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Flint (6.72) is higher than Brennan (6.62). (Batchelor at 6.65 just scrapes in) So assuming Basso is unavailable there is simply no reason to select a second Glasgow rider.

Not important enough for BSPA site, disgraceful.

It’s speedway your talking about,extremely!!!!

I bet none of them are season ticket holders.

Always liked the aggregate Bonus Point system...nice and simple and easy to establish league table potential placing.

Sad news - a little before my time but any fan with an eye on the history of the sport will recognise him as a main stay of the 'old guard' RIP

Halifax Dukes Captain Eric Boothroyd has passed away in hospital after a heart attack. Ninety five years old a great rider and team captain for the Dukes. R.I.P Eric

Sam started well but as a previous post suggest flagged a bit in his last 2 rides. A courageous performance from the captain on a heavy track. Paco best rider tonight. When he didn’t come round after his last race and headed to pits I thought he was a certainty for heat 15. Poor management IMO. Castagna merited heat 15. Only dropped a point, paid 11. Manager should have put him in last heat.

Big big balls from Michelsen. Pleased for him great riding.

Good start to the meeting....

Believe Pirates may feature on ITV Meridian South tonight in their 6.00 pm news programme.

To be fair to them.. They will need to be factoring in Bomber's availability... As soon as he informs them of his schedule they will release dates... Three teams to represent... And as an added bonus he will be able to jump across the podium to get three medals as they get presented...

Well that won't be the final line-up will it? Due to absences, injuries, other commitments or unavailability etc!!

Is that apart from DSE increasing the prize money considerably. They have given us continual individual pit shots of riders picking their nose and spitting

I would be surprised if Bickley is used in our Championship team, I think that maybe the relationship between club and rider has become strained of late.

The No Development League is now such a poor product, if attendance is not mandatory at any meeting it needs a name change as none of the N,D or L apply now really.

Sad news,was a great Team man and rider in his day.Lucky enough to have seen him ride in the 60’s. RIP. Eric.

A huge figure in the history of Halifax Speedway. RIP Eric.

The questions raised there are is the NDL a professional league? The governing body certainly doesn't think so. The disparity between riders will always be there when teams can be built using riders who double up and are riding 2-3 times a week vs riders who ride twice a month. The only way the standard will get raised now is for more double downers to drop back in from the CL, the journeymen have been pushed out/drifted away already. The youth setup is producing a few riders each year but not many and certainly not enough to fill the reserve slots each season. Most teams started the season tracking at least one 3.00 rider with full seasons experience under their belts. The NDL can survive if its viewed as a long game for developing riders (with the quick rising exceptions shooting through to higher leagues). You can't build teams across any league using 10 pointers and 3 pointers and not expect to see some strung out races. If you want a "closer" product then its cap the averages of the riders allowed in, if you want the NDL to be progression keep allowing the double uppers (but accept the costs). Unfortunately the league as a whole is trying to be too many things and if it carries on is in danger of no longer existing. A glimpse of the future for the NDL is to look at the CL, littered with fading stars earning pay days for the final few years, when the mass retirements come the league will be in tatters, if the trickle of fading stars keep dropping back down to NDL it will become the same.

Last of the Turnip Wine...... hiccups......burp......oh I say officer u r nawty but I like u! ......whoops, hiccups......where's Cleggy, shudn't he be in the line up?

Don't get in a stew Turnip or you'll end up in the soup.

Piotr Pawlicki has got dirtier as the years go by.

Michelsen is definately hurt there. Shoulder took a bashing. Be surprised if he rides again tonight. But these guys are made of strong stuff.

Some rain today, but not loads. Some tomorrow morning, but again not loads. Should be fairly clear from the afternoon. Plenty of banking will help with drainage. Sun’s currently out. I don’t really see any major issues.

Maybe more riders available on a Weds than a Sunday?

They are not the GSAs. You need to look at Issue 20 on the 2022 Declarations section. Lisa-Collette is correct.

Just browsed through and cant help but laugh, such idiots who cant see what happened. Clowns the lot of them lee complin too thanking rob lol he was garbage too. Oh he rides the oUtside bend, hahaha when? 10 years ago i miss watching newcastle and still annoyed as hell, probably could post my full feeling but ill be banned from the one place where folk speak the truth about the fall of the club!!

It might be based on July averages & not August.

