Hamish McRaker

I was amazed that Sam Masters didn't bale out in heat 13 when Pickering (or maybe it was Jack?) gave him a huge shoulder charge

He carries on holding the flag from the finest tradition recently continued by Kasprzak and Zagar

Leicester to dish out a good old tonking. The real challenge will be for Tatum, Nicholls and Abbie to sustain the attention of the TV audience

Max Fricke has developed a more ruthless approach this season, for Leicester (and I'm not referring to the heat 1 exclusion, that was a standard Sheffield bend 3 move!). He's now up with the best, and that gives his team a huge confidence boost to have a consistently dominant no.1. It's what he was badly lacking last season, and if there's a wet track in the final he'll hopefully show that he's got that monkey off his back

Yes

It's very fortunate for Leicester, that Becker can use his Polish club as a way to make his return to riding, and they will also take responsibility for any additional rehabilitation needs arising therefrom. Leicester therefore have protection from any adverse consequences, whilst this remains the case. Back in days of yore, it would be a run-out in the second half of a meeting, and if he could complete 4 laps, back in the team, often with bad consequences

And it also depends on what "race" actually means, in some cases and instances

Is that Joe Screen during his last season with Glasgow?

They could always get Gregg Wallace to do the MC job it'd be a safer work environment for him as part of his rehabilitation

So how much are super-heats being used in Phil Morris's new social media marketing? How many "views" are they attracting? And if they are attracting zillions of views, what difference is that making to the current and future viability of team speedway in the UK?

Not too bad then. Maybe boosted by the time down at #6? I'd be interested to know what he's averaged without including the matches at #6

So Jan Kvech is now at #1 but even so, possibly he's been a bit underwhelming this season. I'd expected him to have had the #1 role nailed down earlier in the season, rather than spending time down at #6.

Woffinden is back on a speedway bike

He does have a habit of inadvertently telling the truth!

TNT is full of hype-sters throughout it's range of sports. Craig Doyle is the worst. It's sadly now just the normal. Watch without the sound.

Start delayed because of the sun reflecting off the water?

Taking easy money from UK Pensioners as well!

When does Nick Morris become eligible to resume

I didn't know that Brian Clough and Michael Portillo used to be a speedway riders

To increase the interest and entertainment, there should be arm-wrestling contests between riders based on their riding numbers, with Scott Nicholls refereeing. If a team is using r/r for a team place, the team manager should be the substitute. 7 contests would produce a winning team, with a separate league table running through the season. They could run a darts league as well.

Suggestion to Birmingham: Clear off out from Perry Bar now and stage the rest of your home matches at Leicester. Would be even better if Rew could complete a whole match without falling off his bike.

In an accident of no importance which has recently occurred, several insignificant internet forum contributors suffered minor bruises and inflammation of their egos due to having particularly thin skin. On the other hand, Tai Woffinden is made from tough stuff.

The news about Cook comes as no surprise does it? He ceased to be a viable team member at the Premiership level at least two seasons ago. It highlights the enormous loss that Dan Thompson is to the club and team. I don't know how he has been allowed to desert Leicester but whoever is responsible should be sacked

Hard to say, not knowing the chap or having anything much to gauge by, so far. Without hope there is no point in trying.

I suppose it's a matter of how well a team is doing over the second "half" of the season, that counts. Had the impression Oxford threw in the towel last year especially after Leicester got into gear. Perhaps this year, they're more oriented towards having scope for beefing up the team later-on. I can see some big away defeats, early doors.