RobMcCaffery

No, British through and through and have yet to even visit the USA. Following this sport for 45 years you tend to pick up on what's going on in other countries. Hope the information is useful to you and any other readers here. Pleased to encounter someone here new to the sport and enjoying what they see.

No rider has ever quit the Grand Prix series mid-way through. I don't see why Chris should have to become the first just to please supporters on a forum. He's there by right and has no obligation to others for whatever level of success he achieves apart from his support team, sponsors and fans.

I can tell you we need peace and an end to world hunger. Do I have to now tell you how to achieve it?

And the cost. If the increased revenue covers the cost, great. If not, who picks up the bill for the losses? - certainly not the fans whingeing about the lack of 'names'.

Now now, you have been told off by someone from Poole - you must stay told off, no excuses.

Typical of Poole to put their own selfish needs above those of the sport in Britain as a whole. Form a queue for those souvenirs, especially the Matt Ford doll with the sun shining out of his backside! (The alternative model with a magazine seller had to be cancelled - the focus group is still in therapy).

NSport+ in Poland and CMore Sport in Sweden both repeat league matches two or three times in the week following them. On match day there are two kinds of links offered by the streamers - one is just a temporary link to a channel showing the match live and the link ends when the match does. The others give 24/7 links to the actual channel, thus allowing you to tune into the repeat showings. Here are two program guides: http://www.cmore.se/kanaler# - the channel most likely to show speedway is CMore Sport but I've noticed some matches are on CMore Live. The only way of accessing CMore 24/7 is via the Kodi program which does complicate matters. Links were provided by Steve Shovlar in one of the Swedish League threads. Here's a Polish program guide: http://www.teleman.pl/ NSport+ and TVP Sport (who carry the Nice League) listings are near the bottom. The Polish word for speedway is zuzel which translates as slag (stop grinning at the back of the class, boy). Using a browser with auto-translate like Google Chrome is EXTREMELY useful. Getting these two is much easier, telewizjada gives 24/7 access. Links are given by racers & royals regularly. The Polish Ekstraliga matches then seem to be on mid-morning and afternoon Mondays so early morning there. There are usually later showings later in the week. TVP Sport usually carry a repeat of the Nice Polish League (the second division) late on Sunday nights over here, about 5-6 pm in NYC. The reason there's not been much on You Tube is that there were no league matches last weekend and the week before only one of the matches, Gorzow v Torun made it onto You Tube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=okLFdb15dbQ I can't stress enough how useful it is to follow racers & royals postings about matches and coverage here and in the Polish match videos 2016 thread. Hope this helps. I see r&r has posted this weekend's live links while I typed this. By the way, you can watch live racing for real in upstate New York, albeit at a much lower level and just individual, not in teams. The main events are in California - details of all US motorcycle speedway is here: http://www.speedwaybikes.com/ Your next big race in NY State is at Champion Speedway in Owego on May 29th. Details here: http://www.speedwaybikes.com/tracks/owego_ny.htm Why not give it a try?

Nights? They don't understand concepts like that down in Lower Bournemouth ;-) Anyway, I shall be at home on Sunday and hope to fit luncheon in between the Nice Polish League and first Ekstraliga match, then supper is planned for after the second match. I'll probably have afternoon tea during the interval of the middle match. Off now to practice crooking my little finger......

Glad to hear it. :-) He thought he might have had some of my old recordings but they were all after I'd quit. Decent of him to offer and fascinating to see his set-up!

Yes, but the signals still have be de-crypted. I once visited a Racers' fan in Newbury who had a huge motorised system and a large control room at his home where he spent much of his time getting codes on the internet to de-crypt all the signals. It was his retirement hobby, rather like doing a crossword puzzle. Perfectly possible to receive C More and nSport here - the tricky part is watching them ;-) It's just odd that it's mainly ex-Soviet Union residents that manage this and upload them.

Glad to hear that someone's now putting the Swedish matches on You Tube. You do wonder how these Ukranians and Russians get the signals.

Okay, you are happy with 12 heats of speedway in about a 45 minute programming slot (taking out the ads and promos from the average sports channel 'hour') but for those of us trying to follow the meeting scores it's just not good enough. The moment that hole in the meeting appeared I gave up on keeping individual scores. I saw a couple of good races, as usual from Kumla and noted the match score but I lost all interest in individual scoring. You can edit sports like football or rugby heavily without missing incidents that change the score but when it comes to speedway, unless you just watch the racing without keeping score it's like reading a book with several chapters missing. As for last year I'd either watch a recording and fast forward through the breaks or get on with something else until the racing restarted, just like I would at a meeting where I always have something with me to read during gaps. There was plenty of time to show all 15 heats. It's just lazy editing - far easier just to cut one large chunk out than review and edit properly. I've been there!

