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Only taken 2 years to come out with it, but there is a sort of apology there: Morris said: “I’m really excited to be back with Leicester, it’s a club I have loved racing for. “I feel I owe it to them and all the people who I let down, and everyone who has supported me, to put in a big season there. “I just want to work hard and win races, and being back with Stewart, the man who brought me to the UK when I was 15, I would love nothing more to win a league title for Leicester.”

Some music suggestions for next year now then: White Lines (Don't Don't It) Just Say No Message in a (specimen) Bottle

Given that there's a real danger the current Premiership champions might not come to the tapes next year I think people are right to be impatient. Any business worth its salt would have had a holding statement ready at least by now.

Baffles me that everywhere seems to want something the size of BV when Somerset, Redcar and Scunthorpe sizes produce good racing and would be far easier to squeeze in somewhere.

Baffles me that everywhere seems to want something the size of BV when Somerset, Redcar and Scunthorpe sizes produce good racing and would be far easier to squeeze in somewhere.

Kemp wouldn't be too bad if he stopped the packing up at the back thing. What other experienced reserves are around that are guaranteed to be better? I think the RS position is what's really been the killer for us.

Can you pull out the stats for Max and Sam? Just curious about how many Heat 15's we won away?

I presume by Nick you mean old Sniffer Morris?

It depends; does it want to run according to the climate it's found itself in? If not then I'm afraid the writing really is on the wall as they just can't do what they have been, it's been proven to fail.

But that's the trouble isn't it? Where did that get us? One of the things that blights the sport for many people is doubling up and guests, but all we've done is pay silly money to someone to come over for a year and sod off again. I know I'm likely alone in this, but I personally don't see losing GP riders as a disaster, but what is a disaster is not having a good enough production line of young riders coming through to fill team places. It should be an embarrassment of riches rather than a desperate scrabble to scratch teams together.

Engagement with riders is something Speedway is quite good at, to a point, but it does seem to be hit and miss with some riders. Case in point is after a meeting at Leicester, Ryan Douglas always goes along the line of people after the interviews, poses for photos, signs things, shakes hands and the young kids absolutely love it. Heck I'm 40 and I love it. However the rest generally bugger off back to the pits as soon as it's done, and very rarely if at all do you ever get to meet the opposition unless you're fortunate enough to be in the pits.

Absolutely. The other option would have been investing in training tracks and training schools, employing trainers, bulk buying equipment to get people started, paying for opportunities for young riders to compete abroad. Really they should have been able to do both, but ended up doing neither.

Did the BSPA invest in riders? I think it would be a different argument if we were saying they'd made decisions but got it wrong, but it seems like they didn't make any decisions at all, just kicked the can further down the road.

Fits well with it's semi-professional image as well. It's quite mad that we're expected to treat it as a professional sport when it's clearly run by amateurs!

It's been recorded today, it will air tomorrow, time TBC. Lions FB page updated it this morning.