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Riders aren't allowed to compete in other meetings between SWC matches, hence Simon Stead at Sheffield on Monday but not allowed to ride, I assume it's the same for managers.

Apparently, Uncle Len doesn't allow collections for anything except the Ben Fund!!

To me speedway is speedway, no matter if it's E.L, P.L. N.L Swedish, G.P. or what ever and I will watch as much as I can!!

I can remember Schrammy guesting for Mildenhall in their no point season, one of the Mildenhall riders had an e/f as crossed the line on the 3rd lap in a 3 rider race, so started to push for the point, Schrammy came hurtling out of the pits, Kevlars tied round his waist and ran the whole lap encouraging the unfortunate rider all the way. A true 100% rider, wish Schrammy all the best in his retirement.

On Thursday night at Redcar, Ben Barker racked over his gate in the interval, the ref came down to warn him, so I'm guessing it's against the rules!!

I think, (could be wrong), once the team is declared, it would be up to the discression of the opposing management to allow a change!!

Give the lad a chance, hasn't even turned a wheel yet and some are judging already!

Yup totally agree with you, especially what happened to Anders. Hope he makes a full recovery BTW, and I hope Josh isn't injured.

I think 'wiped out' is a bit of an exaggeration, there was very little contact (if any) and Hall went down very easily! Having said that Auty is reckless and some times maybe a rider needs to, 'have a word' with him, shall we say, but this in no way justifies Hall kicking him as he lay on the track injured!!

To be fair in this instance, if Ryan Douglas hadn't ran over a black cat and broken several mirrors, I think he would have more than covered for Anders. I don't think I've seen a rider so out of luck than Ryan last night. With the Bears all pulling together, I don't think a full Scunny team would have changed the result much.

Seems the B.S.P.A. don't have the monopoly on stupid ideas. From the start of the 2014 season, the final round of the Formula one GPs will score double points, meaning the winner of the final round will score 50 points!!!! wonder if they'll wear black and white.

Glad to hear you're on good terms with the Redcar promotion,hope you will be able to get to the STMP again!

If Kus does come back, (if I understand the rolling averages, and I'm not certain I do) then Mattys' average should fall quite a lot as the season goes on due to his low scores this season.

It's sad to see Matty struggling like he has this season. I've been watching dvds of last season, Matty was awesome. weather he stayed a season to long , or the death of his friend in Argentina had a bigger effect on him admitted, I don't know, but he has still the potential to be a solid scorer in the Premier League, may be a change of track would do him good next season, if he returns.

As I said before Leicester seem to think Redcar wouldn't have qualified against Rye House, I think they would have easily qualified. It was Edinburgh fielded an illegal team and we still beat them, when the r/r points were taken off then we got the extra point. Rules is rules, we've been on the wrong end of rules plenty of times, one just has to live with it.

Every body is assuming that Redcar would have been beaten at Rye by more than 23 points, and Leicester would have gone through, I think Redcar would have still qualified.

Redcar 6th Leicester 7th shows how crap they are!

I do believe you're right White Knight!

As the Lions have had one more match than the bears they have had the opportunity to score 3 or 4 points more!

A rule change I would like is, that after the green light comes on then the pit gate should be "closed" so after an unsatisfactory then riders go straight back to the tapes. To much time is wasted with riders going back to the pits, and another 2 minutes is allowed.

After last nights dismal display by Redcar, then Leicester are definitely favourites to take the 6th place.

Shocking performance by the Bears, yes Dyer and Skidmore were a little better than the rest, but a top score of 9, and only 5 heat wins between the team is very poor for a top of the table, play off chasing team. The track once again looked very good, even when it was getting wet, the big bump going into the 1st bend has gone and the track looked smooth. It seems the better the track the worse we ride it.

I can remember John Louis when he at Cleveland Park, Middlesbrough, He went through the match unbeaten,( I think he broke the track record), defended the Silver Helmet, broke the 3 lap track record, and won the second half, an awesome display, I don't remember any other rider dominating a meeting as he did that night.

Much prefer the Eurosport commentary to the shouty Sky coverage. I think Scotty does a much better job than Tattum who is out of touch. The difference between Sky and Eurosport is that Sky take their own cameras and crew, and Eurosport pick up the feed and add their own commentary. As to which is best overall, I'm just pleased to have speedway on tv.

Can't agree about the track, the bumps going into the 1st bend are getting worse, both wheels lifting, not good. I arrived at the track at 6-45, it was so dry dust was blowing off it. About 7 o clock, the "track man" watered the track going so far, then turning round leaving a big puddle about on the 30 yard mark. A 20 minute water is no where near enough when the track was as dry as it was (Glyn would start to water on the Wednesday weather dependent). Once the blue groove appeared it was over as racing track with only one line. Arron and Ossty must have been so frustrated not being able to make progress. As for the meeting, to win by 10 and yet come away so disappointed, and if rumours about the extra tyre is true then Redcar speedway is rapidly descending in to farce. Well done to Scunny for the fight back, and giving themselves a good chance of making the next round.