wtf

Not the first time either, you've only got to look at his involvement in "Holdergate" at Peterborough. "Drunk on Power" is the immediate phrase that springs to mind

No flights available, had to fly out Friday I suspect

You should know Reece

Did he say he was ill? or was he told to be ill? You decide

In my experience you can't cover for every eventuality. Additional medical cover if available and affordable is preferable Sure. But you have to draw the line somewhere between what's affordable and reasonable, and commercially viable. It's a reality of motorsport not just speedway, that occasionally events happen that cannot be reasonably anticipated without assuming everything will go wrong all the time and we can cater for every eventuality but btw the entry fee is now £67. People who are going to be enraged by the delay, and feel victimised by it are the same people who will feel the same when they run out of programmes, or delay a meeting for 30 minutes so riders can see where they are going, or that the food is 50p too expensive, or something. the professionally offended will always find reason to moan. I'd like to say maybe they shouldn't go, but most of them don't, they just come on here to moan. Speedway fans are customers, speedway is a product, it's up to each person to make a call on whether they want to buy the product for the price it's available or not. Edinburgh generally do things more professionally than most, last night circumstances caught them out. It happens

Don't think it's that difficult to see what's happening with this fixture. If there is as many have reported a frosty relationship between Bates and Godfrey. Adam Ellis is listed as riding tomorrow in the French League and will be Scunthorpe's most expensive rider to pay. His season is done in the UK, off you go home have a good weekend. Approximate cost saving by paying RR for a few points compared to Adam £750. Bring in some guests and hope for an absolute thumping. Why? Because Godfrey will be paying his teams points money with no gate receipts, and if Leicester score 60+ it'll cost the Bates family a lot more money from a smaller gate receipt, because it's a dead rubber and poor opposition The only bit I guess that surprises me is why so many Scunthorpe fans can't see through Godfrey and constantly blame everyone else when he is the common factor in all this.

If you make the showground grippy and rip up the outside, don't expect Pedersen to be as effective as he was last night on a smooth slick surface. Palm Toft with his hand injury won't go well on somewhere pulling his arms out, so it'll be interesting. Track set up will suit some on the home team as well as on the away team. Make it grippy for Bomber with an outside line and Wright will also have a field day. Make it slick and smooth for Pedersen and you can expect Bewley to go through the card. The problem with the showground now with the clay in the surface is even if you rip up the outside it takes minimum 10 heats for the inside to slicken off enough that the outside becomes the fastest line. It's going to be tricky to set up the track to suit the home team. As Sheffield showed a couple of weeks ago, If you don't make starts you're in trouble on any track.

Problem isn't so much the covers, but also who is going to put them down and remove them at a moments notice. Speedway track staff are generally volunteers, are they supposed to be available 24/7 to be called upon? Most of them have other jobs. And covering a complete track by hand with say 6 people? No thanks, it would be hours of back breaking work. How many volunteers you gonna get for that?

Didn't take long to forget covid then

How appropriate? And I'm not sure Rob will be keen to pay what jason will want

will Jorgensen be fit? Pretty big off he had at Sheffield?

The choice of guest is not rocket science. I believe Dale Allit has something to do with Peterborough and also professes to "manage" and I use the term very losely TJ . Just getting his boy some extra work. the fundamental problem is always going to be comparing decisions like this when you have people in both camps. The pay structures of both clubs is very different, and the complete opposite of the popular held view on here who believe that Lynn was built on the cheap and the Panthers riders were expensive. Far from it

Buster put 30 tonnes of clay onto the track in 2019. It's had that clay in it since then. Back in 2019 it became a track where the grip stayed on the inside all night and they ended up not grading the track till after heat 10 to try and make it slicken off around the inside and create a dirt line. They may have re-laid the track and made it very smooth, like buster did originally in 2019, but it's had a top dressing of a clay based material for some time now. Biggest difference I saw last night on the track walk was they just hadn't ripped up the outside.

The only alternatives to Guests is for the UK to run squads. If you want to retain people in a squad there has to be some financial reward if they are prohibited from riding elsewhere and have to practise. Seeing as how the UK clubs can only just pay seven riders they have now and in some cases not, I'm not sure squads are affordable? Squads do require signing on fees, which are pretty much gone from UK speedway now. BTW, the main reason overseas riders ride the UK is because they DONT have squads. You sign up, and barring injury you are much more likely to get all the meetings scheduled than overseas where one poor performance will see you left out for the rest of the year.

Yes, if there is a bump you can avoid it and the track is RIDEABLE not RACEABLE. The guys would like to try and entertain and race their bikes, not just stay alive

That's a bit of an understatement.

Not sure Jason would want to turn up to every ipswich meeting for some petrol money and to fill in a programme, compared to what he gets now. If you want to believe he's here for the love of the sport and to give something back, that's up to you. I think you'll find he's doing very nicely out of both jobs right now.

People will believe what they want to believe, the press will print what THEY want you to believe, clubs and riders will issue statements and tweets about what THEY want you to believe. The smell of BS is overwhelming.

I imagine the league will be based around Championship payscales, but depending on the Eurosport deal, might be "badged" as at Premiership level, but strangely missing what's left of the Top -ish level riders

Unfortunately, the "mental health card" has become the new "race card". It will invariably be abused and ruin it for those genuine cases. No one is allowed to question it, end of.

You just can't stop yourself can you? The one place Batchelor can ride is Monmore. 11+1 and 12+1 this year. I'd be the first to agree if you said he couldn't ride Sheffield.

He's also a lot better on a smooth slick track

I agree. Many on here blame the riders for holding the sport to ransom and insisting on huge wages. the promoters always make their case for being the victims. Yet I can recall at least 3 attempts in the last 10 years when the promoters have agreed on a pay cap and then within literally weeks of agreeing it, one or two of them have gone way outside the agreement to get one over on the others. You can't blame a rider for being paid what one idiot is prepared to pay them. It's a bit like someone refusing a pay rise insisting they are not worth it. It's the idiot prepared to pay them an inflated wage in one breath and then moan about it in the next. Can you imagine any other place of work where if you weren't being paid, so you refused to work because the terms of your contract had been broken, the people owing you money could stop you working elsewhere? Speedway in the UK is run INSPITE of the people who run it, not because of.

Somebody has got to agree to pay them, you can't blame a rider for being overpaid, when a promoter agrees to pay it. Its a bit like people blaming MacDonald's for being fat.

I think you need to start looking at who built the team, who signed the riders. When you start bringing in riders quickly after the start of the season, you've got to start asking why they were left out, dropped, or not in other peoples teams from the start. Richard Lawson has been a good addition, I think Connor mountain is a cracking little rider but being asked to do an awful lot at the moment. Ricky wells, well there's a reason no one included him from the start of the season, Heeps doesn't look fit, or fast or that interested. As for building a team spirit there. I think there's too many cooks stirring the pot.