bigcatdiary

Still showing tickets available this evening, very strange

Reply says an online voucher for rebooking will be offered should a match be rained off.

I have asked the question re Sheffield as four of us are planning to attend the match on the 20th May I will let you know what’s said.

Bspa news today mentions Wolves opening fixture

We will see

Surely this is more ACU territory than BSPA.

Somerset could improve a lot of things, toilets, terracing, seating and food establishments. Racing is generally very good but it’s still just a track in a field with a nice clubhouse.

Falling star anyone

Or even their pedantic sidekicks

2% over 10 years is what’s been reported on the GP site.

That ship has well and truly sailed, rides as a New Zealand rider in all recent WC qualifiers which is the deciding factor I am told.

Every track has some home track advantage although it clearly varies from track to track. Belle Vue is no different.

It’s an old team I don’t think anyone can dispute that, as to whether that will affect its ability to do well remains to be seen. Things will become clearer in May but as long as the track is set up to suit our team of racers I don’t see too much of a problem and look forward to a return of the racing.

Palin is a talent I don’t think many will argue with that, but as you say Bates and Bacon have a clear advantage over most of the other no 7,s.

Josh Bates final 2019 GSA is 5.20, bearing in mind he is likely to ride at no 7 how on earth can it be right to compare him with any of the other Rising stars riding at no 7 who have yet to ride in the Premiership. Its ludicrous.

Of course that’s assuming they all start when they usually do, at the moment it isn’t looking too promising.

Who knows, for some reason no one provides starting GSA anymore.

Certainly looks like the best option going forward, I will be changing when my subs needs renewing

My star again didn’t come on Thursday or Friday this week so I emailed for a digital issue and it came through very quickly, I will be seriously considering this for the future, very impressed. Paper copy arrived in Saturdays post, that’s 4 days for RM to deliver something 24 miles away, absolutely abysmal.

Exactly my point, basically some teams have gained an advantage by using older Rising Stars, if every Premiership team had used a rising star with little or no Championship experience their would have been no real difference. I think Palin is a cracking young rider and in time could be very good but he isn’t at the same level at the moment that Josh Bates or Tom Bacon are, if Rising stars had been given 4, 3, 2 and 1 point starting GSA and were included in a 1-7 team total I doubt a few teams would have built the same way.

I wouldn’t put money on it

A very good question.

Not really, Michael Lee was actually quite good on any speedway track

Very true

The point exactly, the sport needs to get the tracks to produce racing not gate and go crap that does nothing for no one. Good racing will attract fans, that and getting back to encouraging teams to sign just our own locally grown talent will go a long way to avoiding problems like the Polish league rules in the future.