IainB

I do... just having a bit of sport with you 😉

Wasn't the first leg of "The Bomber Final" rain effected? https://speedwayupdates.proboards.com/thread/7267/bees-poole-play-final-september

Was it? It was a few years ago

Preparing for next season... it's funny that you have a Manager that won't travel north of Ringwood unless it's for a golfing holiday and a Captain that disappears to Poland when you reach a final 🏌️‍♂️⛳✈️🦘😂

As a Leicester fan we're a bit of a Johnny come lately to the pay off scene. The 2 seasons we have been involved have been a bit of a farce with our previous final appearances happening on a Tuesday night in Glasgow and at King's Lynn in Novemeber! In another life I was a Cov fan and we had some great pay off nights and the only dodgy one I can remember was a weather effected pudding of a track against Poole at Brandon. As a neutral with no skin in the game, not really caring when they take place, I think they're pretty good as it doesn't really matter to me when I sit on my sofa and watch it. But as a follower of a team involved it can make it a bit of a lottery. Track conditions, 2nd leg "advantage", rider availability and the number of races (heat 10 call off) all come into play with the possible pressure from TV companies to ensure meetings take place when perhaps they shouldn't. This year has been the biggest farce yet, with the rigging of the Semi's, the weather and it possibly ain't over yet as it's currently pishing it down outside in Leicester as I write this on Tuesday morning with no let up in sight today! Shortening or lengthening the season is not an answer, you could have held the pay offs in July with the same result. Is the "pay off" of 2 (fixed) semis and a final really worth the devaluing of every league meeting that takes place throughout the whole season? For me, probably not anymore.

Thanks, was that recently then?

Why has he got no licence? Have I missed something?

@LagutaRacingFan ??

Maybe that same medical person said go to the GP on Saturday instead of helping the team mates of the team you are Captain of in their first final of the season?

Forgot about Becker... so we've got 1. Greg Hancock 2. Richard Lawson 3. Magic Janowski 4. Luke Becker 5. Szymon Wozniak 6. Wilbur Hancock 7. Luke Killeen

That's good to hear... keep up that mindset for Thursday 😂

I left that one alone 😁

This was a BSN Series final, nothing to do with play offs, I assume you mean the BSN Semis? You've not finished this season yet! Top 4 next season is not a fact (yet), it's your opinion

They should have the Fan Zone down at media city then

There's still a 2nd leg to come.

It's off already

Get Wozniak in and Cairns when he's eligible and Hancock can mentor them both together at Leicester, heck get Magic in while they're at it and Greg can make a come back too... maybe I've gone a little far there 😶‍🌫️

Let's hope he doesn't take a leaf from Ivan Mauger's book and miss it to prepare for the meeting. Hopefully it'll be good weather, 2 full teams... and a Lions victory 🦁 🏆 🏅

Hopefully we've seen the last of them... they added very little, if anything.

When Phil gets out of his FIM meetings

There's many factors to take into consideration though, not least the track, there was a hell of an outside line there last night for those that there brave enough to use it... but when you're at Cardiff, Riga, Prague or Vojens the gate pick will be far more important

Thanks! I think it shows that there's no real difference in scoring systems, it's just that one is a hell of a lot easier to work out come crunch time than the other. And Zmarzlik's season was nowhere near as bad as some were making it out to be... he had one duffer Pts 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 Total Pts Diff New Rank Rank Diff 1 Bartosz Zmarzlik 179 14 15 17 17 17 16 7 11 14 17 13 158 -21 1 0 2 Robert Lambert 144 12 12 11 12 14 4 14 13 11 15 7 125 -19 2 0 3 Fredrik Lindgren 141 11 7 4 14 8 17 13 15 14 4 12 119 -22 3 0 4 Daniel Bewley 127 5 9 11 5 9 7 15 10 15 10 13 109 -18 5 1 5 Martin Vaculik 122 6 14 8 20 6 10 9 17 8 11 8 117 -5 4 -1 6 Jack Holder 106 18 11 13 6 14 9 11 6 2 4 11 105 -1 6 0 7 Mikkel Michelsen 101 7 8 15 9 10 15 12 11 0 87 -14 8 1 8 Dominik Kubera 98 8 2 13 11 10 4 12 6 6 9 14 95 -3 7 -1 9 Leon Madsen 94 9 2 10 6 5 13 7 7 9 13 81 -13 9 0 10 Andzejs Lebedevs 79 5 6 5 8 11 7 14 11 4 71 -8 10 0 11 Max Fricke 69 13 16 5 5 6 12 8 4 69 0 11 0 12 Kai Huckenbeck 61 11 9 5 2 3 10 3 4 8 4 3 62 1 12 0 13 Szymon Wozniak 58 6 9 8 7 7 9 3 1 4 3 2 59 1 13 0 14 Maciej Janowski 52 3 9 10 11 14 7 54 2 14 0 15 Jan Kvech 52 6 5 0 3 2 7 3 3 7 5 11 52 0 15 0 16 Jason Doyle 24 12 20 9 41 17 16 0 17 Patryk Dudek 23 11 14 25 2 17 0 18 Tai Woffinden 9 3 6 8 1 4 3 25 16 17 -1 19 Rasmus Jensen 8 9 9 1 20 1 20 Kim Nilsson 7 2 7 1 10 3 19 -1 21 Anders Thomsen 6 7 7 1 21 0 22 Oskar Fajfer 4 5 5 1 22 0 23 Tom Brennan 4 4 4 0 23 0 24 Vaclav Milik 3 4 4 1 23 -1 25 Daniil Kolodinski 3 3 3 0 26 1 26 Mateusz Cierniak 2 3 3 1 26 0 27 Norick Blodorn 2 1 1 -1 28 1 28 Matej Zagar 1 4 4 3 23 -5

I wonder if Aussie were in the running and WBD pulled the plug again?

I would have thought you could rent hotel rooms by the hour near Belle Vue 😂

I went to Parken a couple of times and some of the sights I saw with folk the worse for wear for drink... one lad bouncing down the steps on his arse carrying one of them drinks holders with 6 pints in it because he lost his footing as he couldn't control his legs! While I agree, as a purist, it's about the racing and competition you can't deny that a weekend in Copenhagen is a far better prospect than a weekend somewhere near Vojens... Skol 🍻