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It was good for the first half of the meeting, but the grading didn't keep up with the track and it fell.away, particularly after the third set of heats. There was some good racing though all the same - we've had worse GPs this year.

The idea of riders being club assets when they ride for multiple clubs and are ostensibly self-employed, is quite possibly the weirdest of speedway concepts.

Some people might call a lack of excitement boring.

I was there. No one at the track was bored. The first half of the meeting was really good, although it did tail off in the second half of the meeting. It certainly wasn't the worst SGP meeting of the year.

The early heats were good. Track hasn't been graded well through the meeting though.

I thought the exclusion was a bit harsh on Claus tbh.

Tom doesn't ride the outside like others, and I think that's hurting him at Ashfield. He defaults more to the inside and it's just not the quickest line most weeks. Claus also has an unusual line, which I'm sure is one of the reasons he takes someone out once every two meetings.

Yep, that’s the team.

There's also plenty space to park for free at the bottom of Ashfield Street. No houses on one side of the road, so no residents to get annoyed, which is always nice.

Land is painfully expensive, before you even build anything. Especially if there’s any possibility houses could be built on the land.

Plus the château will be a lot cheaper.

Bournemouth are in the top tier…

Yeah, not very subtle. Good to see ref didn’t stand for it!

He took a tactical hit because it was that or last.

Greg’s opinion is unlikely to be accepted as defamation, unless it can be proved he didn’t believe what he was saying.

I thin’ he’s not interested if it’s at Belle Vue. Sounded that way on Eurosport this week. Reckon he could be tempted somewhere else.

I think Lee's big enough and old enough to handle it to be honest.

I think Bomber was 13. We can piece it together between us!

It would be difficult to sell season tickets for matches you can’t guarantee will happen, certainly.

I agree, much though I do like the racing at NSS. I know there is a bias as I do live in Glasgow, but I'd love for the British final to be held at Ashfield - and to be honest, it would be good for it to move around a bit.

There is a public update on Facebook: https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=pfbid083CwJ6Sve4F8eUgN8BT7RXqbxp6gWd9s1LPpAJVHgqsSpEtzduyJDBoCVQkkj4JAl&id=100001054358978

Lee’s 2023 average is 4.00, Adam’s is 3.43. So this calendar year, Lee is an upgrade - it just hasn’t filtered through the averages because 20 matches might take until 2030 at the pace of the fixture list.

Please read the room. You’re coming across quite tone deaf.

Maybe it would be better to have matches early and often, and then fill the calendar with challenge matches once they’re done.

They can’t be much worse.