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Not sure why we need to bother about a superheat now there is an aggregate bonus point... For Brum, that could feel like a defeat, which, considering the challenges they face, gives a negative spin to the night. Which they don't need... After 15 heats the match ends in a draw. What's wrong with that? You may as well run just one heat and end the night, given the match starts nil-nil... Use the superheat for a tie overall maybe over the two legs, but let a draw be a draw... Neither team did enough to win in the meeting itself, team v team, so let that be the result...

The track was very wet from overnight and morning rain, and although I was there before 4pm, I didn't see any water being added. It did seem a bit greasy and this probably made passing more difficult. I thought we caught Sheffield cold in the early stages and were able to twice build up a ten point lead, but Sheffield always looked to be capable of catching us up, and being able to use Tai Woffinden four times in the last six races (including the superheat) was hugely to their advantage - although fair play to their team manager for reading the situation rightly. I didn't think Birmingham's Team Manager made any blunders. He might have made a couple of late changes but these probably wouldn't have affected the final outcome. In my opinion, the superheat spoiled the meeting. What is wrong with a drawn match anyway? Both clubs and their supporters would have gone home happy with a draw, so why ruin things for half of them with a daft rule that very few people ever wanted introduced in the first place? (That's not sour grapes, and I congratulate Sheffield on their win which I think they perhaps just about deserved, but I was delighted with the size of the crowd which was a great relief and was well deserved by a promotion which has worked so hard to keep speedway in Birmingham, and by the enthusiasm displayed - made so much better by Sheffield's happy and noisy contingent. This I think, justifies the gamble to move up to the Premiership, and will hopefully lead to more entertaining meetings like this one.

The Superheat seriously favours teams with two big hitters and as it’s said when you have an aggregate bonus point up for grabs it isn’t necessary.

Largest it has been for over 10 years ... Very Very encouraging . I am guessing here but it must be around the break even figure the promoters often talk about ..

9.99

Not sure what the score will be but I reckon KL will win fairly comfortably. Not as convinced with the Leicester team as some people seem to be.

I hate the super heat. There I said it. Completely deflates the side that hard earned a draw.

It was a good meeting to watch though not much overtaking, Birmingham put in a good effort to take the points, but in the end were beaten by 2 GP riders showing there ability this will be the Brummies weak spot at the end of meetings, very impressed with Milik and Flint, and feel there will be more and better to come from Cook and Worrall, my biggest concern would be Lampart, however it's early days and not fair to judge on this meeting, Brum are one top heat leader short of being challengers sort that out and they will be up there.

“Best interests of the sport” is surely a BSPL matter, not one for SCB?

It`ll be a lot more than 8.

Bet your announcing is not free.

At a risk of attracting howls of disapproval, can I just say that, for an adult who wants to sit, under cover, to watch speedway, Berwick are offering the best deal in the Championship. Especially when you take the 10% early-bird discount. Only £18 -- and you could bring a couple of young teenagers in with you free. I'm not going to list all the other clubs' prices -- that's their business -- but the Jewson Bandits are certainly offering the best deal around this year. Oh, and parking's free, too...........

Yeah this '75% guest rule' is in the 2024 rulebook under no facility, so at worst Plymouth could just get a guest up to 5.87 avg. Looking at a list of these riders from what I can see aren't already riding on Saturday; Castagna Heeps Atkins Lambert Mountain Knudsen Bailey etc.

Trigger is part of Redcar's 1-7, so would be ineligable, surely?

Regardless of whether or not sheff are one of the favourites they were away from home and to come back like they did deserves praise,two meetings into the season and they get dissed at every opportunity.speedways a tough sport as it is,tigers will start to show the form they are capable of make no mistake..i personally don't think there are any so called "weak teams" at all this season and think it's going to be a lot closer than people think,which I hope it is as it makes it much more exciting.

Now before the match, I think Birmingham would have been delighted with a point. But after leading by 10 points a couple of times, this has to be a major disappointment. Again the lack of changes by Ermolenko has to be discussed, now he didn't make any awful choices, but you have to question Lampart being left in heat 12, Brennan not being in heat 15, and then even after losing a 5-1 not being picked for the "stupid heat".

