Daniel Smith

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Is £17 for speedway expensive. For me it is because I don't believe I'm getting value for money. If the racing was better £17 would be a bargain. It all comes down to VFM. The biggest thing for me is that all kids under high school age should be free. First year of high school to 21 should be £5. Full time students over 21 £10 That could make a difference to swelling the attendance but not necessarily clubs income

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They do get postponed but the weather has to be really bad. Generally it's based on how it may affect attendances rather than participant health and safety.

And?!?

It definitely hasn't ended. If you ask nicely it could be for a full 12 months too not just 3

So after all the previous at Belle Vue, you think it would be a massive selling point to the Belle Vue punter's for them to watch tractors and bladers do their stuff for a couple of hours just to get a meeting on? Yeh course, that will bring the punter's back. Seriously!!!! Personally, Belle Vue have made the correct call. They really need to make sure all meetings now run issue free after the start they've had or there'll have much bigger issues financially later on once the stadium is finally under Belle Vue control.

As a huge Woffinden fan, I was disappointed with his interview with Brandon in tonight's GP. Came across as a bit of a jumped up spoilt brat for my liking. Normally one of the best and most articulate when interviewed.

I think the opposite. Leave home at 8.30 and trundle down, then be home no later than 7pm for those working the following day. I'd say it's very considerate.

If Huckenbeck can go to reserve it won't be for long as he only has 2 away meetings to complete for an average.

Have no idea where & how easy it is to do that?

I'd advise nobody should buy online tickets for any speedway except Cardiff. This is a Bank Holiday fixture so no excuse to allow extra time for the ticket office.

Iversen to stay for the forseeable future http://www.kingslynnstars.co/news.php?extend.30147

Need to check but I'm not sure No'8s can move to reserve?

Does speedway today ever care about the fans? We all know the answer to that

as mentioned earlier, putting 2+2 together it seems the decision was made early on by the rider's in the changing rooms. Sky says hold off the official announcement until they go live on air. This would be why none of the Poole rider's even got changed.

Don't agree, more like today's rider's have no idea how throttle control works & can't manage their set-up's accordingly. We're in a age now where the throttle cable needs to be at it's most stretched.

Thing is, Chapman said it straight after the AGM how he'd of done it very differently. Promoters saying now it wasn't them just look like they're just trying to remove themselves from blame. If so many Promoters were 'disillusioned' after the AGM why on earth was it not recalled?!? They all had plenty of time to fix the EDR problems from day 1.

Keith Chapman said exactly the same thing. Saying if he'd of been chairman for this season he'd of shredded all plans and started again.

Poole never changed because it was never going to be on. Buczkowski made that quite clear with his social media message and rightly so. Would have been more farcical had it gone ahead

Possible line-up 18th May 1. Troy Batchelor 6.91 2. Kai Huckenbeck 4.00 (Rory Schlein 6.49) 3. Robert Lambert 6.46 4. Mads Korneliussen 5.95 5. Davey Watt 6.80 6. Carl Wilkinson 4.32 7. Lewis Rose 3.11 37.55 (40.04) -2.95 (-0.46)

That was the u-21 rule when you had Woffy at reserve wasn't it??

Could Poole be stuck between a rock & a hard place again?? We had this situation a couple of years ago when Poole tried to re-declare a 1-7 before the averages changed but the meeting got postponed, thus meaning the change couldn't be made because the rider hadn't turn a wheel and would of gone above the averages. Could this now be the case with Bjarne Pedersen - Davey Watt's averages?? Just asking a genuine question or has the rules been amended after previous?? ___________________________________________________________________ Just answered my own question - Watt's new average is still higher than Pedersen's after the average changes. So, hypothetically then. Is the rule still in place that a new rider has to race before averages change??

5 miles to King's Lynn for me. Currently I'm doing 5mtrs to my dinning table to check social media for updates as I can't be bothered to leave the house for that pile of poop.

Crap is harsh but Watt most definitely is not the answer. But let's be honest here, he and Bjerre might be all that's available. We had nothing at the start of the season, can't see a superstar turning up now to fill any voids