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He's not the Messiah

Panthers just need to sort out a swap deal for Ryan Douglas and they could go out winning the league!

Funny how Lynn seems to be too far for a few riders

I thought that was Cook

Good luck

Lions bikes now coming out for parade

It'll be a lottery as to whether we see any Speedway tonight!

8pm start now

19:45 comes and goes in silence

Lions bikes suspiciously not out on parade?

When you arrive at the stadium and the first thing you see is the 2 captains and CotC on turn 3 with the blade going round and Rory Schlein is riding... your heart just sinks

Is it going to bring down British Speedway?

You could potentially qualify for the play offs without riding a home match

If it means more exposure for Speedway who cares really? It's not right but we don't live in a meritocracy anymore, so you either play the game or sink without a trace in the media

Looks like it was well attended, it'll be a while before any home grown talent makes the grade I suspect.

Stone?

Bomber's average at Leicester this season is 8.41 not too shabby

I think Worrall should give us back the Morris at home points which we have been severely lacking with Batch. Cook for Harris is probably a like for like switch, probably not in entertainment terms but in points terms. Hopefully Cooks gating ability should see him score a few around Leicester. As the league is all about beating teams over 2 legs I think Dickson has restored that ability with the Lions, which disappeared with Nick Morris who was an 8 point man at home

It's certainly been a bad year for Captains! Chris Harris, Hans Andersen, Ritchie Worrall and Josh Pickering all binned off... the arm band seems a bit of a poisoned chalice... or completely meaningless

Fantastic news! I wish Peter a full and speedy recovery. I hope there's no repercussions for Edinburgh Speedway with this incident just when they least need it!

I'd say the punters turned their backs on the BSPL run "shared events", probably because they weren't paying enough, this probably impacted on other events. The PCMT shows that if an event is run properly, the right rates are paid, at the right time of the season the punters will turn up

I think the key is staging events the riders want to ride in and the punters want to pay to watch, obvious really and not rocket science. Events like the, I'm going to call it, first division riders championship and pairs where riders are "forced" to ride for a fixed BSPL rate means that riders don't really want to ride in it and therefore come up with any excuse under the sun not to ride in it devaluing the competition which in turn puts the fans off. Events like the Peter Craven Memorial Trophy held at Belle Vue really seems to have built up some prestige around it. It's run a little differently with a 5 rider semi and 6 rider final, which is truly spectacular, obviously most tracks it's probably not safe to do that but there are a number of different formats that could be run, you've just got to think outside of the box a little bit.

He was, I saw it on BSN, pretty sure he was on the ground before the lamp fell

A pretty nasty night all told... Best wishes to everybody affected

Jesus Christ! Hope he's OK