John Leslie

The "entertainment" this year was the worst ever. The women with the huge balls were a bit different and entertaining for the first 2 minutes or so, but didn't do anything else except flip over whilst the balloons were being pulled down and allowed to float up, so it soon got boring. "Murder Queen" were dreadful. They were on a loser anyway because the sound system was so poor, but I reckon even with a good sound system to play their pre-recorded tapes, they'd still be bad. The crowd clearly hated them. (I don't know why anyone wants to be a Queen tribute act anyway. Freddie Mercury is the only poof who could mince about camply on a stage and be brilliantly entertaining. Anyone else who tries it just looks like an annoying poof mincing about camply). That nobody who sang that welsh song and the National Anthem was cack too. He's obviously local, cheap and the only person BSI know who can speak welsh. Choice of music played over the P.A. was rubbish too and did nothing to help the atmosphere. What a disappointment the Under 15s racing was too. The 500s got one race which was pretty impressive. Then on to the 250s, and that poor 10 year-old kid excluded for touching the tapes and sent home without turning a wheel on what should have been the biggest day of his life. HOW PATHETIC. The crash in the re-run was unfortunate. Then some pillock decides we've run out of time, so no more under 15s racing. TOTALLY PATHETIC. In future, give the kids three races each and cut out the other pre-meeting "entertainment"

I was top tier first bend. Sound was dreadfully distorted. Couldn't make out a word that was said except the race time which I had to specifically listen carefully for. (didn't hear any time given for the final though). Couldn't get a word of the interviews etc, it was loud but terribly distorted. Choice of music seemed especially poor this year and didin't create any atmosphere.

Guess I got lucky. I was in the top tier surrounded by Poles, a few Danes, and a large family from some Eastern European country that I couldn't work out what it was. The Poles in particular were drinking pint after pint all night (including the women), yet none of them seemed to get drunk at all. Apart from cheering their favourites loudly, the only thing they did was to spend the meeting swapping scarves and passing cameras back and forth to take pictures of each other.

The same thing happens to me on this webpage

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I think you'll find they're no better. Poole will also host two teams by having another one in a lower league. In fact its quite likely that Bournemouth will have more fixtures than a Swedish Elite team. Jason Crump quit Britain because we only have 9 Elite teams and there was no variety...enjoy Sweden Jason!

What are you on about? Telford always announce the date of the following year's event at the meeting, so clearly they have the licence on a rolling basis. They're hardly likely to book an ice rink and cross their fingers and hope that no one puts in a higher 'sealed bid' in the next twelve months. As for a 'gentleman's agreement...that counts for nothing, as we see from Newport's 'gentleman's agreement' being hi-jacked.

Oy-Vey Fundin ?

Think you mis-typed a word there. Try 'hi-jacked' or 'grave-robbed'

They're hardly likely to give the licence away if they're going to need it back in 2010 are they?

Telford already have that.

I agree. I wonder how much of the £5M of Sky money the BSPA allocated towards running this British Championship?

So what's the line up then? My Star seems to be missing that bit. What does it say in yours? exactly See you don't know either, and you've read the 'admirable' publicity!

Just wondering why this meeting has practically zero publicity. Shame on you BSPA and Speedway Star

I heard a rumour that Jason Crump was born in Bristol... No, but Debbie McGee would have scored more than Nicholls, Richardson and Stead put together

You're correct of course that a rider under 15 can have a licence to ride a 500cc. I didn't word my reply too well. What I meant was they cannot race until they are 15, and cannot join a CL team until they are 15, and therefore haven't "been on the circuit for years" In view of your previous postings, I think I could argue it to be a statement of fact not an insult. However the moderators on here have a tough time and I wouldn't want to cause them any extra work by bending the rules slightly. Therefore I don't think I should call you a plonker in future. However there is nothing to stop me thinking you're a plonker. So I think you're a plonker!

Yeah, let's get rid of Belinda Carlisle too. She's got nothing to do with Speedway. And the motorcross bikes. And the big screens and the roof. And your point is? Better than the scrotes driving round in vans with other people's names on because they've nicked them. It costs next to nothing to build a website. If it attracts just one sponsor it has paid for itself many times over. Your opinion as a multi-world champion? Tell you what, If I get you the SCB list of licence holders, can you give us the names of the 10% who are going to make it...also if you've got hte time, next week's lottery numbers too please. No, he'd leave that to plonkers like you, then he'd tell the kids to ignore the plonkers. How has a 15 year old been going round the circuit for years when the minimum age for a 500cc licence is 15?

Yeah, cos IMG/BSI make a massive loss on the meeting. I mean, they only put it on out of the goodness of their hearts

Oh god...I'm agreeing with him again. I've never had tickets more than a week before the event, and I've always paid less than the ticket price. There's lots of options....discount from a promoter desperate to get rid of his allocation...someone who's won spare tickets in a newspaper competition and wants to get rid...some silly sod who bought tickets a year in advance and then finds they can't go...even ebay or the touts in the streets. Unless it's going to be a sell-out there's no point in shelling out money a year in advance for a measly 10& discount. Keep the money in the bank for a year, earn the interest, and still get more than 10% discount on the day!

That is absolutely correct. And the rule remained in that wording for many years without change. (The only time I remember the wording changing at all was when we went from 30 yards to 30 Metres, but nothing else changed). There was never any rule about riding in a straight line for 30 yards. Can't remember when the bold bit was added, but I remember the full rule complete with that extra confirmation way back into the 70s. It may have been there much longer than that. The rule stayed in that form until the rule and the marker were removed when Health & Safety started getting more involved.

NOt so much the DJ's mistake in thinking Adams won. More the referee's mistake in thinking Adams didn't win!

Four riders went to the tape for the final. Nicholls hit the tapes and was excluded - that made him 4th. In the restart Pedersen fell off - that made him 3rd Hancock finished behind Crump - that made him 2nd Crump won the race - that made him 1st Simple really. Sounds like your paper just got their Pedersens mixed up.

I bet it's.. 1. Those noisy Polish fans, and 2. The terrible noise that those pesky bikes make.

right...too many people now agreeing...I'm going to have to change my opinion. Arrrgghhhhh that's the final straw....I can't be in agreement with shovvy...I'm going to have a lie down with my singalongamax album.

Noooooooooooo. Will people stop agreeing...remember 'Old hat' 70s naffness is the new 'new hat'