Dave_minall

I agree with you SCB. As much as I wanna see him back out as fast as possible and to continue putting pressure on Emil for the top spot, he's got many many years to get it right a second time. if he rushes back, he could risk his whole career. Lets look at Crumpy - granted he was at the tail end of his career but he rushed into getting his collarbone fixed and that was definitely the wrong move. Don't do it Tai!

I thought the cloaks were an excellent idea, very fresh and really what I think the sport needs. It needs a kick in the theatrical arse, and this was just that. Call it corny, call it tacky, it works. I loved it.

When you're proper going at a fair pace, you'll need to be pretty fit. You probably won't notice out on track but when you get off the bike you will know how fit you are. I rode in the (what was the conference league) and at no point ever went to a gym or watched what I was eating. I was about 9-10 stone though, and I probably took about 2 minutes to catch my breath.

Providing the problem areas do not cause any crashes, this can only make the meeting more exciting. We've all seen in the past how a slightly dodgy track can make for a very interesting meeting! Can't wait!

Is anyone on here at practice right now? Is today's practice open to the public? How's it looking? I did see a picture last night of Tai having a practice... lets just say it wasn't a pretty picture.

I remember the legendary fight between Scott Nicholls and Emil at Cardiff a while back, and the first chap to run onto the track to split them up was Pete the gate man from Newport, I miss Pete. He always used to rib me for eating burgers before a Mavericks meeting. Whilst I'm on the subject, I miss Newport's burgers. Best burger of all the tracks I've been to/ridden at.

For those of us too lazy to google, or to navigate to the first post: http://www.thefreestyleshow.co.uk/

I definitely agree, it will never happen, but it would be a potential solution to increasing crowd sizes and income, it's just too much of a risk.

don' t go there!

If a club charges £17 per meeting and drops this to £10, they would have to "pretty much" double their crowd to make that work - I did say: "they'd have to bring in nearly twice the crowd" that's basic business. it's pretty logical. Riders are never going to take pay cuts, equipment is never going to get any cheaper. Promoters need to think outside the box to make ends meet and it won't involve cutting costs when it comes to paying riders.

Just take one of these. Everyone will hear it.

It would be interesting to see if a track could survive by charging £10 on the door week in, week out. Granted they'd have to bring in nearly twice the crowd, but the increase in food/drink/merchandise sales should also increase as a result. An experiment I'm assuming will never be attempted.

Indeed, it was the broken scaphoid that did it

If you consider how Starke simply slid off and stayed down, compared to Smith's high speed crash into the fence, that should put it into perspective. If one of these riders had less chance of getting up and off the track, it was Smith, and he was straight up to clear his bike. Disgusting thing to do. The replay shows that Starke was miles behind Smith and would have had plenty of time to get out of the way, rather than put it down. This was blatant cheating and he deserved his fine. Aside from that blip, the meeting was fantastic and clearly shows that the Berwick promotion are doing their job properly. If only all tracks were run like them.

I did find it quite funny how Tai said in an interview in Prague that everyone at Cardiff will be there to watch just him - cheeky little dig at Bomber there. Could be fireworks between them at Cardiff

I wish I had been drinking - I was at work when I posted that! No idea what I was going on about. Temporary moment of stupidity.

Fantastic news - Sophie was always great when working for Sky. Nice to see her back and it's also great that Sky haven't decided to use Sky's current girl (I can't even remember her name...)

Being completely honest, both Nicholls and Harris have had their chance at GP glory and both have hardly set the world alight.

I'm just thinking in terms of common sense, but then again that doesn't generally apply with speedway so I'm probably wrong

So don't watch it then?

You would assume that the track are paid for the rental of the venue - If the track had to pay I'd imagine promoters with deeper pockets would lump the fee.

Stranger things have happened, but I'm pretty sure this year that's not going to happen

Bit pathetic resorting to personal insults Oldace

The star seems to be rather packed with riders and officials who don't agree with what's happened here... I still can't understand why we're not giving this spot to younger riders that want it more! It's absolutely preposterous! As Pinstripe mentioned earlier, lets just hope Harris gets a big fat 0 and that will finally be the end of it.

Kennet's been in the form of his life since he moved to Swindon - his average over 2013 so far is over 9 points a meeting - Harris is struggling to hit 7! That should speak for itself considering that the first round will be in Britain.