Ouch will tell you they don't change their team mid season but maybe changing Tate and possibly Blodorn should have been considered, don't know who for but Glasgow got Nagel so there are options out there.

If Lidsey rode both races and won them both we would have been 6 points (Rather than 14) behind in heat 7, so would have still had Kurtz as a tactical.

An honourable principle to provide an exciting crescendo to a meeting and give fans an extra race in order to decide a winner However..... It is flawed by the fact that it means teams score what could be valuable match points that are not available to all competitors It cannot be right that teams drawing meetings can ultimately earn more points In a league scenario much tighter than this seasons cut and dried top 4 it could easily decide who qualifies for the play offs Example Team A has finished on 40 points and sit in 3rd place with a healthy race points advantage over those below Teams B and C are on 39 and 36 points respectively with a home and away double between them remaining So Team A are safely in the play offs right? Whatever combination of win lose draw between B and C it would be impossible to split the 5 points and see both overhaul Team A Hold my beer - here comes the super heat!! 2 draws later and 5 match points becomes 7 seeing Team A dumped from the play off positions

Not severe criticism, but I agree that Brennan didn't ride defensively against Cook. Coming off the second bend he went madly wide, and then off the fourth bend his back wheel wasn't on the grip, so he couldn't match Cook who got his wheels in line perfectly. Heat 8 was a disaster. King didn't even look competitive. No idea what happened, unless he thought that everything had gone so well that he needed to make some changes?!

Yes shame because he is loved at Poole, doesn't have to be Toby type celebrations but a bit of crowd interaction would be nice.

It looks a good nights entertainment at Plymouth.Results don’t really matter these days.

So odd that Iversen was hopeless at Leicester last week and yet is great tonight - coversely Klindt and Harris both have stinkers etc. (am aware track etc) Confirms for me is that Leicester are on a roll - great to see Joe Thompsn getting more points now, he seems to be on a slower trajectory to Dan but he is making progess!

He is probably Clark Osborne?

But why only add to the value for money if there's a draw? What's so special about that result, which requires an extra race? What about a team only losing by 2 or 4, and earning another race to try to win or draw? Sone teams could go all season without a Stupid Heat, while others could have three or four. If they want to add value for money, add an extra heat (or two) to every match anyway ...

Kurtz extra ride because they were in T/S territory. By your reckoning, Lidsey would have been scoring well, so the T/S wouldn't have been needed.

Strength in depth is fine if all of them or at least four hit good scores, the only time Lynn have done well is when at least two of the top five have hit double figures and a reserve has got around 15, unfortunately it’s not happened to often, the tracks utter shyte as well that doesn’t help.

Woefull! There seems to be no effort or pride in going down fighting.

All Lynn meetings take an age to finish, sun, refreshments and tractor racing all come into play

I have always thought the top four this season was a foregone conclusion. The top four all have big hitters, and I never bought the strength in depth argument this year...