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Don't forget touch when you get shot in the face with shale

Hold on a minute though, it's early days yet... I don't know how they're going to do it yet but I'm sure the BSPL can do something that will make things worse, just give them time.

Any Kent fans thinking of attending the double header, be advised that if you park in the supermarket car park there is a 4 hour restriction enforced by camera, so factor in time getting to and from the stadium and cross your fingers it's all over quick enough for you to watch both matches without getting a parking fine

Emil has shown a liking for money over titles in the past when he sat out the GP's when he was possibly the best rider in the world along with Woffinden and denied us seeing those two duke it out for the world title... it's while he'll never be world champion

Well, the wisdom of cancelling matches for no reason earlier in the season has cost them my £17! I won't be attending any double headers at Leicester unless there is no increase in admission. The Promotion plays a blinder again smh

Zut Alors!

If they're not actually Russia, I suppose there's no reason why they couldn't track non Russian riders? Should get a Polish B team in with help from Polish sponsors

You could if you think that vaccination should be mandatory but that's probably one for the thread that shall not be named

TV money? Those teams and riders are of 5 and 6 years ago though and none of those riders were of the quality then as they are now.

Like the GP's vs OOWF both traditional league and the Pay Offs have their pros and cons... Without the Pay Offs BV's season could have been over mid season meaning half a season of dead rubbers... you'd really see some low crowds then for the punters that only turn up to watch a winning team. Surprised nobody has mentioned the caption for Adam Ellis on parade... Nationality: FRA I do think they were having some technical difficulties last night I remember Tatum clearly being p155ed while presenting for Sky at a World Cup match a few years back... slurring his words, not professional at all Tom Brennan Like I said I think they were having technical difficulties last night, I clearly heard Tatum saying, off mic, "I think it's a loose connection" and then he went silent for a while, that was around the time when he didn't respond to Brandon

He's averaging under 7 in the Championship, it's embarrassing tbh

If Sky are involved you can be absolutely 100% sure it's a gimmick You only have to look at F1 to see the impact that sound has on Sport, the high revving V12,V10 & V8 engines were their trademark, so much so that they used the same sounds in their promotional videos long after the hybrid engines were introduced... If it doesn't sound fast it doesn't look fast to me. Although during the lockdown the TV companies overdubbed crowd noise at the Football matches to generate some atmosphere, perhaps that's what's needed in Speedway not just engine noise... but crowd noise as well

If the lack of noise is an excuse for track presenters to prattle on about nothing for even longer it's a resounding no from me!

I do think that we have to remember Covid has played a massive part in team make ups this season, there are a lot of foreign riders (non GP) that just aren't riding in our leagues this season because of travel difficulties, especially at the time when teams were assembled. Also the Poland 2 leagues only rule has had an effect, whether this was brought in due to Covid or self interest I'm not sure, now it's in place though will it change? Some riders, the more professional ones, have been able to work around these restrictions and carry on as usual. Doubling down has enabled many clubs to run this year... but may also have closed at least one of them.

Thought the racing at this match was pretty good again, there's actually been some pretty good racing at Leicester recently, not words I'd ever thought I'd see myself typing. Whether it's to do with improved track conditions or riders getting back into the swing of things after 18 months off, I don't know, maybe a bit of both.

Will it mean half hour breaks between each race as we wait for the bikes to re-charge? And bikes running out of charge after 3-laps, rider range anxiety

It's no doubt been discussed elsewhere but does anybody know why GB had no entrants into the WU21 Championship this year?

Hasn't Max Fricke improved steadily over the last couple of years, I've been quite impressed with him this year, just goes about his business without any hype or fuss (except all those mentions about the GP challenge) quietly gaining the points, got a nice tidy style. Currently the top Aussie in the standings ahead of Doyley and has probably justified being selected ahead of Jack Holder by Lemo a couple of years back.

You would have thought that the 100's or 1,000's of motocross riders would have fancied their chances of taking the British Speedway world by storm with such a small pool of around 100 riders to compete with.

But we now find ourselves in the position of NO GP riders riding in our Leagues yet we still elect to run on off-nights and on many prime summer weekends there was no Speedway this year!

Well... if you're quick you can still see Ben Barker listed on the Leicester website now!

Leicester bang up to date with their press as usual... have previewed the match this morning with Ben Barker announced in the team

Concussion

You only have to please 1 person when Poole are in town... shouldn't be a problem next season though... unless they sign Batch!

Just listened to the Olly Allen Five-1 Speedway Show podcast from around a year ago, and while very interesting as usual, I was shocked to hear the joint Team GB manager effing and jeffing his way through the interview. Perhaps he should go on a media relations seminar, similar to the ones Poultec run where I would hope one of the first things it would say is don't go effing and jeffing your way through a (social) media interview when you are the Team GB manager!