Daniel Smith

Enjoyed that as a neutral. Close score, controversial refereeing. That aside, Sheffield can truly feel harshly done by, for me, the much better side on the night & could of / should of won comfortably. Congratulations to Belle Vue, enjoy it

It's very different riding against the home team than for. S.Lambert will do well to get 4 with only 3 rides expected too

Losing 2 rider's & winning the home leg by 12 is not choking. If R/R & Simon Lambert pick up 10 points, it should be enough to see them through. If the above happens & Belle Vue still lose, 100%, choking can be firmly pointed at the team, BUT, even had Belle Vue had their full 7 I did't see them scoring 40 points anyway. Lambert - Zagar - Kurtz vs Holder - Musielak - Ellis very even to call around owlerton but the winners of the meeting for me will come from Sedgman & Mountain. These 2 will be the difference.

Lambert with Belle Vue. It's a lad trying to reach the top so would be good on the CV. Unfortunately, I think Belle Vue haven't got enough in the bag to get over the line.

The guest rule again seems ambiguous. If still fit (with my take of the rule) Tero Aarnio is the best guest option with a PL green sheet of 4.55. The rules only insist that the league average the rider guests in be used. If fit & available, surely Belle Vue would be on the phone? Next best option would be Kasper Andersen (if fit & available)

You're absolutely right, I do. Life is not kind to all of us

You can call me out lad. It was my opinion & I still genuinely believe, had he stuck around British Speedway, he would have become the next Chris Harris. The best thing Lambert did was get away from King's Lynn & British Speedway. I'm certainly not embarrassed by those thoughts, he was annoying the s#!+ out of me with his curb crawling in the first half of the GP series. 2nd half, went up another gear. Couldn't be happier for him. Now, he HAS to become consistent but becoming World No5 I'm more than pleased to also never make that comparison again. Amazing thing has just happened for social media - 'Man 43 changes his mind'. Call BBC, ITV, Sky news quick sharp chap

Sheffield are very very much in it. 12 points is absolutely nothing & Lambert, 100%, won't be going through the card in the 2nd leg

It probably did but it doesn’t have to. All dependant on the amount of time a rider has when changing bike

No it doesn’t. Can use bike 1's tyre or any of his own teammates match issued tyre plus bike 2's worn tyre

Even with Lambert, Belle Vue need to hit a 53-37 minimum. Anything less gives Sheffield something to chase hard. 17+ points will force Sheffield to ride a little more desperate

Any rider taking tips from Masters has no future

Wolves should drop down a league

Would everyone accept this? SGP top 6 qualify for next series. GP Challenge should consist of rider's NOT in the current series. Top 7 qualify for....... New - GP Qualifier; Mid October, after the SGP series is complete, the SGP bottom 9 face the GP Challenge top 7. Then the top 9 qualify for the following SGP Series. The SGP Qualifier must be contested at an SGP circuits over 2 race weekends. Is that more acceptable than 'Wildcards' ??

Different times, British Speedway was the pinnacle of the sport. 1 off finals etc. Tight difficult tracks today get you nowhere if you want to reach the top. Zmarzlik, now 3x world champ is an absolute speed merchant, no trick track learning to be where he is. Any thought process pre 2000s is irrelevant

Absolutely, Belle Vue is the place to be, unfortunately, every other club is 2nd rate. With Poland & GP's every modern rider's dream Belle Vue offers the best training opportunity. No British rider with any ambition should be looking at trick tracks & those that are FTG's.

Belle Vue's likely team. 1. C.Harris 2. T.Brennan 3. S.Nicholls 4. C.Wright 5. S.Lambert 6. C.Mountain 7. C.Bailey

I can't see why some are saying it's a boring selection. It was the only selection imo, unless they put more Poles in the line-up, & nobody wants half the field to be like that. No extra Brits, Swedes, Danes, Germans etc deserve to be at the top table right now. Anyone else (except Poles) would have weakened the series further.

Belle Vue's likely team. 1. C.Harris 2. T.Brennan 3. S.Nicholls 4. C.Wright 5. S.Lambert 6. C.Mountain 7. C.Bailey

That's some gamble on this years evidence. Exstraliga, Lambert 9th - Doyle 16th in the averages. SGP's, Lambert 5th - Doyle 10th.

Robert Lambert rocks up & makes him look very average, smoke that brudda's

Hopefully that's Monmore not in the final

I don't give 2 s#!+s about British Speedway as a competition any more, at least there could be a challenger so Doyle's not going through the card unchallenged tonight. I just hope Sheffield make the final, will be better meetings than Monmore.

Speedway as a whole, across the UK, has no future. While I understand the anger towards GI, Osborne etc, absolutely massive, huuuuuge responsibility is on the BSP(A)L for their total lack of awareness, laziness, & self serving, in not pushing this sport in the right direction at the turn of the century. No sport can survive when it's reliant on others

The comment does say 5 of 7. Most likely these are the 2 that will be out. Replacements will be a struggle to find.