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interesting assessment from Eastbourne. I started a "One Big league" thread on News and Discussions back in May after an article by Matt Ford in Speedway Star. That has run and run with some very good and thoughtful ideas. This article is at least showing some Clubs are thinking ahead and not just burying head in the sand and also very realistic that they admit might be a year too soon for them. The current format seems doomed, something has to change.

Does anyone know how many changes each team has made (excluding injuries). guts tell me Brummies the most and Berwick the least?

Must be that Teams are re-declaring but not announcing until day or 2 days before. Who is next I wonder? I'd have a wager on Glasgow or Newcastle, not many left who haven't made changes in last week / 10 days.

will wait for Danny King to move to Leicester for the Play Offs and Shield Finals if Sheffield are out of Play Off contention. If I was a Sheffield fan I'd be hopping mad. Stinks!

Would love to see Tero and Garrity in the engine room of the side on a longer term basis.

Will wish Nathan the very best on his debut for Rebels as very harshly treated by Brummies and I think OTA may suit his style. Reserves will hold key as Bickley is very poor away and Bailey won't have any experience of the Track. Sargeant seems right out of form and confidence so be interesting to see how long they persevere with him surprised he is still there.

very strange very very strange Sedgeman not ridden for months Kurtz binned off by Somerset out of form. Proctor has been smashing in better scores and form in both Leagues for past few weeks. Leicester in Shield Final look sure to be in Play Offs need rider whose average Proctor best fits. "Robbing Peter to pay Paul" or "robbing one Bates to pay another Bates". IF Proctor ends up at Leicester it will bring Sport in to further disrepute and ridicule. No doubt one for the Management Committee to look in to Oh hang on....."Bates and Bates and Godfrey

Not sure what it says about Kent, or in fairness to them the attitude of young riders / amateur riders, if they can't find anyone willing to ride at number 7 in an NDL match? Why were they not inundated with options from SDL level riders? young or a bit older?

whatever Somerset have a great top 4 now especially with Rowe and Stoneman at reserve, delighted to see Nathan back in CL. Brummies loss!

I went to Central Park with Brummies on 2 occasions with Curfew issues and both times Len and the faithful blames us for delays and problems.curfew is problem there, and number of crashes. If any Team delays near curfew to get a point who can blame them. The curfew not the opposition is root of the problem

I can get the "independent" (and actually far better ones) like Glasgow; Poole and Eastbourne to work fine but the off the shelf AP ones like ours have problems.

is there a date when transfers / moves are cut off - apart from serious injury?

wonder is Sargeant is on his last legs there and changes must be being considered you'd think?

shame if true as the Speedway Star did report a potential new Owner and thoughts of Connor Dugard going in as new Promoter were mentioned in the Star's new season review back in March. Be a big blow to speedway to lose it forever despite recent issues there.

demise of Arena/Lakeside I thing as much to do with financial mis-management before they were evicted by LandOwner for development to proceed than it was the eviction for development I remember them being very much a Club in latter seasons who struggled to keep afloat and as Speedway Star (Peter Oakes) reported some months ago, some huge liabilities incurred.

Clash of the CL Titans this and should be a classic both in Glasgow and Leicester. Both sides have slipped a little I think, Leicester more obviously due to injuries and Glasgow I think as they need Vissing to ride like a Heat Leader more regularly and Bickley to be more consistent especially away where sometimes he rides like a novice. Hard to call and as Stuart Dickson has pointed out / started the mind games, Somerset and Eastbourne (both of whom have possibly better top 3's than Glasgow or as least as good) have gone very close there in recent weeks. The track at Glasgow is fantastic and should be a great meeting.

we started with a Team that looked likely to struggle and made changes. Not Promotions fault Adam missed so many matches unless you believe they signed him knowing he would miss them. They are "having a go" and good to see that with better weather and better performances crowds have built up well. I'm no expert on crowds but I would think at level of last few matches we would be OK financially but if form peters out and matches get less significant worry is fans drift away. Promotion between a rock and a hard place with Championship / National League, little supporter appetite for latter not quite enough yet to be secure in Championship. I'm more confident now of next season than at any point so far - hope I'm right

Good meeting in the circumstances, Garrity did well and hopefully can keep it up. Not a lot you can do with tracks when so hot and sunny. Fear our season is frittering out though.

Eastbourne website, match previews and away match reporting is easily best in the sport. A lesson to all those who rely on lazy Pearson/AP blandness that there are options. Looks a shrewd move to bin Morley who was struggling away and bringing a young charger like Edwards in. Wood is as awful as Morley away, wonder if they might be about to bin him too and bring someone else in, R/R gave them more points last night than Wood has scored away most of the season. Glasgow won there though in League and 2nd Leg could be a cracker.

stood down for 7 days due to illness.

surprised he is riding and risking it tonight, a rest mentally and physically and a few days physio would surely be better and Glasgow could have had choice of league for a Guest and not exactly tough opposition on away form??. What if he gets a bang on it tonight, could be season over!

when he certainly looks like him with that hair style...

I guess that once you start making wholesale changes that if the wholesale changes don't work out you start making wholesale changes to replace the wholesale changes. It's good in a way but means lack of continuity at times. Replacing injured riders is to be applauded but just shipping people in and out like Danyon for no good reason and Nathan for no good reason doesn't indicate any kind of "plan" sadly. At least they are trying though!

who is son of god and why is he minging

Can't see anything notable in a new deal. I fear it will dilute from BT to a smaller channel / less income. Presentation on BT is awful, time for Pearson and Tatum to be shown the door and the bloody awful Natalie. To think we used to have Lanno and good race readers like Millard and others. Suzi Perry and Sophie Blake were on a different planet to Quirke and that Kiri woman. Streaming will just push more a way to social media. Needs an innovator and innovation and completely new Presentation Team and Presenters. I would retain Scott Nicholls, have him with Mrs Nicholls and other than that start again!