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as this is in Saturdays GP you must be referring to the Pedersen/Woffy incident, if you honestly think that riders or their crew get bans for that then then the games gone. I dread to think what the pc brigade thought of Boyce lumping Gollob ...I bet most of them were on gardening leave for weeks after that!

was that the meeting they didn't turn up to?....or am I miles wide of the mark?

I would rather watch him than the likes of Hancock, Dudek, Todd Wiltshire etc who are/were just start tarts! The young lad reminds me of Gollob, fast, exciting and entertaining.....just what the sport needs

thugs?....ffs petal there was little more than words thrown at each other, the only person who "may" of been out of order was Huffy, Huffy, Huffy who tried to flick his back wheel at Pedersen... Talk about being a 2018 drama queen!

wasn't there another rider that was also caught up in all this at the time, possibly an Aussie?...or am I thinking about something else?

to be fair Lambert is correct in all this. Should Poole be deducted points..no. Should Poole be fined by the Environmental Agency, 100% yes.

could someone let me know when Rossitor is officially going to open the new stadium at Swindon please?

After the shambles of the Swindon and Leicester meeting last night, should Swindon be either fined or deducted points? In cricket if you prepare a pizz poor wicket you are deducted points, surely after last nights debacle then some form of action needs to be taken against the home club. Last night was a great chance to build on the success of the British GP from Cardiff, the sport probably had new viewers tuning in to watch something similar to Saturday night, yet all they were dished up was a horrendous advert for British League speedway, the sport can either learn from this and take measurers to prevent the same mistakes or it can be swept under the carpet similar to other meetings, from every negative comes a positive and if this sport has any real future in this Country then have an enquiry, include owners, promoters,track men, riders, referee's, BT and learn from the mistakes and come up with a agreed plan so that going forward meetings like last night are minimalised at the very least...after all for this sport to thrive everyone needs to be working together. I also don't get the outbursts by Batchelor and Morris, both have form for being outspoken, instead of wasting your energy and time on social media etc, why don't they try and be constructive and build a strong SRA, until the vast majority of the riders have a strong voice very little will change. Last night was poor but its a good chance for British speedway to change things and for the better.

the track will be slicker than a Poole track in April and there will be more dust than in the Leicester trophy cabinet

its the team manager where the problem is, maybe he's the one whose gone stale

How ironic, Jason Doyle springs to mind when loyalty is mentioned!

every non Poole fan knows the rules are bullsh7t and that at some time or another than are going to get "pushed/pulled" to the limit. At least with all these changes Golden Head Neil will be smiling on tv again!

its quite simple, riders demand high fees, promoters cant afford them but need to be competitive, promoters then have a golden goose, goose lays the eggs, riders eat the eggs, goose dies, promoters fooked!!

speedway in Milton Keynes was never sustainable, why should it be any different nowadays? MK Dons, lovely stadium, virtually empty for home games. Basketball, all but died a death.

and yet there are other riders who cannot forget what other riders have done quick enough.

Here's the scenario. I have all the ability in the world but because I'm a fat bloke I'm never going to make it. I'm the fittest bloke in the world but because I have no ability I'm never going to make it. I am fairly fit and have ability but still never going to make it. I am the fittest bloke and have as much ability as anyone else, I'm still not going to be top dog. I am the fittest bloke, I have the same ability as anybody else and a selfish mindset but I'm still not going to be top dog. I am now the fittest bloke, have good ability, selfish but above all else I have my more than fair share of luck to reach the top.

To me its fairly obvious, there are 15 minutes of racing in speedway meeting, yet meetings tart at 7.30 and finish at around 9.15 on average, stadiums in general do not have full under cover stands, pa systems that are pizz poor, announcers/presenters that are ta best average in terms of geeing up the crowd and keeping everyone entertained. Fans and riders used to moan about Frank Ebdon but maybe just maybe he was ahead of his time in pushing meetings through, todays youngsters are the one's that will need to sell speedway to their youngsters going forward, nobody wants to stand out in the elements for nigh on two hours for 15 minutes of entertainment and lets be honest most races or even meetings may not be entertaining!

why be so facetious, it was a genuine question.

these engines have been out for a while now, if they were as cost efficient and competitive as some believe then surely there would be lot more of them out on the tracks than there currently is, as we all know once a rider has a good spell and its put down to something totally different to what others are doing the vast majority follow suit. Is Fast Freddie currently on one of these over the counter engines?

I've seen a lot of Brady over the years, yes he's very fast and fearless but I've always had the feeling that he is a crash just waiting to happen.

getting large chunks on is hard but it is still perfectly possible...you just have to use your head, there's a few of us in a syndicate that bet heavily during the speedway season.

its not rocket science teams making a loss, when a teams number one in the elite league earns roughly the same as twenty paying adults per race. then add to that the other six riders, then its obvious debts are going to mount up. Perhaps Rosco wasn't keeping Doyle safe and sound by not using him in meaningless heat 15s? The simple solution is.... promoters only pay riders out after all the other expenses are paid on a race night, sadly speedway is now a glorified hobby nowadays with a few promoters willing to risk their own money....

but that theory is no different than buying a GM, Jawa, Weslake etc etc off of the shelf....once they are out of the shop they are open to all sorts of "abuse"!

I think you are missing the concept of the meaning of off of the shelf, that would indicate that I could go and buy exactly the same engine as FF and then ride it on the shale without doing anything to it, your post indicates that this is not the case as FFs would be tinkered with and alas is a whole different beast. There is no way on this earth that this has any mileage in it, do you honestly believe that all riders will use the same engine without trying to find that extra advantage out of the engine?...very similar to does every single rider use methanol.

Do you not think there should of been over twice as many in the stadium considering that the World Championship was all but done and that the champion would be a Aussie?