The Cheese

Doesn't look like they are repeated again on Quest. You can watch them here - https://www.discoveryplus.co.uk/show/british-speedway-highlights You'll need to create an account but it's free

No surprise to see Rowe start well, I've said it before but it's impressive how every time he steps up a level he makes it look easy. Not by hitting big eye-catching scores every week but just quietly going about his business even when on paper you might say it's possibly too early for him. His NL average wasn't great when he signed for Somerset in the Championship but he did well enough to move up to number 2 within a few months. Pretty much everyone expected him to struggle there but a couple of meetings in he was beating Craig Cook in Heat 1 and finished that season with an excellent debut for GB in the test match against Denmark. Seemed to make a steady start to his Polish career last year too. For some reason he doesn't get talked about as often as others in his age group but maybe going under the radar slightly without the hype is a good thing.

The Fanseat schedule shows Peterborough - King's Lynn on June 7th. I'm guessing there won't be a meeting on Eurosport on the 31st May because of the French Open tennis

https://www.eurosport.co.uk/speedway/ Might be useful if Eurosport could make the effort to update this page. Going back to their press release when this deal was announced it said "The latest stories and news will be covered in-depth" Since then (October 2019) there has been 1 article which announces the agreement to show the GPs and SoN from 2022. The fixtures page doesn't even have a section for British speedway and I'm not quite sure what the making of Jesse Lingard has to do with the sport? But at least on the schedule they've now updated Monday's fixture to 'Round 1' rather than saying it was from 'Blue Vale' as it suggested a couple of days ago. On a more positive note, the presenting/commentary line-up looks good and it's great that the sport will be shown on free-to-air TV. Hopefully we'll have an entertaining season!

RIP

Do we know if all speedway in this country has been classed as an 'elite sport'? In cricket, Australian Billy Stanlake has been in a bubble and arrived in England on Sunday to play for Derbyshire but has been told he has to quarantine because the County Championship isn't an elite sport. If they had a T20 fixture though he would be allowed to play because that is classed as an elite sport! So potentially we could have the Premiership classed as elite but not the Championship or NDL. Any cup/challenge/individual meetings might not be either.

http://speedwaygb.co.uk/news.php?extend.38719 Confirms this idea has been dropped but a one-off event might take place

They'll be leaping for joy

Impressive start! Probably going to need a couple of inexperienced youngsters at the bottom end to fit in but can't really ask for 2 better riders to pass on their experience at this level.

He had to quarantine but under FA rules had permission to join Chelsea's bubble as he tested negative before flying into the country. So basically he was allowed into the training ground and stadium but nowhere else

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-GB/firefox/addon/adblock-plus/ That's what I used on Firefox, never had a problem with adverts

I thought the same after reading it. Hopefully just the way it was worded and they'll be back next year.

If this was actually going to end with Swindon taking their place next season in the new stadium then it would be a positive step. Unfortunately I think we all know how this is really going to end. Always seemed unlikely it would ever happen and now Covid is the perfect excuse for Stadia UK to not go through with it

New points system this year of 4-3-2-0 so maximum is now 42

Premier League missing out here. Imagine how much clearer VAR would be if Nigel and Kelvin could add commentary to the process

You're right in some of those but others are unfair, Afghanistan especially. Most of them grew up in Pakistan but generally they've all been born in Afghanistan. Their rise to become a really good side with some of the best players in the world is one of sport's great stories.

Anders Rowe not selected or is that down to him being in Poland and quarantine rules etc?

Good luck to Adam Ellis

Great to see how well Lambert has progressed this season, some of the criticism he got last year was ridiculous especially when you consider the injuries he had.

Looks as though some county cricket sides are confident the October date for supporters returning could be brought forward if test events are successful.

Some live sport has returned but BT are giving 50% credit for June. Will be done automatically if you applied for previous months, if you haven't then it should be available on their website from June 1st.

There's every chance we'll be back/still in lockdown in the winter anyway. Thousands die from flu/pneumonia, all it needs is a few hundred of them being listed as Covid and people will start demanding it again.

They're all listed on the TV guide on the BT website so I assume they're correct, haven't actually watched any myself to confirm!

GP highlights continue this week, again BT Sport 2 at 9.30am Monday - Wroclaw Tuesday - Malilla Wednesday - Teterow Thursday - Cardiff Friday - Vojens (8.30am) Friday - Torun

A few things being repeated this week, all on BT Sport 2; Tomorrow - True Grit - 10pm Thursday - Highlights of 2019 Warsaw GP - 9.30am Thursday - Highlights of 2019 Krsko GP - 10.30am Friday - Highlights of 2019 Prague GP - 9.30am Friday - Highlights of 2019 Hallstavik GP - 10.30am