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There is NO NEED to sort out the League Winners There IS a need to sort out or abandon the Play Off fiasco before 31 October otherwise the winners of that can't be declared. The League Table doesn't lie CHAMPIONS - Leicester RUNNERS UP - Glasgow

I’m sure Plymouth’s already announced him? First signing in the league?

It's obviously comedy hour again. Must have missed the memo!

Eddie is hoping to be fit for next season

Chris Harris has always had a warm welcome at Poole, I've never heard Poole supporter's boo him

Not upset in the slightest if you bothered to look it was another poster. But don't let that get in the way of facts.

Its hardly a badge of honour being better than Leicester!! Both tracks are rubbish

Let's hope those line ups stay the same until 7:45 tomorrow night.

Other than major wholesale changes (which will never happen) the chances of attracting those fans who have drifted away, back to the fold are next to zero. The sports controllers have brought the problems on themselves and the riders look after number one and sometimes dictate whether a meeting will go ahead. The fans are bottom of the pile when it comes to being part of any thought process in terms of it being value for money or providing entertainment so that the punters go away wanting more. Where else would you maintain a scenario of having seven man teams but rarely race with seven, more like six and Mr R/R. They cannot even complete the fixtures. You have several months to fulfil the meetings but yet again here it is October and the options for completing fixtures are getting fewer thanks to the weather or the non availability of stadia and probably the doubling up which meant some meetings could not take place earlier in the season because of rider availability. The current business model does not work and those with disposal income who have been going to meetings for many years have decided it is just not worth it and over the years the promoters have failed to make it an attractive form of entertainment for a younger generation. Get rid of the BSPL and start again on an amateur basis with a five year plan to rebuild the rider base. Some stadia will fall by the wayside but it would happen anyway with the current set up and with very few if any local authorities interested in having a track on their door step the chances of new tracks appearing is fairly low. To sum up, the BSPL would have you believe the sport is in good shape. How many fans believe that one?

Yes it is. I had to use this option on Glasgow streams as it seems there weren't permissions to cast. I've only got a basic cheapy phone and it couldn't cope so I had to use my wife's top end phone and even then it wasn't ideal. The beauty of using a Chromecast device is that you only need your phone to log on to BSN and start the broadcast. After you have selected the Chromecast device from your casting options, the stream goes directly from your WIFI to the Chromecast device which is plugged into an HDMI port on the TV and your phone is then basically redundant except to use as a remote control through the Google Home app. I've only got cheap equipment but it works fine even in my summer house at the bottom of the garden which only has a basic TV which isn't even smart. It just needs HDMI ports. Once you have paired the Chromecast to your WiFi on initial setup, you can just put it in any TV in the house without any further setting up. For an outlay of £20 for an older version of Chromecast and any TV with an HDMI port the jobs a good 'un. It works for me anyway. Perhaps others would like to share what works for them as it might help others that are struggling?

BBC get their forecast from Meteogroup.

After about 5 or 6 races at Poole if your back wheel isn't on the fence you can forget about it

Really! Poole has plenty of lines. We get plenty of passing normally, less if it's a damp track I expect.

That's right, it's because we don't want to serve up a 1 line track like you have at Poole

Just to add - it’s been absolutely belting it down here today - tomorrow doesn’t look that great weather wise either - could well be off

,,,,and there you have it - The Birmingham Brummies troll has spoken so we should all take notice - NOT!!

Met Office definitely more accurate but personally I wouldn't be taking too much notice of any forecasts four or five days ahead, very likely they will change more than once by Thurs/Fri.

I don't know how you can cmpare Belle Vue to Sheffield, completely different, Sheffield is a multi use stadium not owned by the club and that causes many issues with the running of the team. Slagging off the promotion doesn't help anyone.

I would welcome Cradley Heath back... but don't tell my mates!

Well climate change really has so much to answer for doesnt it? I remember when I was growing up, loads of hot dry days and lovely evenings in October with the barometer often reaching the mid thirties.. Off I went to Hyde Rd each Saturday in shorts, T shirts and flip flops, looking forward to a "Senor Whippy" ice cream... (Yum Yum)... With a Flake obviously... Sometimes I had a tub instead, but they cost a bit more... Raspberry sauce too, goes without saying... Nowadays, incredibly, the back end of October has almost become like "the start of winter" hasnt it? Cold, dark, damp nights with the threat of a huge downpour seemingly always imminent, and the temperature often getting into single figures... "All of a sudden", that appears to be the norm doesnt it? When did THAT happen?

Personally I believe the League Table Toppers at the end of a season are the Champions and the PO winners are just that ... the PO winners ....

They didn't really nominate anyone. The reigning British Champion got the wild card

I wouldn't feel bad in the slightest, the promoters collectively voted in the play-offs, in the hope of some big crowds & a meaningful end to the season for clubs around mid-table. In doing so they gave up any right of the winners of the "qualifying league" to be considered unlucky if they don't win the league! Or even to be considered the "most deserving" winners. Imo if Poole finish 3rd & win the play-offs they deserve to be Champs. However I would personally prefer no play-offs & the table toppers to be crowned champions.

