TheReturn

Sadly every time the camera panned to the crowd it did look a little that way, the average age of those they panned to must have been age 50! The fanbase/lack of excitement in the crows not a great advert really to any young fans watching at home. The racing was superb across both nights, I am still not sure two GPs across the same weekend is good for the sport. In most cases riders that not dialled in on the first night, are probably not going to be dialled in on the second night. The TV production also seemed to focus on riders battling for 3rd/4th and a couple of times missed a race at the front.

Might be right on the financial aspect. As a fan I love the idea of two GPs over two nights. But from a series point of view, it's huge, so if a rider is injured like Dan and Freddie and miss both nights, that's a huge chunk of points lost, which doesn't seem quite fair.

I always thought Nigel Crabtree fell into this category whenever he raced against Long Eaton. Good rider, but if he was being beat by anyone, he would spend the race looking down at his bike.

Leicester should be welcoming this, they finally have a local rival in sport, (their football fans try and claim they have one with Forest, but it isn't a real derby, not like Forest v Derby).

This is probably the case, and whilst I salute his efforts, from a sporting perspective I am just not sure he deserved to be offered a wildcard based off GP form for some time now even before the injury.

Perhaps, but by leaving it so late he has robbed someone the opportunity to plan ahead to ride the GP season and get sponsors ready for the campaign. Actually I blame whoever thought it was a good idea to offer him a wildcard, his GP form for two seasons was average (at best) and that was before the injury. He really should not have been offered a place.

It's weeks later and I am still shaking my head in bewilderment that Woffinden got a wildcard. This will never be right, and I am not a Tai hater, I just think it makes a mockery of the sport, he'd been well off his best for some time and before the serious injury.

There perhaps would have been a good opportunity to partner in some way had it been during tye season, i.e. get some bikes and riders to Stamford Bridge and some kind of buy merchandise/get free speedway entry somewhere (perhaps if feasible), but alas it's the close season and not the best timing.

I thought the SGP was meant to be the best sporting riders in the world, not ex world champions who generate an opinion. Let's be clear, he was way past their racing best for couple of seasons and it been left to sporting form, Woffinden would not have qualified. An ex world champion he may be but that selection is not justifiable.

I’m fed up of seeing the damn drone looking like a giant fly on the screen. What is the broadcast companies obsession with using a drone.

Doesn’t help the coverage when the commentators can’t see the whole track, because they’re using the TV feed to commentate.

I’m no expert, but I’m assuming the camera work is not the problem, it’s the director/producer broadcasting the wrong cameras during races.

The TV production need to be sacked or educated. That’s twice now an exiting race is happening for secondary places and on the final bend these clueless idiots switch to the leader who’s well clear and pointless footage when we miss the exciting battle behind. Then they use from behind drone coverage during a close battle for first, so we still can’t see what’s happening.

Personally I would say he is a self-serving **** (word begins with a C) regardless of nationality, but that's perhaps a topic for another day.

I have never been a fan of using play off's in speedway to decide a league winner, but I have been a lone voice on here over the years. I accept it may have worked in the past to offer some good finals, let's be honest it relies on luck as much as anything. Let the league winner be the team that finish's top of the league. Right now we are seeing 'luck' being the factor in the play offs. Luck that the weather plays nicely, and come late Sept/Oct in the UK it's not something you would put money on. Instead of the league winner being the team that have been consistent from Apr-Sept, that team could have bad luck in one match and lose the title, so the league winner to some degree relies on luck in the play-off's. Recent years we have seen play off matches full of guest riders, and riders who only sign on once their lucrative Polish leagues finish. The biggest farce of all this season, there's only seven bloody teams in the league. If we the TV deal insists on this farcical play off situation, with just seven teams let's just make it that the top two in the league contest a play off final and let that be at the first week in September when we may still have acceptable weather.