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Really pleased that Nilsson got through, great to see an underdog make it by rights. Poles shown up again outside of Poland, British tracks are not just flat-out and slick.

Odsal was a great venue but I think the roof is such a big ticket item in Cardiff's favour - maybe a 100m track would fit into the Centre Court at Wimbledon

Oh we drove and parked 10 minutes walk away. Plenty of food choices on the walk in and home in and hour and a half as it was right near the main road.

Sorry but I agree with OP, it is wholly relevant. It is the experience. Tension and exciting speedway is not all about the fastest guy missing the start.

Nicholls is also ok at the moment as he rode for Oxford last night. The call off will have been due to rider availability I expect.

To get 80k there must have been some serious promotion - but again Wembley is not in the best of areas, a bit like the NSS. Now Tottenham stadium I was impressed with when I went there to see GnR.

Stuff the moaners, Dan shows the throttle merchants how to ride, didn't see him jumping about everywhere, that's skill.

Pickering was pony at Ipswich last night but did fall in his third ride, although didn't appear injured at all and rode off again.

Nice bit of afters between Tungate and Lawson after ht15 - Lawson was trying to slow it down to allow worral through, nothing wrong with that in my view, didn't look dangerous but added some spice

He's the pre-meeting entertainment I think, doing a cover version of 'snooker loopy' in homage to Chas N Dave. He'll also be doing some TRick shots (I'll get my coat).

Given the speed with which some clubs cancel meetings, due to some rain maybe being in the air or some stadium issue or another, surely the fact that one team is so decimated, to the point it will no longer be a contest, should be an equally valid reason to postpone. Even more so given that it is the fans, rather than the home promoter who will be missing out (although you could argue for increased pay bill and slightly depleted crowd)

Shame for the travellers but the train company should pay them properly, they don't forego a day's pay unless they have nowhere else to go.

Sink or swim maybe but I remember people on here wetting themselves thinking how dominant Musielak would be in this league but he's only managed a GSA of 8.09 (7.67 away from Sheffield). Holder has been even worse in the UK. Perhaps it's here where riders are developed

I think he would - it's not as though he wouldn't have had opportunities to race there. I do accept though that the added coin in his pocket will have allowed him to spend more on his support team and there is more pressure from the media/fans there to do well.

Bewley would have progressed anyway, no matter where he rode, in my opinion. He was on the upward curve anyway. There's nothing about being afraid either if you're offered an eye watering salary. I see other old hands such as Hampel and Protaseiwicz are still doing well. The poles didn't do so well when up against the others at the SON did they, so the view of where might be tough is different depending on who you are.

I never said it was! All I was saying was that those were the set down rules, to which the riders objected, to clear up the point that the BSPA had no idea what to do.

All the arguing on here about no rule being in place and fair to have a run of between Bewley Harris and Brennan - they hadn't met each other so that would not be a fair outcome at all. Harris had only met Nicholls out of the top five and he'd lost to him. The rules were in place and clear, to declare a result a ballot should have taken place between the three highest scores at that point. This is what the riders objected to and the BSP caved in. Deapite that, I think a restaging is the fairest result though.

There was, a ballot but the riders didn't like that idea and they didn't stand up to them. Don't think the fans would have like that either!

I think someone did that earlier in this thread. According to that it should have been draw the names from a hat to get the first three positions because Harris hadn't ridden against either Bewley or Brennan. Nicholls will have been gutted as he'd already raced the other four in the top five and with 7 was within reach of the top two places.

Disagree on that though, Harris hasn't faced either Brennan or Bewley so he must have stood behind Brennan, who beat Bewley.

Simply not fair whatever they decide, apart from restaging the meeting. Some riders have had easier races than others.

Sadly rain is always a risk at B Vue, which may explain the size of the crowd. Was nicely poised for a great finish, they should restage it because any other result is an injustice. Harris has not raced Brennan or Bewley whereas others have faced all three (Nicholls for example). Fans want to see a full meeting.

It's a great weekend and a lovely city. The atmosphere during the day, if the weather holds, is goods, as is the afternoon event before the meeting gets underway (fanzone?). We've stayed outside and got the train into Cardiff - now it's an earlier finish this is feasible from a fair distance away.

Lots of people are moaning about the racing, I thought it was great. The way Lahti kept riders behind him was top drawer - as commented on by Louis. You don't have to have lots of overtaking for it to be good racing, although there was some of that too. We'll done Vojens, a track you need to think on not just twist the throttle open.