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We all know the solution is cheaper machinary, then cheaper wages will follow. We're told the riders don't want this, but I'm sure once they realise is this, or getting paid peanuts in an ever expanding National League, then they might have to change their stance. But as usual everyone will bury their heads in the sand until it's too late.

Sorry June, not the way we saw it. Stefan took the lead and turned left, Wilko should have shut off or gone wider. Whether Stefan made the straight a bit longer is anyone's guess, but didn't appear to, Howarth and Harris in the British final spring to mind, but the rider in the lead will always get the benefit. So no ban for Wilko, what about Mr Godfrey? Surely the ref must have sent a report in about his behaviour, never heard anything like it.

Arranging a meeting with Edinburgh is one of the hardest things in Speedway, At the end of the day they will pick their date when the opposition are weaker, and the opposition will just have to say yes, or wait until October. I was told the BSPA actually reserved a week for the semi finals to take place this season, but then didn't bother to make sure clubs finished their fixtures on time. We know we're never going to get an independent body running the sport, but fair minded fixture co-ordinator would be nice. Then we'd be looking forward to an all Scottish league cup final by now. Not sour grapes, as baldy said, we'll lose anyway.

Some have thought they could take this sport into the 21st century, but soon gave up. I had high hopes that the likes of Louis and Chapman Junior could have more of an influence in trying to take this sport forward, but never gonna to happen, the old gits think they know best, but we all know they don't.

As we couldn't put a proper team out on the track due to their incompetence, does this mean we can appeal last night's result and get it rerun? Surely there is a case for it, not our fault we were weakened, and 2-3 points would have changed the outcome. Teams have points deducted when they field a rider that they shouldn't have done, but the way this sport is run, I dread to think what sort of ruling they have for this scenario.

I suppose being an Aussie Rohan might be used to Kangaroo courts. Guilty until proved innocent in my humble opinion.

When we did better than expected in 11 and 12 I was convinced we'd win, but for the first time this season Danny didn't come up trumps. But what was this about us being refused a proper guest for Stefan? Word was we were told we couldn't have Greenwood, then we were told we could, but by then it was far too late. Not too sure if it was just a yarn though. Well done to the tiggers, as Baldy asked, why the hell can't we gate at home. As for heat 15, I agree with the decision to put Rohan off 1, Phil must have been sure that Danny would win it, and Rohan's gating had been better than Nico's.

Uninterested? Wouldn't accuse our lot of that, just better getting out of the gate away from home than at home, for some obscure reason.

When I saw 4 pages of this I thought, oh no not that again. But thankfully it's mostly about this meeting or it's participants anyway. Congrats to Glasgow, Ford and Middlo would have been proud of the Howe stunt you pulled, best of luck if you can keep it going, certainly makes you stronger, but bad luck with losing the French bloke, that certainly makes you weaker at the other end. Let's just hope for a good meeting like last week, 46-44 would do nicely, but sooner or later one or both of our 2nd strings have got to start winning races if we're going to have a chance in the play-offs.

Don't think this one will end until they make a decision, which will obviously be "no case to answer due to lack of concrete evidence". Hopefully they wont be too hard on Godfrey, he is entertaining in his sweet little way, but can be a "tad" one sided in his views, but anyone who was there could never condone what Wilkinson did, no need for video evidence on that one, throw the book at the thug I say, or would the Scunny fans like to defend the maniac who waited on the track just to try and boot Stefan off his bike?

Obviously the video doesn't show it, but he turned round and put his hand up once he'd got control of the bike. We all see riders who feel an opposing rider has done something bad want a bit of revenge after the race. They either chuck some shale in their direction, or give them a nudge, sometimes the recipient hasn't got a clue what he's supposed to have done. But in all my 45 years of watching this happen, I've never seen the rider giving it apologise straight away, they're usually too angry with the other rider, but Rohan turned round and did appear to be a bit concerned the moment it happened. The cynics will say that was premeditated, but at the time it looked like a genuine gesture. When he slowed up, he started to turn, but then he saw some crazy men waving their arms around and thought better of it.

Usually when the girls walk off, that's it. Well that was the only indication we got in Warsaw.

