WembleyLion

Like you I am no fan of Auty but it seems to me that Tungate clearly wished to make his displeasure known although I doubt he had intended the consequences that ensued. Had he immediately turned around to check on Auty I think more people might have been willing to give him the benefit of doubt. However, it's far from the worst of things I have seen riders do to each other on and off track.

I thought it was announced Adam was penalised for delaying the start - I do not recall hearing touch touching being mentioned but the P.A system where I stood was a bit temperamental so I may have missed it!

Oh dear usual problems it seems. Whenever is something going to be done to give fans the opportunity to purchase tickets for Polish GP's without all this aggravation.

Scunthorpe is a great track and has done so much for British Speedway in giving young riders opportunities especially in its early days. I really hope they can find a way through. As Eastbourne and Birmingham have found maybe the NL is more sustainable with the advantage of home grown riders (who actually turn up every meeting) as opposed to ailing leagues reliant on expensive journeymen!

Thanks Ghostie, iris and r & r. I'll certainly check out some of those Polish trips Tim. I know what you mean about work getting in the way but I guess it's a means to an end. I look at my work as a form of Sponsorship to fund my Speedway!

So far as costs are concerned the flights were £44 but I have done them for £20 before now. Car Hire was £49 and the fuel cost £14. Speedway admission was £8 and the programme £2. Naturally I spent money on food etc: but no more than if I had been travelling around the UK. It depends how one measures the time I guess. Entering Stansted airport to exiting it was just under 18 hours. I did not leave from home nor return to home straight away so I don't have a reliable door to door time!

I visited Nässjö in Sweden on Saturday afternoon for a very enjoyable Division 1 fixture. I took an early flight from Stansted to Gothenburg Landvetter and then returned back to the UK in the evening. During the season I generally do about 5 overseas trips and where I can I will take in two or three meetings per trip. However, I would be interested in doing some more day trips and just wondered if anyone else has discovered an easy day trip where the current flight schedules fit in well. Many thanks

No disrespect intended and he may well get better but from what I saw of Rafal Konopka last season he would have struggled at NL level. I have noticed an improvement this year but many British youngsters would have been delighted to have had the number of PL rides Rafal has had over the past two seasons. Something is very wrong here!

I'm not sure who I would nominate as the worst. In recent times Dave Robinson, Tony Steele, Jim Lawrence and Barbara Horley have often left me far from impressed but there are a few other candidates as well.

Looks like Ward is trying to get banned again judging by his twitter comments!

Quite agree - Lambert actually did all he possibly could to avoid riding at Peterborough and at the end of the day it was only the FIM 24 hour ruling that got him off the hook. The Panthers should get rid of him but only when it suits them to do so!

I really enjoyed the closely fought meeting last night which could have gone either way. I wish Sheffield wasn't a 300 mile round trip for me so I could visit more often!

Having followed them very closely and both were my favourite rider for most of the time they rode I would say John but not by much.

If they were Babs would certainly be out of a job!

I thought Davey Watt 'called off' the meeting off at Lakeside and then everyone followed his lead!

Given the awful weather forecasts the meeting should have been called off by lunchtime. Ordinarily I believe that would have happened so I can only assume the Sky factor results in different decisions being taken.

I couldn't really tell from where I was but Babs is not renowned for good eyesight!

I think Rob Branford was nearly back in the pits in heat 1 before the timekeeper stopped the watch! I was surprised they bothered announcing what was clearly an inaccurate time. Anyway a very enjoyable meeting and the result could have gone either way but well done to Coventry Storm.

I think that rut has been there for a good few years!

Fairly common place now Tony especially when a weak referee is involved and we can't even blame Watt, Schlein or Batchelor this time. From what has been said last night I think some riders need to re-consider their career options!

The racing at Prague is not usually that good and favours certain gate positions quite significantly. When I was last there it rutted up quite badly around turn four as well! It's a great city to visit though!

I wonder if he had to be asked!

I remember Belle Vue walking out at Hull in 1974 I think. It was 15 - 9 after 4 heats and ended up 60 - 9! Also Reading walked out of the last three heats at Hackney once - result 45 - 30! A cock up to come to mind was Berwick sending the wrong two riders out for a race at Rye House a few years ago. They were both excluded after the end of the race! More recently Barbara Horley changed the race result of heat 2 at Rye House but only after a few more races had been run - made a right mess of the programme!

Also us diehards who generally put up with these situations are dwindling in numbers. Who will be left when we hang up our Programme Boards cityrebel?

I struggle to understand why this was not called off several hours ago but Ipswich have form with late call offs.