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Anyone thinking 13,15 or 18 heats will make any different or if you think the beat format will make a difference you're all bloody deluded. 15ish heats presented professionally* over 90ish minutes with simple rules is what's needed. Joe public doesn't give a crap about rules and race formats! *Presenters who are not in their 60s, music that is more modern and a sound system you can hear it from.

I believe the BSPA have some quite grand plans for change this winter. This can only be a good thing. I just hope that before they rubber stamp them at the AGM that they release the details (all the detail too!) to the public for us to find fault, loopholes and pick at. That way it won't take until May for the promoters to realise that the draft failed this year due to the race format when half the BSF called it in November and December!

No rule at all. Some riders have ridden on load for clubs for years.

Just send Ladbrokes http://speedwaygb.co/16results/poole_03.08.16_res.pdf And keep arguing! Ive had to do the same in the past only with bet365.

Totally agree. July has been a great month for speedway for me. And the thing that links them all? They were all weekends of speedway and not just one offs. Personally I'd be happy with less speedway but more weekend events. It encourages the social side of it for a start. Yes it costs a bit more if you're not local but it's much more fun. I've had 3 brilliant weekends with different groups of people and loved them all and would happily do July again in August!

Kings Lynn, the club that closed its twitter account with 3,800 followers to open another one. Why? They basically threw away those fans. You can;'t imagine Coca-cola re-branding so opening a new twitter account and leaving the old one dormant. And I got blocked for pointing this out to them!

King of sums it up for me. Me in both leagues they're trying but typical BSPA/British Speedway the actual execution is piss poor.

If there is no facility then FFS. The poor guys mother has passed away. It's up there with, "damn good reasons to have a facility". Seriously, get a dr note saying hes in not fit state to ride because frankly I don't think a single person could argue that someone who has just lost their mother should be made to ride. This is one of them times I hope common sense is used.

Im guess Matt Ford did all he could to make sure that didn't happen.

Why are people shocked Hancock has let fans down? This is the man who walked out on Oxford on the day of the play-offs remember. And quit Reading mid-season. He never has give a rubbish about the fans.

Shame they didn't tell him they couldn't replace him and he either rode or quit. I bet Matt Ford would have loved it if he'd got himself a 28 day ban too

Trying to get anything for motorsport is damn near impossible

Fair enough. But reading Phil Rising next post while I may have been wrong I did get the write answer, it was always planned. Erm, it's not race fixing if it leads to a bigger win. Lose battle to win the war and all that. If the FIM don't want it happening, get rid of the rule! While its there then this will happen, legitimately.

That was my understanding too. Maybe it's just co-incidence that ALL clubs are using their #7 at #7. but wasn't there a rule that said the #7 was protected in heat 4 too?

So then people, how does it work? Edinburgh have theirs missing with no facility allowed and get to use Mitchell Davey who has previously averaged in excess of 4. Glasgow have their missing due to injury but cannot use Rob Branford as a guest - Rob has never achieved a 4+ average AFAIK. Peterborough have a foreigner at #7 despite the fact the draft riders have to ride at #7 What the hell is going on?

Nicholls was rubbish more often than not even at his peak, even sometimes in earlier rounds. He'd have had to have been having a great season before I'd have considered him. Even with hindsight I'd have not used him. Harris on the other hand, with hindsight couldn't have been any worse than Lambert but I said it was the right decision before the meeting and I'm going to say now that Harris wouldn't have scored 10-12 need for us to win so the experience for Lambert will be of far more use than the 2 or 3 more Harris may have scored.

Has hell frozen over? I agree 100% with Fred Flange on this thread!

I cant think of the American in Sweden since Jon Cook maybe back in the late 90's. Around about the same time Australian Mark Keast was based on Sweden too but that really is about it. Then it's a few in Denmark but Poland certainly doesn't give anyone a helping hand to start out and they're the best in the World by a long way in terms of World Cups in the last 10-15 years.

Best we could get for 3 of us in May was £288. Would that be the same supply and demand that Cardiff uses?

And who wants to stay 5 minutes from the stadium? I'm not knocking Manchester or the NSS but Cardiff wins hands down as a location. You can shop, eat, drink and watc the speedway all within 10 minutes walk. Manchester can't offer you that.

Just £2.70 for a bus. I thought it was cheap up north but it only costs me £1.60 down here for a bus

We paid £140 a night for a hotel in Manchester for 3 of us. I'm not sure theres that much in it., if you want a decent hotel in a decent location you pay for it. If you're in a hotel in the centre of Cardiff you don't have to pay to get too/from the stadium either, thats another £30ish over the weekend for busses in Manchester.

Was it the right decision? Was Pawlicki wrong? I just know I was livid that Cook didn't throw the bike down on bend 2 in heat 9 when Masters gave him a shove. Sometimes you have to "play the game". Doyle isn't adverse to throwing the bike down if he's at the back and there the tiniest bit of contact

Ive not hidden the fact I' don't really like Tai, not for his riding as I love watching him race but more for his PR skills. He says and does the wrong thing very often (and I don't even care about the swearing at Cardiff) but he handled Saturday perfectly, scored the points, come across well when interviewed and IMO said the right thing ("not here to get second, even if it is nice. I want to win") and then taking that young girl onto the podium and giving her the medal, brilliant. I heard someone say how stupid giving away his medal but Tai will have many medals when he retires. On the other hand this girl will probably only ever have one. When she goes back to school (or nursery) in September and they ask her what she did this summer she can show her class a World Championship 2nd place medal and she'll have that memory for a life time and hopefully that means she'll be a speedway fan all her life too. So well done Tai! You get a lot of stick, some of it deserved but you deserve all the praise going for this weekend.

I think we can and should be. The lad himself was and thats why he's going to be a winner. Not content with a "good" second over all, he wanted to do well himself. Should we get on his back though? No way. He showed glimpses and it was a hard meeting so he has to remain positive but it's never a bad thing to be disappointed someone hasn't done well, just means you rate them highly.