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Despite what some people, who weren't there, have said the crowd was fairly healthy, compared to the other Thursday matches that have been held so far this year... but understandably down on previous years Saturday nights. Personally, I do wish I had gone to Peterborough instead. There was a complete neglect for the paying fans in the stadium with constant delays and the only interruption to the PA music and distant chugging of a tractor, the meeting presenter coming on to say we're just waiting for Eurosport. The sport really should be asking itself what is it getting out of TV coverage and especially that of Eurosport. When the cameras do decide to eventually turn up the track is generally prepared differently to normal and invariably produces poor racing. There was dust after heat 1 last night, unforgivable, clouds of dust bellowing up after 4 or 5 races and as I repositioned myself to a different part of the stadium I witnessed people with a coating of dust on their clothes as I went walked around. It didn't help that the Sheffield team didn't really turn up apart from the always impressive Tobiasz Musielak, but normally when this kind of thing happens the track is normally on point and the meeting is run at pace. The beauty of the BSN coverage is that it doesn't effect the running of a meeting, they are just there to capture it and work around it. I hope that the sport is getting a big chunk of money for the televising of Speedway, whether directly or indirectly with the recent league sponsorship deal. I for one will not be attending another "TV meeting" when there is an alternative until the powers that be provide something to fill the gaps... maybe this will be something that Mr Morris will turn his attention to at some point?

I'm a Leicester fan... it was boring. 2 hours and 10 minutes for 15 heats leaves a lot of time to get bored

You should try being here! Compete disregard for the attending punters! After 23 years you world have thought they would have thought of something to fill the long gaps of nothing happening

There's been a noisy contingent of Sheffield fans chanting for most of the night... mainly slagging off Belle Vue

Even through the dust

It's Eurosport... always have been and always will be a bit of a joke, I don't know why people expect any different. Here comes the water. Track will be competely different. Don't know why we've got the Sheffield track man prepping the track though!

Come on Fireman Phil, track desperately needs watering

I'd say it's the best of the season... Musliak did a practice start wearing no helmet, that'll be an instant fine

You may have just convinced me to go to Peterborough

The special one said, on BSN commentary the other night, for the riders to bring their tinted goggles as there'll be no sun break with Eurosport in town... we'll see

Saturday night and there's not 1 meeting on in the UK south of Redcar... a really sad state of affairs

I've said it before... and I'll say it again, fixed race nights were not brought in to prevent riders from leaving the UK but to allow doubling up absences, which it has done. That's not to say it's not effected some clubs crowds by forcing anybody that wants to run in the top league to potentially run on "off-nights"

When is the final? Next year?

I keep hearing what a great race track the Redcar track is, I'm still to see it... looks like a 1 line track scraping the fence like at Poole to me

Why have Redcar produced a Poole track?

Lovely night for some speedway this evening... just saying (again)

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Well done Glasgow, through to another final... I wonder if they'll grace this one with their presence? Somebody wrap King Charles up in cotton wool

We signed Clegg at Leicester last year... as a reserve, Scunny have signed him as a heat leader!

Godfrey just doing for the Scunthorpe team what he's done for British Speedway

Panthers now not the crappest sports team in Peterborough

Worrall bailed out very early... I would have thought a rider of his calibre should have been able to save that, I've seen riders touching the air fence on the 1st and 2nd bends at Poole as that's the only racing line later on, so why he bailed out so early on turn 3 is a mystery

Every rider mentioned it on BSN... I've seen matches called off with drier tracks

Track has been ridiculously over watered

Thought you'd be used to that by now