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And can also result in clubs getting lower crowds as they run more home meetings to cram them all in... Fans then cherry pick which to attend.. Particularly on the dark, damp, colder evenings.. Eg Workington suffered by being successful and having to run so many in one month due to losing some Friday fixtures.. Ironically, not always weather related..! As we often say so much of the issues of the sport is simply down to its own signed off operating model.. Which, with just a modicum of common sense and business acumen, could be resolved overnight..

I often feel that the Disney channel would be a quite appropriate place to show it too...

Spot on.... Use every week of the summer momths possible to run the leagues and then have a cup competition in October if they need to pad out the meetings to give the riders enough races to earn money.. Or, if that means too many meetings for the great many riders who DU during the summer months, at least run the top league to its conclusion in September so the 'flagship league' gets its best crowds and publicity, and leave the 2nd Div to run in October as now... "Let's hope the weather is ok" shouldn't be the most often used comment when discussing the play off finals...

Perish the thought...

On the same night at the same meeting....?

Correct... If Mountain does ok, one of the other 3 might want to use him later in the play offs...

You can see the logic.. Keeps the season going for those fifth, six, seventh and eighth and keeps their fans interested.. Within a match or two you could be in the play offs or relegated... Also, isnt the plan to extend the top league to ten teams? Maybe it will be done the season after? Meaning the seventh and eighth teams dont "coast" knowing no relegation rides on it... And obviously, the play offs bring big crowds, and I presume, very good viewing figures..

And then some seem surprised when many don't take it seriously, and find other things to do...

His average should be 2.56 I believe.... Based on multiplying his Div One average by his Div Two average, and then adding in his non existent RS average.... You then divide this total by the hypotenuse of a Dairylea Triangle (Reduced Fat).... Or, if the equation is worked out on a day that isnt a fixed race day for his Div One team, then a supermarket own label cheese triangle can be used.... Or a piece from a 600g bar of Toblerone if one is to hand. .. (Not a white Toblerone though, only a dark chocolate one).....

I wouldnt say its just to get one over the Aces in particular... It's just the usual 'make it up as you go along' nonsense... All the fans (that are still left), should be used to it by now..

I think the bike got caught UNDER him...

The phrase "due to unforeseen circumstances" is one that you do fear could raise its ugly head... As could "we did try"...... Hopefully GI will come through....

Smederna will be well pleased with that end to the meeting.. Could have been all over if Hts 14 and 15 had gone against them...

An achievement on a par with running out of petrol three miles from your home, whilst someone else runs out four miles from theirs...

There is a quite significant saving if what you read on the Newcastle and Eastbourne threads are accurate re payment.. With Eastbourne paying "too much" for the 2nd Division according to other promoters.. Probably far too simplistic, but maybe the conversion rate they use for averages is also linked in some way to points money conversion too? ie it is "easier" to earn more in the 2nd Division so you get less per point? I would also think that the 2nd Division teams could drive a harder bargain too as so many of the same (decent), standards riders will be relying on that second job due to very limited overseas opportunities... And. Let's be honest, given the crowd numbers the sport has, it shows hardly anyone really cares who wins either league title anyway so you might as well be "successful" for less.. Poole's crowds from what I have seen and heard are at the top end of the scale of any club in the UK, but wouldn't I would suggest get another 500 or so through the door if top of Div One rather than top of Div Two... And of course from an entertainment perspective you get to see virtually all of the best riders riding in the UK each week just like the Div One fans do.. I would also suggest that a few Div 2 teams should have taken the same decision and dropped down to Div 3 in a similar fashion, although to be fair, the Div 3 standard was messed about with which maybe dissuaded them from doing so.. 1000% the correct business decision for Poole, but not surprising as over the years they have made many good busines decisions... One of the sports major issues is the way some run it as a "money no object" hobby bringing salary inflation into it.. If all had to run it as a pure business to make themselves money to live, then I am sure many decisions made collectively by those who run it would be a lot different.. And the sport would be in a much healthier position because of it..

Let's hope the racing improves in the next three meetings.. And that we get the best two race tracks on show in the final...

I was expecting him to do a rendition of YMCA....

Headaches, fever, high temperature, neck pain, a dry constant cough... And moving early at the start of a Speedway race... All Covid symptoms....

Nigel gutted...

"What an atmosphere".....

Phew.... Glad Hans managed to get up after that.... The speed he slid off you feared the worst...

Not quite as good as the Polish play offs so far is it?...

I hope it's not another "five year plan".... If all the "five year plans" that this sport has had in the UK had ever been implemented.... The sport would be celebrating its bicentenary....

Were they South African..?

They had the European Champion. Who is a GP rider next year.. And sport often isnt "fair"... That's the premise behind it that makes it watchable... Can an underdog upset the favourite..? eg was it 'fair' that Anthony Joshua was several stone heavier, and a good few inches taller, than his opponent on Saturday? Didnt stop Usyk taking him apart did it? And the Polish RR system can cover a top rider quite adequately... You win or lose as a team.. Not a hybrid, contrived, "for one night only", septet... Because if you allow that... Not many will be interested in watching it, televising it, and sponsoring it...