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Get better soon Steve 👍

He won’t be meeting up with me tonight. I’ve contracted Covid and it’s nasty. I will be following from the live stream.

Is Ritchings injured then?

Lawson rides. Hodder in for Scott.

Doubt it as Adam was riding well.

well.... that just proves he wasnt over the line and was on it

i also said this, but nothing wrong with being confident in your own team, especially with our recent results in the play offs but i am worried for arsebell to

Why would it be a problem using the same guest every home meeting when your replacing a rider who would normally be riding every home meeting.

Apart from Fricke, I don't think there were any other "stonewall" wild card options. Doyle & Vaculik had a few issues with injuries, but still wouldn't have challenged for a top 7 spot. The best non-gp riders made it through already (Madsen, Dudek, Jepsen-Jensen). With no obvious picks, I would've gone with next in line in GPs / GP challenge, certainly not Woffy. Fricke - yes Then 2 or Doyle, Vaculik, Michelsen or Thomsen. If the organisers are choosing wildcards for clicks & publicity, I'm half surprised they didn't go for Hannah Grunwald along with Woffy 🤭

The problem with that, is a club could practically use the same guest in every home match. Mind you home riders don't ride "every week" anymore.

"Maybe Hans Nielsen would try again, Ole Olsen could get a chance, or Tony Rickardsson would fight Bartosz Zmarzlik for a seventh title?" - reports sportowefakty.pl It's time to end the wild cards! They distort the essence of the competition. Let's go back to the founding fathers' idea and run the Grand Prix Challenge according to their philosophy. For example, let's let eight riders remain in the series, and all the rest who don't make it will get a chance to compete in the Challenge tournament. We'll also add the other half of the qualifying players.

Let me help…

Add Brennan and Wozniak and it’s a solid team!

Should have been in Portugal tomorrow night, but will be at Wimborne Road instead hoping for Lawson to be riding and for the Pirates to do better than a +6 win. Could be that the Bears crumble, certainly had limited fight in them on Sunday, and I feel that they aren't on the up.

While you cannot question his achievements in the sport.I cannot agree that his Interviews will be seen as putting the sport in good light with foul mouth replies to Presenters.Marmite character .IMO

If it was done as it we suspected it was just for publicity purposes then surely Nicki Pedersen should of got the pick, both about the same standard now, both 3 times world champions but stoke up headlines only difference is Nicky’s headlines are because he is dangerous and seems to have a spat with just about every rider, mechanic and team manager these days, tai is because he swears a lot and thinks he is a modern day Ray Von

And to me this is what makes good use of the wildcard.

Yeah, definitely not to the promoters and FIM who decided them, or him but just everyone else 😁

Lbw also meets some very nice people, and we like meeting him.

Doyle posting that Ellis is all good and hoping to ride Thursday! And Ellis commenting good job boys… hmmm

Annoyingly I can’t find any photos in it as kid, I’m not a massive bloke (5’9” 74kg) but the fact it squeezed over my shoulders and gut makes me think it must’ve drowned me as a 9 year old 🤣🤣

Probably the best there’s ever been and almost certainly better than we’ll see in the future! 1, 3, 5 in the world, a solid international rider, an emerging future Grand Prix star and a talented but inconsistent young local reserve a 2025 equivalent: zmarzlik, Bewley, j. Holder, thorsell, parnitskyi, kemp some side that

You can breathe out now 😂

One thing you can never accuse Tai of is being shy about publicity for himself, and him being back in the GP a year after almost losing his life will undoubtedly generate headlines (at least in the short run). Id wager that more non speedway fans have heard about him than they have of Zmarzlik. On recent form? He should not be near the GP. No title or even gp win since 2018, and his last three attempts have seen him finish 8th, 11th and 18th. Plus he won't have ridden competitively for the best part of 18 months by the time the 2026 season gets underway. Worth remembering 20 years ago, Tony Rickardsson had a completely unsatisfactory end to a successful world championship career as well If he proves us wrong and has a strong season, with a top 6 finish and one or two wins, brilliant. But the odds are heavily stacked against him.

And what a team that was 😮‍💨