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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.

Why not, we're already at the Flamin' Nora stage when it comes to speedway anyway...

Will suit Nick Morris if he stays with Sheffield then 😂

I mean that would just about sum up the state of British Speedway really. I'd assume if a "dead" club was to ride at Oxford it would have to be Swindon or Reading, and even then it wouldn't work unless they were certain of getting their own home sooner rather than later. Unless of course you're mad enough to try the Swindon Racers or the Reading Robins and amalgamate the two!

I'd be a bit concerned at Douglas being No.1 although it would all depend on the strength of the league overall. He had a great season this year but whether he could maintain that sort of form again...?

He has ability but you have to question his mentality.

He has ability but you have to question his mentality.

If there was an award for British Speedway rider of the year he'd be the deserved winner.

Well done Ipswich. Easily the best team over both legs of the final.

Realistically its only 4 riders tonight.

Realistically its only 4 riders tonight.

I hope Ipswich fans who claimed we bought the ref on Monday are happy with their purchase tonight 😉

On that race where it matters Howarth was holding his line as Douglas was inside him. The justification for Brennan not being at fault from comms was that he held his line too.

As if Doyle never does that.

Rubbish, he never deviated from his line, wasn't that the excuse for Brennan?

What was the difference between that and Brennan on Douglas? Basically the same move and outcome.

If Douglas had to go for that King should have gone back at BP.