Nickinho

These have got to be some of the most ridiculous comments i've heard on this forum recently and for your post to get so many likes suggests to me that most on here don't know what a crisis British speedway is facing right now. Have you any idea of how many eligible riders there are in the Championship and if many more get suspended there will not be anywhere near enough to go round? YOUR place of work can hire any monkey to do your job as there are 127,000 unemployed people in Scotland to replace you with but there are a VERY LIMITED number of riders who can make up the teams in the Championship (especially heat leaders). And yes IT IS your companies fault for idiots breaking the rules, they hired them and that's why they have enquiries and also hold train companies liable if a driver turns up drunk and ends up steering a train into a ditch killing all onboard. I noticed you didn't say anything about the number of clubs on the verge of going to the wall or not having anywhere to ride next season (Peterborough/Edinburgh/Poole etc). Is this not a sign of "how the sport is performing" or is this a positive thing in your mind?

Speedway IS on its arse. Several clubs are on the brink of extinction, 3 riders have failed drink/drugs tests in the past few months, more have "withheld their services" and the sport is still (for the most part) badly run in poor stadia unfit for the modern age, attendances number a few hundred hardy souls at most clubs and the streaming you mentioned barely has any significance outside of people who already follow and support speedway. But one exciting meeting changes all that? I want to take a shot of whatever you've taken!

A convincing 12 point win but if it had been the first leg of the final I wouldn't have been massively confident about the Tigers' chances going down to Oxford with that kind of lead.

Masters was brilliant in that one, his slingshot under Brennan on bend 4 was incredible. 32-28 after 10 heats

Sensing a Tigers win in the making. 30-24 after Heat 9 Masters coming in as a TS for Heeps who is now out of the meeting.

23-19 after Heat 7 after a delay for any Poole fans interested. Tarasenko looks a class act.

Superb racing by Jenkins, beating Basso

This is ridiculous. They could have called an ambulance by now, in fact they could have carried him to the GRI in this time. I've grown a beard whilst waiting here.

Might be something to do with the fact that the average age of the fans in the main stand is 157

I think it's all subject to change though as I'm sure they just pencil in these playoff meetings on the assumption that the Cheetahs and the Pirates will end up in a different group from each other. If Poole finish first I'm 100% sure that they will pick Scunthorpe and Edinburgh (providing Edinburgh beat out the Brummies) leaving Oxford/Glasgow/Redcar in the other group. That would be the logical choice from a tactical point of view.

I agree. Only Cami Brown can screw up this really good title opportunity now.

I was just intrigued as to what it all entailed.

How does the situation in the pits work during a double header? Will the three Plymouth riders who aren't going to be racing for the Brummies have to leave very promptly and if so how long will the four incoming riders get to unpack their bikes and set up if there's to be no real break in proceedings?

Well, what was the score?

Sorry about the smell but there's nothing the club can do about it short of moving Ashfield further from Possil.

Correct.

I doubt Poole would choose not to face a very weak Monarchs side in a mini league if they got first pick.

You didn't hear about it?? Where have you been?

I can't see any team in the Championship wanting to employ him next season. I think he's burned one too many bridges now. He would just be a dark cloud hanging around disrupting any team's harmony. Shame really because he seems nice enough some of the time.

Rider replacement would be an insult to the fans and an easy win for the Pirates

Cook and Basso (the two Bens)

Nice pic

Who is Bob?

I actually called a win for the Monarchs although i didn't predict that it would be won in such dramatic fashion. If Worrall comes in for Cook in the play-offs, Lasse comes back in time to replace Clegg and Killeen stays in the team instead of Dayle then this will be a strong team and certainly no push-overs.

Thank you