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50 point limit was ELx1.4 so that was 35ish EL points. Average team the year before was 42 so 35/42 is 0.83. So 83% which is about 20% when rounded as I posted above.

Yes it was. It was 20% weaker than it was at the end of the year before. Thats the joy of averages, you can work these things out quite easily.

I can name a dozen ahead of anything Italy, Slovenia or Latvia have. And just who do the Aussie have to justify one more than us? And then Sweden, they're in a worse state than us at present, do they honestly have twice as manyr ider worthy of a place as us? Last year we didnt have enough places, this year we don't have enough places. Who are the Russia 3? Maybe Laguta will do them but the other 2? I can name numerous Brits better than anything else they have. FFS France have the same number as us. Who do they have? Bellego and...... while Italy have Covatti and nobody else but still have 4 places.

Theyre not charging OAPs extra. Theyre charging them the same. Why should OAPs get a discount?

Second season in a row it's a joke. The same number as Slovenia, Latvia and Russia. They are aware that last season an ACU rider actually qualifier right? Surely that should give you an extra place (I'm aware a Russia did too but he as a wildcard) How do Italy and the Czechs get more places than us? And the Swede and Danes tbh, we have more GP riders as Sweden and Denmark combined!

Based on what? Your opinion? How about backing it up with some facts. OAPs disposable incoming is growing while workers is dropping. OAPs now have more disposable income than people aged 18-35. Now business offers discounts to people who are already customers - thats madness, why offer discount to the people already attending? And you certainly don't incentivise OAPs who will be dead sooner rather than later. IF you're going to incentivise anyone it should be people who don't go and young people, ideally young people who don't already go.

Nobody has ever actually been able to explain to me using facts (not opinion) why OAPs should get a discount. Why should an OAP who has had 65 years on the planet to earn money and gets a state pension (as a minimum) get in for the same price as a kid in school whos not allowed a job or a 16 year old whos on £3.50 an hour.

Aren't you a nice bundle of joy? I have tried (and I'll be honest failed) to keep up with riders parent clubs on speedway-stats.co.uk. It gets very difficult with all the young British riding in the NL though, God knows who owns half of them! On that note, I'm happy to create a page that lists all riders and their parents clubs if theres any interest. And would be happy to update any that are wrong if someone wants to let me know of any mistakes/changes.

And a certain World Champion! I think Kim is pushing it. He's not been a full time GP rider. Newport were one of the 2 GP rider teams I could think of.

Does anyone know the start time? Trying to work out the best way of travelling. Thanks

Will make a nice change not squashing 100s of meeting into September and October. Who am I kidding? You know they'll not run a meeting June-August so they can have the annual fixture cram in the winter months!

Without checking, the cut-off is 4.5

Ah thats ok then. The other 2 meetings where riders were missing didn't happen. Peterborough took a bung and weakened their team. They then lost both meetings. Meetings that were winnable. This is illegal as it effects betting. But it's speedway, it does it's own thing.

I know. Heavily limited by a few bookies now after getting 300/1 on Coventry in 2010 and the Torun win I mentioned. Plus I won about 5 grand on one of the earlier GPs last season so that got me limited with another bookie. Not many left now and those that are left on tend to offer odds on televised stuff. But none of that changes the fact that the ACU appear to have said it's OK to offer someone money not to put out their best team. That changes the results of meetings and league tables. That can effect betting. What if, had Peterborough had their full teams out at Scunthorpe and Newcastle they had won the meetings and got 8 league points? They might have mad the play-offs. That means they might have won the league. So in taking a bung to let a rider go elsewhere they have effect the league result which has effected betting. There ARE laws against that and its why the FA had to clamp down on the Sutton goalie for simply eating a pie. In football you get sacked and fined for eating a pie as it effects gambling. In speedway you as good as throw meeting and thus the league and you get a slap on the wrist.

The point is that you can fiddle the results of meetings and in a sport that allows gambling, that is actually against the law. Remember the Sutton United goal keeper who got sacked for eating a pie on TV? http://www.telegraph.co.uk/football/2017/07/14/former-sutton-united-goalkeeper-wayne-shaw-charged-fa-pie-gate/ OK no bet is ever a certainty but you can certain swing things hugely in your favour. Yet I won just short of 11 grand on the Torun GP in 2016. So it can be done!

I can't bet much with most bookies but there are a few that still let me bet large amounts on TV meetings. If "Joe Bloggs" sign up with the 8 or so bookies that offer betting on speedway and can get 2/1 on the away team winning at Peterborough with all them bookies then it's very much worth doing. TBH, I don't know why Ged doesn't just cut out the middle man and do it himself.

Why not? You'll say rules. I'll say the rules say that Holder had to ride for Peterborough but he still didn't. So why can't AC Milan pay Manchester United a few £££ to take their start players for 3 weekends?

In what way? A foreign team has paid Peterborough not to "play" their best rider. Peterborough speedway have taken a bung off another club not to field their most competitive team. Or is it OK because it's Torun? But what happens if Peterborough get to the play-offs next year and Glasgow offer them 20k to "rest" someone? Is that OK? Or not?

Break the rules, make a profit from it and your fine will be an irrelevance. What a joke. Hardly a punishment if you gain from the whole situation. It stinks. Riders not turning up is killing the sport, so promoters agreeing to it and taking a bung makes it even worse. Seriously, for a second just think what would happen if AC Milan paid Manchester United not to play Lukaku or Pogba.

So Ive spoken to someone involved in the SWC at a very high level and he informs me that the SWC will NOT have a Czechoslovakia team or any other made up or historic nations.

Glasgows side is much better than Ipswich. 4 heatleader vs 5 for Glasgow and Sarj will be better than Hartel and hes in reserve vs second string. I just dont see what advantage Ipswich have. Ipswich isnt a bad team but Glasgows looks very good to me. Id be amazed if anyone betters it.

Its weird seeing speedway news pop up on my phone from an app! Well Done Glasgow for realising it's not 1989 any more! How long before others follow suit? As for the team, Starke and Vissing are odd signings, I guess the logic is they've been heatleader in recent times so Glasgow now get 5 heat leaders. IMO it's a pretty good team even with those two slightly weird signings and a much better balance than last seasons team. And if you're going to have a sub 3 pointer, IMO they have one of the best. This "bought" team could actually be the one that wins the league!

Id say it shows that a rider scoring 0 form 3 in one of his 11 meetings will heavily drag it down.

In the last 10-15 years what examples do people have of riders signing multi-year contracts? And how many of them ended up not happening? I can think of Nicholls at BV (leaving after 1 year), Hans at Poole (but Poole still announcing he'd agreed terms) and Doyle at Swindon (ending after a year). Any other examples? And do they actually mean anything where a club can sack a rider without reason before hes even raced a meeting anyway?

They can stick that right up their backside. Speedway is an individual or team sport. Pairs are crap. I look forward to the SWC every season, a pair just won't work. There will be too many heats in the meeting that just don't matter as your country are not riding. Pairs event in speedway are always gimmicks.