Might have gone missing with an ankle injury though? Or the sniffles? But not enough to stop him posting a run on Instagram!

Here we go again, the mighty Bandits season starts on Saturday night against some returning foes Jewson Bandits Lewis Kerr Danyon Hume Jye Etheridge Drew Kemp Rory Schlein Freddy Hodder Bastian Borke GTS Comets Craig Cook Claus Vissing Tate Zischke Antti Vuolas Troy Batchelor Sam McGurk Celina Liebmann The Comics have pulled out all the stops in signing 3 bonafide superstars in Cook, Vissing and Batchelor and a superstar in the making in Celina Liebmann and the Bandits will have there work cut out to be lifting the Border Trophy aloft come Sunday night. The mighty Bandits however are looking extra tough this season with 3 proven heat leaders in Kerr, Schlein and Etheridge and a quartet of young and up and coming superstars to back them up. Tickets are available on the night at £20 or at the discounted price of £18 at berwickspeedway.com/tickets What a way to start the season, you won’t want to miss this.

They have just had the best of 15....

This will be close, Kings Lynn will score more at home obviously but Fricke, Masters and Douglas should all have better nights than they did at leicester . Kings Lynn to win but only by 6.

I like the superheat, we had some crackers at Peterborough in our time.

Then build top heavy? If not, you have 15 heats to avoid a “superheat”, if you can’t, tough. Birmingham were 10 points up, twice and still didn’t win. That’s their fault. Every club and every supporter knows the rules, if you finish level after 15 heats then it’s a superheat. I’m in the minority it seems reading the comments on here, I’ve no problem with that. I have my own opinion and won’t be swayed by others. For me it adds drama, you gain an extra heat with the 4 best riders on show for your money. OK it sucks if you’re on the wrong end of it, but if you’re on the winning end there’s no better feeling. A couple of seasons ago we had it twice at Ipswich and they were the lasting memory of the entire season for me personally. At the end of the superheats, strangers were hugging each other all over the place, you’d think we’d just won the title there and then! The place was buzzing. I’m all for anything that creates an extra bit of excitement. Birmingham didn’t lose their point for “drawing” did they? They still took their point.

A VHS tape will be avaiable within a few weeks

Not if Cook Turns up in the mood. iMo.

Hopefully Puk brings his gating gloves, otherwise I think Richard Lawson will get the better of him in 2 and 8, and if I remember right, Toby has taken a heat or 2 to get going although I'm probably wrong,other than that, I think tofty, Ben and tarasenko should get the better of their opposite numbers, Anders Rowe should do better than both of Leicesters reserves, and then its down to Patrick,if he does well , 50-40 or there abouts

There is only seven teams in the league, no need for added points here and there, you need to try and keep the overall points down so they are as close as possible to the eye. But you know how it works, we must have these silly gimmicks to keep the interest going in the short term, even if it damages it in the long.

Nicholls isn’t guesting for Pawlicki, he’s a short term replacement and in the declared 1-7.

Claus is at No.3 for Sunday at home, Zischke at 2.

50-40

Didn't wolves get the 75% guest facility for Becker, and James wright at Birmingham too? Didn't he get injured in a testimonial at Plymouth before had ridden for Brummies? Don't know why Plymouth wouldn't at worst get that facility

The Border Trophy battle returns, should be a good atmosphere over both legs for this one! Come on the Comets!

Think the rules are/were the rider has to ride an official fixture before a facility is allowed, as 3 laps Eddie a couple of years ago

Are you sure? As far as I'm aware there's no such rule as a NL guest? If you're not allowed a facility it's 75% of the missing riders average.

I think he's on record in stating that he has two years left at Perry Barr, the owners have said the dogs will be going to the new track in Wolverhampton by the end of the year & then they will be planning their next moves to develope the site for other use. Tolley has also said that he needs to see a marked increase in attendances this year, if not next season won't happen.

Plus its very early days, I always think it takes a few meetings for men and machines to get into a rhythm. In an ideal world we would spar like Poland do so that everyone is in the full swing of things when league matches begin.

