Roger Jacobs

What difference would that make? Recently, Glasgow celebrated a record attendance of 1,931 ... being a city is irrelevant. Ipswich has a population of 130,000+ and draws from the wider areas of Suffolk and north Essex. King's Lynn & west Norfolk has an area population of 150,000+. Over 22,000 were at Portman Road on a Tuesday night to watch 3rd Division football, so there is an appetite for a night out to watch sport ... even paying £30 to sit in cramped plastic buckets.

That was the prime reason they were introduced.

Which is a remarkably poor situation to be in. Acceptance of that enables the continued mismanagement and decline.

Points difference. Assuming Sheffield win both of their other home matches, then they will be worthy Champions, sorry, first place in the League. The Pools Panel and Duckworth Lewis would give Sheffield a win against Ipswich. Also, the Witches have three bonus points from Stupid Heats, so they're currently on 40. I know "rules are rules", but the Stupid Heat really is the most pointless rule since the Tactical Joker.

But it has been such a well-kept secret!

Many thanks. These have been passed to the Live Updates team to add to the Heat Details.

Won't be difficult to work out their averages - the last 10 league matches ...

Confirmed in Panthers report of the match: "However, Basso has been struggling with a shoulder injury in recent weeks and further wrenched it during the meeting, meaning that having ridden in Heats 13 and 14, he did not feel physically able to contest Heat 15."

Has BassoRacingFan deleted the comment? There was a two minute silence, the National Anthem was played, and Kevin Long gave (by all accounts) an excellent tribute. British Speedway literally cannot afford to postpone* matches - especially at this stage of the season. The show must go on ... HM was fulfilling her duties just three days before she passed away. RIP. *As any fool knows, "cancel" means that a match is not restaged.

Was Basso struggling with his shoulder injury? Apart from beating Heeps & Tungate in 14, he scored his points by finishing ahead of Batchelor and Summers.

How do you know they haven't been asking other riders? The other night Plymouth were really struggling to find anyone, and other clubs have said it's been tough. On the other hand, Simon Lambert has been a loyal servant, and pops up with the occasional very good score.

Because the number of matches that count towards the GSA has dropped by two each month, and currently only counts the last 14 Premiership matches for each rider. Keep up at the back there

Sedgmen was not an injury replacement: https://britishspeedway.co.uk/premiership/sheffield-swoop-for-sedgmen/

There have always been meaningless fixtures towards the end of the season … even in the good old days of 18 teams in a league … indeed, that many teams means there were even more meaningless fixtures back then …

It's not a loop hole if it's in the Regulations, and has been approved. Not sure what the fuss is about, Heeps is #7 at Oxford, with a 4 point average ... for whatever reason, his form has continued to go backwards. Cheep and cheerful local guest, to keep the die-hards happy.

The meeting was abandoned - not sure what else could have been done? I agree that ticket holders could maybe get a discount on the re-staging, but other than that there was nothing unusual about the meeting.

How will independent governance help? How on earth would you enforce independent governance on entrenched dinosaurs who have overseen the decline?

The fact that the Stupid Heat was a very good race is coincidental - it could have been dull. The point is that the Stupid Heat is unnecessary, and gives a false result.

The British Final washout was not a farce. The SCB Regulations were followed.

Because we care about British Speedway, but don't care about Poland, Sweden, etc.

Will anyone outside the sport even know? They don't know about the GPs, let alone a random mid-week second division meeting.

It's not British speedway.

But only if it’s a draw … If it’s good to get more for your money, why not have 16 heat matches?

There's absolutely no guarantee it will be extra excitement. Tension maybe, but that's what a last heat decider is all about, and Heat 15 was a last heat decider! That has never changed (13, 15 or 16 heat formats), and there's no need for it to, just because of one particular outcome.

If, if, if ...