Najjer

That's an interesting and valid point - It's a bizarre one in that Todd Kurtz had his best meeting of the season by a long distance on a track that was 'terrible' according to the Somerset team manager and promotor. It's a sad sign of the times when you only have to look at IDH's picture of the Oak Tree Arena last week to see it resembling the M5 by half way through the meeting to see who is dictating track prep there and calling the shots. No wonder he doesn't fancy it with some dirt down on the track. I said at the time and I stand by it, signing Schlein was a mistake and the most untypical Somerset signing you will ever see.

Typical Schlein. Embarrassment.

I've had the pleasure of watching both James and Charles plenty of times at Somerset. On their day, both of them could be absolutely brilliant. We signed James mid way through a season after he was released by Workington (I think) and he was fantastic. He scored double figures most weeks at home and was a real racer. This is when the OTA was a superb track and James would often fly round the boards passing people for fun. He started the next season for us in the same year we had Vissing and Jesper Monberg come in. He became so frustrating though - He would go out and beat the opposition no.1 and then crawl round at the back in his next race in heat 14 behind some hopeless reserve. As said above, he could be so good and yet so frustrating/bad all within a few minutes of eachother. Charles Wright was superb from the moment we signed him. He'd been scoring hatfuls for Buxton and then to some peoples annoyance signed him to replace Stefan Nielsen. Wrighty nearly won us the league that year and became the best rider to ever watch in my opnion at the OTA after that. Somerset is a worse place without him.

Thanks for that - Literally staggering really. No wonder they get such big crowds.

Yeah absolutely - From the matches I've watched I certainly haven't seen many 70 year old with speedway badges on his hat waving his programme board around. Much more of a football type atmosphere which only adds to the spectacle.

I was expecting alot more - remarkable when you compare that to what British speedway charges and offers up in comparison.

Great crowds. What is the admission price for Polish Speedway roughly in English money?

Glasgow by 20 or more.

Any potential promise disappeared when Berge left before even riding a single meeting. Schlein will always be the same no matter what division he’s in, where he always throws in duff meetings every now and then.

Cracking photos as always

Embarrassing from Schlein and Covatti. Grobauer doesn’t seem to cut the mustard either.

I know the weather has been unfortunate at times but it's crazy we are heading towards the end of June and some teams have only raced twice, Redcar haven't had a league meeting at all and others have had 7 fixtures!

Not much in attendance from what some say for 2nd division league racing. Someone said about 550. I wonder what is more profitable.... or least costly.

Great to hear the challenge meeting was a success on track. So begs the question - what would people rather see, lower standard but lower entrance fees/costs or a higher standard and higher entrance fees/costs?

I see - thanks for that. A little bit of a joke if he flops today and then turns up at the final and walks into the GP series.

Can anybody explain what the deal is with Pavlic, and why he's expected to get a wildcard to the final anyway?

The post quoted above yours, seems to suggest otherwise.

I'm trying to work out why it's acceptable to discuss it at a speedway track but not on a speedway forum?

Why not? If people were openly discussing it at the track as you say, what's the difference?

Wasn’t that said to be the main reason for dropping down to remain on a Wednesday? Glorious day in Highbridge today, and a perfect night for speedway!

A lie to whoever shows a complete lack of integrity.

You applaud them for lying to you? Things really are bad at Birmingham it seems!

Doesn’t matter - you still won’t have any wriggle room for changes unless they are like for like I would imagine.

I still post as I still follow the Rebels, albeit from the comfort of my own home nowadays. There used to be a great following on the forum from Somerset which has slowly dwindled away year on year to almost non-existent now. It only feels like yesterday when we used to have the Somerset forum which was brilliant back in its hey-day until that closed. Over priced is what has killed it for me too. For basically the same price we could of watched Jason Doyle, Jack Holder, Robert Lambert etc. Now you get a host of National League riders - plus as has been posted before, a team which isn’t ‘Somerset’ and no fans favourites from previous so there is no association to the team anymore.

Fair enough - Makes the electrical situation even more fishy.