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I must say I do find the production,directing and vision mixing of the league Speedway quite confusing this year. The guy in charge is very experienced and in fact would say he is the master of directing Speedway tv production having done 100s of GPs and has done the world cups as well but not really sure what's going on with the league coverage. I am unsure whether he is being let down by a more junior production team and vision mixer than he is used to or whether as there is less cameras is struggling to produce it in the way as you can the GPs. This may be why they keep cutting to Debbie and Colin Pratt as they haven't got the on track angles to make the coverage seem varied. I have also noticed that now the nights are starting to draw in that more of the meetings are being done in the dark the age and quality of equipment being used is starting to show as needs more light than what new kit can operate with. This year was always going to be difficult as has been said many times on here it is being done to a tight budget to keep costs as low as possible. Let's hope that 2018 it can continue to be on TV whether it be on BT or back on Sky the main thing is live British Speedway on TV whichever way there will be improvements to coverage as can be budgeted and funded correctly.

Pawel himself is very keen to come back to Leicester and get racing as well as earning some money. It was my understanding that he was always going to practice after the meeting and has already had a session on Thursday and Saturday When he returns will all be in Toruns hands as will they demand that he stays in Poland next Saturday to practice or will they see riding in U.K. Is better for him

This could be an interesting one as my understanding was that both Peterborough and Poole did not sign the Polish control contract for Jack Holder to prevent Torun doing this earlier in the year. I have a feeling that money has talked and Holder may get a ban for withholding his services

Where is Robert Lambert on Saturday I thought that him,Simon Lambert,THJ and Huckenback were available for this meeting

I think I counted 5 guests and two RR in this meeting with both clubs struggling to get adequate guests. Looking at the forecast the weather may be the winner of this clash but then got to try and find an alternative date.

One bit of positive news for Lions fans is Pawel has been back on the bike this evening having a practice in Torun so may well be back in another week depending on how the injury reacts after practicing and maybe after a meeting in Poland.

The running of this fixture is now going to be very difficult to do as Rye House have already got a lot of midweek matches planned and Saturday's are a no go. A number of Sunday's are ruled out unless Rye House want to run without Bomber and Robbo also no Pawel for Leicester. The next problem is trying to fit it in among all the other Championship meetings that riders have. The only solution I could think of would be to see if Swindon could change their fixture with Leicester on Bank holiday Monday so that Lions can go to Rye House to ride in double header with Poole. I think this would be a non starter anyway as Swindon are already doing a double header that day with Somerset I presume due to lack of dates.

Even though this is my Lions nearest away match the forecast does not look good so am instead going up to Leicester to hopefully watch some T20 Blast Cricket

The Gomolski situation I understand was a bit different as Kings Lynn signed him and then realised that he was in SEC series so would be missing at Leicester on Saturday with no facility and also that he had a meeting in Poland that clashed with another KL away meeting

So who are Kings Lynn going to use on Saturday at Leicester with Auty and MPT riding for Scunthorpe at Workington whIch also takes out Thomas Jorgensen. Then Porsing will be missing after picking up concussion in Poland so by my reckoning will be left with THJ R Lambert Simon Lambert and 3 guests & R/R

Don't forget that other teams may be making changes today or tomorrow before the cut off so may be a rider coming in from another club to Poole

It appears from a few reports that Tai may fancy earning some extra money from August. However I don't think Woofy will be going to Poole this year and he will be heading further East to Norfolk instead to be part of a new look Stars team.

With regards to the delays in getting into the stadium does anybody know why the stadium didn't use gate 1 which is the river walk one like in previous years ? This would not have helped with entrance delays as normally fans sitting on bend 2 and parts of the back straight would use gate 1 instead they all had to go in at gate 7 at the opposite end of the stadium.

