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I don’t think Poole choked, Glasgow were clearly the better side and had they had been able to field that team all season they would have finished top of the league no question. They finished with a top five that was ultra strong and pretty much had five heat leaders, Brennan and Vissing have and are potential 3rd heat leader quality at least.

I have seen countless team managers do that without any intention of drawing the meeting out to get a result, most of the time it’s done because they can and they don’t care if fans are left standing around for longer than needed. The only time it’s really unavoidable is running r/r at number two when your reserves will need to take the bulk of the rides, so will force one to have two on the trot prior to heat two.

And if you have a number eight, they can take all four r/r if the team manager desires it, no such thing as a compulsory r/r ride, never has been.

If Tom and Vadim took r/r rides, Lee could have taken the other two plus Ace’s forth. Why didn’t he? Maybe Lee told Cami he didn’t want the 7th ride or is there an agreement with Piper that he will always be given four rides minimum?

I take it BSN will still be covering this meeting despite a change of date?

Any track covers down? On the proviso that it was dry yesterday to be able to get them down on a dry track?

I really doubt he would have or at least like to think that, in those days of no doubling up or down, riders were much more aligned to one team and one team alone, bar Swedish league etc. Cradley fans would have excepted it but if they had subsequently lost you know where the blame would have been directed and likewise I imagine Wolves would not have been happy to see their star rider help their arch rivals and you don’t get bigger than Wolves & Cradley.

A guest rider is entitled to payment and praise for the points they score but nothing else, league winners medals should only go to the riders who are in that teams official one to seven regardless of whether they are fit to ride or on the injured list. If it was me, I would have felt embarrassed about getting a medal for one guest appearance, but maybe it shows just how much some of these modern riders really don’t care about which body colour they are wearing anymore. Can you imagine a scenario back in the day where Sam Ermolenko would guest for Cradley Heath in a play off final, help them win the league and then actively celebrate with them? I don’t think so.

100% talk about sticking two fingers up at your parent club who didn’t male the final partly down to that very rider.

Sorry to all my fans at my contracted club I have let down because we couldn’t make the play offs even though only three teams miss out, but here i am holding aloft the league title like I have raced for this club all season long. Have a bit of humility, you done the job you were paid to do but it’s about those who have represented the Tigers all season, not just a match or two.

If Brandon Estates are happy to sit on the land for years to come hoping that a change of mind might happen that that will be that. The council can’t make them sell the land, but whether legally possible, could they pass a motion that the land is to be retained for the exclusive use of sport for the next 10, 20, 30 years? Brandon estates might then sell the land if they know there is no realistic chance they will ever be able to do anything with it? It’s not like there is a lack of space to build elsewhere in the country, plenty of brown field sites are going that way.

Of course you don’t cover a wet track, but it should have been covered at the earliest opportunity whilst it was still dry, even if that was four or five days advance if the forecast was that bad. it might not have worked but at least it’s trying something, speedway loses out so many times because people refuse to try. But of course the bottom line has to be we are in October, we should have had the titles sown up a good couple weeks ago, but again the sport has dragged it’s heals early on, and never learns from its mistakes in previous seasons, how on earth we managed to go from getting in 25 home meetings a season back in the 80s to where we are now is baffling. it wasn’t like the weather back then was all sunshine and lolly Pops.

Track covers would have prevented that damage, Glasgow cannot control the weather but they do have to choice to try and mitigate against it.

If you still have official meetings to stage at home, it shouldn’t matter whether you have the second leg at home or not, ideally everyone wants to win a trophy at home but 50% of the fans will always be disappointed, if you still have home matches outstanding at least you will get to parade the trophy in front of your core audience. If it’s the last action of the season and your the team who finished top, then I can fully understand you wanting to enforce the second leg at home to maximise the moment should you pull it off. Finishing top of the table whilst not meaning champions should carry some advantage or benefit, otherwise what’s the point of even trying.

Not forgetting had the deadline not been extended this meeting would never have happened and it would be Oxford in the final, it’s right though that it should be sorted out on the track and not have a question mark about what if. Just hope that Glasgow can get their leg of the final on now, use track covers etc to help, we don’t want this going on and on again and three weeks time and running into November like last season.

I am sure Poole will be hoping Oxford make it through, a lot easier to travel to Oxford to support the team than Glasgow and for sure Middlo won’t travel to Glasgow but he might fancy a trip to Oxford to savour what could be another title to the long list. I just hope for a clean meeting with both sides finishing the night with the same amount of riders as they started and no injuries spoiling the tie, especially from riders being brought down by those of the opposition.

Yes I see now, I thought they had both but it was the koc finals they had the rights too. Still I think it’s a bit off that Prem and Champ level can race on the same night, I thought that was why fixed race nights were brought in. I don’t have Eurosport so it’s an easy choice for me, personally this meeting is the money shot anyway.

How does this affect BSN? Weren’t they supposed to be showing the finals of both prem and championship?

Two years ago I gave up cable tv/sky/Eurosport etc have never regretted it. BSN is all I need, I don’t care about the grand Prixs either, I have always been about team events.

I like all the presenter/riders who work with BSN and I missed the pie man when he was away for sometime, Greg Blair is another standout for me who has taken to this work like a duck to water.

Speedway needs more riders like Lee Complin though, ok he is carrying a bit of weight but that’s because he trained to be much bigger for weight lifting or was it body building? Either way you can’t just lose that. I guess you could say he over rides at times trying almost too hard but I would rather watch a rider like that than one who always settles for where they gate and constantly pulls up when last.

Last season we saw both Plymouth and Glasgow to name two cause delays to the running the off the play off system, time to put the foot down and stick to the deadline and if clubs fail it then tough. Maybe if tough measures are taken it might just wake up some promoters to the concept of getting on with the season instead of toying around with meetings during the summer months and calling meetings off on a whim on the grounds that they have time.

How many times has it been said though that throttle jockeys cannot ride the smaller tracks which require a bit more thought than simply holding the throttle wide open and hanging on?

Well done Ipswich and well done to BSN for their continued great coverage.

No I don’t, I only watch BSN, don’t have sky cable or whatever.