IainB

To be fair I do like and prefer the Live experience... but I must say that the way televised matches draaaaaag on with no regard for the attending spectator doesn't encourage people along

Belle Vue produces consistently the best racing week in week out on possibly the best Speedway race track in the world yet can't get anywhere near filling the place. Not surprising really when they stage their event on a night when most people can't get to it.

I know the British like to talk about the weather but this must be the longest thread ever about the topic!

I think the Birmingham head said they were getting 300-500

They'll be in for a shock when they turn up and find out they're out in heat 1!

If the super heat is to stay I'd like to see the format changed so you can't use the same riders as used in heat 15, makes it more of a team effort

Somebody ought to have told the ref!

Think he was checking his tyre was still on!

I thought there was a maximum allowable time for riders taking 2 on the trot?

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PL Football is the only sport big enough to call the shots, knowing that if the TV companies don't like it there are loads of others queuing up to sign a silly money deal. Every other (team) sport bows to TV demands... even football does regards fixtures but that's about the only concession they make

Play offs are OK, IF... the league is big enough and they're completed in a timely manner, neither of which happens in Speedway. This season we have a 6 team top league and 4 play off places, which makes the whole league programme more or less a waste of time especially when you have the top 4 spots pretty much concreted by June! Then in the CL we have clubs who have not qualified seasons over by the end of August and those in the top 2 waiting around for everybody else to complete their fixtures and get their play offs done and a 6 week hole in their season. We seem to have the worst of both worlds

I'd like to see staggered restarts but only after the ref has excluded a rider. It's almost a discussion for a different thread. But I'd like to see riders rerun a race in the positions they were in at the time of the stoppage to disincline riders from committing the "professional foul"

Seems to happen with most brothers in Speedway, they seem to come as a job lot, probably to do with support resources I would have thought

"Peterborough Speedway would like to thank supporters for their patience whilst the discussions were ongoing prior to the abandonment. The meeting is declared as a result with ten races having been completed, with Sheffield 32-28 winners, and as a club we will do all we can to help supporters who attended the meeting." ... Still waiting

I went to the semi and final at Peterborough last year and there was no increase in admission price for either

But we've entered a "new era"... of poor promotion and low crowds

Yep, we finished top of it

OK... how about, Ryan Douglas is crap and should be binned?

I'm glad you've come around to my way of thinking

I think I've worked it out... you're a wind up merchant

How do you explain the fact that he's put 1.5 points on his average this year if he's so "crap"? Are there many other riders that have improved so much this season?

That's fair enough, we're all entitled to our opinions... just don't know why you'd come on here and rubbish a podcast you'd not listened to.

A 2022 average of above 5 isn't too bad is it? Put 1 and a half points on his starting average... he'd be knocking on the door of being a heat leader at some clubs!

After 2 consecutive fiasco's... Sam Ermolenko comes to town