PHILIPRISING

BECAUSE people love going to and staying in Prague.

LET'S not get ahead of ourselves ... we still don't know whether he will accept an invitation.

RATHER have him sooner ... qualifiers always a minefield, an engine failure, fall caused by another rider. I'd wager a bet than if you asked 1000 people whether they would like to see Emil get a wild card the vast majority would say yes.

BUT why should someone on the MC, Chris van Straaten for example, try and help Poole who are Wolverhampton's opponents in the play-offs. That doesn't make sense.

RE Kelvin's coaching role ... think he has been a little disappointed at the attitude of some riders. Don't really want to listen, know it all, been there, done it but without the tee shirt.

I'M the last person to ask about speedway's rulebook, but ... It's obviously legal if that's what MC decided on. As long as Lindback's average is below Andersen's then it's perfectly legal because there's a seven day window before the play off starts - only restriction is rider could not have ridden for another UK club this season. Poole enquired of the BSPA to provide an assessed average for Lindback. They came back with 7.00. And that was sanctioned by their own MC. It would be nice, of course, were the BSPA transparent and revealed how they came to that assessment but the fact that they haven't is hardly the fault of Poole and certainly doesn't, in my humble view, make them "cheating scumbags." ​If other tracks were unhappy with the assessment they could have appealed to the SCB for clarification.

SPEEDSPORT are only involved with temporary tracks.

CARDIFF date announced tomorrow ...

VERY true but he has won this year.

YOU can bring a horse to water but you cannot make it drink. There was a huge security staff but sadly they weren't up to the job when push came to shove. The lack of tyres was caused by the local Mitas dealer not making the necessary arrangements. The best laid plans, etc, etc. Park pitch? The riders had no real problems with the track, especially after such a long hot day. It only got tricky when the water tanker driver suddenly decided that he was enjoying himself so much that he would do a few extra laps despite the protestations of Phil Morris, who nearly got mowed down trying to stop him!

AND injuries and an acute financial situation caused by a Polish club.

UNLIKELY to be Hampel with four Poles in already. And, personally, if Pawlicki was to drop outside the top eight I'd put him back. Look to the future. Jarek is a lovely guy but frankly has had his time and does he really get the pulses racing like his young compatriots?

WELCOME him back with open arms ...

AGREE that NP would be a shoe-in for a wild card. Probably NKI too. Think the consensus is a hope that Lindback holds onto his top eight place and Lindgren doesn't make the top eight. No great desire to see Bjerre back. Some rumours, unconfirmed of course, that Emil and more importantly his 'team' are seriously considering a return. How great would that be.

SPENT most of the weekend with Kelvin, who is a hero in Germany, and Nigel P. Lots of laughs. Also had a first every opportunity to see a film of one of Kelvin's four wins on the 'big' track where his dad Martin also won in 1961 I believe. Boy, you had to have balls to do that on a speedway bike, albeit a modified one to take into account the four righthand corners. Even Briggo, who was in our hotel and likes to give Kelvin plenty of stick, grudgingly admitted his admiration for his Teterow achievements. HAVE passed on your comments to BSI ...

NO doubt we would have got lost, literally, without our sat-nav, although we did find the car park okay. There were, obviously, many things that weren't quite right but tracks like this when staging an event the magnitude of a SGP for the first time, rarely tick all the boxes. Hopefully, if they get a second chance, and take note of the BSI post-mortem, which I'm sure they will, things will improve. What I do know is that they put in a huge effect, the pits were first class, new dressing rooms were built, plenty of places to get food and drink. Years ago, have attended many meetings in Germany with the likes of Briggs and Ivan, in 'fields' like this I thought its was a fun weekend. Even found some good places to eat in Teterow having previously been told there weren't any.

ACTUALLY they were. It was a BSI event

TERENZANO from day one ... terrible track, riders hated it, no crowd ... said so at the time

55,000 in Warsaw, a sell-out even with an additional 2,000 standing places in Gorzow and a sell-out in Torun ... SGP not doing that bad.

FAR better track than Terezano. Not an embarrassment at all. Not all 11 rounds can be in mega stadiums, an eclectic mix is great for the series. I was only there as a spectator and had a great time. THAT was true but by the end of a long, very hot day and countless beers it was probably inevitable. No re;l harm done and the stewarding (or lack of it) is an issue that will be addressed should the series return there in 2017.

ARE there any cheaper rooms? Had expected an announcement today but it cannot be far away.

YOU are twisting the facts to suit your ill-informed opinions. Paul Bellamy only changed roles last year when he took over as Managing Director of Rallycross, When IMG acquired the rights to rallycross an in-house lawyer (Martin, cannot remember his surname) took the reins under the stewardship of Rob Armstrong, in overall charge of motorsport, and with some help from Paul. When Martin, a top class rugby player, left to run the Pro-12 series, and with Torben Olsen established as Paul's no 2 it was decided to move Paul to rallycross and promote Torben who might otherwise have moved elsewhere. Nothing to do with Gelsenkirchen. Nicola Sands felt that she needed a change after 15 years and to get a normal life after years of working very long hours and being away from home and her husband so often. She was head-hunted by Pro-12 rugby and took up their offer. Any other changes at BSI Speedway were simply staff churn. Two of the commercial managers actually went to Manchester United, one is now with the PGA of America (golf) and the other has set up his own thriving business. Event managers come and go because by and large they cannot move up the chain. Nothing sinister here at all and certainly nothing to do with Gelsenkirchen. Or, indeed, Warsaw. The problems there were well documented at the time and, like Warsaw last year, simply came down to the fact that the material used for the track was too wet when laid and inside a cold stadium and on a concrete base could not be dried sufficiently to allow the meeting to go ahead. Any conspiracy theories that the meeting was never going to take place are pure poppy cock.

HAD better options including Teterow... WHAT movement of staff? SORRY Russ but you are wrong. Next time we have a pint I will give you chapter and verse.

YOU obviously know Manchester better than me but ... 6,000. That's a lot of people who don't usually attend speedway.

IRONICALLY the stadium in Riga which was used for the ill-fated SGP there stages an IMG Rallycross event this weekend with the speedway circuit being used as the fanzone.