Awkward looking crash for Dan at Leicester tonight, left track holding right arm, hopefully nothing damaged 

... or carry on as we are 👉🙄👈

Was coming along but has had a few injuries and not the same since these, and going by his none performance tonight he's not fit, hopefully a guest change for worky on Saturday as gilkes was down for the gig

Don't think we are poor, i am pretty sure the owners have money left. But we are not very good at speedway at the minute, I am sure changes are in the pipeline. 

Interesting bit of research. of course there's lots of variables like injuries but I reckon a fair few will just not have been able to make it pay and so you get into this ever decreasing circle where a small pool of riders can only make it pay only by taking all of the opportunities to make it pay. i.e. riding in multiple leagues. I reckon you could do a similar analysis on the Polish U21 riders and lots of them will have disappeared from the sport. Probably more to do with how competitive it is over there though, in terms of how many U21 riders they have. I've said on here before if you want to get rid of doubling up in Britain there seems to be a load of Polish kids who are left without Polish clubs each season. Short term fix and probably not possible after Brexit? whilst I don't disagree about British speedway sorting itself out I do think the world governing body need to do more to both protect the existing territories and expand into new territories. ultimately if everything becomes focussed on Poland that's what the sport will become...    a Polish sport that nobody else is bothered about. easier said than done of course but I do think FIM need to look at how they assist the current pyramid and develop new ones. for a start stop dragging all sorts of riders all over Europe for all sorts of qualifiers that conflict with domestic leagues and appear to be costly for the riders.  look at the cricket franchise system where those competitors often play of a number of franchises because the competitions are staggered to allow it. Have a month long event with 8 franchises with the top international riders supplemented by local riders. Have the UK one in June after the GP's. Have a Scandinavian one in July and a Polish one in August.  Take it to the USA and Australia over the winter. Like a travelling circus just without the clowns....    ....hopefully.  Then eventually look to expand it into new territories. Spain, Asia, South America.  There's loads of kids into motorbikes in those regions. They can't all make it to MotoGP but some could make a decent career as Speedway rider if the infrastructure and opportunity is there. The raw materials are out there but at the minute the flagship SGP series is reliant on the Poles developing talent which is more and more likely to be Polish...    ....and so the ever decreasing circle continues. It's basically a business with zero product development. 

They are saying on the shoot some shale watch along thing about Leicester vs Northampton, during H8 that Gilkes is not anywhere near race fit and they think that race will make Poole keep Newman.