OveFundinFan

If his looks appeals to the "yuff" then the stadiums would be full of "yuffs"......... are they? The last time I saw someone looking like TW was yesterday on the telly about Living on Benefits You may be right re the BBC/Question of Sport....... but maybe if speedway presented them with someone who looks presentable. Re Krsko.... I have no problem that Slovenia is a minor country speedway wise, but the stadium looks pretty smart, it was said 12,000 were their yesterday, not bad. It was the track preparation that was lacking. Someone making a case for more GP's in Poland........ absolutely not ! Three (25%) is enough. It is a World Championship, encourage more in other countries but making sure the tracks are ok (not like Finland attempt). There is still Russia (SEC this year may prove a possibility), then perhaps Czech Republic to do Pardubice.

New rule required - watering of the track prior to start of the meeting has to be finished 1 hour before the start. They were watering heavily 30 minutes before the start.!!! Then looked like no grading for the whole meeting. The quality of racing was pretty dreadful - and that is all down to the poor track preperation, not the quality of riders capabilities. Got to be poor when gate 4 is so highly disadvantaged. Well done the top 3, Vaculik, Lindgren and Dudek, though as the season progresses I feel that Dudek might be the one who is more consistent. Dont think anyone mentioned Emil yet. Slow start to the meeting, but then tuned in, but picked the wrong gate in the semi (gate 2) when the "best" gate had moved over to 3. Cant remember any recent world champion in any sport that looks as bad as TW does - does'nt help to present speedway to attract newcomers. Has he been on Question of Sport yet? You get to see personalities from all sorts of sports but not speedway, not surprised really.

So, Bruno, you gone to BT but set up your Sky box for tonight. Whats the deal there???? Are you paying to Sky as well?????

Race card looks amazing - no weak heats. Looks like a really good scrap this year and the best really will be at the top. I know some liked the one match world championship better then GP format, but its when you get a field like this year the GP series really excels.....you going to see 12 world championship finals spread over the season.

Yes, it is worth it.

Sad news, thoughts are with his family left behind.

Sounds like Cook is on fire this year.

I just took it StheR was asking the order of just those 5, on the basis he never mentioned "of all time" or a certain time period. If it was supposed to be the top 5 of all time then the list would be completely different.

Perhaps Wolves will "phone a friend" to help out and get TW back in. Last year Wolves bringing TW in and also Poole doing the same with Lindback cheesed me off. Glad it didnt work for Poole, but it did for Wolves and BV were robbed of the league title. Revenge I hope this year - and no silly nonsense near the season end.

Perhaps I would swop Louis and Ashby, making 1 Simmo, 2 Wilson, 3 Ashby 4 Louis 5 Boocock but there again, on their best day any of those 5 could be no 1

Brilliant stuff.

That looks a good line up.

West Cheshire schools are on hols this week.

Thats nicely balanced - 8 different home teams and 8 different away teams, no favouritism.

To me that looks different to Freddies motor of last year, and it looks more lay down, almost horizontal. Or do I need to make an appointment at Specsaver?

It was 2014 that Batchelor scored the 20 points i the Danish GP, DW accident was in 2015.... so not "several seasons"

maybe that was his breakthrough, but then there was the DW crash which must have affected him badly as it did Holder and no doubt others to a lesser/greater degree. Lets hope he is through the bad patch.

Same rules will apply to other Eu countries as well ie POLAND, GERMANY, SWEDEN, DENMARK, SLOVENIA, CZECH, SLOVAKIA, ITALY Will MotoGP racing be hit as well ie SPAIN It will never happen - do you think all the sports affected, that gross millions for countries, will just cease to be. Complete and utter EU nonsense. Cant believe we still in the EU, should have got out years ago.

Love it up there.

The coast around Berwick, Lindisfarne etc is really good - wild. If you like castle there is Bamburgh Castle - used in more then a few films, its still standing, open to the public and lived in. About 10 miles south west of Bamburgh is Chillingham castle, again lived in, open to the public. We first went to Chillingham castle about 35 years ago and it was just being revitalised, then about 10 years ago we visited again and it looked brilliant but still being worked on, by now it should be back to how it was originally. If you want a trip arond the farne islands, go to Seahouses/North Sunderland and boats sail from there. Seahouses is nice and quiet place. Probably have a museum in Coldstream (about 8 miles south west of Berwick), probably at Darlington a railway museum, on the way to Scunthorpe you pass by Harrogate, nice spa town with Aunt Bessies tea Room (but expensive). You will be skirting the north Yorks moors as well, Whitby is nice if you can get to it AND of course that is Heartbeat country - Goathland is the village used in the tv series - interesting visit. There is loads to do/see

Belle Vue as a track - I will agree. BV as a stadium - limited capacity, less then 10,000 at a max - the potential crowd is 4 times that. And besides - would UK get a 2nd GP?

Which night of the World Cup at BV did you attend.??????????? Logic tells me it was not the Saturday night final - the racing that night was superb. The Friday night wasnt so good, shame that as we didnt see the best from Emil and others. Probably only Doyle that like it that night.

Well then, holder such meetings at a time of year when weather is going to be more conducive to watching a 4 hour open air event. Cant think of a time in the past when I was at BV for 4 hours. 4 hours - ridiculous. And as for food, if the catering is provided by the stadium - sack the staff if food is not up to a standard. If its Joe Bloggs Burger Van - get shut and allow another to take its place. Got to keep the customer happy or they dont turn up again - plain business sense.

Well they made a start on Friday night by withdrawing their services............ but you still trying to defend the track.

Seeing is believing, and when you see the racing you will believe it IS the best speedway track in the country. Enjoy, and I hope you get your tickets sorted.