Brummies deserve credit they had a big point to prove to the doubters they were well fired up, never seen Flint ride that well before and every rider showed potential. 10 points down after 4 races and gating like they were it was looking bad for us, It was a good comeback and 2 points on board. Chris would admit himself it’s not been the best of starts his gating was very poor last night but he’s defo been on the pace. Sheffields team is built to win big at home and claim bonus points. So far I can see us taking both bonus points from Oxford and Brum.

I wish Plymouth all the best in getting a rider signed, not a great predicament to be in for promotion and fans, got to feel for you guys.

Milik thought holder was going straight on, not turning so he put it down to avoid being taken out by holder

I think it's "hats off " to Scotty the oldest rider in British S/way still being a force to reckon with ,not just there to make up the numbers !

He lay it down when he saw Holder shoot across the track, out of control, into the side of Nichols I thought.

6.66 more suited for him.

REVISED KRAJOWA LIGA FIXTURES 2024 Ten rounds, now 4 teams, instead of the previous 6 to the playoffs: 1 round March 30 / March 31, 2024 Gniezno – Tarnów Piła – Opole Landshut – Daugavpils 2nd round April 20 / April 21, 2024 Opole – Landshut Tarnów – Piła Daugavpils – Gniezno 3rd round April 27 / April 28, 2024 Opole – Daugavpils Piła – Gniezno Landshut – Tarnów 4th round May 18 / May 19, 2024 Gniezno-Landshut Tarnów – Opole Daugavpils – Piła 5th round June 1 / June 2, 2024 Opole – Gniezno Piła – Landshut Tarnów – Daugavpils 6th round June 15 / June 16, 2024 Gniezno – Opole Landshut – Piła Daugavpils – Tarnów 7th round June 29 / June 30, 2024 Landshut – Gniezno Opole – Tarnów Piła – Daugavpils 8th round July 6 / July 7, 2024 Daugavpils – Opole Gniezno – Piła Tarnów – Landshut 9th round July 20 / July 21, 2024 Landshut – Opole Piła – Tarnów Gniezno – Daugavpils 10th round August 3 / August 4, 2024 Tarnów – Gniezno Opole – Piła Daugavpils-Landshut Play-offs Semi-finals (1-4, 2-3) 1 round (17-18.8) 2nd round (24-25.8) Final (winners of semi-final pairs) 3rd round (7-8.9) 4th round (14-15.9) Attention! There is no match for 3rd place.

They should have been told to not select a middle age rider from the other side of the world ( again ) who couldn't average 5 points last season and give the place to a ‘developing’ Brit , isn't that the point of this league ??? but this is how British speedway is now being run.

Not going to lie, I can’t make it on Thursday so selfishly wouldn't mind a cancellation

Cyril Maidment was one at Wimbledon

Kyle will be very busy then!

Both the newcomers at 3+4 will imo surprise a lot of people, both looked good at practice and tate was never off his bike, seems to love being on a bike and a natural, a bit like a certain cumbrian GP star !! Time will tell let's enjoy this journey UTC

I know guest's & rider replacement are at times annoying within the British leagues. But we cannot be compared to other nations league system where they opperate a squad of upto 20 riders but can only track 7 just the same as our programme. In both cases if a rider is injured or unable to start then of course a full 7 rider team must be arranged. With a squad this is done as in football by rotation of the squad members. Our system means each team has a nominated 7 rider team & should one be missing we track a full team using guests or R/R. At the end of the day it amounts to the same thing two teams of seven racing against each other. Weather you love or hate our system it's better to see two full sides of seven than a five man team

While Poland is often held up as the ultimate in league Speedway is it really what we want in the UK? It's easy to think everything is wonderful over there but there are certainly financial problems for quite a few clubs. Some of those who don't have problems have dubious funding sources. I get why you are so against guests but just have a different opinion and I don't see it as a major problem for UK Speedway.

I disagree, can't see any major sponsorship deal being scuppered by the use of guests. If guest use were sold by virtue of Speedway needing the system because it is so dangerous and the injury rate so high it is impossible to keep a reasonably level playing field without them it could even be seen as a positive by some brands. Where it would be a more difficult sell could be if guests are used to cover riders who are competing elsewhere.