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£18 at Cov this year!!!!

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Agreed

It's almost impossible to get an unobstructed view at Leicester unless you're on the very front row of the perimeter, which is very poor for a bespoke speedway stadium. Other than that it's a nice place to go. The track seems to be better with the better quality riders on it

I think the racing in the EL has been abysmal this year, as a matter of interest, how long have you been going to Brandon?

Doesn't matter how much they cost when the BSPA have got a set and won't use them

Fair enough, I stand corrected

I wasn't at Swindon last night but from what I saw on twitter it looked to me very much as though they had just moved the greyhound track covers onto the speedway track. If that's the case then the "speedway" track covers should have been available for Poole to use unless these are the same covers and Ronnie the Spiv is renting them back to the Swindon greyhound people

personal insult?

I have been quick enough to come on here and have moan when I've been to matches with no real racing, so I have to say how good the racing was last night, lots of close tussles and some real passes. As a neutral I really enjoyed this match, started on time, no delays and great racing, and that's all I really want from a speedway match, simple really

Alex Harkess, when are you going to step up and do something for British Speedway and step down! As chairman of British Speedway you have presided over the continual decline of the sport over the last number of years to the point last night where we had a Wolverhampton team riding at Swindon consisting of no Wolverhampton riders and a 5 man Coventry team tracked consisting of 3 Coventry riders! We are now at a point in this country where league racing is unsustainable, there are just not enough riders available to run 3 leagues with riders doubling and in some cases tripling up with countless fixture clashes. We have the new Fast Track system in place, which at the start of the year seemed like a great idea to bring on the youth of British Speedway, but as the season as gone on this has turned into a farce, with the inevitable injuries that have occurred you now have 27 year old veterans on this list. The season started off on a farcical note with the ELRC and the subsequent promise of inquiries etc, but to my knowledge there was no punishment dished out, the list goes on, far too many for me to list here but just browsing through the forums on the pages and pages of things that should just not be happening in a so called professionally run sport. And what do we ever hear from Alex Harkess? What is his strategy for the improvement of the sport? Is there a plan? Where is the leadership? When is somebody going to take some responsibility?

This is not league specific, the problem runs throughout the whole sport, all 3 leagues and individual competitions Doesn't matter what's gone now, they should have done. It's the future we should be thinking about, or there might not be one Because he's the man in post So let's start now OK let's give up It's personal because he's the man in post

erm Mick, didn't you tell them there were only 3 Coventry riders that were appearing

The man deserves a medal, he's almost single handedly kept the elite league going this year

Unreal

If they can't be bothered to name a team, I can't be bothered to turn up I'm out

Well... 5pm has come and gone, but we do have an update on the website, the ELRC draw, the ELRC that was taken off of Cov because they couldn't run a in a brewery

Less than 10 hours to go and we still don't know the line-up

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Can forget the title for this season now I think

Barker is a PL rider

This was never going to finish with both teams operating R/R in both matches

I'm sure one person on this forum is Mick in disguise

So what exactly are the line-ups for tonight as it stands at the moment?

NEWS FLASH! It is