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Well, close enough! Have to dig out the MCS speedway when you're next over. Being hit by some of the modern board games could really hurt. Lifeboats is pretty chunky.

Or other board games.

I've no idea how many TV meetings Belle Vue had; the name has always carried a certain cachet so perhaps that was a factor. I do know that Leicester have won fewer than a third of their meetings this season and are a fair way behind the next team above them in the table. On the Belle Vue wooden spoons front, I think it's three in the last 11 years (had a quick look at the BSPA archives) but they were reasonably competitive in two of those seasons and only cut adrift the once.

I'm afraid it's a hard commercial world out there. TV stations need good viewing figures to present to advertisers. Racing at Beaumont Park has constantly attracted criticism, while away from home it's one win, one point for getting close and 10 heavier defeats. I don't take any pleasure from pointing this out, but if you take a step back you can see Sky's viewpoint. I don't know if they have any contractual obligation to show clubs a certain number of times.

Fair points well made and, as posted earlier, not having a pop at the rider but just thought the exalted praise a little OTT. KK competing in the Euros means Coventry have ridden EL away matches with Ashley Morris and Rob Branford and, much as I like both riders, at this stage of their careers they're not EL No.1s.

Yeah, that Lawson has only put over a point on his average this season. Tchah.

Hi Dave, good to hear from you on here again. I understand that you probably keep a watching brief, but your insight is always valuable. My point is not that KK can be physically in two places at once -- Schrodinger's cat might have been the nearest answer, but I don't think he has an assessed average -- but that lauding his dedication should be tempered by the fact that he has signed up to a series knowing that, in the event of a clash, his team won't get the benefit of a comparable replacement. As per earlier post, not having a go, just asking for the hymn of praise to come down a decibel or two in volume!

Full marks to KK for his commitment to the Bees' cause tonight. And ditto for turning out twice on the eve of other bookings. Good to see. However...'unavoidably missed recent away matches'? The SEC is not exactly -- well, not exactly the GP, is it? No guest/RR for it, which is why the Bees had to go with 'junior' replacements at Leicester and Lakeside. Not having a go here, but with respect to Neil perhaps just a little too much top spin on that one. Edit: Remiss of me not to congratulate the management on the double-header pricing.

Two different concepts, surely, the BSPA as a body and one as an individual club promoter?

Not to worry. Even four bonus from five rides for a No.1 riding away must be unusual.

On the contrary, on that one he'd be gating at Monmore and taking the third bend on the East Park cycle speedway track. Edit: In passing, a bonus point in each of five rides tonight for Lindgren. I'm sure there are other examples of a No.1 recording that performance away, but it strikes me as rare. Anyone come up with any?

Peter Karlsson. Injury from Monday's crash at Monmore.

First two R/R rides tonight taken by Howarth and Clegg. Not sure I've ever seen Beo and Peter Adams in the same room...

All well apparently, Dave.

https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2009/jan/08/england-cricket-kevin-pietersen-peter-moores http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/cricket/article-2554883/PATRICK-COLLINS-Kevin-Pietersen-just-does-whats-best-Kevin-hes-playing-for.html

My caveat there would be the double-header against Lynn and Swindon. These two-match nights always seem fraught with potential problems to me.

Never mind Notts, it wasn't plain sailing at club level with Cannock either!

A major opportunity to create mayhem here, but honesty compels me to say no! In the spirit of disclosure, how many points constitutes the compulsory rest period?

Just for info it's neither, using 'rider' in its professional sense. Steve is a fan of the sport who did some training schools, bought a bike and has a skid at amateur level for the fun of it and, presumably, to gain more of an insight into speedway.

Somebody better tell CVS: http://www.wolverhamptonwolves.co/news.php?extend.2416

It would be interesting, should some brave soul with time on his or her hands be willing to take it on, to see what percentage of Starman's getting on for 16,000 posts are along the lines of 'you are clowns for posting on this thread'. Certainly excelled himself in the last few days.

Generous if anything (sorry Steve!).

I see what you did there!

You might have started him with an easy one.

True enough, but the tone of those posts (and I made one of them) would surely have been very different but for him being identified with you know who.