PHILIPRISING

...days ago. Bit naughty that it wasn't announced to the punters earlier.

STICK to lifts Andy and leave the puns to the professionals!

FORMER World Champion Bruce Penhall will be at Torun ... courtesy of Monster Energy.

CAN they still accommodate Chris Holder?

VIC Wakeling, a former newspaper journalist, was much more sympathetic towards speedway than the current regime.

AT the end of the day the decision rests with Barney Francis, Head of Sport at Sky. So far he has not even been prepared to even talk or listen to anything Terry Russell has to say. Not a good sign. And to those detractors of TR ... if I ever needed anyone to negotiate a deal for me Terry would be at the head of the queue. Sharp as a tack and lets not forget it is in his interests as much as British speedway as a whole to secure a TV deal. ALSO being suggested that Sky Sports are garnering their financial loins in preparation of a BT onslaught on their (soccer) Champions League rights...

NO where better to stay than Lake Garda...

MY info is that Tai won't be riding anyway before Torun...

AT least I didn't say 100 per cent. Things have changed very recently. Lonigo was on the calendar. Now its not. No strategy required.

WHICH was bigger than that in Gorican for the SEC. But we have consistently questioned having a GP in Italy. Not in any way due to SS but there won't be one in Italy next year.

PROBABLY two in Denmark ... Copenhagen and Vojens. DMU celebrate their 100th anniversary in 2014 and are very keen to mount their celebrations around a GP in their national stadium and their capital city.

ONLY a guess can could be May 31...

IF I was Tai I wouldn't!

ALWAYS a risk ... Sayfutdinov, Gollob, etc

YOU wrote "concurring with my opinion" not me. Anyway, we are going round in circles.

EXACTLY ... your opinion. At last we agree.

TWO Danish channels show the SGP, one live with Tommy Knudsen part of the commentary team, and another with highlights later. Poles have their own commentators and interviewers at each SGP. Same with Swedes.

OKAY, what is the evidence is staring me in the face? And if I were you I would be very careful in the words you use. I very much doubt that you have any 'evidence' that would stand up in any court of law or arbitration panel. You are just voicing your opinion not facts. You have your theories but not facts. I am the last person to deny that the way British speedway is being governed is not detrimental to the sport and affects me personally in my capacity as Managing Editor of Speedway Star. Your last paragraph is spot on. You generalise when you say I am taking a swipe at the fans. The vast majority of speedway fans have nothing to do with the bsf, let alone contribute to it. It is only your opinion that I am falsely saying that some are guilty of conspiracy theories and, yes, I am aware when some comments made here are factually incorrect because I am privvy to information that others are not.

NOT at all. There is no real EVIDENCE of a conspiracy re BV versus Poole but said (or at least meant to) that the way things paned out helped give credence to those who believe there was. What I actually wrote was: It was all too much for the conspiracy theorists who believe that Poole boss Matt Ford has the ability to manipulate any situation to his own advantage. Of course, most of the comments (regarding BV v Poole) on the various social media outlets, including the BSF, are utter nonsense. That was hardly a futile attack on the sports fans. However, I do think that there are posters on here who have their own agendas rather than just opinions and sometimes pre-judge many things that go on according to their own prejudices without any evidence to support their theories. I stand by that. Matt Ford is a classic example. By many he is the Darth Vader of speedway and no matter what he does their judgement of him is coloured by that assessment. And of course this is why the bsf (wrongly in my view) is so reviled by so many. I would never write anything on here that I wouldn't do so in Speedway Star or any publication for that matter. But I do read posts that if they appeared in print would probably be the subject of legal action. I prefer to view the bsf as, on balance, a force for good but I don't kid myself that that is always the case. When posts become more than personal opinions and contain statements that are factually incorrect the bsf like Twitter, Facebook and so can do more harm than good. But that's just my opinion...

NOT wise at all in my opinion. Could throw away the World title and never get that close again. I appreciate that right now his injury probably isn't much worse than it has been since Cardiff but to take such a risk seems foolhardy at best.

GOOD points Rob although we need to recognise that the production costs for a full season's coverage of the Elite League would appear to be prohibitive. One TV exec in Stockholm said bluntly: "Why would you pay all that money to cover events at sparsely populated stadiums, on poorly prepared tracks, at the whim of the weather and between teams that never seem to be at full strength?" Tough to argue with that which is why, personally, I can see merit in the idea of one channel going in hard at the end of the season and covering the play-offs in Britain, Poland and Sweden. They might even be persuaded to do an odd meeting (British Final perhaps) along the way especially if BSI were to throw in the Cardiff wild card for the highest placed rider other than Tai.

IT is the question no one (as yet) appears willing or able to answer...

FARCE is about right. But I wasn't there. Had a chat with Kelvin Tatum about it and his view was that the meeting should never have started. Putting down sawdust and more material on an already saturated track only made matters worse in his opinion. I have no concrete evidence there was any conspiracy but the fact that the meeting was conveniently called off when Poole were the requisite seven points ahead could only had fuel to the argument that there was. Afraid that the governance of speedway in general (look at Poland last weekend) these days is pretty poor and undoubtedly one reason why TV companies aren't falling over themselves to cover a full season of domestic speedway in the UK.

THANKS

DON'T know what the delay is ... was told Miedzinski would be the wild card some time ago