mikebv

"If they are wearing my teams' colours, I will support them"...

You have joined a long, long list of fans who still love watching the sport, and still follow it closely, but attend UK speedway infrequently..... This year I have attended the PCMM and the SON Final.. "Made Up Speedway"? I, (like so many others), will give it a miss...

It does pretty much render the whole season a nonsense doesn't it...? As soon as four teams are so far in front, then simply have the play offs... To be fair though, most matches have some kind of contrived bollox to get us to the end of the season don't they? Therefore, the ending just reflects what has gone before..

In Riga his kevlars will say... "I hate Phil Morris"....

Cannot be arsed working it out... But... Head to Head, I wonder what it would have looked like as a mini league of four? Maybe using that system would have added a modicum of integrity based on actual results? Rather than the total contrived bollox we have ended up with...

Enjoyed that, some great racing... Always seems to be a decent GP when Vaculik wins it.. Robert must be gutted as he blew it before the race started.. Bartek showing some strain....?

Too bad, how sad, what a shame...

Praise Dee Lord... Polish NHS..... Best in the world...

It was clear Dan was under power because he got hit...😁

Phil'll fix it! Can he fix it? Yes he can! Majic and Freddie, and Bartosz too... Daniel and Robert, join the crew.. All of the gang, having great fun, working together, to get the job done.. Phil'll fix it... Etc etc etc...

Ummmm. Errrrrrr... I think you will find one of them was coming on strong, and it was a smashing race .. With also one of them hoping to bounce back in their next race ..

Dan has two distinct styles... Clear track? He fly's... In traffic he hesitates, and closes the throttle.... Hasn't got that "edge" needed to be World Champ, but can also be great to watch....

Naughty....,.. Anyway, nothing to fix....

"Please share it on your socials" .. "Bring a friend".... Edit. (Oh and if applicable)... "Free Car Parking"

Is that copy and paste for almost EVERY thread. 😁

Well Done Leicester... Top of the League... I have contacted Bet365 to pay my money out.....😁

Kelvin was right!!!!!!😁

The sport is still as Mickey Mouse as it ever was.. Maybe even more with the bans/not bans/bans/not bans... Riders riding in semi finals for one team, and the final for another, still exists, just like last year.. Even Czech league meetings now take priority due to giving up Thursdays as a priority night.. What a great idea that has turned out to be!? "You can use our riders if you let us have priority on Thursdays".. And then the riders don't turn up!!! With the whole shebang being built around the agenda of the riders not the agenda of the paying spectator. "We open very infrequently due to having to wait for our employees to tell us when they can work" (Not a great business plan is it?).. The honest news no one seems to want to hear is that UK Speedway, in its current team format, and using it's ludicrous operating model, simply cannot work. As it single handedly fails to engage enough people to believe that the product is a genuine sporting competition, that provides any real kudos in winning... There is fundamentally zero point investing emotionally into a team sport when it is nothing more than a random, ad-hoc collection of riders, who will invariably be a different set of riders "representing you" the next time you set foot in the stadium.. What the sport needs is a root and branch review, overhaul and reset. With a well planned and marketed major relaunch .. Just like they should have done during the COVID break.. Phil Morris alone cannot sort out the amount of nonsense that pervades..

100%.. Which is why I do find it amusing when fans berate riders who miss UK meetings but keep riding abroad.. "Taking the pee out of UK speedway and its fans" "No wonder Speedway over here isnt taken seriously" are often the refrains... I think they need to look a bit closer to "home" to see the real reasons why the sport is where it is... Another often used quote is.. "The promoters don't help themselves from time to time by their decisions".. I disagree.. They 100% help themselves by their decisions... It is the overall sport itself they often don't help by them...

It just wouldn't be the same without Bomber riding for one team in a semi, and another in a final now would it? Neither of them being his own obviously, as that would be crazy...

All teams would have him I would think...

Shush!!!!!

6.5 per rider... Would make it difficult for Ipswich/Anyone to go with a powerful top two.. Two nine pointers would need to be balanced with two four pointers... Add a RS and that would be a very long tail... 39 points would suggest one big hitter per team, with each club being able to get one...

Lublin permitting...

Could they just not rearrange the Cup Final? Maybe do a double header with the Jubilee Cup...?😜