Cue Ball

Just going by pretty much every other programme in the country. I did say that it is my opinion. Some are better than others, but on the whole they don't give as much news/information as the star and only cost marginally less. For me a programme is something to be disposed of at the end of a meeting and I don't often choose to throw £1, £2 or £3 away, which is what I would effectively be doing as I personally only use the race card to keep track of the score, I don't intend to pay for that privilege. You disagree Spinny and that's fine just stating my feelings on the matter.

Programmes suck, race cards rule! If you want news buy the speedway star - more content, more up to date and you don't get the same copy 6 months later with a crapy paper insert in the middle when there has been a rain off. I for 1 won't paying anything like £2.50 for 10 pages of adverts and the inevitable out of date team bios just so that I can keep track of the score. Sod that for a game of soldiers. All in my most humble opinion of course, people with money to burn will no doubt disagree with me and welcome spending the additional money every week.

More than happy with the free one personally. If they do decide to charge for it, they will probably be stuffed on any season tickets sold so far, but then all they have to is change the website. It's an invitation to treat and so can be withdrawn or amended or they can even choose just not to accept your offer of £15 for entrance and a program at the door. Not a lot any of us could do about it except rely on the promotions good nature to honour what the website states.

I hope that they aren't expecting to charge for it

Simple. Don't buy one.

Albin on a decent equipment would be good - 100% trier and a crowd pleaser

He crashed practising, hardly the fault of him riding for Lynn

I see Steady has signed for Leicester, glad to see him fixed up in both leagues

I've not been to Belle Vue for a fair few years, but last time I saw it on Sky (which I admit may well influence the level of attendance) I wouldn't say that their crowds were all that healthy. United and Wednesday probably don't attract the same levels of support, but then how many Man City and United fans actually come from Manchester?!? I would imagine that the % of Sheffield football supporters that travel to home games is much, much lower. I think speedway support across the country has dwindled regardless of track location, the ones such as Newport and Stoke that had less support in the first place have either disappeared or had to downsize the operation in order to survive. Its a vicious circle, money makes money - eg if you make loads of money you can afford to advertise on tv and/or radio and newspapers etc,and hopefully generate interest and boost attendance/profit, if you don't have loads you can't afford to advertise and once your support starts to slump you can do less about it

Are there any team places left now?

Exactly Willowman!!!

2x top (arguably) football teams, ice hockey team, basketball, rugby, theatres etc... Lots of variety and competition for people to spend their money on. Go to somewhere like Workington or Berwick and there is less to choose from

Stop making sensible suggestions! Isn't Joe a bit different anyway, in that it almost sounds like he has been brought in as a coach first and foremost with manager as a secondary job title. He is there to focus on the young uns and to help bring them on in terms of set up - they can all ride a bike, but as Andre found last year, it doesn't make a difference if you can't get the bike to hook up properly

Hope they stick with the race card - I wouldn't be spending 2 or 3 quid on a 'proper' programme full of adverts. Only use it to keep track of the score

Don't think anybody is expecting him to get back to a 10 point average, but he is capable of making a mockery of his 4.36 average, especially around Sheffield and especially when he is involved from the start of the season and now that he knows setups with the new silencers a bit better. He had the fastest time of the season at Owlerton until the PLRC - the boy still got something

I sincerely hope so!!!!!

Seems curious that Koppe has spent the winter in the UK riding in the series at Scunny to then head home in the eve of the season

One off the press releases said that there would be as many as 3 new faces - which we've got - so thnk it's fair to say that it will be Compton and Albin or Koppe

Glad you asked that, was wondering exactly the same thing myself!

Palm-Toft signed for Belle Vue - explains the mechanic hunt on twitter

Think we have around 9 points left for the final 2, so still some options/permutations available

Poole and Lanham it is.... 5 down, 2 to go. If I'm being honest, I'm not sure Lanham would have been my first choice, would prefer to see somebody younger and up and coming, but he does bring experience to the side and will no doubt be of benefit when we are on the road.

We haven't even seen the team yet, but there is almost a sense of optimism from Sheffield supporters creeping in... Let's hope we ain't disappointed!!

Is that a dig at the size of Screeny?!? He's fast for a big bloke

Too late, didn't he retire last year?