IainB

If you've got a ticket for the East stand don't forget to bring your Anusol

... with their programmes

But a wet evening between 4 and 9... let's hope it's wrong!

Looks like it's going to be another wet one!

I'm sorry, I don't know if I'm being thick (don't answer that!) but I still don't get it... is it because there were 7 quali spots up from last year but because GB came last they've made it 8? Or were there qualifiers this year and what happens if a nation that aren't currently in it want to be in it, USA for example?

Probably waiting to see if everybody has to be "upgraded" to sit in the middle tier.

But GB are seeded through to the final of SoN1 against 6 other teams qualifying from 2 semis also consisting of 7 teams??

Is there any particular reason why SoN2 has 8 teams competing while SoN has 7?

Something to do with his estranged wife and got the children working for one of the sponsors I think

That's not something common to Speedway, there's only really PL Football that can fill a stadium. We're often told that events are "sold out" only to see many empty seats when it's on TV, F1 being a prime example. We were told by the commentators that the Snooker World Champs was sold out, again many empty seats, even for the final! Look at Wimbledon this year, many empty seats. Maybe Speedway could do with a "Royal Box" as for some reason the organisers of these events seem to think that there's a benefit to having a load of free-loading celebs in attendance or perhaps just lower the ticket prices. My 4 day ticket works out at £30.75 per meeting, which I'm happy to pay but it's not family friendly... for a "family" sport.

And this is the post you decide to comment on

I think this rain may just finish the track off for tonight

You've had one too many

Somebody should sign that Milik up

Credit to the track staff and whoever it was that forced the riders out!

That's him out of the next Sheffield meeting

I get what you say about rain and visibility but I also think it shows that when there's a will to get these meetings on there is a way.

Somebody within British Speedway needs to be asking themselves what enables riders to race (really well) in these conditions that doesn't allow them to even start at King's Lynn, and abandon meetings like BV vs Sheffield and Birmingham vs Oxford, Oxford vs Ippo etc etc

A couple of good moves in the opening races tbf, which is more than can be said about last night

It looks about the same as the Sheffield meeting track to me, after they'd done all the work. See if Jack Holder wants it tonight.

It's whether the weather will hold off long enough tonight, they may start. Let's hope the medic that called off the Sheffield meeting ain't here! Watching tractors go around the track is marginally more entertaining than watching England play Football at least

Only 15 minutes required to get it raceable, IF it stops raining, according to Morris... I'll have some of what he's had! Monster, Monster!

This will be off Fancy holding it in July in Manchester!

Only on the track!

About 20,000 last year and this year is the last year of a 3 year deal signed by WBD predecessors IMG. I think SoN is a trial run for a SGP