BlueIn2Red

A real shame for the Scorpions having two riders completely off it, when the rest of the team are riding so well. Poole far from their best, but everybody contributing at least something, which should be more than enough for them now in the second leg.

Rushen did nothing wrong there, he’s due an apology from Staechman, who was babbling nonsense that he’d done something really dangerous (and who didn’t have the guts to correct himself when the replay showed him to be way off).

If Cairns was tyre warming (and admitted it), shouldn’t he have been excluded? Or is that a warning/fine scenario? Seems odd to me, since he will have had an (admittedly small) advantage off the start.

Exciting stuff. With hindsight if either Leicester rider had laid it down after contact in the superheat, I reckon the referee might well have ruled in their favour. But I’m glad they didn’t and tried to do it the honest way.

Edit, ignore me.

Not if Kurtz wins the final and Lambert is last.

Presumably because it rewards winning.

Track seems good to me, plenty of passing. Commentators wittering on about it being very slick, bizarre.

Speedway bikes have brakes now?!?

Oliver Allen is absolutely clueless, incredible he used to ride speedway yet has so little grip on the rules of the sport. Shocking.

The commentary is unbelievable at times - “it can’t be all four back because all four riders weren’t involved in the crash”!

I was going to say the same, I thought he rode well in both legs, for very little reward (partly due to his “teammate” last night).

Has Jake Allen ever looked for a teammate? Another shocker there from him in heat 15, stitching up Charles Wright for no good reason (a lesser rider would have either crashed, or gone to the back).

Fully agreed, Cairns really did himself no favours with that interview.

I did. 5 times not needed though!

Looked like six of one half a dozen of the other to me, Mulford was outside his gate as well. What followed was a bit of fun handbags … to exclude Newman for not being ready though was extremely petty (at best).

I don’t think he said that - sounded more like “we can f*cking win this”.

It’s an odd one from the outside for sure, but the two promotions/management teams are very close, which I think probably explains it. Not suggesting envelopes of cash or anything though, of course. (Although BV riders taking it easy in heats 12-15 would have me suspicious!)

“Playoff speedway at its best” … hmmm.

It’s the scale of the wins, not the pure fact of winning. Surely more fans would prefer to see a 40-38 than a 60-18?!?

Such a shame that one of the best attended tracks has such poor racing. I honestly don’t really know why the fans keep coming back, seeing heavy home wins and very little overtaking every week. But they do, so I guess you can’t really criticise the management for preparing things the way they do.

Why don’t TNT show the points again? I’m pretty sure Kelvin’s maths is wrong. I make it RL 142, BZ 141, BK 139.

If they call it now do they take the points from heat 20 to determine the GP points? The commentators haven’t actually covered this and it seems rather critical!

Thoughts on BSN charging extra for the Premiership playoffs? I must admit I thought the “full season pass” I was paying for included the full season. Although to be fair the playoffs in previous years have not been on BSN at all of course. On balance I’m going to pay the extra, but it was a close run thing to be honest.

The strangest thing about the Ben Cook exclusion at Sheffield was that the referee had access to the BSN replays as well. Fair enough sometimes they get it wrong in the heat of the moment, but when you can view footage multiple times? Bizarre indeed.