IainB

Silence... we are not the thugs that attend football who can't control themselves to be quiet for 1 single minute, that's the only reason that people applaud these days Quote from Neil Watson on the Wolves vs Cov thread re not having RR for Robbo at Wolves "I understand your thoughts, but we have to be open to the possibility of losing a rider to injury early in the meeting." Confused...

How can this be? RR's average is higher than MM's

April fool

I don't know if I missed something with the scoring but what would of happened if the final finished as a 3-3, who would have won?

I've been to a few meetings already this season and I can't say I've noticed any difference in the starting procedure, riders are still taking an eternity to line up at the tapes, especially at Cov last night. Now I know Peter Yorke is not the most reliable of sources but he said that a rider has to be in contact with his machine, pointing in the direction of the tapes. It seems to me that this is an unbreakable rule as I'm struggling to think of any other position a rider could get himself into!!

2 good races, 13 and 15 correction Auty vs Sarj was quite interesting too

No, they've increased it by £1

£18 at Cov this year!!!!

Agreed

It's almost impossible to get an unobstructed view at Leicester unless you're on the very front row of the perimeter, which is very poor for a bespoke speedway stadium. Other than that it's a nice place to go. The track seems to be better with the better quality riders on it

I think the racing in the EL has been abysmal this year, as a matter of interest, how long have you been going to Brandon?

This is not league specific, the problem runs throughout the whole sport, all 3 leagues and individual competitions Doesn't matter what's gone now, they should have done. It's the future we should be thinking about, or there might not be one Because he's the man in post So let's start now OK let's give up It's personal because he's the man in post

Alex Harkess, when are you going to step up and do something for British Speedway and step down! As chairman of British Speedway you have presided over the continual decline of the sport over the last number of years to the point last night where we had a Wolverhampton team riding at Swindon consisting of no Wolverhampton riders and a 5 man Coventry team tracked consisting of 3 Coventry riders! We are now at a point in this country where league racing is unsustainable, there are just not enough riders available to run 3 leagues with riders doubling and in some cases tripling up with countless fixture clashes. We have the new Fast Track system in place, which at the start of the year seemed like a great idea to bring on the youth of British Speedway, but as the season as gone on this has turned into a farce, with the inevitable injuries that have occurred you now have 27 year old veterans on this list. The season started off on a farcical note with the ELRC and the subsequent promise of inquiries etc, but to my knowledge there was no punishment dished out, the list goes on, far too many for me to list here but just browsing through the forums on the pages and pages of things that should just not be happening in a so called professionally run sport. And what do we ever hear from Alex Harkess? What is his strategy for the improvement of the sport? Is there a plan? Where is the leadership? When is somebody going to take some responsibility?

This was never going to finish with both teams operating R/R in both matches

NEWS FLASH! It is

Are all riders tested or is it random?

Do you think he was drinking by himself?

They should do what they do in the GP and have a clock on the centre showing how much of the 2 mins is left, if a rider isn't ready, he's out. It works brilliantly in the GP, a few riders got excluded once and it never happened again. Generally speedway is run in such a slap dash way that (perhaps it should be renamed to this, slapdashway) that the 2 mins can easily end up being 3, yes I have timed it in the past (anorak!)

ukcomms@eurosport.com

Third! Yes Brilliant!

Great drainage at Leicester!

I don't believe this is the case for one moment, surely every right thinking speedway fan wants this to happen. It's just that the tease of this thread was for some concrete news and quite frankly it's no further forward from happening today as it was at the beginning of the week/month/year.

I wish the Leicester track had been based on Blackbird Road, never mind. Good luck though

And while we're being all negative, I don't know why Gordon/Morton keep going off to have a look at Torun, if the artist impression is anything to go by they'd be better off going to the East of England Showground

No news then