Bagpuss

Biggest club in the Championship so a good move Hope Glasgow follow!

Biggest club in the Championship so a good move Hope Glasgow follow!

If you like seeing riders turn themselves inside out on every corner.

OK I'll bite......totally hypothetical but assuming you could clone Messrs Lawson, Worrall, King and Kemp I'd love to know which team you'd have beaten into fourth place? For me you'd have finished sixth ahead of Peterboough and stone last had the Panthers not suffered all their injuries. The Cooks would be going to tracks they don't know and every reserve pairing would have Abblit and Kemp (Cook) for breakfast. There'd be a few close home matches and you'd win a couple perhaps but that'd be about it with clatterings in every away match. So not for me Jeff.

Not for me, personally I'd always rather watch an NSS meeting rather than a Monmore one.

I expect while the GP and Polish league is on he (and Bewley) would rather do their supplementary racing in Sweden once a week rather than flying in and out of the UK. The point I was making is that he is an injury replacement an opportunity has arisen because Max Fricke had an awful crash. You can argue the rights and wrongs of our top three not racing here but when they do they should be enjoyed IMO, and I maintain the reason they all don't ride here regularly is because of the way British Speedway has been run over the years. If it was a better, stronger product they would probably be here.

Here's a tip for you, record it and start watching 45-60 minutes after the programme starts, then you can fast forward through all the shoite between the races.

You have serious issues.

But he's only been signed to replace an injured rider? Its not a tactical change. Whatever the rights and wrongs having the world number five in the Play Offs is great for the neutral.

Nail on head I'd say.

I think he's probably ridden there plenty of times, 2019 for a start. Plus those years he did in the second division as a teenager.

Nope, seems like a lawyer got involved and proved that the management committee can't interpret their own rulebook properly. Seeing as they haven't been fit for purpose for years that's hardly a surprise.

BSPL finally relented to ouch's campaign of whinging I reckon.

Yep. Why not run the Play Offs in August? No break after the league fixtures and more likely to be in good weather with potentially better crowds.

I hope so. We all want to see two full sides, injury free and in the groove on two good tracks for the final with the best team winning.

I think this is a massive factor. Completing all your fixtures at the beginning of August and then trying to be competitive in the Play Offs in late September is almost impossible. One wonders if Leicester will be in a similar boat for the final.

I'd suggest that's down to the TM personally.

Don't think it'll make too much difference tomorrow with the lead they have but they'll need him for the final.

Nicol was the obvious error, and Cooks stock has dropped. But the big blows were the losses of Ostergaard and Hume. Not saying that they'd have beaten Poole with those two fit but they'd have stood a much better chance. Luck with injuries and momentum are massive going into Play Offs, Poole have both and Glasgow neither.

He's not going to want weekend racing over here if hes riding in Poland is he? Anyway I suspect there will be far more than just five riders difference next year.

Well done to Lambert and Bewley for finishing the six, fantastic stuff. It's got to the stage where we are disappointed if they don't reach the semis, they have both developed fantastically well this year. As for next year I don't see any surprises in the picks, the two Russians for Doyle and Michelsen if they are allowed back in but I doubt it myself and I think Nilsson for PP will probably be it.

I wouldn't bother going on Tuesday

I think Kemp's performances are measured against the yardstick of his first season at Sheffield when he was sixteen, unfortunately he hasn't hit those heights since despite joining two clubs this year who are strong at home and where you thought he might flourish. Riders develop at different rates of course but he just doesn't look like he is going to fulfill his potential unfortunately which is a great pity.

That's shocking if so.