Yes HT I am an Ipswich fan, but like most on here, I'm primarily a Speedway fan. No one got hurt? Auty knocking Tungate off at full speed is (usually) more likely to end in someone getting hurt than a nudge after the race. And winding the home fans up to the point where some became aggressive could have also ended in someone getting hurt, you can trust me on that one!! But the thing I need to ascertain is this. IF Rohan slowed up after the race then speeded up as he went past Josh, then he's banged to rights, but did he end the race on the outside and keep the bike wound on to avoid the fence, this happens every meeting. I cant remember what happened, and I'm only playing devils advocate here, but his defence will be a lot better if he never slowed up and was trying to avoid the fence by keeping the throttle open. We saw Stefan and Cam collide 2 races later after the race, thankfully they didn't knock each other off. As I say, I honestly cant remember, but would love to see the footage, then and only then will I point the finger, or not as the case maybe.

So we have all the neutrals saying Josh should have been excluded in the first place, certainly agree with that. As for what happened afterwards, how many times has a rider that's been fenced, get close the next time they meet? Happens all the time, there's no way Rohan intended to knock Josh off, his hand went up to apologise straight away, riders that want to knock someone off, don't apologise the second after it happens. I think Rohan intended to chuck some shale in Josh's direction. Or at worst, he intended to give him a nudge. But we'll never know, it was just very unfortunate that Josh fell awkwardly and hurt himself (but having said that, the way he was stomping around he didn't look very injured to me), but it didn't stop him behaving like an idiot 30-40 minutes later. But what was premeditated was what Wilkinson did, that was not very nice and could have also caused injury. But the whole incident shouldn't have left us fans standing around doing nothing for that amount of time, the Ref made his decision but it appeared that Scunny wouldn't accept it, but when the boss is a nutcase that doesn't seem to know much about the sport, it's only obvious his employees will follow his lead. Good meeting apart the that, but Ippo did make hard work of beating a poor side.

Certainly looks that way, but no more slip ups at home, just in case one of those below us start winning away.

Some cracking racing on a well prepared track, fair result. We said at the interval we need King to beat Cook to have any chance of winning, but Cook was brilliant. Most pleasing thing for me was Rohan, for the past few Weeks I've been convinced he had an arm problem, when all the time he just needed new handlebars, he looked really comfortable on the bike tonight. Obviously the worst bit was Gino's injury, but if he's out for a while then CL must spend the weekend on the phone, R/R was more than adequate to cover for Cam, but we can't cover for Gino on his current average. Problem is, who the hell can we get?

Also heading up for this, don't normally do away meetings unless it's a tour, but Scunny have always tried to do things the right way, so glad to make the effort. Only got one other passenger at the moment, so anybody want a lift, PM me. Leaving about 1-30 and going via Thetford, kings Lynn etc.

There didn't appear to be that grip that Gino liked up the inside, like there was a few weeks ago, but it just could have been he was feeling rough. But it seems most of our lot prefer this way. I just liked it when it was inside line for the first 6-7 heats, then a nice run on the outside later.

Probably the worst meeting since the track got changed, but you can only beat what's put in front of you. But these last 2 meetings I haven't liked the track, does Bob also still do Mildenhall? As they've had problems for the past 2 weeks as well, if this is the case, will Bob be back to prepare something half decent for neat week?

I always thought racing at Berwick was awful, but the Sky meetings recently have been a lot better than I remember. But as soon as Chris gave his track report, you just knew it would be like the olden days. Some tracks are better when they've been under water the day before (Vojens), but Berwick obviously isn't one of them.

Looking at the Swedish fixture list it would have been very difficult for Rye House to avoid this. Only a couple of spare dates from May - September, and Newcastle (with their 2 Swedes) grabbed one of those. But I'm a bit surprised that they didn't try and arrange one of their Thursday night away meetings in early June when the Swedes weren't riding. Maybe in the "interests of the sport", the home side should be able to allow the weakened away side at least one proper guest, the home side still win, but we don't have to watch lesser riders struggle. Or is that too simple?

I'd say it was, no ruts and plenty of passing. I'd love to know what Ole did to try and rectify the starting gates after the practice meeting. In the practice meeting there was little to choose between gates 1,2 and 3, but gate 4 was a graveyard, he was told to make gate 4 better, but all he managed to do was make gate 1 better. I appreciate it's not an exact science, hopefully lessons have been learned and next year the track and gates will be spot on.

Normally I'd fully agree with that, but sadly the track was so dead it didn't have hardly any passing. Let's just hope the track produces some racing lines tomorrow night. Ole was told to make gate 4 better but I doubt he'll be told to provide decent racing. But after what happened in Warsaw, I suppose it's better to have 23 races of some description than a walkout.

Better. I thought we might miss my 3rd favourite rider of this season, but Cam did ok replacing R/R.

In my experience, they search your bag, but not you. I hide my drink in my jacket, and just smile as I open my bag in their direction, never failed yet.