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Looked like Leicester used all their luck up in the semi final maybe that was their Cup Final, as to speak.

riders cheating isn't anything new, its not so long ago about the smell of certain fuels in the pits and it burning your eyes! I am amazed that some think it doesn't actually go on!

Just to confirm the Poole leg will only go ahead with ten days of no rain, heatwave with temperatures up in the 90's, ten days for the shale to dry out and blow away in the wind, any sign of grip or shale and it will be postponed, will only go ahead until the previous meetings blue groove is showing! On a serious note I'm really looking forward to both legs of this, two evenly matched teams which will hopefully serve up a belter.

No problem at all with female presenters in sport, in fact i quite enjoy a number of them who have "history" within that sport, cricket and football are examples that straight away spring to mind, they can adlib and fill in those awkward moments with constructive input. The difference in speedway the person involved with the pit interviews has no history within it which thus means she doesn't have that rapport with the riders, some of the best female presenters in the pits have been the likes of Suzi Perry, Charlie Webster, Sophie Blake, Julia Bradbury but they all had that natural gift of knowing what to say at the right time.. I believe most of those ladies went on to greater things outside of speedway, but could be wrong.

So all things considered....all the so called speedway experts on here before tapes up said the track would be a great leveller and it was advantage Leicester....the track was in great nick and the track staff deserve some credit for preparing a decent track, some clubs would of served an absolute ploughed field. Belle Vue wanted it that lot more and its a huge advantage to take to Leicester...always great to watch a top English rider being the best on show, and by quite a distance. Well done the Aces for preparing a decent track and also for the performance on it.

people already moaning about one line and follow the leader, must be Poole or Sheffield fans, home from home and all that!

really hope this is on tonight, thoroughly enjoy the racing from Belle Vue. Any locals have a gut feeling whether it'll be on or off?

Regarding the track....interesting that Jack Holder didn't go looking for the "fence line" , where previously he had excelled from it. Decent meeting purely on the aggregate score and what was at stake, in terms of actual racing/passing it was pretty lack lustre.

Thought I had seen it all in terms of poor professionalism from TV "presenters"....but last night was probably the lowest of the lowest. It is evidently clear that the person doing interviews in the pits is so far out of their depth it is brutal to watch...when a team manger tells you to not interview a rider yet you ignore his advice, you are left with an absolute cringeworthy situation live on air. The same "presenter" has no real rapport with the riders and thus makes poor viewing, the incident with the obvious bad injury to Ben Cook is a example, instead of waffling and digging a bigger hole why not try and use some common sense and leave it to the likes of Scott/Kelvin/Ollie who have been in that position and know what to say and what not to say. Last Monday night when Pickering was revving the guts out of his bike, why would you try and have an interview with him? Thought it was poor last night and in general over the season it has become more and more of the same, how many times have we seen pit interviews that have been interesting and entertaining?...it needs someone from the TV side to have that rapport with the riders, a person the riders respect, something Scott Nicholls does and has with the vast majority of them.

some on here could also say they were wrong to cast aspersions and jumping to conclusions about Jack, seemed pretty quick to add their ten penneth at the time.

Who do i want?....Britney Spears. Who do i fancy....Kylie Minoque.

Why the hell should Jack Holder be offering someone a "freebie" who has publicly criticized him if he feels he hasn't done anything wrong?

In the quiet words of the Virgin Mary, come again.

Fair play to Chris Holder and any rider who sticks up for themselves and gives a bit back...social media has born a free speech platform, where anybody can say what they want when ever they want about anything they want, whether it has any credence or any truth about it. Most of these riders that are tarnished with a bad name on social media and indeed on here are based on what they see on tv/streams and read on X/Facebook/forums,.

any chance of holding the second leg back at Belle Vue?...by far the best track in the league and would be another great spectacle for the sport, as opposed to the dross that will be served up at Sheffield.

Pickering over and exactly 7, can see him getting heat 15 which means it'll be oi oi oi!!

I meant in terms of over sized engines, model fuel, springs, carbs etc etc

always been a topic for discussion, some warranted and some fabricated....does it go on nowadays?

lets cut to the chase if Leicester don't win on aggregate it's one hell of a lost opportunity...Leicester should be winning this in a absolute canter.

why cant some people just get their head around that losing Doyle and Emil IS irreplaceable?....and as the late Sinead once said "nothing compares". Some(not all) Sheffield fans cannot even win with a slight bit of dignity and class, you got lucky with racing against a very unlucky opposing finalist, its sport it happens. The final could of been a cracker with both teams at full strength.

There's a discussion on the forum about dirty riders on the track. Here's one about riders that didn't necessarily sort the problem out on the track but off of it. Riders that were harder off of it than on it. Carl Stonehewer chasing a rider with a shovel. Stan Bear climbing a seven foot fence to get at someone who was giving his mrs grief.

a lot of people think that because rider B fenced rider A and it is clear as day in their memory, they classify that rider B as a dirty rider....now it may be just a case of where rider A had fenced or been over hard on rider B at some during their career....some riders have very long memories or even a notebook in the tool box....old saying of what goes around comes around. Mike Sampson, Matousek, Nicki and Ronni Pedersen, Phil and Jason Crump, Gollob and all the riders listed on this discussion can/could be hard when the time was right.... However there are many riders you wouldn't go round the outside of

Track was as poor as the Ipswich performance. Gotta feel for Ipswich, no matter which speedway team you support losing two of the best riders in the league then no matter what guests you bring in you will never have the same points scoring or the same team spirit within the camp. Think we all know that Ipswich with a full team would of kept it to around a maximum of 10 points last night, if anything they did well to keep it to 20. Fair play to Sheffield they can do no more than they did and will win the cup convincingly.

so then is the Mr Attitude Jack Holder going to go through the card tonight?...should do really but not convinced he will