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It's time these pit crew thugs started getting bans for their attacks/attempted attacks on riders...

As I understand it, once Craig Cook had qualified towards the end of last season for this year's GP-series, Workington were then keen to avoid running home meetings on GP-Saturdays as they knew (especially in borderline Cumbrian weather) that a significant chunk of their home crowd would prefer to watch Cook live on TV instead of turning up at Derwent Park and settling for a Sky-+ trip through Cook's races along with the rest of that night's GP afterwards. Hence it was reckoned Friday nights with no counter-attraction of GP-TV would be better financially for the Comets than Saturday night clashes between the two and, at that stage, the BSPA didn't seem to have a problem with such a plan and its likely scattering of a few Workington home-Fridays throughout the 2018 season. But then came the actual declaring of the 2018 GP-schedule, crucially the first such schedule to be fitted into not just a World Cup football year but a World Cup in which Poland were expected to go a long way within it (yes, I know they actually crashed out straight away but on FIFA pre-tournament rankings they were the top-seeds in Group H ahead of Colombia, Senegal and Japan). Hence there weren't many GP's (just a couple of them plus the Speedway Nations week) during May & most of June, followed by the much busier GP-schedule that began (after the football groups were over) with the Danish round at Horsens on 30-June and yet still included one of the Swedish rounds at Hallstavik on 7-July which could have been getting underway only a few minutes after a Poland-Sweden quarter-final penalty shootout if the World Cup draw had tumbled that particular way (that was the actual game in which England beat Sweden 2-0). Even once both the GP and World Cup schedules were settled (shortly before Christmas 2017), there still seemed no serious objection from the BSPA to Workington's occasional GP-swerving Fridays and that still remained the case when the Comets' fixtures were announced early in 2018 with lots of Friday home meetings for them packed into July and August rather than a wider scattering of those home-Fridays across April and May as well. Then, as has been well (and very understandably frustratingly) documented on umpteen threads on this forum, it was only decided to scupper more than just Workington's Friday-plan at disgracefully short notice when a regular Friday home-track threw all its toys out of what needs to be a rather big pram for that particular baby. Hope all the above answers jenga's question.

I know Tony Jackson personally, quite well, and I can assure you that he could not attend the AGM because of personal family commitments (and believe me you would not wish to have those commitments yourself !). His place would have been taken by other management members, but I also know for a fact that they had untimely personal family commitments too !! I appreciate you werent inferring it, but please....no-one should think that our management just simply "couldnt be bothered" to attend the AGM. If you knew just how MUCH of his personal time Tony Jackson puts in week in and week out to sort team issues out, you would find it almost impossible to believe ! And he has a full time job to go to, plus he has long term family commitments to battle with on a daily basis too...so lets give him some credit !

Couldnt get last night work again but second son went for first time in 15 yrs with his 2 lads and they luved it will be going everyweek ,now if only we could find a few more like that !

But according to Rob Godfrey you were told about Fridays before the season started and did nothing about it. They have only taken a tough stance because Lakeside, Peterborough and Workington did not sort it themselves. why is took 12 weeks to sort is probably because Rob couldn’t get guests as documented but due to no appeals to overturn the decision I would suggest it was in place at start of the season. British speedway is worse off under Buster and Godfrey but their ego’s won’t let them see it

Thats a lot of £10 notes, even with tiny writing I was gonna say something like that, but av only got a fiver

The one thing Berwick is NOT is a dump.Its one of the best stadiums in the league.The track might not be the best but there was not one rider fell tonight so you are obviously talking through your A#se.

More likely BFH

I will answer it for you then. I doubt that even Poole's owners could insist an interval was taken at Speedway matches if it looked like it was going to rain before the end of a match.

Has that made you feel better after the football? Your continual bitterness towards Edinburgh is rather dull without explanation. Don't think any Monarchs fan went along tonight with any great confidence. Look at the bandits reserves.

The rain spoilt a decent meeting .. the scoreline flattered Sheffield, when the rain started and our boys knew we had the cushion they didn’t risk themselves .. crazy how heat 15 was ran when Sheffield couldn’t win the meeting but Mr Bates thought they were only 3 points behind thinking Charles had scored double points in his tac ride so wanted the race run .. 3 points nice one boys

He said he had been told he had been sacked, that was confirmed, what happened after that we don't know presumably someone realised without a ready made replacement it was a stupid thing to say not sure it is Bjerre that looks a berk

That was more than enjoyable. Never thought the meeting would go ahead when the first TV pictures were shown, what a job the track staff did to get that on. Pedersen was inspired, fully deserved for how much he gives to the sport, whatever personal opinions he attracts.

Not a NP fan, but showed what it meant to him . Well done. No fault in the Woofy clash.

Malilla GP showing what an utter joke it was to call off the Poole meeting!!!

Well it’s hosing down here this morning and if this rain had come a day later there would be no chance of the meeting going ahead. Luckily tomorrow is forecast to be a dry day with sunny periods. Somerset dished out a drubbing earlier this season so we need the team to click as one to gain revenge. Should be a thriller.

Well done Pinny, you got that call Pederson to win dead right. However they managed to turn that track into a race circuit I don't know, but however they did it British track curators need to take note. As for the racing, obviously early to mid races were a bit predictable, but towards the end some fantastic racing given to us. Like others I not too keen on the moves that particularly NP and Freddie do, but tonights moves by them were just about ok IMO. Certainly TW was winging about something which was ok. Interesting how the 2 top Poles crumbled in the semis, they could easily have been 1-2-3. Well done Zagar, just wish he could be consistently good, he has a good style and he is clean. Roll on the next meetings, it will take some to catch TW but sure is a lot of interest in positions 2-10. Unless things change Artum, Greg and Emils places are looking dodgy.

Ben Morley and Richard Andrews were good value

The weather played a big part in this meeeting, first of all in how the forecast influenced track prep and then the heavy rain turned the remaining races into a bit of a lottery. I didn't think the last heat was going to be run especially after the time delay following heat 14 with the rain still falling i was a bit surprised when the bikes came out. Before the rain the racing wasn't brilliant but a good few races were close . The Comets built up a decent cushion which we eventually needed because we generally lost our way in the wet conditions . Congratulations to Young Kyle Bickley on his 4 points from 3 rides, he his developing more of a racing edge now which is good to see. We got the 3 points we needed, not sure the Tigers would have got a point if the weather hadn't intervened but they probably deserved it as more of their riders adapted better to the changing conditions.

Not seen a GP for quite awhile. Seemed to me just right that Nikki - my kind of rider - should bring some fire into the meeting

Trouble is too many riders have conditioned themselves to the point they are only happy riding a track that is slick and bone dry, a lot of skill has gone out of the sport since they brought in the laydowns, its now all about whack the throttle and hold on.

You're new to speedway then?

This precisely sums up one of the main reasons I no longer go. The majority of riders in the PL couldn't care less about any aspect of the meeting, team or fans as long as their pocket is lined and wh*re themselves out to whoever is paying the next pound coin.

Not really. A team that has say a Doyle or a Lambert and you then replaced them with a junior the crowd is going to go down by 150 to 300 and that will cripple clubs .it's same the old story people putting up ideas but with no thinking about the money side .it's the same with take away the play offs and why don't we a play off cup !. Yet again your plan is thinking that the fans don't care who they watch .people have left because the standard of rider has dropped

Josh Bates is out for the rest of the season.