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Troy is talking about tyres he is obliged to race with, not the track surface.

British Speedway Promotion Ltd, well surely that name contravenes some trade description law. Seems to me that the Championship may not be perfect but it is working fairly well, a reasonable number of teams racing to a decent standard. The main problem in British Speedway that needs to be addressed, is the Premiership, too few teams, racing close to second tier standards. If the aim is to make the Premiership TV viable, improve the product. Don't stifle what's working to make a poor product look comparatively better, because the British Premiership is still going to be second rate compared to the other European leagues. Message to BSP Ltd, get off your ar.es do some promoting, work towards making the Premiership a premium product, work on the bits that are broken not the bits that work.

At last something other than a track whin.. British Speedway setting the championship team average lower in order to make the Premiership look superior is such a bad joke, it totally pathetic management. Time for a new UK Speedway Authority, or new team to manage the existing one. If the aim was to degrade the UK version of the sport you couldn't do a better job.

So what do people go to look at, the racing or the track?

Well I enjoyed myself, there were plenty of passes, riders were riding different lines, no particular gate became a graveyard. The track did deteriorate over the evening but then which track stays great all the way through? Complaining about the track seems to be some people's standard reflex post, regardless of the racing. They are of course welcome, but it never adds much interest. Poole finish top of the league, regardless of whatever other teams do. Two things are significant, first the points difference Poole's is over plus 200 while other playoff teams are around 50, the second fact is that Poole won all available bonus points. Bring on the play-offs.

By my maths Poole only need a win to top the league, because I'm thinking it then goes to points difference. Special mention to the Galdiators thanks for tonight's efforts, shame about the bonus point debacle.

Congratulations Plymouth, hard luck with the superheat, and thanks from a Poole fan.

Sure a bucket full more and we'll be nicely topped up, thanks for the kind thought.

Well IMO Plymouth should be pretty happy with that, especially if they can secure a Collosium loving guest for Nichols. Plymouth could do Poole a bit of a favour by winning this one.

When you say the population of the Poole area is the same as Cumbria, you must be including your sheep as well right? Also worth noting that Poole has many fans travelling a fair distance for meetings, hence why the recent closure of the A31 was an issue for some.

I'm definitely in two minds over the league playoffs. Logically we have a league, a knockout and a hybrid competition(BSN) three different formats kind of testing different attributes of a team. So maybe it should be left at that? BUT the playoffs give us more club speedway to watch and like TheWellBehavedWorall says has dealt up some outstanding finals, last year at Ashfield and the year before at Wimborne Road. So on balance let's carry on and enjoy the playoffs.

Well if Poole gets all three of the remaining points they end up on 30, but Glasgow can now potentially end on 31 and so top the league. See from your edit this isn't required

Well you blew that one I'm afraid, two more opportunities.

Well that's about where I'm at, pity though because it's always nice to end up top of the league and now it's advantage Glasgow.

Somebody on Facebook suggests that Lewis Kerr has injured himself this evening, can anyone confirm?