Roger Jacobs

Double Headers at White City finished around midnight. I was there for one of them, when the Witches defeated the Rebels in the first meeting, and then the Rebels beat King's Lynn in the second - therefore it was a splendid night, and the late finish was irrelevant This was 40ish years ago!

The BSPA has often come up with "great new ideas", yet never seems to have done any wargaming to work out if there are any problems, or potential problems. I know from quite a few years ago that they would agree something at the conference in principle, then one or two promoters would be assigned to work out the detail and deliver, with no further review by the others ... that's a recipe for failure.

Said that a few years ago (2011?), when Howarth guested for the Witches at Sheffield - very impressed with his approach. He signed for Edinburgh soon after …

Wonder how much it might be? There’s never talk of prize money for winning the title, or whatever other competition is flavour of the season.

KL have released Edwards from their line-up, so that he can ride for Mildenhall. Apparently BSPL had insisted he turn out for the Stars because Prem has priority - but common sense has prevailed

Doesn’t matter who didn’t do it - KL were the hosts and cheerfully advertised the meeting on Twitter and FaceBook with an hour to go, but no mention even though they must have known. Locals who were tempted by Lambert’s presence might well have called off if they had known. Irrespective of who the riders are, clubs involved should make every effort to inform paying customers of changes as soon as they are known.

KL posted cheerfully on their Facebook and Twitter with an hour to go, yet the news about Lambert had been circulating at least an hour before that …

No, the wording is “proven long term injury”. Nothing to do with how long the replacement is used - examples being Tungate at Ipswich and Sedgmen at Sheffield, who were both replacements for long term injured riders, even though both replaced riders (Riss and Allen) returned for their Champ clubs.

Issue 19 of the Prem Green Sheets said "01/10 and Final".

It appeared just after 6. Sometimes the updater doesn't set it up until they're back from work ...

Except that it seems wherever there is a multi use stadium where speedway is a tennant, it is way down the priority. It's not that long ago teams were staging racing most weeks now it's barely half of their available "fixed" race nights. It really is only the promoters who can be blamed (slagged off in modern parlance) for not providing an entertainment package that makes their tenancy more attractive.

The October Green Sheets said: "01/10 and Final", which implies that the remaining fixtures will not be counted ...

Still just making excuses for incompetence. If Sheffield can't stage 16 home fixtures in seven months, that's a major problem.

IRR is used if a 1-5 rider is lost early in the meeting, and the Regulations state that IRR can't be used if a rider has had three programmed rides, so BV's only option for Wright was a reserve change - one was already riding, and the other was injured. It was an unfortunate situation, but a rare one.

Essentially that they can't ride against the ref ...

How will anyone know it has given speedway a shot in the arm? How many new fans will be attracted? How many of the one-off fans who attended the Finals will be there next March/April?

I'm guessing that's one of the reasons they've made the change.

No.

Who has cheated?

Good job for Sheffield that they were allowed to make a third separate change

Golden Heats - so even more races ...

Absolutely shocking that they have to rely on the play-offs to stage a profitable meeting.

I have only just twigged that Issue 19 of the Green Sheets says: "01/10 and Final" (my emphasis). So, even if they are staged, the BSPA will not count the last two fixtures.

Don't forget the Pairs ...

The Liga 1 rates this season were £54k signing-on and £540 per point! Can't imagine what the Ekstraliga rates are ... A Polish guy on Speedway Friends Facebook group reckons this season that Zmarzlik has earned £800k, and Woffinden over £500k. Zmarzlik's deal for 2023 will be £1M.