Steve Shovlar

No reason why tomorrow wont go ahead. The rain is clearing in the early afternoon to leave a dry evening. Nice natural watering. Lokking forward to this. Should be a belter.

His pl scores are meaningless. It was he does in the el that counts. And so far he has been banging in good scores alongside Ellis. There is no one available to replace him that would have his scoring potential. As for Bjarne, there are bound to be meetings where he will be unavailable. The problem with bringing in riders who already have their calendar partially full.

If Kyle is taking his place that is great news. He is irreplaceable at the moment. Reckon its going to be a right royal rumble with some good racing and controversy. Hope that theres a good sized crowd to witness it. Hoping the rain predicted knocks out the Karlsson Corridor.

Coming up for this and luckily the rain is due to push through at lunchtime to leave a sunny afternoon and dry evening. Still waiting on news about Newman but probably not good. Fingers crossed though.

Just seen the latest forecast from the bbc and the rain is coming through at exactly the wrong time. A delayed start might save the day? Fans might have to hang around for a couple of hours in the stadium?

Certainly don't see Kildemand as World Champ this year. Had a very good night tonight but he makes bad calls at times and tends to get injured a little too often. I know I am being a bit risky in saying this but on tonights showning the time might finally be up for Greg. Thought the studio chat was good but needed a third person to vary the conversation. As others have said though, miles ahead of the days of Keith I know nothing about speedway Heuwen.

A decent start to the series if very low key. The crowd were placid to say the least. Thought the track was smooth but too dry. Not a lot to offer out wide. From a Poole point of view good to see Holder back on the rostrum. Should have kept second but was looking to make a pass and nothing out there.

The hd feed on youtube is fine. About one minute ahead of the bt feed I am watching. BT will no doubt be unhappy the feed is available in the UK

The live youtube feed is not blocked in the UK. Just tried it and no problems.

Either way makes no odds as hes gone through the tapes.

Good opening four heats.

BT 1 hd. Perfect HD picture. The girl presenter seems quite sure and confident. Poor crowd here by the look of it.

Just watched a live interview from the track on Polish channel canal Sport in the half time premier football break. Weather is perfect. Fluffy clouds and blue sky.

I came on this theead hoping to buy a ticket and get a buxon girl. I'll get me coat.

If he was a Joe Bloggs then fair enough. I struggle to understand why you think it acceptable that he as British World Champion is snubbing the British Public? If he was tired, then give up Sweden for gods sake!

Flagrag doesnt drive a van around installing dishes.

mThis principle doesnt work because he is not a bus driver or table clearer at McDonalds. He is a sportsman with fans. There are other responsibilities to take into consideraton.

Why not? Its not having a go at him its making it known that snubbing EL is not the way a British WC should act

Agree. Some of you seem to fail to grasp that Woffinden is a sportsmen, therefore the normal rules of providing for your family do not apply the same way. If he was a builder it would be different. But he is not. He has fans and is World Champion. Young riders or kids should be looking up to him and wanting to be like Tai. Except they dont see him because he has snubbed these fans by not riding here. Someone wrote earlier that team GB should drop him. I could quite happily go along with that. Rather have a rider who competes in the UK riding in the SWC than a rider who wouldnt even ride in the British Final. Rugby do that. If you play in France you dont play for England.

Flagrag, who works for Sky mentioned it on the previous page.

Reserves should only be promted to the top five as second strings.

Can someone who is going take a few pics of the crowd etc. Would be nice to see what it looks like on opening night.

Should be eligible. Hope Kyle is fit to ride though.

Well there we have it. He just doesnt want to ride here, the country of his birth, the country where he learnt his skill, the country where his main fan base was. If The BSPA and Sky put together a package and this was snubbed, and BT wanted him to promote the GP series as British World Champion, and this was snubbed, shat respect does he actually have for British fans? I shall be at Cardiff letting him know. If he does an autograph session in the street he will certain hear my views on his snub of British fans. He probably doesnt give a toss to be honest. A real shame because he could have gone down as a household name and speedway legend. Now many will view him with a slight distain. A real shame after all the charity work he has done and the British following he was gaining. So Doyle, Harris, Holder and Zagar manage to do all leagues. Not British. Bjarne, MadsK, Buck, Lindgren, Fiske plus others all do three leagues. Harris manages it and is a Brit. Shame on Woffinden for not dropping Sweden for his own countries fans and league.

And that was probably the most damaging and wrong decision in the recent history of the sport. Why on earth didn't they ride under protest? No thought whatsoever for the fans. Similar to BV this year but worse. I thought it was Starman humour!