Just to clarify this, the policy regarding how postponed fixtures are displayed hasn't changed for many years, although the presentation is slightly different this year since the new website came online prior to the start of the season. I took over responsibility for BSP website editorial a number of years ago now, and one of the things I was keen to bring in was that we would show a separate news item previewing (and subsequently reviewing) every fixture individually. (You may remember that in the very old days, the updates tended to be 2 brief news items per day, and the reason for that was the content was tailored to fit in with the space requirements of Ceefax/Teletext). It's always been the case that if a meeting is postponed, the news item is removed and there's then a separate section on that front page where the fixture is marked as POSTPONED, along with any other relevant info, which would typically be the re-arranged date if available. As mentioned above, it looks slightly different now to the past when it was simply a text box showing results, but that information is still on the front page when a meeting is postponed. The news item previewing the meeting is obviously removed, as to leave it there would cause confusion, and personally I wouldn't want to see separate news items reporting meetings being postponed, especially in a week like this! Individual clubs, of course, would be putting postponement news items on their own websites, but on the BSP site it is reported on the front page down the fixtures/results section on the side, which has always been the case. We've worked over the years to add a huge amount of information to the BSP site - items such as official meeting scorecards, Green Sheets, match-by-match averages, pics from the previous night's meetings rather than standard press day shots, to name a few, but we're always open to suggestions on ways in which it can be improved. We'll look all aspects of output over the winter and happy to receive e-mails to the press office with any feasible suggestions for what you'd like to see in the future.

You make it sound like your on death row but your banter is anything but juicy p+ss springs to mind or even verbal diahorrea but juicy forget it.

Winning trophies is nice, but prioritising winning entertainment at home needs to be the priority. That’s what gets people to part with their cash.

Yep to all of that. Sob stories about riders spending a fortune on machinery get real, the sponsors partly fund that and the riders have no chance of making it big time without support from benefactors. Stadia falling by the wayside is inevitable otherwise tell us who was willing to put money Into saving Rye House, Arena Essex, Eastbourne, Newcastle, Edinburgh, Somerset, Swindon, Buxton, Stoke and many more. No one with half a brain would invest in a club or track given the current state of the sport and having a group of managers at the level of BSPL who expect you to invest on their terms and conditions without any say in how you run your business and they appear to have an attitude that says sod you in terms of how much money you piss up the wall buying into a failed business model. The BSPL do not allow open licences so that tracks could survive as was the case years back. You need an independent body to run the sport and if that goes against the grain as far as the current crop of promoters is concerned then it shows what a poor business model they have simply to satisfy the egos while pretending to have the best interest of the sport at heart. The halcyon days have long gone and what you see in this country today is a the sad demise of what was once a reasonably supported spectator sport. Everyone is entitled to an opinion and your optimism is to be admired.

Nevermind mate, you stick to whatever team you support, or in the case not support. Which means you don't really get a say on tracks. 26 Trophies tells me we've done something right down the years. Keep sucking those mouldy grapes old son

Goodness, Nicola bashing, staunch loyal unionist Gazc getting upset over a bit banter about Scotland.

Yes that name's familiar. Must look out the edition of "Backtrack".

Oh Bagpuss!!!!

Tell you what if David Hemsley was still in charge at Leicester there wouldn't be any problems with rainoffs he'd have commanded the weather to stay dry, but this new useless lot in charge don't have a clue about controlling weather. Never mind his transgressions, it's strong, charismatic leadership that's needed.

It does. You should mention the app more - I had no idea it existed!

When did THAT happen? Is it when Speedway introduced Play-Off''s?

I think I found someone to help me out.

Blodorn's converted ave would be 8.18 (5.45 x 1.5). Don't think he'd reach that tbh

Scored 6 at Poole on his first visit there, don’t really think he was brought in to win the league, he was brought in to replace Justin who had dropped from the main body of the team and was struggling at reserve. In reality should’ve replaced Broc or Ricky. he stated then that he couldn’t come back this season due to Polish commitments but would be back in the future. He’s just announced that he’s left his polish club Łódz but hasn’t said where he’s going.

So based on that theory there can't be a winner of the jubilee trophy thingy as clubs signed up for a 3 team final.

The only club I believe Woźniak has ride for in GB is the Lions, can't imagine he is an "asset" of any other club but could be wrong. I think Woźniak would be a strong third heat leader, maybe even second heat leader.

Totally agree, as do most fair minded speedway fans

Should the weather intervene again and the final cannot be contested, the title should default to the team who finished top of the regular season table. Just an opinion

Good to see a couple of others wanting Marcin Nowak back. He was told when we had him for a few weeks end of last season. We want entertainment and he certainly gave it. His English wasn’t great but he just seemed like a great guy to have around. No idea what he’s done this season, but if we had a full season of what he gave us a glimpse of, he’d be a very popular rider.

okay

They should make a sport that is so reliant on the weather a summer sport.... Wonder if anyone has ever thought of that...?

Streaming could now be attributed to lower attendances with clubs still getting an income. A family of 3 or 4 would spend £60-80+ on a meeting(gate receipts, programmes, food, parking, petrol) whereas £12 on a stream in the warmth of a home.

Oxford have had a hugely successful first season. Silverware in the first season back (NLRC winner), Chargers getting to the play-offs and great crowds for both Cheetahs and Chargers. I suspect the NL crowds are around double the Championship crowds at Birmingham. That translates to a great atmosphere at Cowley, especially given the younger-than-usual crowd demographic at Oxford which sees many twenty-somethings and thirty-somethings on the terraces alongside the older fans. You'll find there's not many Oxford fans on the BSF, simply because it's all doom-and-gloom on here, and our first season since 2007 has been anything but that!

A Polish journalist has tweeted the following (translation): Russians with Polish passports will join the tournament in November and sign contracts with their clubs. The official decision on their admission will be made by March (they have to meet additional requirements), but now the matter is almost a foregone conclusion

Not necessarily that, just the ability to organise fixtures properly, overhaul the way the league is run and marketed, write a clear rulebook. Pretty basic stuff that the current incumbents struggle with.