mikebv

Different tyres? Gate and Go seems to be the mantra at KL, so maybe its down to the changes of tyre over the years?

Obviously I know nothing about KL so the points you make about the club I will take at face value, especially given the knowledge you have shown in the past around KL and its past history, and opportunities that it seldom seems to take.. However the two points I really picked up on were the one about Jonathan Chapman and the one about "learning from the wrong people"... Chapman was one of those "fresh ideas" promoters that, it appears, dont ever seem in favour. I presume due to the "We 'can't (don't want to), do it that way" knock back from the majority.. And as for "learning from the wrong people". That is a clear issue with the sport as there is rarely a "gold standard" to look at and aspire to be.. It is noticeable that Poole seem to be doing "very well" even after their change of promoter.. Delivering a business model to suit their needs.. "Learning from the right person" in this instance maybe?.

Crackerjack with a beautiful theft there...

"It's too noisy".... "An' them young 'uns blowin' them bloody things are stood where I always stand"... "I used to love watching Bettsy from there"... "I'm not comin' again."...

Great news for the sport... The lineal World Champ... Five tracks have GP level riders now so should mean decent crowds when they visit, and hopefully, decent hone crowds too, to help justify the outlay.. The Ipswich/KL matches in particular should be brilliant to watch and generate fantastic crowds.. Let's just hope they dont get arranged for a Thursday that Poland take up their option on, meaning any of the 3 are missing... Me and my lad will definitely go to the NSS to watch him, so that is around fifty quid they wouldnt have got normally, and I am sure plenty more will go that night specifically too.. Well Done KL... All we need know is Peterborough to sign Bartek, Magic, or Woffy...

Just follow the way Poland does it.. Riders all ready as soon as the previous race finishes.. They then get authorised to enter the track and know that in two minutes the tapes are going up.. Not really sure why it seems so difficult over here given so many are exactly the same riders who follow the Polish system every week with no issues.. I see Phil Morris has introduced having riders ready into TG meetings, presume that is when the 2 mins are put on ie as they leave the pits? Riders also start in a straight line in Poland, rather than "at all angles" as often happens over here.. Maybe that also helps with less first bend incidents which we seem to get more of over here too, as riders clash..

I've changed the channel to BBC1, and it's much more watchable...

Memo to the Aces... Ride the inside.... Not the outside... The inside... Have you never rode there before? Have you never seen racing from there before?

They were trying to keep Dan in view..... He doesnt ride kerbs well.. You are right though.. The production is rubbish...

Great team riding from Wright..

Have Eurosport forgot?

Shush............

Not sure if Mark Lemon or any of the Aces team come on here.. However, just in case they do.. Dont go wide on bend two.. Instead.. Go into bend one mid track and lock up sharpley... Then hit the apex of bend two, hugging the white line.. That way, no Wolves rider can pass under you... (Don't let anyone know I told you though as it is a big secret).....

And no Blodurn...

Welcome to Lublin... Bartek tonight is riding in an FIM meeting which was scheduled eons ago, but, instead of not arranging our meeting knowing he was missing, we have instead got Tai "Woffy" Woffinden from Wroclaw riding for us... Let's give Tai a big Lublin welcome... Next week Bartek is off to Venice for a few days so Jason Doyle will be riding for us instead on that night...

Because they are away so their crowd won't be impacted? And/Or, because the league doesn't really matter anyway so just have any septet there representing you..? UK Speedway should be in the dictionary as the perfect definition of irony.. It only "doesn't really matter anyway" due to things like this being allowed to happen, which means that it then "doesn't really matter anyway"...

Holder and Kolodziej maybe? And obviously Sayfutdinov and Laguta would strengthen it considerably, so let's hope that they are back next year, being given permanent wild cards if needed..

Was it a gate that was broken?

Poland have huge crowds, full of passionate fans, making loads of noise, with a bona fide justified emotional attachment to their team.. All willing their team on to try and win a competition that has all the world class competitors, kudos, credibility, a wider public awareness through large media coverage, and big financial rewards... Over here, we measure the entertainment level of the meeting as the key determinant of whether it was a "good night out" or not, because there is pretty much nothing else to go on, given none of the above descriptions apply to a UK domestic meeting..

KK definitely didn't want to get involved then...

Wroclaw too good... That top five cannot be far off the best ever assembled...

Cracking race... Lebedev is one of those riders who always keeps a race interesting...

Was Ht14 a metaphorical kick in the bollox for Pedersen and Jakobsen from their Team Manager?

If I was them, I would avoid Thursday nights like the plague.. Poland will cause havoc at any given moment, and meeting after meeting will have riders missing.. BSN, and the Speedeay Star, to a fair old job considering the infrastructure of the sport that they have to deal with...

Indeed... I believe his leg has almost fully grown back already...