Steve's average is 8.48, Richard's is 8.14 and Danny's is 8.29 atm or are they using averages at start of 2022? Though pretty sure he started at no1, so should have had the highest average then too!

As Worrall was at number one for the Pirates on Wednesday, he surely is the Pirates highest in the current GSAs.

14.15 at Gdansk Airport won't get you to Torun until 18.45 by train, so hopefully the bus is a better option. In previous years the tram to the stadium has been free after 15.00 if you have a speedway ticket so worth checking that applies this year too.

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From a couple of laps? Deserves to be broken in that case

Unofficially from Middlo on Piratecast live last night, 6-man teams over 18 heat format for each of 3 legs. Final regs still awaited as are the dates to be discussed and agreed by the 3 clubs involved.

Can't imagine Steve wanting to risk his shoulder on Plymouth's tight track?! Richard , Danny or either Cook - no problem. Even Nathan for his mate McGurk if he's still injured.

Wembley also has good transport links, and there's quite a few hotels, restaurants and bars on-site now, as well as several shopping malls nearby. I admittedly haven't been for about 3 years, but the Olympic Park didn't have a lot in it from memory. And a fair bit of it was already looking unkempt and somewhat rundown. Erm, I was talking about Wembley. However, if a GP was to be held in London it wouldn't be at Wembley and far more likely to be in the Olympic Stadium.

If the team needed him to win his last ride he would do.

Maybe his Butcher Meat is decent.

And to be honest I'd prefer to see Tom rather than Cook or Batchelor.

Bickley won’t be seen in a Bandits jacket again, that’s for sure, and we all thank god for that on the daily

Three teams in each leg. For example: The heats go Poole v Glasgow, Poole v Leicester, Glasgow v Leicester, and so on….

Bickley for Stoneman fits in the averages!

*comment*

I blame Theresa May

No point arguing with these arrogant root vegetables. Poole who know everything had free kids and 10 quid to attract 2000 last night. They usually have 1500 for 18 quid. So they lost a few grand but according to their owner things are desperate in terms of speedway having the stadium after end of this season according to some or next according to others. Be better if they focused on their own problems like finding some land pdq than telling everyone else what to do. Joe Mc like you said worked his nuts off, as has Brian Buck and others.. Need no lessons from Poole. Maybe when they close Brian can help them get a new track.

Ok.... I got it now. Mini leagues of 6 fixtures? If so they're really making this a drawn out playoffs. Assume Grudziadz & Ostrow seasons are over with the latter relegated or are they having some 7 match relegation playoff series (could be the speedway Stanley Cup!)

Every rider is given a list of banned drugs when they are issued with their licences and few cannot be aware of what is and is not permitted. Very few prescription drugs are banned, only those that are believed to affect performance, often through making riders fearless or indeed reckless. I very much doubt that there are many riders “who in extreme pain and under pressure to ride have taken a prescription drug” that would be in breach of the rules. Indeed, I recall Shane Parker back in 2005 riding with a recently broken collar bone saying he was unwilling to take any pain killers for fear of breaching the anti-doping rules. Drug testing at UK speedway meetings is carried out regularly and independently and it is testimony to the “clean” nature of the sport, possibly fuelled by a fear of being banned, that few are caught. I would expect that the same systems operate in other countries which have caught very few over the years either. Your comment that “Whatever the outcome the Sport needs MORE tests and more education and not just gloat that they have caught one and then sit back and do naff all for another 3-4 years.” is, in my view, very wide of what happens. Riders ARE educated and tests are already frequent. I have no inside knowledge about the current case but am aware that there are clear procedures for the hearing that will take place and these are laid down in section 018.5 of the 2022 SCB Regulations. Until that takes place and a decision made, it would be pointless to speculate further.

I don't necessarily think the commentators need updating. I think what's needed is this need to lie when it's a crap meeting. No other sport does it. Football, Cricket, Rugby etc, if it's a bad game it gets called a bad game. If someone's playing awful, they get called awful. The constant positivity has a negative effect. Take Cardiff yesterday for instance, it was a horrible watch, yet the commentary was bigging it up. If you're new to the sport & they're seeing the commentary bigging it up, why are these people going to give the sport a chance? They'd think "if this is good racing, I'd hate to see bad racing." JUST STOP THE LIES, WE DO HAVE EYES

Listening to Hayley Bromley is like scratching polystyrene. Lee Kilby is head and shoulders above any of the newer Streaming Presenters. Knows the Sport too.