IainB

I get up there whenever I can, bank holidays etc or "special" meetings

Tell that to the promotion at Belle Vue, they've got the best track in the world, consistently produces top class speedway racing and yet can't get anywhere close to filling their stadium for a league match with a catchment area of around 2.7 million people

Doggy, what is she looking for from Speedway?

It's difficult to know what your friend is looking for then... The match against Scunny had some of the best racing I've seen at BP in years, if she wasn't entertained by that I suspect she doesn't like Speedway and prefers maths

I totally agree!

Can't see many paying for that... I'll catch whatever they put on Freesports I think

Are Premier Sports showing any speedway this season does anybody know?

The last heat was pretty special though

I'm all for clubs assembling a team to suit their budgets but there has to be some minimum standard to compete in whatever league. There used to be a minimum limit, not sure there still is though? Didn't Milton Keynes get booted out of the league in the late 80's/ early 90's? Somebody did. This Newcastle team should be in the NL. Some of the names might be recognisable but only because they've been around for a while and not for any achievement: BWD: Never shown anything to suggest he's anything other than a PL reserve, not a CL heat leader Wethers: Solid team journeyman, good for No2 James Wright: Who knew that Charles was going to be the good one! James is a long way off from being the rider he used to be Cleggy: Been around for years, has never moved on from being a decent reserve Starky: Solid team journeyman, maybe a good 3rd heat leader Lee Complin: I'll give him a month Congreve: The next Ivan Mauger?

Don't teams have to build to a minimum strength anymore?

I wonder if we'll get to keep these 3 league points?

That's the benefit of starting earlier at 7pm... as long as you're not stood there waiting for the sun to go down

You do get the feeling that they could be a key press from it all going horribly wrong one evening though... at least it'll be a new way for me to be deprived of watching a meeting for my bingo card

A commentator that doesn't commentate... that'll please some

Another shocker from the ref! Bomber clearly won that!

you reap what you sow

from what I've been to so far: Josh Auty - about the same as a League Match vs Leicester Peter Craven - almost a sell out Leicester vs Scunny - a little disappointing, well down on last year Ben Fund - about the same as a league meeting Peterborough vs Ippo - disappointing for a local derby

KL never slow to pat themselves on the back when they luck into getting it right... but strangely silent when they luck into getting it wrong

Or even run into November Showers in April... who would have thunk it?

maybe if they made the meetings more attractive to attend in the first place they wouldn't have this problem

I'm not sure anybody is interested

There's a bit of rain about by the looks of the radar, with drizzle forecast for this evening it could be a repeat of the Cat Fight. P'boro v Sheffield 28 June thread... I hope so, that was fun

TV Bro... see my previous post

On the whole i thought that was a pretty decent production for a first show last night, I've just watched it as I was at Leicester myself. Whoever was on camera duty on turn 4 was a bit shaky, but otherwise i couldn't really fault it, was a lot better than i was expecting. Graphics and captions were good, commentator didn't seem to know who was in a few races and there were no replays... but there wasn't really anything worth replaying tbh. All in all, if that's going to be the production standard for the rest of the season it's well worth the price of a early bird season pass. Did anybody else think the picture of James Shanes looked like wee Jimmy Crankie?

Well, they're going to need a lot more there than there was last night... i thought the crowd was a little disappointing