Yeah poor form from Greg Blair and and the referee. You are absolutely right about the sport, it actually denegrates amateur sport calling speedway amateurish.

Looking very vulnerable today now, really need Tate to step up and the skipper to be on his best form to have any chance of avoiding a home defeat. Dayle Wood improved as the meeting wore on last night and was riding with a lot of courage until he suffered bike issues in his final two rides. Hopefully he has his bikes sorted and we can celebrate some points from him again at reserve. Please support your team today, I believe that although weakened we will still see some entertaining speedway and that is what it is all about. UTC !

Thanks for that, interesting stuff. A good insight into how the Polish tracks (and all tracks) differ in shape and size can be found on the Speedway Challenge (SC26) game which can be downloaded on your phone, all tracks on there are based on the actual circuits and you have to 'ride' them differently on the game. The Polish tracks in particular all vary quite significantly.

Impartial announcer? Since when are there any of those? I'm sure they make any away fans feel welcome but they will always play up to the home fans. Sure he isn't as bad as the Wolves one was (Porky).  Also with the guest announced you will do well just to win on the day! 

Absolutely.

There was certainly plenty of "incident" last night to keep folk interested even if the "racing" (passing) wasn't up to much. If it hadn't had taken them around 20 minutes per pop to replace the airbags there was nothing much else to complain about... they're certainly not going to get a job in an F1 pit crew with the amount of time it took them to replace the bags, they really need to be addressing that, I remember seeing the Birmingham track staff replacing an airbag in a matter of minutes a couple of years back, literally 2 or 3 minutes! Proving that it can be done. When you've had a 20 minute delay to replace an airbag, a 52 second race and then follow that up with a 10 minute track grade it's not really "fan friendly". Due to the tight, confined nature of the Plymouth track they really need to get on top of this issue.