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I hate to think just WHERE on his body he is getting an extra tattoo. All the visible areas seem to have been well covered already. Let's hope he doesn't 'get it out' on the TV on Saturday to show everyone. That will need one hell of an on-screen apology. But let's all remember to respect him in every choice he makes. That is the current mantra.

I'd worry what they put in that Monster Muck he drinks. He seemed like a hyperactive six year old for most of the time. Lets hope it's just Tartrazine. Or a sugar rush.

The track seems to look good. But, my god. we are going to have to step it up a notch on Saturday to keep up with this lot! http://www.lequipe.fr/Football/Actualites/Le-vibrant-hymne-gallois-a-cardiff/703816

Well, 9 years, older.So a fair bit really. You've got to admit it is just a bit cringeworthy though. The way he does it. Like Dad-dancing at a pool party to Little Mix. And still believing that the youngsters are laughing with him. Not at him. .

Trouble is. You can change the cabin crew all you like. But if the problem is really the Pilot ... what do you do?

Is it that there is some sort of strainge psycological condition that results in only witless wonders apply to be a referee. Or is it trained into them after they get the job?

You are to be commended on your droll sense of humour.

Far from encouraging, I found it depressing and really rather embarrassing. The titular head of the sport in this country openly admits to the grotesque failings of the organisation he has been a member of for almost 20 years. And can offer no solution whatsoever. The best he can come up with is that the referees have to sort it out for him. As if it a proven fact that, as a group, they represent the intelligencia of modern Speedway! Really? The entire article revolves around a lament that neither he nor any other member of the association had the brainpower to foresee the bizarre nature of their plans for team formation and how they would develop. Thick as mince.

Poor guy was sure in a rush. He's forgotten his shirt and has gone to work in his vest. .

What an odious little man you are.

FALLING out of the Ugly Tree, that just cannot be helped. Throwing yourself off the highest branch deliberately. Climbing back up and doing it time and again. That is bonkers.

Over 750 people actually 'Like' what they see in this photo. https://www.instagram.com/p/BEt_dzwA5gv/ Will some someone please stop the world and let me off?

Over 20 years of Gp racing on TV. And for the first time we have a good presenter. Perhaps the novel idea of choosing someone who actualy knows something about Speedway may have something to do with it?

.You are now being anti-semantic. You should be suspended. .

Sometimes it would be more helpful to the BV promotion if you did NOT post all. Rather than post this sort of defensive bilge. You are making them look even more pathetic than they are managing on their own.

'Pulling out all the stops' ?? Just stopping Ermolenko from commentating AT ALL. THAT would show true commitment to the production. How does this guy keep getting work?

As I said in a previous post, I am saddened by this move on Tai's part. I also have to say how uncomfortable I am with his ebay auctioning of medals. It is entirely his decision of course. And BWitcher may be right in his thinking that ANYTHING that moves him closer to a third World Championship is acceptable. I'm just not so sure at all. But, among others, selling his Garry Stead Benefit medal for profit. Just seems grossly misjudged. No doubt Pearson will come out with a Press Release to offer absolution.

Got to admit how terribly disappointed I feel by this. I'm not going to jump on the Tai-bashing bandwaggon. I have been mightily impressed by the guy over the last few seasons. Obviously on the track but also by how he handled himself off-track as well. Odd, for me, but I do feel just a little 'let down' by this though.. Which is a pity. But no more.

I've checked with Wolverhampton and they confirm it is OFF. Belle Vue have also said it is off but you may want to take that with a pinch of salt.

Phil, is there no small part of you now that is getting just a little bit fed up with the BV promotion themselves. Just an infinitesimally small part of your mind that is losing just a little bit of faith in their current performance. Or are you just as rock solid, really? Surely we have reached the point when even you will lose it with them soon.

Absolutely.The Edinburgh story could have just been a bad mistake. But the Woverhampton paper seems to quoting CVS ... that seems a whole lot different. And will surely have a big impact on travelling support. ?? something else for BV to get legal advice on ?? http://www.expressandstar.com/sport/other-sport/speedway/2016/03/23/wolves-speedway-trip-again-called-off/

.I genuinely do not doubt a single word you say. And I am equally genuinely grateful to you that my tongue-in-cheek provocation results in such a measured and reasonable explanation of more detail. It just does lead me to reiterate how beneficial it would be, all round, if this sort of rational understanding was being offered from the official sources rather than by yourself. A statement written in the right manner, as you have just done, would have been so much better if it carried Mr Gordon's own name.

Philip Rising's post above is no doubt a reasonable view of where we stand. And there is no doubt that rather than being a guest of the management his skills would have been much better employed actually handing the PR side for DG and CM. They need someone in that department desparately. The single fact that I am most surprised about is that revealed about the track. We now learn that all the meticulous plans going back years had at the heart this rather bizarre element. That the Speedway track was going to be totally constructed and prepared for opening night by contractors who have nothing to do with a Speedway at all. An English international of vast experience is a promoter and an SCB track inspector is the usual track curator. But they were NEVER going to lay the track. At least in Warsaw the track only went wrong after a genuine expert had tried his best to get it right. Here is was being done by Paddy Murphy and his gang. We were really very lucky that they got so much of it right, weren't we?

Er, yes, deliberately. I thought it apt Whoosh!

Only a Hiccough (surely) ... but a big one. Pocking Hell ! What an understatement.