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Okay, there's a bit to unpack here... I don't agree that BZ's high appearance fee is nonsense as a self employed person myself I adjust my prices according as to what my customers can afford, I don't charge the factory down the road the same as I charge multl-billion pound financial institutions, not if I want the factory down the roads' business. Yes I do want to see the World Champion in emerging Speedway nations like Argentina & France. Apart from Australia tracks can be found in Poland, United Kingdom (Great Britain), Sweden, Denmark, Argentina, Czech Republic, Finland, France, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Latvia, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Russia, Slovakia, Slovenia, South Africa. I gave you 2 examples of individual events BZ has yet to ride in the PCMT in UK and Czech Golden Helmet, 2 prestigious individual events and you could argue that the decline in the other big events like the Gold Bar etc is due to the high appearance fees from riders. I agree if riders are riding over in Poland and taking the Polish coin the least they could do is learn some Polish language effectively enough to communicate even if it's only "jestem bardzo szczęśliwy" (me big happy? 😂) You may not like it but English is the international language and generally used as the international standard, if you want to be a world star and have cut through with the media around the world you need to be speaking in English. Cristiano Ronaldo didn't have a great grasp of English when he played for Manchester United but as he became a world star learnt it and has a much better media cut through than Lionel Messi because of this. Look at F1, all press conferences conducted in English and all drivers completely fluent in the language. If Speedway wants any media cut through at all and wants to expand its reach it's essential that the World Champion at least speaks English and is also seen outside of Poland.

Thanks 👍🏻

Does anybody know if TNT replay the 2nd leg or show highlights, my "recording facility" failed so unfortunately I'm unable to relive the pain 😢

As gutted as I am to see the Lions lose I think that a Witches victory is probably the best for British Speedway, first of all that size crowd doesn't deserve to be sent home unhappy and hopefully many will return. Ippo have been the team to beat for the last 3 seasons, they took the financial gamble in bringing Emil back 3 years ago to partner Doyley and we've all benefited from that, they've worked the rulebook to within an inch of its life this year (and fair play to them for that) and they've got a true local legend captaining the club which is rare to see these days (even though he comes in for a bit of stick from certain quarters) Well done Witches, well deserved and earned... our final was the semi final again (we've got to stop celebrating semi final victories like that!)... it's our turn next year

,Credit to Hawkins and Louis, they know they've just won the league but no celebrating straight over to see how Dougy was 👏

Because they've won nothing at the moment

If Kemp's gifted point to Ippo costs us... well wouldn't that be funny 🤔

Not just tonight, he's always been like that

You can't blame Tatum for milking the golden twit... it's up to somebody at Sky, Eurosport, WBD & TNT to realise he just ain't up to the job. They finally did with Sudden Sam took long enough though. Apparently he's even doing MotoX commenting for WBD now 😂

... or give up at the back 🤔

At least it's good to see Super Max turn up for this year's final 👍🏻

Normal 2025 service has been resumed from Emil tonight 😂

It's the bare minimum to expect from any rider tbf

Never want to see him ride another race for Leicester at least JT gives you 4 laps even if they are that back.

And won't be in the rerun or awarded a point!

King will go for that and Kemp pulled up not under power... I wonder if a lesson will be learnt?

We thought that about Craig Cook last season only to see him announced for this! Hopefully Mr Dickson has learnt his lesson.

Quitter Kemp a disgrace to the club! Get him out!

PJR nose strips?

Just saying but each one of those flame machines has a flashing red light on the back of it, that were flashing through the entirety of heat 1

There's either a load of Johnny come lately's here tonight or maybe it shows how badly Speedway is missed in the South East?

Flaming nora Emil 🔥

Brilliant! The firework screen is in da house 🎆

A bigger farce than Kvech & Huckenbeck? A bigger farce than still including a local wild card even though all locales were already catered for? A bigger farce than the Sprint Races? A bigger farce than the points scoring system... I'll leave it at that for the time being 😁

That may very well be the case but I'm trying to think back to his WC years (a long time ago now) and I can't ever remember him being a swashbuckling BZ type rider forcing his way through from the back, I could be wrong, like I say it was a long time ago