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My point being is, the British Final could be the best ever and the perfect product to showcase the sport in this country BUT our domestic scene is not a good advert for the sport as it stands, and i am not just talking about tracks, i am talking about farcical league setups, endless guest riders. Above all my point is, promoters, get your act together! you could about to be potentially handed a bit of a lifeline, dont squander it.

If people watch Saturday then decide to visit their local track then the chances are they are going to be bitterly disappointed. In fact when I first heard the news that the sport was to be on ITV my heart dropped because I thought if they show either league on tv as it stands it will kill us. Being the British Final and at the only track that can week in week out be dependable to provide any sort of spectacle might actually restore some of the public doubt that first out of the start always wins.

Absolutely, a great race track might not get more fans through the gate but a bad one will see you struggle to keep what you have. A promoters greatest asset isnt the riders or the stadium, its the track itself, your whole business is about what happens on that oval, get that wrong and your toast, sooner or later.

You have to strike a balance between getting carried away and actually looking to hurt another rider, the younger the rider the more chance they will try moves older riders will not risk. I think to an extent, because we have such a lack of young riders now, fans have forgotten how back in the day there were tons or riders who were a bit harem scarem, but thinking about it, it wasnt just the young riders. Think back when we had the likes of Kelvin Mullarkey, Jamie Habbin, Scott Smith, Rob Tilbury, Jan Pedersen, Rob Grant, Richard Green etc etc a lot of hard riders often on the verge of being over the top. Also, I would have a Cooper Rushden in my team any day over a Troy Batchelor.

And a 28 day ban would also mean missing every Poole match for the next month?

They said that about Arena Essex and eight years later the site remains untouched, for sure it will take an enormous amount of ground work if they are to build anything on it.

To the tune of 10cc's Wall Street Do the blue groove shuffle da da da Let your throttle hand hustle da da da You better make the start brother da da da You'll never pass another

Didn’t see the meeting but it’s just another classic story of not enough shale down or water, if a blue groove is evident it’s not because of a lack of water, it’s a lack of shale. If you water slick surface it can become dangerous, so dirt has to be down to soak up the water and most tracks have dirt out wide but it’s dry so you might as well be racing on talc powder, it won’t give you any grip let alone enough to make up for going to longer way around. I don’t think the riders are exempt from blame as Steve Lawson said on BSN most riders cry when he suggests putting water down. When this dry spell ends, I predict weeks and weeks off rain offs because riders just won’t want to race after becoming so used to riding on bone dry tracks.

Arena Essex had riders like Robert Ledwith, Tommy Palmer, Nick Floyd, Shaun Nicholls (related) Chris Young and Russell Etherington. And when I was a postman in Chelmsford I briefly was delivering to a junior rider from Peterborough who always looked like a fish out of water around the tight confines of Arena Essex, his name was Darren Tupper.

Ben Howe, Shaun Tacey, Sav Clouting and Lawrence Hare was probably the best junior team any club has ever had, they were untouchable.

The agreement to be fair was more aimed at the National League.

If we still ran junior teams the old rule of promote a junior if both sides were using R\R could be utilised. Also the issue isn’t so much about the amount of guests but the cause of why there is riders missing.

Good news about Tate, I don't agree about a ban for Morris, unlike some who just ride, Nick actually tries to race, that's why its called a "race" not a "ride" Ps I really like the look of the Workington track and how wide it is, when a rider gets it wrong and has to try and save it they have a bit of leeway, when i think it was Pedersen who lifted and managed to save it bar the front wheel catching the fence and throwing him over the handlebars, at some tracks mentioning no names, he would have been buried in the fence and possibly hurt.

Nasty looking fall for Tate, hope its not as bad as it looked to his shoulder area. Trouble is, the track being what it was, the only option was the inside line and Nick went in too quickly, its going to happen when riders are all chasing the same line, credit to Steve for trying to get water on it but it was just too dry from the start.

British Speedway is just a circus, I look at the GB speedway site every day to check out results and almost every day its the same, oh where is so and so, why wasnt so and so riding, they were fit and riding the previous day etc etc