Bagpuss

Nobody cares about loan fees to Poole.

Rain now from 9pm according to the Met Office, hopefully they get on with it as much as possible!

Absolutely, particularly with some Polish clubs finishing their fixtures and more riders becoming available.

There was definitely an issue with it on Friday evening after the event as I couldn't watch it on the app despite being signed up/in.

I'm sure those who were there yesterday are right that the track was blameless on this occasion but if the stats earlier in the thread are accurate about numbers of falls, injuries and time taken for meetings then the authorities need to be working with the club at the very least if they aren't already. Mildenhall is my second nearest track and having a small daughter for whom evening meetings aren't really practical a Sunday afternoon visit to West Row at some point appeals, but not if its going to take three hours and riders are getting carted away every week.

Presumably because he has his final Extraliga match for Grudziadz this weekend. Let's hope it doesn't get rained off and he comes through it in one piece!

The number 8 is only really to cover the Rising Star and R/R but I take your point, anything which could reduce the number of mix-and-match guests would get my vote. My own team.has been built to always have a heavyweight reserve but if that rider got injured and had to be covered by our number eight then thems the breaks.

So presumably for Thurs 1 Pickering 2 Worrall 3 Klindt 4 Jorgensen 5 Lawson 6 Kerr 7 Edwards/Thomas then Jakobsen at 6 for Monday week

Two more injury withdrawals today.....

Probably the latter

That's a great effort by a Cook-less Glasgow.

Craig *cough* Cook

If it was tomorrow you'd probably go with Ellis but I suspect Brennan might well be 4th best Brit by next year the way he is progressing. Well done to the two GB lads and comgrats to the Aussies who I thought were worthy winners. Awful track though.

Very often the way, the riders get over it quickly but the fans bleat on and on about it and hold grudges.

Pretty amateurish that we don't have a fourth rider ready to step in.

Perhaps a night off to relax for Woffinden, Lambert and Bewley was considered the best preparation for tonight, or perhaps the U21 set up didn't want them in the pits? Rather than it automatically being assumed that they couldn't be bothered.

Five-a-side speedway, that's a new one on me. Best wishes to all those injured.

Spot on. Gating and experience. But how good is it to have three world class Brits?

Woolley and Verge, WTF? That's an horrendous side. Embarrassing.

I agree he's far from past it but the Extraliga averages and GP standings suggest that there's little between the three, he's certainly not far and away the no 1 if he is at all.

But he's had a spell at reserve and Kerr hasn't.....

Yes fair point but the strategy would have been to put Bewley in the second GB heat so they could have done that anyway. Perhaps the strategy after heat one was to stick with the 'top' two as chosen and only use Bewley when they had to. To be fair to Lambert if he doesn't touch the tapes against Norway he probably goes unbeaten with Woffy for the rest of the meeting and there's no need for a run off but I think he will now be fortunate to be involved much on Saturday.

I've been giving this a lot of thought, trying to work out why they wouldn't want to get Jakobsen in at reserve, the only thing I can possibly think of is that they think he can handle himself in the top five and that the combination of that and Kerr at reserve would score more than Jakobsen at reserve and Jorgensen in the top five? Don't necessarily agree myself but it all I can think of. Unless of course its a political decision.

Awful meeting, aqdul track. GB looked all at sea early on. Thought Lambert was unlucky with the tapes exclusion as the Norwegian twitched on his inside but he never made a gate all night and ought to start at 3 on Saturday. Hopefully they will find some dirt by then! Putting to one side who scored what I'm surprised GB didn't swap round each heat to give them all four rides as an audition for Saturday, thought thats what they'd do.

Where can I watch tomorrow's meeting please?