IainB

I wouldn't bank on it... he's often on here asking what's going on

Maybe time to rename the League to "Elite League"... oh hang on a minute, they already tried that

In the UK the team changes tend to be dictated by team points limits and transfer deadlines not necessarily a riders performance, hence 2 average riders performing quite well could be dumped for a "heat leader" and a 2 point reserve to make up the numbers

Yes, he really wanted it that night, it was the only place to be on the track though at that stage with Cookie hugging the line to hand Kingy the title

Obviously none of us know what the BSPA have or haven't done or how hard they have tried to get Speedway on this season but we can see by their actions that they have left the riders high and dry with no contingency plan. Once the league programme was cancelled an intention to run a meaningful series of individual meetings for British riders should have been announced, a far more flexible solution than a whole league programme.

I don't know that I've ever seen Dudek make a genuine pass on anybody, he seems to have a nice style, maybe doesn't move around on the bike enough. Danny King is another rider who has a nice style but never seems to pass anybody

Do you really expect BLM supporters to turn up at "White City"

I wouldn't hold F1 up as an example of how to "take a knee" it's been a complete shambles for them. Football has had "the benefit" of "taking a knee" behind closed doors and the TV companies turn the sound down while they do it, it'll be interesting to hear the crowd reaction if they ever open the terraces up again, most crowds can't keep quite for a minutes silence for respect when somebody has died... hence the modern day 1 minutes applause. Personally I can't be doing with these grand gestures of taking a knee to demand equality and then driving down to the bank in their Ferrari's to deposit their £250,000 a week wages.

I think if you're running a sport to the paying public then yes the public do deserve an explanation

Perhaps they should, Rybnik wouldn't be the whipping boys everywhere they go and we might get to see some closer matches I love an hour's sun delay at Leicester I don't know what the drainage is like at Leszno but I have only seen one track where that meeting would have had a chance of going ahead and that was Odsal What else would they put on?

Only if you pronounce it 5 different ways in the same race ... And we wouldn't whinge... We'd laugh

"The colors of Wrocław are a holy thing, let Woryna the rag remember about it" It's all double Dutch to me... Surely they mean Veroni

Couldn't watch it in Polish personally, the TV format doesn't bother me really as I watch it on delay and FF all of the dead air and adverts. I agree with the sound though it does seem to be turned down. I think it was Flagrag that mentioned that he'd seen the bandwidth that was being used and questioned whether it was being transmitted in HD and although the picture looks fine to me I do notice that the sound seems to be in a particularly low bandwidth, to my ear at least, as I can hear a lot of background distortion and I've got quite a powerful 5.1 setup and it's really noticeable

Blummin eck! Is that all? I though it was something that had happened a while ago, they should have been having a go at the ref... "The Referee's a Woryna"

While I'll watch Speedway on the telly all day long, no matter how good it is... I've got to say from what I've seen of this Polish league it's pretty cr@p. I've sussed it out and unless it's Leszno riding away or Rybnik riding at home the match is going to be an easy comfortable home victory. Great for the promoters as most fans attending want to see their team win but a bit of a borefest for the neutral watching on TV. Obviously there's a sprinkling of good racing in most matches but for the most part the result is a forgone conclusion after the first 4 races. It's surprising really as most tracks seem to be the same size, shape and surface.

"Veroni" seemed to be getting some stick from the Wroclaw fans, not sure why that is?

Not well known by me... what's he done?

... Or even a similar series run along the lines of a Southern, Midland & Northern Riders Championships with the top 5 from each series going on to a British Final? Something... Anything. Should be relatively easy to organise. I'm surprised the BSPA didn't have a contingency plan really, the message seems to have been we've cancelled the leagues... you can all do what you want.

Holding it over multiple tracks and rounds weeds out the home track specialist winner also

I was thinking of something little more inclusive to ALL British riders, obviously depending on how many riders and clubs would want to take part... so for example have a pool of say 32 or 48 riders Round 1: Held at 3 tracks in week 1 Round 2: The top, middle and bottom riders in the standings then split over the next 3 tracks in Week 2, So split the top 16 into 6,5,5, middle 16 6,5,5 and bottom 16 6,5,5. So the riders appearing at Track 1 in Week 2 would be 1st, 4th, 8th, 12th, 16th, 20th, 24th etc in the series, Track 2 would see 2nd, 5th, 9th, 13th etc. Round 3: Same format as week 2 and then repeat for how ever long the series/season would last for, could be 4 rounds in October or many more depending how many tracks would want to run and how soon they could start. Finish off with a Top 16 Shootout at the NSS, winner take all. This way all British riders could earn some money and keep their hands in. Also would be a lot cheaper to run with no GP Stars and expensive foreigners... maybe the shape of things to come, who knows?

Just me and you then cityrebel

I was toying with the idea of getting a ticket for that... Don't think I'll bother now you've said that, sounds very dodgy, will leave it until much nearer the time I think

That's a long trip... I'm surprised the SoN hasn't been moved to Poland, wouldn't surprise me if it was

If any Speedway were to be run this season would you attend or are you done for the year?

I know, I did see that and I agree that it was right for Glasgow at that time. Where I take issue with what you said more recently was that you said that Glasgow were smarter back in June than the rest of the leagues are now. I disagree with that, if it was right for the rest of the club's in the league to wait until the last possible minute they shouldn't be criticised for it.