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As above.. you replaced Andersen with Lindback.

Did he? He had two excellent rides once he got dialled in. Ford most certainly didn't say 'see ya'.

Absolutely awful idea and even less value for money.

Good to see the positive ideas flowing, I'm sure a combination of them all could bring something to revolutionise the sport. Only Starman has picked out a negative with his dislike of the 'regional' league. Good to see he is in favor of the remaining proposals though.

I don't think I could have made it any more interesting. How about if Jerran Hart does the coin toss live from his prison cell?

Really Starman? Care to explain? Most others seem quite positive. You're happy with the Cup rules though?

I'm afraid this type of post sums up the sport as it is now. Someones takes the time to lovingly put together a plan to save the sport and it is met with derision by certain parties. Fortunately I'm happy to see the response has been mostly positive with numerous fans offering ideas and improvements. Ouch remembers the wonderful scenes surrounding the 2005 World U21 final one of the most thrilling events in modern speedway history. Some say if only we could have bottled that moment.. well, we can. Just as an addendum to my plan, KOC rules would eliminate one of the biggest bug bears that some fans seem to have.. i.e. gardening. No time for that when the race begins in the pits.

I'm liking it. Perhaps a good old second half as well in that three team 3rd leg in Poland?

I was keeping it under wraps, but the proposal is in January 19 tracks will be named, leaving one vacant space. Slough, Melbourne, Los Angeles and Mogadishu will face off in a Kerplunk challenge with the runners up taking the final place in the league. In a further twist the pts limit will be set by the average number of marbles that fall into the fourth places teams slot during their matches.

Where do you think? Only Barry Briggs homogolated coins to be used. £300 each. Each coin can only be used once.

It's clear big changes need to be made to arrest the decline in the sport's fortunes in the UK and some outside of the box thinking is required. I've put together a plan to revamp both the league and cup competitions that should bring all the ingredients we, as fans, crave. Drama, excitement, tension, unpredictability. LEAGUE 4 regional leagues, 5 teams in each, each team has two home matches and one away. One of the home matches results won't count. A coin toss decides, all the coin tosses are done live online in the final week of the season to give it an exciting climax. Top team from each league and the bottom team qualify for the playoffs. The top teams race each other three times, one at home, one away and another at one of each others track decided by a coin toss.. Boy the live coin toss could revolutionise the sport. The bottom teams do the same. 3rd place in the top team play-off league races 2nd place in the bottom teams play-off league in the Grand Final. 15 heats, neutral track to be decided by the National Lottery draw on the first Saturday following the conclusion of the final fixture. The THIRD number drawn will count. If this number is not 1-20 then the FIFTH number is used followed by the 4th, 2nd, 6th and 1st if necessary. In the unlikely event no number of 1-20 is drawn, the track allocation is postponed till the following Saturday's lottery. Now onto the Grand Final itself. At the conclusion of Heat 15 a live coin toss. Whomever wins it can either 'keep the score'.. or reverse it! What a twist! i.e. you lose 38-52 but win the coin toss, you reverse and win 52-38! TV will love it and the match is kept alive till the very end. It gives team managers a valuable role to play and the tension as they make their decision will be palpable. It will create great online discussion as fans debate if their manager made the right call. CUP I think for the Cup Competition it needs to offer something different. 16 teams to take part, 4 will miss out. Take the combined starting averages of teach team and then divide by their average age, the closest teams to 2.22 are entered, the others miss out. Seems the fairest way. Standard 15 heat matches, but the races begin in the pits, all riders have to be pushed to the pit gate, they must NOT start their engines prior. At Wolves the action would be frantic for example as they have a long way to go around the back of the pits. Fitness of your mechanic is crucial in this respect. Once they hit the track the bikes can start as quickly and efficiently as possible and the race begins. The four laps begin once they cross the start line for the first time. Points are awarded as 4 2 0.5 0 for the initial race to the pits gate. Then the standard 3 2 1 0 for the actual race. Anyone finishing more than 0.37 seconds ahead of the first opponent (not a team mate) immediately behind them gains extra pts equivalent to the number of seconds (to 2 decimal places) they beat them by over the 0.37 seconds.. If the opposing team has both riders excluded both remaining riders score an extra 0.86pts. This will encourage riders not to give up and just cruise round and provide gripping racing for the fans. Barry Briggs homologated stop watches can be sold at track shops to enable the fans to participate in the timing. For example Thorssell wins 0.50 seconds ahead of the second placed rider he'd score an extra 0.13pts. Plus his 3 for winning. If he won the race to pit gate he'd score 7.13pts for that heat. Tactical substitutes are allowed for both rider AND mechanic and can be used when a team is 8.64 pts or more behind. They can be used as many times as they wish but if you use a rider more than once he must begin the race with his helmet unfastened. Only when the green light comes on can he begin to fasten and it must be fastened before he can be pushed away by his mechanic. All mechanics must wear standard footwear. However, if a mechanic is used as a tac sub for a second time he must wear only one shoe. Mechanics must wear Barry Briggs homologated footwear.

Wolverhampton Speedway Fan Page. The comments section on the post "Think Pete or Jacob need to tell James Sarjeant you actually have to wait for the tapes to go up before dropping the clutch"

Ridiculous comment, you t**t. Check Wolves Supporters facebook thread for the context of that!

Whilst agreeing Monday's are not good for Belle Vue, in this particular case I'd suggest more to do with Summer Holidays have started.

TBF you'd have to be a fool to agree to that. By the same terms, why don't you paypal him the money?

Fred's just warming up folks and getting himself into shape.. we're edging nearer to the Play-offs and he needs to be in peak fitness for the annual bombardment of pokc bollox.

Did you have a Catholic priest as teacher?

I love posts like this. Every year some folk tell us the crowd is 'at least a few thousand' down on the previous year. Place should be nigh on empty by now!

Thanks for re-enforcing what I said. It is you who has the problem, not Rossiter.

Idiots are folk who decide how others should look.

Hope Doyle isn't badly hurt. Yet another ridiculous exclusion from the referee. Lambert was by, Doyle misjudged it and turned into the back of him.

Harder decision that one.. but still wrong.

Well done Cook! Glad he's got a win under his belt.

Lambert did move to the left initially which Tatum failed to see, then Tai moved to his right. Unsatisfactory start, all four back. Simple decision.

When you are asking for the answer to the problem in ONE sentence I think that says everything we need to know about who is actually 'clueless'. The racing at Cardiff is at best average every year... yet 40,000 will descend upon it again this year. The racing at Belle Vue is of the top drawer, as good as even Hyde Road ever used to produce (some would say better). Yet even last year on their preferred race nights they weren't packing the crowds in... this year they've gone down the pan. You forget, racing from years gone by is readily available to view online. The racing was nothing to write home about. The sport has made many mistakes over the years, costing themselves fans in the process. As fans exit the sport the atmosphere levels drop. Good meetings become average ones, average ones become poor ones and so on. So continue to spout your nonsense, alas for you, there is absolutely no evidence to back up what you claim. Edited to add: Just to further refute your nonsensical claim, attendances have been falling for decades, not a recent trait. It just makes more of a difference the lower the crowds go.