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If he was ill yesterday and clearly at risk today, why travel? Its selfish and I suspect there is more going on than on the face of it.

Well Done to Kaiser Erik, great performance. But lets also celebrate Tom Woolley, he matched GB & Glasgow (and defending champion) star Craig Cook's score - and from one less ride

Many tracks no longer fit with modern engines. Look at what is served up at some tracks that were superb even less than 10 years ago. Whilst its not the only reason for the lack of entertainment, team owners need to adapt their product (track shape/width etc) to suit the modern era. Very few have or will bother to do so. Entertainment IMO is about passing not necessarily speed and the ridiculous gulf between abilities at the top and bottom of the riders averages wont achieve that. Nor will poorly prepared tracks. If last night the riders were on £250 for the meeting that is likely to be around a quarter of what most of the top enders will take home. I'm not surprised they don't take it seriously or put themselves out. There is no prestige in these events and wont be again unless the competitors are adequately rewarded for taking part. Speedway doesn't even give out medals to the league winners far less reward the riders and their teams for being better than the rest over a season. The whole ethos up is fundamentally flawed but we already know that. Unfortunately we also accept its not going to change.

That's strange, cos there is a panthers fan called Daniel Green that's also a spurs fan, and it's one of the accounts you would guess it to be. What's the chances, tut.

I liked the tractor guy at Scunthorpe on Friday evening... we didn't see him until after heat 10... and then never saw him again. There were zero track rakers and the track was fine all night

It's probably because King's Lynn isn't spelt p-o-o-l-e

Take it as opinion rather than fact!

Is this thread still going? I’ll give a “fact”. Poole won easily again at Ipswich. Can we race you every week?

To be fair (no pun) Slaters are there same time in September every year, irrespective that speedway is on. It rarely if at any time causes disruption, unless Ben Barker is riding who would rather be on the rides, a bit more exciting for him than speedway.

In 3 rides the furthest he got was bend 2, definately bike trouble I would say

http://www.sheffield-speedway.com/news.php?extend.2791 has some great action pictures of the 23 minutes of racing, but not a single picture of the 2 hours of track grading. The tractor man must be gutted.

The only thing I remember from last year was the ridiculous not swap guests from 1st and 2nd leg.

If a track has dirt on it then the tractors are needed to keep it race-able with todays modern bikes. The slicker the track to start with then the less work needed. At Redcar we use 2 tractors along with a water bowser and because this work gets done every approx 4 heats the track at the end is still in great condition. If you think Speedway is bad have you ever been to Ice Speedway ? After every 4 heats its about a 20 minute delay for grading and smoothing of the surface. Normally in about -10 degrees.

It's a shame, that as quite a prolific Twitter user, his back injury didn't allow him to reach for his phone before the event to let his fans know he wouldn't be there. I expected better of Scott

Thought you would be glad not having to watch 'drivel'.

It's another nail in the speedway coffin .Its the same every week and just winds people up.Apparently yesterday's hold ups where down to mr Cook who allegedly went round the other riders trying to get the meeting stopped because of track conditions.The same mr Cook who had a bad day with his machinery and hardly ever breaks down in other meetings.Very odd.I feel sorry for all the Glasgow fans who turned up to support him and paid to watch him.

If it wasn't for their coverage of the GP's. I would ditch BT Sport, their League coverage has been very poor, and now they change this meeting for rudy German Football.

It’s his usual line, completely incapable of having a proper discussion unfortunately. Best ignored.

So that's Charlie & Erik both individual champions.. can Redcar now win the league which would be a great season as long as the diamonds win the cup,,

Massive congratulations to Erik Riss - what a season this has turned out to be!

Oh yeah I see what everyone means now...

I'd just like to point out that the folks who were annoyed at zagar and iversen for qualifying for next year should get their coats

Recently, there's been a lot of criticism and general bad karma surrounding Craig Cook - coming from many different directions. I know he has never been the most popular of riders but some of the recent vitriol has got me thinking. Who was the most unpopular/hated rider and more importantly why? I know in the past there have been many 'pantomime villains' who play to the crowd as much as anything; certainly at Crayford the mere mention of the name Kelvin Mullarkey would lead to a chorus of boos; but riders like these were those we 'loved to hate' rather than have a genuine dislike about Who do you think was an unpopular rider and why?

