GeneralMelchett

Well enjoyable meeting for in some ways - the racing was fairly close in a few heats and there was one or two really good overtaking moves, heat 5 in particular was very good. Aces fell away due to lack of support for the top 3 - Blodorn having a mare right now! Flint and Rowe certainly make the Tigers really strong at home as they back up the heatleaders so well, Morris seems to have picked up well after his layoff also.

Great race that one!

Think this could be close, but expect the Tigers to squeeze home.

Glorious here in the Steel City as always - enjoy your trip!

Birmingham need to win, suspect Lynn will just squeeze home.

I think maybe your make a good point about the age thing, being a senior statesman so to speak comes with a few responsilbilites, plus the desire to pass knowledge on. My tigers mate who attends every week - (and me) noticed how good Tai was with the younger lads, his team riding efforts were really good!

Interested to hear Emil say on the track walk that the straights are very short at Foxhall - the track has been chnaged a fair bit over the years since i first went there in 1988.

It caught Dolyley out a few weeks ago one heat we was leading very comfortably - hit that bit and his lead almost vanished!

I watched the stream on BSN and admit to enjoying it - the track caused issues no doubt but there was also one or two really good races with some great overtaking moves. I shall, weather permitting, be at Foxhall next week for the visit of erm who is it again😉 Ellis had a good meeting great overtake in heat 15 too! Well done to the Cheetahs for giving it a go - got away from then after heat 8.

nasty subject but i knew someone who had alerted the authorities about old Rolf long before it came out what the dirty old sod had been up to! anyway back to the speedway.

it would but by logic extension the home top rider would also have an advantage in a single winner takes all etc lets put it this way Belle Vue reserves might have struggled the other night! yes I did used to like / enjoy those one lap dashes

I tell you what I would like to see in say a cup final rather than asuper heat etc - would be a 1-7 ride off against each opposite number - so an extra 7 races with the result being award as 1-0 per race - rather than just a sudden one race winner takes all that way its a fairer representation of the teams, perhaps even just do 1 lap like the old one lap dashes from the late 80s they had in the 2nd halves! ok you can all say its a cr@p idea now!

dont disgaree but sport is an entertainment business - TV exposure has certainly ensured that!

The superheat is a sort of creeping americanisation of sport in that they simply don't like or do 'ties' - the trouble is they do provide drama and a sudden death jeopardy which the fans at the tracks seem to enjoy. I have seem one and the roar at the end at Foxhall when they secured the superheat v's Peterborough a couple of years back was huge. The problem is everyone wants their promoters and and the sport to innovate and move foward and appeal to the non diehards - there are always so many threads dedicated to what can be done to 'save' speedway and here is an innovation that certainly seems to be well received on the terraces, rather liike the playoffs and everyone seems dead against it on here. In football terms i always felt a well ground out away point was often a great reward, draws in speedway and other sports don't actually happen too often - personally i wouldnt have introduced it but i can see and understand why they have.

So odd that Iversen was hopeless at Leicester last week and yet is great tonight - coversely Klindt and Harris both have stinkers etc. (am aware track etc) Confirms for me is that Leicester are on a roll - great to see Joe Thompsn getting more points now, he seems to be on a slower trajectory to Dan but he is making progess!