John Leslie

The basic Danish one doesn't have a column showing which riders are VAT registered and instantly calculating how much is due to HMRC I keep my standard replies in alphabetical order so I don't need an index

I think someone should put all the riders pay details into a multi-coloured spreadsheet all underlined and emboldened... ..alternatively we could go to speedway to enjoy the racing rather than compare pay packets, just as when I go to a restaurant I go to enjoy the food rather than worry about how much more the Chef de Cuisine is earning compared to his sous-chef.

Sarjeant is in the Coventry team. He wasn't guesting. Had he been guesting last week, then he couldn't guest again tonight, and Coventry would only be able to use him another 3 times as a guest.

The 8 day rule applies to all riders, so once Sarjeant guests for Belle Vue tonight he can't guest for anyone else at Swindon in the next 8 days (although he could technically guest for the Swindon No.1). A team can also only use a draft rider as a guest 4 times in one season, so Sarjeant could only take another 3 guest bookings for Belle Vue this year.

Got no problem with the Polish lad. Anyone getting on a bike and giving it a go has my respect. Do have a problem with Redcar though...bringing another substandard foreigner into British speedway.

Well they're not. And neither are the figures in the newspaper article. They're confusing the cost of the Belle Vue sports village with the cost of the stadium (which is only part of the village). Try downloading the council report. Costs have increased by £750k which is covered in the revised business plan. It's all systems go now.

As I understand it, the new complex was being built with the speedway stadium occupying the end of the site closest to the Greyhound stadium (literally the other side of the pits wall). But because of the covenant on the land which the Greyhound stadium stands, the new stadium can't be built that close, so the stadium is being shunted a few yards further up the road towards the middle of the new site (i.e. a few yards further away from the dog track). You seem to misunderstand. You're just picking out figures and doing your own wrong, over simplified, calculations on them. Don't worry about the numbers, just understand that the council have approved extra funding (the majority of which is for the Sports Science Institute a few miles away) and things are now back on track. After the problems with the covenant it's all systems go again, and the new stadium is on its way.

Good to see some positive news for a change With all the gloom and doom surrounding famous stadiums the likes of Coventry, Oxofrd and Wimbledon, it's good to see that Manchester's council are investing in speedway along with all their other sports. Hats off to them...maybe other local councils should take a trip up north.

As long as you've got some tissues to wipe it up afterwards.

It's got to be Workington. Big fast track, decent racing usually. Covered seated grandstand, good viewing. A few burger vans and bars. Workington v Edinburgh should be a good match with Craig Cook in opposition. Stoke - once neat stadium which has suffered decades of neglect. Decent medium-sized track which has also suffered decades of neglect and never produces the standard of racing it should be capable of. Can park trackside and watch from car, or there's an Indoor seated bar area. Food actually quite ok by speedway standards. Local derby but Buxton will be weak opposition.

Presume Niall was a spectator or mascot, since he would have been about 12 or 13 ten years ago

Thought Nicki had that won when he hit the front, but he seemed too concerned with cutting Kasprzak's nose off to stuff him up rather than ride his own race and push on for the win.

They can't touch you for it!

Ouch....That was a really nasty one.

Ward just sat up against the fence waiting for the race to be stopped and then jumped up once it was....Batchelor attempted to get straight to his feet after a whack in the nuts which would have kept most of us down for a few hours

I don't really like Batchelor, but credit to him for trying to get up and get off the track (unlike Ward) despite what was clearly a massive whack in the nuts.

Same again.... Ward comes down on his own, no contact, acres of room on the outside. This time he gets excluded. How can the referee give two different decisions on identical incidents? Did he realise he got it so wrong first time?

Shocking decision. Should have been Ward excluded. Think Crump is doing a good job commentating....except for his ridiculous bias towards Ward there.

Surely today is the only day you can release an April fool's joke? Do you know the word "gullible" has been accidentally missed out of the latest Oxford English Dictionary?

Think you're a bit confused as to what this meeting is. It's not a World event, nor a FIM event, nor an ACU recognised event. Complaining that we haven't sent any riders to compete in a Polish company's privately promoted event is a bit like complaining that the Poles haven't sent any riders to compete in the Tyne-Tweed trophy!

This European Pairs thing makes you realise how good the GPs are. This bloke has got to be the worst commentator ever. (He's even worse than Ermolenko). His voice sounds like it belongs on Gardener's World.

What's all this "we" business? You mean you haven't read rule 17.6? 17.6 FACILITIES a) Absent Rider (1–5) G or ARR b.) “No Facility” for Absent 1-5 PL G (PL MA of 6.00 or less) c) Absent #6 or #7 G (FTDP Rider only) If a Replacement PL Rider also has a current EL MA then the higher of the MA’s will dictate the eligibility

And on the subject of the topic, I've just stuck a fiver in a bet365 account to see what all the fuss is about. I'm ready to watch the next live stream match..and woe betide anyone who tells me it's been rained off when I'm trying to find the stream!

A better question might be "when lots are predicting the weather to win, why is someone watering the track?"

I posted to help you because you seemed clueless that the match had been postponed an hour earlier. I don't care if you posted your later update in bold, capitals, or filled it in in a silly coloured spreadsheet, it was added after i started to type you a helpful reply.