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I have to say, for a track with no floodlights... they're great floodlights

The "Marshall"

It's how Richie Worrall referred to Neil Vatcher in his Facebook outbursts last year... and the name seems to have stuck (for some at least 😁)

Well, you will come straying into the Premiership League section

I doubt you'll see many Leicester fans at the Poole pay offs

They know Poole fans will watch any old 5h1t

Judging by the condition of the track in practice it could be "interesting" tonight!

So, I've left this for a while to all play out. Here's what happened... I was most surprised to receive a reply to my email from Phil Morris himself, asking for my contact details so we could have a chat. I was then absolutely flabbergasted to receive a call from him this morning 2 and a half hours before GP practice was due to start!! We spent a good half an hour discussing the "play" off semi finals. I'm not going to divulge what was said in our private conversation only to say it was a very honest and very open account of what has gone on and the reasons behind it. While I still do not agree with it, I at least feel that my voice has been heard and I think that is all I can ask for and expect. One thing I will say that he mentioned was that he said somebody had sent him a screenshot of a post I'd made on here suggesting that the Fans' Voice Representatives didn't exist, so it appears we have a mole in our midst (or should that be a moley ), which is no bad thing really as I said to him that since these fans reps were announced I'd heard nothing more from them and perhaps they need to be more visible with contact details on club websites etc. Not to bother them with the tittle tattle issues like Tatum said this or Eurosport doesn't show that but the big stuff like rule consistency and fixture "manipulation". As for the others that I emailed, I did hear back from David Lowe the Lions fans rep but unsurprisingly didn't hear back from a single club, not even a courtesy email thanking me for getting in touch and my concerns would be forwarded to the Premiership CEO. I tell a lie, Belle Vue did but that reply came from BSPL towers, I suspect Belle Vue never even saw it. To be fair I did cc the other clubs into the email I sent to Leicester, so not receiving a reply from them is maybe understandable. Did anybody else hear back? Don't worry, I know you didn't even bother emailing

From what I can gather, riders don't really know the score at any point of a meeting (let alone a 2 legged match up!)... and why 91?!? It only needed the most basic grasp of maths to work out there was no way Tigers could be caught... back to night school for Mr Stead 😁

Didn't Sheffield win this after heat 12 but nobody seemed to realise, Ippo had 73 to Tigers 89 with only 15 points still available to Ippo

Good effort from Mikkel Andersen... and is it Parnitskyi as it says on the captions or Parnitskiy as it says on the back of his race jacket?

Don't forget doubling uppers

If thems the rules, then they should be out, that's why we have cut off dates... now show me the rules that say they just make the pay off fixtures up as they see fit. You don't seem to understand the concept of a rule book in professional sports.

Would be funny if it weren't true! There's a lot of stuff I can put up with as far as Speedway is concerned, guests and all that but when you start to get into fixture rigging at the end of a 5 month season, I personally draw a line there.

The SCB issued a press release: https://www.scbgb.co.uk/news.php?extend.200 So I assume that the completion/ cut off dates must have been set in the rules as the SCB needed to agree to extend the completion date and ignore the cut off date altogether. Do the rules make provision for the making up of pay off fixtures You're right though, this is a side issue and the SCB just agreed to the rigging of the fixtures because all the clubs agreed between themselves! You couldn't make it up!

I thought the league season date was extended by 7 days to get the 2 Lions v Lynn matches in even though they counted for nothing.

Okay, if you're going to start to get abusive I'm not going to engage with your on this topic anymore, I hope you enjoy the pay offs, they're not for me this season.

You know all that time you took off work, all that traveling, all those traffic jams, all those motorway closure detours on the way home, all the money you spent on travel, accommodation, food, stadium admission, programmes, following your team up and down the country since your team had secured a top 4 spot (July in Ippo's case?) because you knew that in the rules at the start of the season it said that 1st played 4th and 2nd played 3rd in the PAY OFFS. Guess what? All completely pointless! Why change it? The cut off was 31/8, you call the 1,2,3 & 4 on that date, not start making your own up.

Stewart Dickson was saying last night that Douglas has an infected sprained wrist. I think he's been struggling with it for some time.

The thing is Emil going for it like he did makes Emil what he is and why he puts bums on seats. It wouldn't have effected the pay offs they were always going to be what they were... rigged! They've stopped giving out 28 day bans for missing matches, apparently. Just catching a snippet of what Chris Louis was saying about Freddie Lindgren on the podcast, didn't he mention something about him only being contracted to ride over here until the end of August or something so that's why the Polish clubs are clamping down on rider usage.

Well, this morning I've had an email back from David Lowe, Leicester Fans Rep, and also an email from Nikki Jameison, Office Manager at BSPL Towers, saying she'll forward my email on to the Premiership CEO! I'm going for a lie down 🤯 ... I have just received a reply from Belle Vue, it's a copy and pasted copy of the BSPL email from Nikki Jameison!

That's great, I hope you enjoy it, because eventually you'll be on your own watching Sheffield vs Belle Vue every week 🐯♠️

keep pressing refresh 😁

2021 wasn't ideal, but that year was very much Covid effected and as you said the top 2 teams had choice. This is very different, the rules that were in place all season have been abandoned and the semi final fixtures rigged, they could have done 1st v 4th and 2nd v 3rd at the cut off date, if you can't see this I despair and you'll get the sports entertainment you deserve.

Thanks both, I don't buy a programme so was not aware of this, I've just sent an email off 👍