Daniel Smith

It's not all over if a rider gets excluded for a tapes infringement. It's all about if the rider's are dedicated enough for their country. All that you have to do is risk being knocked off or ride someone to the fence, in the hope they're excluded and force a rerun with just 2 rider's. You can guarantee the Poles will push it, as would Lindgren for Sweden. Can GB be switched on to pull of a stunt?? We'll find out on Saturday

The new FIM priority regulations only came in this year.

Wouldn't be allowed under the FIM. Already established fixtures would then take precedence over a rearranged fixture. FIM could then impose fines and/or suspensions on rider's and/or clubs.

Unfortunately that isn't Lambert's fault as previously stated

Unfortunately while in the EU we can't dictate like that due to free trade. What we can do is say that each team must have 3 British rider's. It's all in the wording.

If TV is the dictator then I'd like to see is a 2 heat grand final with standard scoring system. Where teams get to go off 1&3 and 2&4, if it ends 6-6 the highest scoring rider from each pair has a match race.

Not exactly British Speedway but the Great Britain team. All the same it's great news and things are looking in the right direction compared to being stifled and suffocated by the BSPA. With Woffy, Lambert and Bewley it's a nice backbone for future progress on the world stage and these are the 3 to work around. There are always good British rider that can clamp on to this. I hope Painter and Blackwell sit down with Adam Ellis too. He's another very good talent that I hope doesn't get wasted and stale. Add to that Richie and Stevie Worrall there's solid base to work with. Obviously it shouldn't be a closed shop but to move forward professionally there has to be a focus on just a few. Woffinden, Lambert, S.Worrall, R.Worrall, Ellis, Bewley. Focus on this 6 and we may just have something to look forward to in a couple of years time.

You are correct sir.

I've said it before, the scoring system in pairs meetings should be 4-2-1-0. Race winning should take precedence over a 2nd & 3rd. If they want to use bonus point for count back then these bonus points should be for 1st & 2nd only.

Speedway and commentary is a strange one. More often than not there's not much to comment on as we see 4 strung out rider's 'playing follow the leader.' I believe Nigel and Kelvin do a terrific job, yes they can be ott but what is there to talk about. Even during the breaks when they go back to Nicholls and Quirk, I find that very boring. Tend to just repeat all that's already been said. 3 hours to waffle over 23 minutes of racing isn't an easy task.

Matt has had quite a few "very embarrassing moments" in recent years. At the end of the day the buck stops with him. Employ the wrong track guy, it's Matt's fault. Employ the wrong rider's, it's Matt's fault etc etc. As much as he cries foul the blame is with him. Maybe he needs to take a long hard look at himself and realise the way he treats his employee's needs to change and show some honesty to his customers. He's now reaping the rewards of historical behaviours.

Didn't think any pairs meeting could possibly be worse than a Monster v Fogo sponsors meeting. This new SON format is the worst possible. I still can't get my head past "what's the point of Friday?" Does Friday have any relevance to what goes on on Saturday or not

That's true but they'll never really know if the promotion worked or becausee it's just school holidays. They'll need to run the promotion on a school week to see if incentives like that really work or if it's just wasted money so to speak.

School half term is the answer

No idea how old Drew Kemp is but his NL scoring has been really really good too

It's not about losing, it's not about the management being nice etc etc. Andersen has had 6 matches and only averaging 2.60. That's shouldn't be acceptable. His scoring has been to the standard of a rider from the NL, that can't be denied. IMO Josh Bailey should be given a crack. If we can afford to carry a 2.5 point rider 100% Josh Bailey should be in.

That's him. He certainly would have a better average than Andersen's 2.60.

Andersen's average is 2.60. Pretty much any Championship rider could better that. As for a name, Carl Wilkinson would better a 3 point average

Andersen has to go, someone on the same average from the Championship would score much better. It won't happen though as we're a very nice team

Cook's form against the big guns hasn't been great. On Tuesday he'll get his first ride, if it's a duff one Lambert will ride the rest of the meeting.

What was the fan doing though?

Allow your No1 to take time out for surgery, 0 points earned from 2 meetings. A lesson to be learnt I'd say

Wrong

To be fair, it's not known if Lambert is missing for the Poole meeting yet. Denmark have until 4 days prior to name their teams.

There's the future, 1 race lap and 4 laps of wheelies