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Don't see the problem personally as long as the last rider is named before Kent's first fixture.

Good stuff Lewi Kerr!

Any news on the young lad who crashed in heat 4 at Lynn last night? Looked nasty.

While I see your point I think taking the odd guest booking here and there when it suits him is a bit different to what he was referring to in the winter. For me when riders moan about too many meetings (and not all do) its when they have a schedule of 10-12 meetings in a fortnight or whatever across the three leagues and GP's. If Puk was riding in Poland today, Sweden Tuesday, Lynn Wednesday and had a GP on Saturday I bet he'd have turned tomorrow night at Wolves down flat.

Useless and overrated Proctor may be, but he should be scoring more than that at PL level considering his EL average. Makes you wonder about him and Wells, both should be much better in this league.

Young Bates has looked an excellent prospect when I've seen him but has a touch of the 2008 Kozza about him, needs to calm down a bit and learn that to score points you need to stay on the bike. Hope he's ok.

Could this be the year Somerset turn a great looking side into league title winners? They appear the stand out side to me. Worth noting that riders like Ellis, Kerr, Jacobs etc will score much better IMO once the NL season starts and they are riding regularly and winning races.

No disrespect to anyone at all but Redcar seems like Ipswich, places where riders go to underachieve. Both always seem to track good sides on paper but over the last couple of seasons have really failed to produce.

I expect he'll ride for the highest bidder in the EL, he'll be able to name his price.

I think its about time I got myself along to Leicester to see what its really like. Have been meaning to visit since it opened but haven't got round to it. My guess is that the racing isn't great but not half as bad as some on here make out.

Several EL clubs including my own sell replica shirts. Uniform bike covers are also creeping in to the EL and I think that rider numbers and helmet colours are sufficient for identifying riders.

Great to see another PL club using team suits. For me they should be compulsory as they look far more professional than random kevlars with race jackets.

He has shown it in the first round, if he can do so over twelve then he'll have proved people wrong and I for one will be delighted. I have him down as fifteenth going by my pre season prediction. Not because I think he is crap but because I struggle to name one rider in the field who looks weaker than him over twelve rounds. Who do you think will finish below him? Just to re-iterate I'll be over the moon if he proves me wrong. If he can replicate yesterday across the whole series he'll finish top eight and that would be an incredible achievement.

Why shouldn't they? Just like with the EL, somebody will finish top and somebody bottom, and while there's no speedway happening people on here like to pass the time and have a bit of fun by predicting who might finish in those positions. I really don't get why you take predictions so personally. And if you really have to take the mickey out of what people have predicted, at least wait until the end of the season when everything has been decided!

Tai was excellent but its a little early for 'I told you so' or rubbishing people's predictions. With such a strong field I'd be keeping quiet for a few rounds yet. Very much hope he can maintain that standard though.

Elvin King has always lived in a parallel speedway universe

A disappointing start to the GP season for me. Three decent races and twenty processions. Gate 1 ridiculously better than the rest. Same old faces getting to the final. Track far to slick. Referee getting the two decision he had to make wrong (although I admit that neither was clear cut). Good start for Woffinden though, hopefully he can build on that. Thought the commentary team were very good, and I'll know next time that HD is channel 410 and not 412

Great photos Jessie!

Lol.

Personally I thought the second half the other night provided the five worst races of the night. I don't think second halves would work nowadays with riders not interested in hanging around any longer than they need to and the nominated race needs to be kept IMO. Would be great if speedway was still like 'the good old days' but its not unfortunately.

How does widening a track make it worse? Genuine question.

If you mean the standard has got lower then its difficult to argue. However if you mean entertainment wise then I don't agree.

You can't blame them for pulling out of that one though to be fair

Agree about the mechanical gremlins but injuries have also played a big part (particularly in 2011) plus the Young Stars higgledy piggledy fixture list last year