Looks like more changes for the meeting tomorrow Lewis Kerr has picked up a hand injury at Scunthorpe today and will Lambert ride after his big crash in U21 at Poznan today

SCB- I know Cardiff has connections to places listed but not regular trains in the evenings or late afternoon what I was trying to show was that by changing the start time that you can do get back via London to all those places opening up the opportunity for more fans to attend. If they were to do this Great Western trains may even be interested in some sponsorship as would be of huge benefit for them

I do wonder if Cardiff would gain by having a slightly earlier start time say 3 or 4pm The reason for this is public transport if you had the meeting a bit earlier more people would be able to get back by train. At present it was ok if you wanted to get back to Swindon or London but couldn't get any further than that but yet by changing it by just an hour would enable people to get connections back via London to Midlands for Leicester,Wolves,Birmingham,Manchester & ,Sheffield in the North Eastbourne,Kent,Rye House,Lakeside and Poole in South and Ipswich,Kings Lynn and Peterborough in the East I do think this would help increase the attendance as people are put off driving due to delays getting in and out of Cardiff and then finding somewhere to park plus then you can have a few drinks if you want as well. To me it would be worth BSI trying this to see if the attendance does increase and I think it would

Midland Red - I don't think there is any doubt that if more money was available that at least two more cameras would be added for UK coverage and possibly would even be in 4K But for at least this season it is a cost effective broadcast and done to the min that you can manage with. There is nothing wrong with the direction in fact it has an expert in charge just need to brush up on some of the vision mixing and to check the graphics before putting to air as been a few errors with that. League Speedway is actually one of the most fast moving and stressful production to deal with as the races are short and have frequent changes often at late notice with RR and reserves taking rides along with action not being in shot of the camera for before they have moved. It's not like football or Cricket where you plan your production down to the second about when and who you are going to interview or features to run. Like on Monday you can have an incident and then suddenly have 10-15 to fill which I feel Natalie is very good at doing so . I remember one cameraman doing his first meeting for Sky a couple of years ago and afterward saying that it made him so dizzy trying to keep up with the action in fact the next meeting he did he asked to go up in the crane even though it was a cold dark night

Oh not sure why PM wouldn't go through Phil, I stand to be corrected then I wonder if my contact at CloudBass OB got confused as they used a crane for the first time and thought that was an extra camera. I did see Steve briefly on Monday in his shorts and colourful shirt but had gone when i turned round. The comms was quite interesting on Monday as for some reason instead of being separate Nigel and Kelvin were in the box with the ref,Announcer,DJ and incident recorder very cosy was the description i heard

Putting aside who my employer is on a personal level I want to see a high quality production of British Speedway on tv regardless of which channel it is on. From the information I have gained it appears that there are good numbers viewing the online content but need to see more of it shared by fans

From what I have been hearing from contacts at BT they so far are very impressed with the UK Speedway coverage especially on such a tight budget and do acknowledge that a few tweaks and improvements could be made in fact one was done at Leicester as an additional camera position was added plus a locked off beauty shot too. I do know one thing BT are very keen on and measure sports appeal and success on, That is social media they put a lot of Speedway content and coverage ads out on Facebook,Twitter and Instagram. Now we need as many Speedway fans as possible to share and repost this content as they do lots more analysis and reporting on usage than Sky have done as BT dont have the more comprehensive tv viewing stats that Sky have so have to rely on the old school and sometimes unreliable BARB figures which i hasten to add Speedway has performed well on. All of which will help provide a strong case for an improved and a permanent TV deal for British Speedway and could even create a case where there are two bidders for the TV rights in the future.

Meeting off due to riders not being available as Leicester are missing Kim and Pawel plus Erik is riding in the world games in Wroclaw

If Poole bring in Sundstrom for KK and drop AN other who can only see being Jack Holder or Hans which I can't believe that Poole would do. To bring in THJ whom will not make them any stronger. So the only positive is the return of Kurtz who is a better rider than Worrall

The problem being with signing replacements is the cut of date next week, So Leicester could make a jump and sign new riders to replace Kim and Pawel but then when they are fit they can't bring them back in so which is unfair on them and need to make sure the replacements are as good to see the club through to the end of the year.

More bad news for Leicester Kim Nillson has broken his arm in the heat 15 crash. It is a clean break but will be missing for the next few weeks so looks like we are going to have a number of guests again to cover for injuries

Pawel is back home in Poland and having an op this afternoon to plate the break then hopes to be back racing in 2-3 weeks. No messing around over there his DR had the results last night and being taken straight from airport to hospital to have surgery