Sheffield seems to have had more than its fair share of track maintenance problems this season, but can any team claim to have a more annoying tractor guy than Sheffield? I've just been to watch the Championship Riders Final (or whatever they call it now) and clearly the tractor guy has formed the opinion that we all paid our money at the turnstile in order to watch him do his stuff. The regulation grading after every four heats seems to have been cut down to every two, and the process has become a work of art in itself. He does four laps in an anti-clockwise direction followed by four clockwise and then a little encore with the water bowser. He even managed to hold up the start of heat 14 by abandoning his great big grading-scraping-thingy in the middle of the back straight, which had to be dragged away by four burly track staff. Had the referee not spotted it and halted proceedings it would have been like one of those stop-sticks the police use to deflate the tyres of toe-rag car thieves! Without a doubt the tractor guy added an hour to my grand-daughter's bedtime (she wasn't pleased either because the event finished so late that Norwood Chippy was closed and she had to forego her chip supper). Of the 3 hour duration of the event, 23 minutes was actual racing and 2 hours 37 minutes was tractor demonstrations. We are not amused.

Because he tells lies. He did not change bikes and did not alter anything on the bikes. If he was ill, fine, say that and stick to it. just be honest with the people who pay to watch I hope Nicholls gets a ban as when I heard the pay rates on Thursday, he was first name to spring to mind for not turning up. Charles Wright missed a meeting at Ipswich but rode either side of it, so he should have a ban. with no punishment it will carry on. The clubs should also get no facility to cover any bans for riders picking and choosing when to put in any effort or not.

Olsen was one of the riders I was thinking of.The main one,when it came to universal unpopularity... Seem to remember he got booed when he won a world title, but couldn't recall which

Ove was booed at most tracks because he always beat local heroes. Ivan Mauger suffered in the same way. I would think the most unpopular rider has been Nicki Pedersen.

Yes you did ...why would you want to race us every week?? Before the first meeting you said you were underdogs with riders missing Before the second meeting you said you were underdogs with Josh missing (although you missed the 'fact' that Heeps also was) So surely at your age it cant do your health much good if you was to race us every week as you would be full of stress and anxiety before the match Anyway it looks like Poole and Ipswich will both win exactly the same this season which is nothing.....except you were predicted by most people including the bookies to win it and we were predicted to be bottom....so we will have had a successful season and Poole wont.... i will take that

When Swindon trounce you Home and Away in the Play Offs you'll be looking forward to it.

Now you have put that I've just worked out who you are. My 3 year old daughter.

Its bad enough being a Panthers fan but why would you own up to being a Spurs fan too....

Northumberland County Council owns the car park and is responsible for booking events in. In fairness to them this was originally a reserved date so when they agreed the fairground there was no speedway or football planned for the day. Without the football it is a little easier to get control of the rest of the parking areas earlier than last week and there will be plenty of secure space for riders and spectators.

Facenna a must be getting fed up apologising to the public ,while the track was maybe difficult the attitude of some of his Team leaves a lot to be desired.

Bore off you old misery - you've been pulled up as a liar many times recently on here.. any chance of you contributing anything remotely relevant ? this old pillock is as bad as gustix - anyone but his old track is fair game.

Bring back Graham Trollope

Try the one who is a Speedway fan and lives in Swindon. Black/White photo ~ dodgy haircut ~ glasses. Member of the Swindon Robins Supporters Group.

You spell it like that and you'll get the sack as the team manager!

Heat 12 of the league match between Cradley Heath and Exeter in June 1966 had 3 finishers and produced a score of 0-0. Well, not quite, as the race was actually declared void by the referee. Exeter's Chris Blewett won the race after a forceful piece of riding caused his team mate Jack Geran and Cradley's Chris Julian and Chum Taylor to fall. Julian and Geran remounted and the result was initially declared as 2-4, but following a protest by the home team the race was declared void. It might have been more appropriate to stop the race and exclude the cause of the stoppage from a re-run.

You have more chance of winning the lottery than the diamonds winning anything this season, but you can dream.

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Me to.

Yes Ben did a great captains job leading from the front, and it was nice to hear absolutely no complaints about the track. A bit slick but very smooth.

Oh dear

Tac sub for Glasgow at ht 7, 10 heat wins for the Scorpion riders, a well deserved win. YES, YES, YES.

This discussion pops up quite regularly, you are right that these events should be somewhere as neutral as possible but unfortunately the state speedway is in requires the big events to be held where a decent crowd will turn up.

Scooters I can understand. If Bomber is there, he would steal it, and see if it goes any quicker than his bikes! Of course, it might take him a time to get the setup right... I'll get me coat...

Not sure why you have to constantly goad him and wind him up, it got boring a long time ago.

Are you going to the British GP in Cardiff? If so prepare to be deafened. Air horns are great and help to create atmosphere but some tracks don't allow them. You sound nice and conscientious so as long as you are pointing it upwards and not in someone's ear I would go ahead. If you gradually find you're standing on your own you will know other fans don't appreciate the noise.

Top quality rider, have some great memories of his time a Brandon. Just sad that he didn't manage to lift a world title as i always thought it was within his capabilities.