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SCB... it should be 45

The whole "Sport" is geared up to home wins, it's what the punters want, it's what gets the crowds in, the less chance of an away team using tacticals and snatching a win the better... in the self interested promoters eyes

it takes 2 to tango

Went to this one as a neutral expecting to see a cup final cracker... instead start was delayed, not because of the crowd but due to lack of ambulance, then both teams running R/R and Ippo losing Schlein meant that more or less every race was 2 rides on the trot, meeting held up for around 20 mins because there was only 1 ambulance in attendance, ref seemed to not know where the 2 minute button was and when there wasn't 2 on the trot and the meeting could have been pushed along a bit the tractor came out for track grading!!! Well done Ippo on not collapsing and keeping it close but from a neutral point of view it was hard to keep any interest going in what was a very tedious meeting. My first visit to the EoES since the shambles that was the Newcastle match... at least Schlein wasn't able to throw his toys out the pram this time because he couldn't ride the track. Nigh on 3 hours for 15mins of action is a total joke

Is there any team strength limitation or doubling up in RL though?

A lot (most?) promotions don't care about who they send away from home... it's all about the home attendances. What they fail to realise is that it takes 2 to tango

most definitely down... Cov fan!

All the fans want is a bit of transparency, it's not too much to ask when being encouraged to go along to a Speedway meeting by a co-promoter nobody has ever heard of before being told that potentially your best rider is "unavailable" and that 2 of your team are riding for the opposition! The trouble is a lot of fans are soooooo frustrated by the "Sport" in its current state and it was all so easily avoidable and is easy to start to put right but nobody seems to have the willingness to do it

It's quite funny following him on Twitter, his posts seem to rotate between apology to fans for poor performance, time at BT studios and time off. Quite funny that is unless he's been riding for your team

Well, it won't be Sheffield as it looks like they're going to miss their chance to get promotion

any news from the meeting last night?

I think he said he's eligible for a ban didn't he? That's the way I heard it... doesn't mean he's going to get one

Seeing as the aim of British Speedway is for the top 2 leagues to be closer in team strengths, can we expect a further watering down of the top league next year? If people thought that was dull... they should have been at the Pairs the day before, a total borefest Comedy moment of the night for me was when Josh Bates mentioned in his interview that he also rode for Leicester, he obviously hadn't read the script... he mentioned it once, but he think he got away with it, I half expected to see a tumbleweed blow across the screen

Wow! I must admit that I did not see that coming. So I hold my hands up and eat mass helpings of humble pie! I'm just sorry that Speedway has made me this cynical

He'll probably be replaced by Pav next year Probably wasn't even asked to come over

It's absolutely outrageous and a total sham! 2 teams against each other, both run by the same promotion, using some of the same riders! No Pav because he's "unavailable", it's obvious that this is a done deal especially with the 1st division being run on Monday/Thursday next year... what night do Sheffield run on? Lions should not be allowed any facility for Pav, there's absolutely nothing wrong with him!! He should ride or receive a ban, meaning he'll miss the first month of next season when he signs for Sheffield. You've got both promotions giving almost identical press releases and all of a sudden somebody called Marc Bates (who he?) appears claiming to be a co-promoter! Any fan that attends either of these 2 meetings is a mug and is being taken for one. Where's the transparency? I now see that the Leicester leg has been put back to next Monday... perhaps Pav will now be availalble! There really needs to be an SCB investigation into this meeting, it stinks! Can I get decent odds on Sheffield anywhere? this is easy money

are you saying it's fixed? Call the Sunday People!

Unavailable means... We're trying to cover up the real reason

Pav is "unavailable"... Which seems to be a cause of absence for many riders these days

dunno, I must admit I don't know the rules. Can lions have r/r for him then? Is he "withholding his services" would/should he get a ban?

Why does everybody keep saying r/r for Przedpelski? Surely he's riding!

why no Pawel?

Is Przedpelski not riding for Leicester then? He's wild card in the GP this weekend. Or can he still "not fly". If he doesn't ride for the Lions I think we can read a lot into how much they want to stay in the 1st division

Surely there is some kind of EU law that prevents the Polish league putting restrictions on riders and where they can earn their money?

seems simple to me... you set the points limit at 45, maybe 46, that's what it takes to draw/win a match. Why over-complicate it? unless you are deliberately trying to weaken the league and drive riders away