Running an event and getting engagement is what it's about and speedway could learn a lot from those types of events, although being indoors is an advantage.  Arena cross as a spectacle is not for me though, all those jumps I find boring.

I'm sure the lure of riding for Laurence Rogers means that Alfie Bowtell will gladly ride for standard NDL points money and a good night's sleep afterwards in their VIP caravan! 

Zmarzlik, Laguta, Lingren, Lebedevs, Lambert, Kubera, Madsen, Dudek, Vaculik are all missing from British speedway.  The best youngsters aren't here either. Even if we did have them riders they would bankrupt the clubs. How do we pay for them?     

I think this year is going to go down to the wire and bonus points will make all the difference for all teams. I Agree about Poole young reserves they might struggle if they can’t gate at Poole and might find it hard to pass stronger reserves. I think Worky and Edinburgh  could be the dark horses and at Glasgow it will all depend how the track rides too slick and they will struggle for bonus points and if it’s got plenty grip like the last few meetings like the semi final and final last season they will  get plenty bonus points and be hard to beat at home 

Even more reason to appreciate the financial hits that some owners take in order to put on the best product possible for the fans during these tough times. We've currently got the vast majority of the World's Best GP Riders (Zmarzlik's challengers) competing over here on a MON & THU Night and yet some fans just want to complain about it 24/7. It's ungrateful imo.

The younger, better and most ambitious will Those at the other end of their career and those with a lower ceiling probably wont