John Leslie

Melbourne is 11 hours ahead of GMT.

looks like for the next 5 years everyone in Europe will have to get up at about 4am to see the world champion crowned

Happens to me every year. You get a letter saying after the next issue there's 4 copies left. By the time those 5 weeks have passed you've forgotten about it, and then instead of chasing you for renewal, they just stop sending it. I always notice when it doesn't arrive for a week or two, and then have to phone up to start another subscription, but I bet a lot of people just don't bother. Seems crazy to just let customers drift away when they probably would have been willing to resubscribe.

Apart from the fact that the meeting was postponed last night and has been rearranged for Weds 15 October, what exactly is there about the Poole v King's Lynn play-off semi-final that you don't know and want to know?

How are Torun and Gorzow going to produce the next British world Champion? They're in Poland. How are we going to train British kids at Gorzow or Torun? They're never going to match the new National stadium. Your post is about as silly as saying Wayne Rooney will never be able to play for Cameroon.

The fans aren't governed by SCB regulations. What are the SCB going to do? Ban the fans for 12 months? I'm surprised that Danny Phillips' ban and fine is greater than Sarjent's and the same as Greaves'. I wasn't there, but from what I've read Phillips seems to have been a bit part player to the main protagonists

Nothing on today. Should be a meeting at Poole tomorrow. Depends whether Matt Ford fancies his chances of winning when he sees the full line-ups. If he doesn't, the meeting could be off due to plague of locusts, rainstorm of frogs, etc etc

The first diggers and materials have arrived on site http://www.bellevueaces.co/newsitem.aspx?id=1274

The updates site had both teams wrong. Think they just took a guess. They've put it right now.

Switch Simon Lambert up to No.1 and move Benji Compton down to No.5 and you'll have it spot on. As FalconHammer says, Joe Jacobs in at No.1 for Coventry and R/R for Nielsen at No.3

If Carlsberg paid for legal teams.....

If you're drunk and sat in your car you will be charged with being drunk in charge of a motor vehicle regardless of whether you've actually driven anywhere or not. Darcy Ward has obviously signed in to a GP meeting, attended a riders' briefing, had his name pulled out for an alcohol test, and failed. His intent to ride in a GP while under the influence of alcohol should be punished the same regardless of whether he actually rode or was stopped from riding.

I think you've got it spot on SCB. I've seen quite a bit of all 3 of these lads, and whilst I can't claim to be a close friend of any of them, I'd say I know enough to say they are decent lads, and this behaviour seems out of character. (If I was drawing up a list of riders likely to cause trouble, they'd all be very low on the list - Danny Phillips probably at the bottom). It seems to me they've been caught up on the heat of the moment, and sadly that aggresiveness that seems to often accompany Cradley matches. I'd also suggest that the behaviour of some adults involved may have been worse than these 3 youngsters. A big fine wouldn't be right for riders who earn very little. A ban would be over-harsh. A strong reprimand and a ban suspended for a year would seem to be correct, and they would be left in no doubt that any similar behaviour in future will mean an immediate ban.

I was just going to say the same thing. Some of those NIMBY complaints are clearly dowright lies. And the report even admits that many of the complaints are due to a flyer which had been sent out full of lies. Don't think Kent have done themselves any favours by not complying with the acoustic barrier, but they also have a bit of history in winning appeals for extra concessions against the planning officers recommendation. incidentally, how did they run last night's meeting which didn't start until 7pm and can't have finished before 9pm?

You may joke, but someone went on Dragons' Den with this very invention a series or so ago. The urinal was connected to a video game which was then controlled by the speed and direction of your pee. (i'm not joking) Imagine that. You could go into the bog, log-on to the Chris Harris app, make him go faster, and pee on Nicki Pedersen at the same time! http://www.dailydooh.com/archives/73524

What makes you think the prospective promoter doesn't have an involvement in another club?

Yes. No one will be racing across the centre green at the new stadium...pretty much the same as now, where no one would race across the centre green at Kirky Lane (although that's mainly for fear of falling into the deep puddles and craters caused by stock cars)

The Stock Cars stay at the dog track. They can't run at the new stadium because of the 3G astroturf centre green

But St George's Park is the National Football Centre and that isn't the biggest stadium in the country nor located in the capital. Damn that F.A. with their wrong misleading names!

So the FA National training centre at Burton has the wrong name? The National Tennis centre at Roehampton has the wrong name?

It's not the naming that's a mistake. It's people misunderstanding it. After all, the England football team play their home matches at Wembley, not at the National Football Centre in Burton-on-Trent The British Open Tennis is played at Wimbledon, not at the National Tennis Centre in Roehampton. So why would anyone think that the National Speedway Stadium should only be something which must rival the Cardiff G.P.? What we will have is a state-of-the-art stadium which is more than adequate to host the largest EL crowds; with National training facilities, track-based, classroom-based, and workshop based; access to a massive sports science institute being built just a mile down the road; and capability to be temporarily expanded to host a world cup crowd. It's not meant to take the British G.P. away from Cardiff any more that St.George's Park is meant to take the England football matches away from Wembley. We should celebrate safeguarding the future of a historic club that had no future at its current base, and developing something modern for training future British riders. Now, where can we move onto for the next project to upgrade to a moden stadium in a city centre location? if Belle Vue can do it why can't another club...

great news for British Speedway, and of course all those up at Belle Vue, to see this final official hurdle crossed.

The league points scoring system is one of the best new rules we've had. It does the job of rewarding effort, and keeping the majority of matches alive until the end. The only thing I would do, is to do away with the 4th point for an away win by more than 6 points. There should be three points per match - scrap the 4th point, it serves no purpose in keeping a match close. It should be:- Home team wins by more than 6 - Home 3 Away 0 Home team wins by less than 6 - Home 2 Away 1 Draw - Home 1 Away 2 Away win - Home 0 Away 3 Easy to understand. The home team has to win by more than 6 to get all points, the away team only has to win to get all points. The possibilities in between explain themselves. I would also do away with or radically alter the tactical double joker. The only thing dafter than a tactical double joker in British Speedway is a tactical double joker in the world cup.

Some people must have very sad lives. I just can't understand those who want to whinge and moan, and revel in gloom and doom. There are actually people on here who seem to have taken delight in watching the likes of Exeter, Reading and Oxford close, and are still getting their kicks out of potential threats to Coventry and Mildenhall. On the plus side it must really hurt them to see that some of the best speedway racing today is seen at new built stadiums like Scunthorpe and Somerset, whilst the newly build Leicester is an excellent facility which just needs track alterations so that the quality of racing can match the quality of the stadium. A yes vote from Manchester council this afternoon will see another little part of these sad cases die.

Well you don't!