Thanks - I have been watching the C More Sport coverage for several years but can't always watch at 6 pm on a Tuesday. When I looked at Money Sports it was only a mirror of Sports Devil which seems far more stable. I tried several times to access C More and nSport +via Money Sports without any success and I do have the latest installation of Kodi. Away from Kodi, Stream2Watch seems more stable than VIP Box which tends to get awkward about Ad Blockers. If only we didn't have to..... (EDIT - Just had another go and found C More Sport working via Money Sports - no luck re N Sport+ so still relying n the Polish add-on).

Charlie Dugard used to sit right by me when I was there. Well, it was Russell Lanning who'd hired me and he was just making sure. The Eagles had an electronic timing system. I was working at what was at the time a rare night meeting and the track record went a couple of times, presumably due to different track conditions. At that point Charlie suggested I add the odd second or two onto any other records on the basis he didn't want riders risking themselves chasing the record!

Fair enough, you have the contacts. It is encouraging that it was a competition for the SGP rights and that BT were prepared to outbid the incumbent. Nice for the sport to be wanted. Putting GPs on Quest last year could be interpreted two ways - either it was a sign of commitment that they would turn a factual channel over to sport temporarily or the opposite since they hadn't found space on the main channels. Still doesn't excuse the treatment of Elitserien. Their haphazard scheduling had charm in 1990, but not now. Bear in mind the One Sport deals are with Polish Eurosport so don't come into the consideration of the channel's overall commitment.

Sadly it's no surprise. I feared it wouldn't last since apart from the commentary team they clearly show no understanding of or consideration for the sport. Clearly they leapt into the SGP and Swedish deals then couldn't wait to get rid. This 'coverage' is just seeing the contract out rather like Sky did when they buried the GPs behind the red button.

When I stood in as announcer at Eastbourne in the mid 80s I soon learned that the starting gate was controlled by the ref by thumping a mechanical lever, not electrically operating it by a button. Accordingly the home stars had learned to watch for the ref's shoulder to move - so one was determined to learn how to operate it without moving his shoulder........

The Sunday match was covered by TVP Sport, as is Polish Division 1. So far this year it;s been tough to find any of TVP's coverage on You Tube, as opposed to nsport's Ekstraliga coverage so you may be disappointed. Frustratingly the match is on the TVP website but only viewable in Poland. There is one option though, a repeat of the match is on TVP Sport tomorrow night at 23.25 CET, 22.25 BST 17.25 New York time. It's also being shown on Saturday at 13.15 CET, 12.15 BST or 7.15 New York time. If you use this link and look for TVP Sport you should be able to watch it as live: http://www.telewizjada.net/ Hope this helps.

So, the inadequate access, inadequate and unsafe parking, revisions to location of the new stadium without key alterations to the original plans are 'excuses'? Do you actually have any kind of grasp of what's going on?

Thank you. That's pretty damning and amounts to 'go back and start again' re the plans for parking and access. It echoes the concerns voiced here that the proposed parking will be thoroughly inadequate and that there have been significant revisions to the new stadium's location that have invalidated several previous plans. Most importantly, the idea that the old stadium can continue while the new one is being built is severely questioned. The reference to the proposal to use a local park and ride to compensate for the car parking shortfall is also cast into doubt by the failure to include plans for revised access to that site. There is also fundamental criticism of the lack of pedestrian walkways. These are fundamental problems and in the modern H&S culture would appear to need to be comprehensively addressed. Something tells me that it is going to be a long time, if at all before we see any diggers moving in. There is another document regarding noise which states that if after three meetings the noise levels exceed a certain limit then activities will be suspended until the noise barrier can be improved to bring levels below the limit. That again is concerning. If someone were to go to a council and argue that they would like to build a motorsports stadium in the middle of a housing estate I think we would all know the response, and yet that is what is proposed here, and one with inadequate parking as well. I really worry for the future. The new stadium plans look great but I really can't see how this is going to happen. It does look to me that once the initial housing is built there will be pressure by GI to claim that the new stadium is unworkable and apply to finish off the housing estate.

BBC WM do a superb job. If only more could.

Can I suggest that those arguing with the polish troll read the other thread started by him about Darcy Ward and just treat him with the contempt he so obviously deserves and don't feed his sickness by responding to him. I made that mistake and regret it - please don't repeat my error.

The meeting isn't held up to let the presenters finish their conversation you know. It's their job to fill the gaps so they talk about the meeting and the sport. What would prefer them to do, form a death metal duo? As someone who's done the job on a much less-important scale it's good to know that all anyone who's ever done the job is ';waffle'. So good to be appreciated. People wonder why so many shun the sport when you have to put up with ill-informed comments like this. I still love and enjoy the sport but would never, ever work in it again given that this is the kind of 'reward' that you get.

I'm not convinced it's human. I think it's an experimental pillock bot. Anyway, for those too stupid to know where Scunthorpe is, here's a hint. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scunthorpe

We have had domestic video recording for nearly forty years now!