Daniel Smith

How many qualify from the Semi's? How many from the Final?

Riding in Denmark tonight. No idea about tomorrow night. He's committed to the season but will miss quite a few meetings.

Would be madness to run the meeting, pretty wet out there and should remain the same right up to 6-7pm. Won't be just Troy complaining, Doyley is a bit of a whiner when it comes to wet too

Also, the EDR guest must not have an established EL average either as per Poole & Stuart Robson's ban

Agreed, next week I'm expecting 5 heats in an hour show with them wasting 15mins showing the top 10 keepy uppies

We've heard similar regarding the Russians almost every year. I wouldn't count my chickens until race day

People should be able to make opinion, good or bad about the sport. It's the constant point scoring posters have. "You said this, your wrong, I said this and I'm right". It then goes round and round and round in the hope that the opponent will fold. If you have a differing opinion that's fine but then just move on ffs. It's not difficult

You can tell by his recent tweets what he wants, Leicester are a convenience to achieve a lowered average for PL in 2017.

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It may be that he's still on his assessed average?!?!

Was he getting stick prior to the interview from the Swindon faithful for his performance? Quite likely and his response was reasonable if you ask me. He was like that when he was at King's Lynn in the Premier League. He got stick from the fans then, he'd always respond when chatting with Mike Bennett. Think it gives him much more respect to have the balls to front up imo.

Don't think gangs should cause issue as U16's should be accompanied by an adult. Any issues then that adult becomes suspended. 17 and over turning up in gangs, bring it on. They've paid something Speedway wouldn't of got + it only takes 1 or 2 to start watching from a gang of 5 or 6 and things calm down naturally. Me personally, to make Speedway "sick" to the yoovz letting them loose is exactly the right thing to do. Putting a noose on them is what shouldn't be done.

So, I take it you have no concept that everybody's different and we all should be as hard as nails like you?

Is this thread about point scoring with each other or what?

To a point speedway hasn't modernised enough but who are we to modernise too? When you look around today's stadiums I have no doubt 75% are over the age of 50. Speedway has no priorities to families. Some tracks do family tickets but these are restrictive i.e. 2 adults 2 children. What about single parents? What about a family that has 4 children? What about just 1 child? For me the priority for Speedway is modernising but this has to be modernising the pricing structure first and foremost.

That's where Speedway has failed massively It could be £30 per adult entrance, that's actually irrelevant. The problem starts with those adults having children & having to also pay for your kids to get in. The option then becomes "we need to find something else to do". Now, I don't believe speedway should be charging up to 16 years old & no more than about £7 for full time & work placement students (17+) Elite League: Adult £18 Concessions £12 Full time students (17+) £5 Work Placement Students (17+) £7 16 & Under £0 We need to start with the pricing structure of Speedway for the future

I've been off work on the sick for over a month and over that time my opinion has changed. I've watch s#!+ loads of old clips on youtube & Pathé in that time & it all seems very much the same as it is today. So, when did speedway stop being as good as it use to be? It hasn't, I've got older and because of that the focus in life changes. Just a natural process. Crowds are smaller because people have found better things to do with their entrance fee's because they've simply become bored. Smaller crowds have made meetings more boring regardless of the racing. It's as simple as that

That says more about the Swindon fans than Troy imo. I find it quite shameful that he's not allowed to have emotions. People cope in different ways to bad news & Ward wasn't just a team mate but a friend. Batchelor's honesty should have been appreciated rather than lambasted regarding his performance. Maybe the issue should have been taken up with the team manager for allowing Troy to ride in the first place if his mental state isn't on the racing. That's a dangerous situation to place other riders in in the first instance.

Just my opinion. Forget his nationality, in the GP's he's an embarrassment. Lindgren has proven that the GTR's are a quality motor yet Harris last season made it look like a bag of nails. The guy just makes me wince every round. He's clearly ill prepared or being ripped off with his equipment.

Thing is, I can't stand Jerusalem or Land of Hope and Glory either. Both old English with hints of Christianity. England isn't that way either anymore. For me, a completely new song which references our pride and passion to defend our land. Including the pride of all involved in WWI & WWII & our immense battle against terrorism. It has to completely exclude anything to do with religion.

Great win from Woffinden What a cracking GP. Chris Harris, give it up as a bad job with a bit of dignity and allow Lindgren a spot when Hampel returns

Clever from Belle Vue see. A lot of people forget to cash small cheques.

Yes, the BSPA can revoke the promoter's licence.

Think the first priority is you get a track. Any extra on that is a plus, I'm sure that's all Rosco will worry about just now.

Just a bit of weather advice, book your hotels up until the Monday and get that day booked off work. Any rain will move meetings back. It's in Manchester remember