PotteringAround

Might be training an understudy, but he's running the show.

I'm not normally a big critic of Kelv. He does a decent enough job on the Premiership, but he's having a stinker this week. I know he's been thrust into the main commentator role, which was never his job, and he's having to commentate from a studio in London using the same (not great) pictures that we are getting, rather than being at the meeting. But he is very below par this week. He doesn't know who most of the riders are (including in the British team). Surely he could have done some research on the riders and jotted down a few talking points, rather than admitting to not knowing anything about them. Then again, our other British representative, Mr Morris, isn't covering himself in glory either. Rushing riders out with only 60 seconds to go, when one has only just had his bike returned to the pits. You get 60 seconds after a high speed crash, but Morris can stand out on the track for 15 minutes conducting unnecessary track grading and overwatering,

Kelv doing Britain proud. Couldn't tell the difference between Dan Thompson and Luke Killeen, and now he says he knows nothing about Luke Harrison.

Why is Kelvin obsessed with the fact that teams are using riders 1 & 2 for the first race, and is greatly surprised that no team manager has made a change, to the extent that he tells us every race? Surely it makes sense to list the riders you intend to start with, as Nos. 1 & 2 ?

Got to agree with this. Hitmen is one of the more original, better nicknames. Much better than the weak "just pick an alliterative animal or bird" nicknames. They should seriously have a rethink about this change. "BULLS HIT WITH POOR NICKNAME CHANGE"

As people have pointed out, one big league of 14 teams with 7 man teams would be impossible. Take out the 25ish riders who ride in Poland (and are only available to Britain on Monday and Thursday) and reduce all the doubling-up riders to a single team (another 30+ riders) and you've barely got enough riders left to staff 14 teams of 3 or 4 riders. You'd need to take every rider from the National League, including every novice 3.00 NDL wobbler, and you still couldn't get to 14 full teams. The standard or 14 teams would be somewhere between Championship and NDL. The level would be a big comedown for Workington or Plymouth fans. Imagine asking fans of Belle Vue, Ipswich or Sheffield to watch that!

I haven't done any counting up myself, but I'm taking the word of people on here that the BSPL hold 32,000 of the 50,000 shares in this mysterious "Speedway Futures Ltd". That would appear to mean that the BSPL own 64% of the company, and these unknown people own 36%. So if these people were to sign a TV deal for £10M over 5 years, these people will be creaming off £3.6M for themselves? That's a worse deal than when Terry Russell helped himself to a cool million from the £5M Sky deal. I wonder, how much did these people pay to acquire 36% of all the sport's media income?

Well, there's 4 posts claiming he isn't in the Poznan team. None of them specify it has to be the 1-7 or indeed mention any riding number. I tried to help by advising that he was indeed in the team, but it seems to have just angered you for some bizarre reason, rather than informed you. Perhaps a lesson not to try to help some people in future.

Yes.

Must be his twin brother that Poznan have signed

And for the third time. He's riding for Poznan TONIGHT against Leszno.

Nothing to do with tomorrow or Sunday. He's riding for Poznan tonight against Leszno. And it takes priority over Britain

The match is tonight. It takes priority over Britain even though it was rearranged last week

They've got a rearranged fixture against Leszno, and thanks to the stupid international agreement, it takes priority over Britain even though Thursday is Britain's protected night.

Can't imagine Stoney wanting to learn the rulebook or get involved in the paperwork or travelling needed to be a team manager. However it could make sense to use him as a kind of "Brand Ambassador" to turn up at some home meetings and do some P.R. Whether or not Workington would be willing, or think it viable, to pay him to do this, is another question. I know Stoney has done some commentary work on the Belle Vue streaming service, but that's 5 minutes away from home for him, not a 4-hour+ round trip.

Shouldn't hold GPs in Sweden unless the stadium has a roof. Hold them at less rainy places like Manchester

Losing Blodorn is a big blow to BV. Apart from last week's blip against King's Lynn, he's been a solid 7 -8 point scorer at home. R/R will be lucky to get 3 or 4.

A mistake a lot of southerners make.

Sorry to disappoint you, but my forecast is accurate.

Seems they're going to be disappointed. It's going to rain at Belle Vue tonight and overnight. It stops about 6am Tuesday morning and then no rain until we're beyond the other side of the G.P.s

Not sure if they ever check the car park at the Longsight Asda, which is only a short walk to Belle Vue. It's a free car park but may have time restrictions.. (I suspect they never check, but wouldn't want to be responsible for someone getting a parking ticket). I know the other Asda near the Etihad stadium has a 90 minute parking limit when matches are on at Man. City. Checking on the just park website, you could legally park at Longsight Asda from 9.00am to 11.00pm for £3.50

Your complete lack of intelligence to read what I wrote before you replied is amusing. Firstly, I wrote " Manchester is right in the middle of Britain. Probably the fairest place to hold a G.P. to make sure it's equally accessible for everyone." Since I was talking about the fairest place to host the BRITISH Grand Prix, that would make sense to be the middle of BRITAIN. It wouldn't be very intelligent to leave out Scotland and Wales, and just go for the middle of England. What kind of fool would do that? Secondly I wrote "Manchester is 230 miles from Ipswich. Ipswich to Cardiff is 260 miles."' These distances don't change on a daily basis. They are fixed. Surely anyone with a reasonable intelligence level would understand that. I wasn't commenting on anyone not being able to get tickets on a Saturday because no one made any comment about not being able to get tickets on a Saturday. If someone later wants to dishonestly pretend that they said they couldn't get Saturday tickets, when they actually had said no such thing, then their dishonesty says more about them that anyone else. Let's hope they can learn from their mistakes, and make better posts in future.

Did they start the meeting with "It's Friday, It's five-to-five, and it's Ratajczak"

Manchester is right in the middle of Britain. Probably the fairest place to hold a G.P. to make sure it's equally accessible for everyone. You complain t's too far for you to travel from Ipswich? Manchester is 230 miles from Ipswich. Ipswich to Cardiff is 260 miles.

Spot on.