Daniel Smith

Absolutely, you're just seeing a number. When you see who he was up against in his heats he should of had more than 1 race win (his 1st ride in heat 3).

If we're still running an EL next season I still say Monday/Thursday as a lot of Danes will be ruled out from a fixed Wednesday race night in the UK. Personally I'm against a single fixed racenight idea simply because of the Landlord potential problems but, I'd knock certain race days on the head ie Tuesday's, Friday's (except Good Friday), Saturday's and Sunday's. I'd have it so each club is only permitted to race 1 home 1 away fixture per week at all times, giving better scheduling for riders to work with. That would also be the case with rain offs too

It does matter. Speedway shouldn't be happy with 'just able to survive' mentality. The sport is suffering badly from poor lazy promoters, abysmal track preparation, awful stadiums. All adding to poor attedances. Glasgow have shown what can be done and their model should be looked into.

So, Woffy will have made 1 extra appearance than McIlroy on British shores. King's Lynn (Wroclaw) Cardiff (SGP) Belle Vue (SWC) So what's the problem

I'd seen him ride at King's Lynn in March thanks with Wroclaw. Everyone had the chance to come and say hi and congratulations to the new British World Champion

Great idea in principle but most fans after heat 15 just want to get home

11+1 looks good but I thought Harris was poor last night considering the riders he was up against in his heats. Top rider's should never get beaten by Sedgmen and he did twice

TROLL

Are you saying you wouldn't have him in the 4?

Absolutely isn't. I'd say on a par so far

A rider that looks to have improved and is an asset but doesn't currently ride for the Young Stars might be worth a shot in Jake Knight?? No worse option than a Josh Bailey / Tom Stokes imo

That's how it works for all sports. It's up to the others to get better.

We have a bit of a problem in trying to strengthen though, we're already 1.71 above the averages so wholesale changes just ain't possible Think it's obvious 1 change will be Schlein for Korneliussen The other could/should be the Busk Jakobsen position but that only leaves us with 4.15 or less to play with. There's just nobody about who'd be an improvement on that. A different D/U rider would have to be 6.91 or less from the Premier League. Or, you're then looking for a rider that didn't ride in the Polish, Danish, Swedish leagues in 2015 that is 'supposedly better than Jakobsen. Quite frankly, we're in the deep brown stuff & there's no real way out of it

Did we offer any value to this meeting or were we as bad as the 11 heats suggest?

You must be running out of those Pathé clips soon though?

Surprised this hasn't been mentioned as it's the most important thing of all....... Racing

There are rumours on social media Cook has turned down the GP Qualifier in Lonigo & is riding tonight.

That's pretty much out of the Steve Shovlar top drawer What utter guff

Yes but it'll be the other way around that would stop him riding is how I understand it

Turns 1-2 which are normally the busiest areas was very thin on the ground last night imo

Not many complaints from me at all. A lot of fight from the lads when they missed the gates with some good quality passing. Nice little atmosphere as well up in the seats which was good to hear. Score could easily been the other way around but thankfully R.Lambert & Rose showed passing is possible. Track was in the best condition I've seen it for some time to. Down sides: Mads Korneliussen Busk Jakobsen (had the speed and great style to watch but couldn't gate) but it was his 1st meeting so will be let off Attendance, one of the smallest I can remember for some time which must/should be a concern to the promotion

Agree but the figure must be substantial to have the naming rights to the stadium surely?

Flux batters all those sponsors alone. Think you're underestimating their wealth

Is it possible now with the club having decent backing from Adrian Flux, Roger Warnes etc that attendance money is just the 'added bonus'? People turning up or not may not be making any difference in the running of the club, it's all just extra pocket money

Would you say this is fair? Certs to qualify: Bartosz Zmarzlik Patryk Dudek Freddie Lindgren Then any 4 from: Michael Jepsen Jensen Max Fricke Tomas Jedrzejak Robert Lambert Mikkel Bech Thomas H. Jonasson Brady Kurtz Martin Smolinski Craig Cook Nicolas Covatti No chancers: Daniel Gappmeier Paco Castagna Sergei Logachev