That Zach Cook bet looks an absolute banker. Howarth has scored 2,3,4,5,4 in his last 5 meetings at the NSS. Zach looks more comfortable round there now and should be able to beat Howarth relatively easily, I think Howarth will struggle to pick up points again.

Who cares about football 

He's just sold out British fishing to get his nose up the EU.

Give Sir Liar Flipflop Starmer another day and Brexit will be a distant memory so wouldn't worry too much....

We all have to be on it to get the win imho. Kvech has averaged 8.00 at home, Klindt 8.00. and Harris 8.67 (at reserve).... But since Bomber has been at 1, he has scored 6 points from 8 rides, but they are both away meetings. In the same 2 away meetings Klindt has averaged 5.84 at reserve. Both will need their AFA heads on tonight for sure. I'll go positive, with a narrow Stars win.

Not defending the promoters entirely (yes they do have a few faults) but with the apathy amongst the speedway supporters for wanting nothing other than a league meeting and shunning individual events as well as the NDL, what else can a promoter realistically put on as a meeting that will grab the imagination of new punters. Years back you had the second half where newbies got a chance to pit their skills against established riders and in a good few cases you could follow the progress of a rider as they developed from a second half rider to reserve to main team and then into the top league starting at reserve and hopefully moving on in the sport. All riders need track time to hone their skills but that comes at a cost to the promoters most of whom rent the stadia. Just take a look at Poland and see the various opportunities for all classes of rider. Yes Poland has far more practice tracks than we have in the UK but the Polish supporters don’t just turn up for a league meeting. Years back I can remember meetings being packed with families out on Saturday night to watch the likes of Rayleigh, Canterbury, Coventry etc and what you now see in terms of Polish supporter and mixed age groups, you did once have that over here. The business model in the UK no longer lends itself to full time top tier racing particularly given the restrictions of movement on riders and equipment since Britain left the EU and with the ease that riders can cross borders in Europe to race, why would they bother with the UK unless they are getting a good wedge for the effort and that pushes prices up for everyone.  The sport needs to look at its lot and decide what works financially and stop pretending it is something that it isn’t . With the increasing decline in tracks and the lack of talent coming through the ranks it is only a matter of time before you are down to a handful of tracks left operating and a few more amateur clubs operating on an open licence with individual race meeting events possibly share these events with th3 likes of short track racing and side cars.