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No! What is the use of this? The whole point of speedway is that you can see the whole race. It's inside a stadium; you don't need to be told what you are seeing.

Well, the usual suspects were wrong tonight!

Tonight's result shows that there is no need for changes when the team all ride to their best.

Auty back end of July; they would be mad to swap Shanes for Wright! (It's James who rode for Newcastle ...)

Brandon was always a tip for years. While the grandstand will probably have to go, it is not essential: everything else which is needed is still there. There are few enough plush stadiums used for speedway.

Not really; it was only the heat leaders who kept Plymouth in the match, and Birmingham should never have given away two of the 5-1s.

Really? It doesn't seem any worse than Oxford was a while ago?

They've got the licences: Glasgow apparently helped Birmingham sign Justin Sedgmen.

I use Firefox with an adblock. No annoying advertisements!

Anyway, we were never going to prosper in Heats 13 and 15, against the best rider in the PREMIERSHIP! And the sixth best ... Plus the latest wonder boy who was given seven rides ...

The track was drenched with water before the start, but warmth and a drying wind negated that.

Unfortunately, the turnip is not nearly as funny as he thinks he is

Broken thumb.

When does it stop?

You can't beat experience! He and Nicholls were the best riders on the night.

Ho hum ... the usual supects spewing out their bile yet again ... can they just give it a rest now?

I'm surprised that it didn't happen long ago

Nonsense. There was no need whatsoever to make changes; there was no chance at all that Scunthorpe would win. Douglas was brilliant - he scored half of Scunny's points single handed - but the rest were very ordinary. As for James Pearson: he seemed to be using a Gerhardt engine, which was too slow, even though he was making the starts.

What I want to know is, if this team is called Gladiators ... why do they have as a logo, a Greek helmet?

It's on Facebook: match ON.

It's stopped now in Great Barr.

That was for Berwick ...

The black parts are probably made from magnesium, instead of aluminium, to save weight. we had an engine which had not only the cam cover and timing cover in magnesium, but also the main timing case. Whe we bought it, we did not appreciate that the engine was actually an Ashtech job!

It might be worth pointing out that the same thing - meetings held up by lack of medical support - seems to have happened at Scunthorpe and Newcastle recently.

At a practice session in the early days, Hemsley told me that he wanted a 'fast' speedway; this is why he made it with long straights. Of course, he really should have found out what a fast speedway is actually like!