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Don't think cov will choose Lynn, Bees record ain't exactly brilliant round saddlebag road

Next year!

Doesn't seem to be the case at Cardiff though, the crowd mix always seems a lot younger there to me, I wonder where they're all coming from

I've only just become a semi-regular at Belle Vue (would help if they didn't keep getting rained off!) as I'm working away from home in the area for a while and I must say one thing that has struck me about the place is the average age of the punter... and it doesn't bode well for the future of the club! I'm no spring chicken myself but I'm shocked at the lack of younger people attending. I wonder why the sport attracts young participants but not a young crowd?

I think they could be a bit more innovative with some of their angles, the coverage hasn't really come on in the last 15 years

is it R/R for Morris tonight?

fair enough

21?

If Leicester's usual practices are anything to go by, nobody will find out until about 7:40 when the teams are read out on the parade and the money is safely in the bank

Even Chris Holder's form has picked up with the promise of Darcy coming back, doubt he'll be at Leicester on Saturday though... could be wrong

I think it could mix things up from the starts a bit, maybe introduce an F1 style random tape release between 1 and 5 seconds after the green light goes on. Or, and this is radical, do away with tapes all together, green light and go! As a cov attendee I regularly have to put up with Garrity, Sarj and Robbo guessing the starts and being pulled back for restarts

The amount of re-starts these days due to starting infringements is getting ridiculous.is it time to let riders push the tapes again so as to stop the constant restarts

Because surely it'd be in direct contradiction of the 5 year plan (if this exists), the plan also that the England captain said needed to be implemented or he'd retire from international speedway, I wonder if Tai is happy to see Ward back at the expense of the British Under 21 Champ

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s3Onsx1LGCU Toot! Toot!

All I could hear through the TV was toot toot toot toot toot toot toot toot toot toot toot toot toot toot toot toot toot toot toot toot toot toot toot toot toot toot toot toot toot toot toot toot toot toot toot toot toot toot toot toot toot toot toot toot toot toot toot toot toot toot toot toot toot toot toot toot toot toot toot toot toot toot toot toot toot toot toot toot toot toot toot toot toot toot toot toot toot toot toot toot toot toot toot toot toot toot toot toot toot toot toot toot toot toot toot toot toot toot toot toot toot toot toot toot toot toot toot toot toot toot toot toot toot toot toot toot toot toot toot toot toot toot toot toot toot toot toot toot toot toot toot toot toot toot toot toot toot toot toot toot toot toot toot toot toot toot toot toot toot toot toot toot toot toot toot toot toot toot toot toot toot toot toot toot toot toot toot toot toot toot toot toot toot toot toot toot toot toot toot toot toot toot toot toot toot toot toot toot toot toot toot toot toot toot toot toot toot toot toot toot toot toot toot toot toot toot toot toot toot toot toot toot toot toot toot toot toot toot toot toot toot toot toot toot toot toot toot toot toot toot toot toot toot toot toot toot toot toot toot toot toot toot toot toot toot toot toot toot toot toot toot toot toot toot toot toot toot toot toot toot toot toot toot toot toot toot toot toot toot toot toot toot toot toot toot toot toot toot toot toot toot toot toot toot toot toot toot toot toot toot toot toot toot toot toot toot toot toot toot toot toot toot toot toot toot toot toot toot toot toot toot toot toot toot toot toot toot toot toot toot toot toot toot toot toot toot toot toot toot toot toot toot toot toot toot toot toot toot toot toot toot toot toot toot toot toot toot toot toot toot toot toot toot toot toot toot toot toot toot toot toot toot toot toot toot toot toot toot toot toot toot toot toot toot toot toot toot toot toot toot toot toot toot toot toot toot toot toot toot toot toot toot toot toot toot toot toot toot toot toot toot toot toot toot toot toot toot toot toot toot toot toot toot toot toot toot toot toot toot toot toot toot toot toot toot toot toot toot toot toot toot toot NOT THAT IT WAS ANNOYING OR ANYTHING!

If Belle Vue actually signed him, he would!!!!!

Can somebody tell me the last time Cook rode at Cov, it's ridiculous!

at 7.45 though :-(

What a joke! Did the track get worse between 6pm and 7.45? The roads outside the excuse for a stadium were totally dry!

and a whole lot of wasted time in trying to find a stream that eventually works was looking at this myself... does anybody know if you can mirror this from your mobile device to your TV... I know SkyGo blocks this feature

anyone know where/if this is streamed, I'm away from home tomorrow night and would like to watch it on my phone/miracast. SkyGo doesn't allow miracast :-(

For me you can tinker about with all the rules you want, I personally hate the double points rule but it hasn't stopped me going. 10 or so years ago you'd hear the promoters say "we know we've got a good product", I think it's finally dawning on some of them that they haven't. You can try and spin a match out as long as you like trying to fool punters into thinking they're getting value for money, the thing is we're not thick. All I want to see when I go is a good competitive match with some decent racing, not every race is going to be a corker but I believe the trouble at the moment is you're lucky if you see 2 good (and I mean really exciting) races from 15. Yes you can play with the rules to make matches closer thus meaning heats become more important in the context of the overall match, at the moment the sport is geared up for home wins (supposedly to keep the home punters happy), the team manager is totally trussed up in what he can do. I don't want to say things were always better in the olden days as speedway has progressed a lot since the 60's 70's & 80's, it's certainly a lot more colourful but take a look on you tube, there are a couple of interesting documentaries on there about John Davis and Ivan Mauger. You can see that what the sport has evolved into bears little resemblance to those days, the bikes are far too fast these days to produce decent racing (at most British tracks anyway), the bikes have outgrown British tracks, bikes in the old era were at top speed halfway down the straight, these days they're still accelerating into the bends. How you address this without some kind of worldwide reduction in power I don't know. But too often nowadays it's who gates blasts off into the distance never to be even challenged, then the same rider can reel off a number of wins and then look like a novice when they miss the gate and trail around at the back not even challenging

15 mins into the interval and we've just started song 2, unfortunately not the blur version

19:43 still waiting for first race, parade late, already banging on about what sounds like is going to be a massive interval, that nobody seems interested in

With the published teams being relatively believable this week the only real question seems to be, will there be an hour and a half sun delay? With the current weather trend in these parts being a cloudy day and a cloudless evening, chances are there will be... shall we start at 9?