IainB

What you talking about... they even "invited" Australian Max Fricke to compete in a round of the European Championship! If they want to have a feeder series, you're right, it should be open to all.

A Belle Vue fan as in she doesn't attend for the whole season but turns up at pay off time? 😁

Interesting to listen to the BSN interview with Scott Nicholls after the Oxford vs Scunny match as to why he wasn't there at the CLRC. And despite being tee-ed up to say that he was carrying an injury niggle he instead opted to commendably tell the truth and cited "logistics" as the reason he wasn't there. This brings up a number of questions, assuming "logistics" means that he was in Vojens the previous evening, which he would have known about at the beginning of the season when the GP fixture list was released, then why leave it so late to pull out of the meeting? Scott Nicholls would have been one of the top name draws to the CLRC, a draw that was "confirmed" on the 8th of August! I suspect the whole truth behind these late withdrawals is not always as it seems.

Catering? You worried about what time your tea is being served up? 😂

Typo: commercial : comical 😂

There is only a single reason for pay offs and that is to satisfy the TV companies. The ONLY team sport that is big enough to call the shots to the TV companies is Premier League Football as they know there would be an outcry from the fans if pay offs were to be introduced... just like there is every time they try and introduce a "super league" What these sports have to weigh up is the benefit of the TV contract... in Speedway's case their "broadcast partners" are probably doing more harm than good to the sport for the pittance they pay for it.

I notice you went viral you won't want to interact with the likes of us soon

As somebody who squeezed into Brandon to watch the double header league decider vs Hull & Leicester I can attest that pay offs are not needed to completely fill a speedway stadium

Hopefully next season they'll do away with the wretched things altogether! They've caused nothing but trouble in every league, fixture and rider availability wise, ever since they were introduced. After what has happened this year they've lost any credibility they may of once had.

Will it be another SoN or another Easter Monday?!?

And it's just starting again

On Planet Phil

Nah... rule change, table toppers are now crowned Champions Well done Sheffield!

They should hold the first leg at Glasgow, forecast looks fine... for commercial reasons obviously 😜

Tomato 🍅 😂

Nor is he Viewlis

I think you all mean Viewlis

Where were all of these so called fans when the Eurosport cameras were in town showing the King's Lynn match? The part time glory hunters all come out of the woodwork at this time is the year

Just like many of the Aces fans who, all of a sudden, have put an appearance in after having gone missing all season long

Thankfully Ben Cook's injury was not as bad as was possibly first thought (even though the Belle Vue website doesn't even think it worthy of mention)... but imagine it had have been and it was all because he was riding in a meeting he should never have been participating in!

I think we can all agree () this scoring system has been a complete joke since day 1, the only positive is that the winner of the GP gets the most points but you could operate any other system and make sure that happened.

I've always thought that riders would find more speed by tidying up their riding style to be more smooth rather than cheating with parts/engines etc. Listening to what DJ Woffy was saying on the podcast about removing lacquer from knee braces etc. Seemed to be taking things to the extreme, you'd save a fraction of a nano second by doing that but pulling a locker or something and you'd easily lose a whole second from your lap time

I'm always dubious about riders deliberately laying their bikes down, especially at league level, I mean who wants to deliberately have a motorcycle accident? I can understand them sometimes not being in a hurry to get up but this is normally for purely selfish reasons of maybe being in a rerun I would suspect.

It would do if the fans weren't left standing around for 20 minutes while the riders put new tyres on for the last 2 races... a fact that is known at the start of the meeting. All riders should have an extra wheel with tyre fitted ready to go, if it's not used, then use it for the next meeting.

That's great! They can now destroy another rider's career like they did with the last William Cairns... Max Perry!