mikebv

What a great race... Very good meeting so far... Fantastic atmosphere delivered by a noisy passionate fanbase..

Who do you think you will pick?

The criteria will change... It has to.. Josh Bates will be a year older with another year riding under his belt......

Dan Bewley is in it.....

I agree... Doesnt hold a candle to the UK does it? Get yourself along to Peterborough tomorrow to watch them race Kings Lynn... Now that is a proper Speedway meeting.. With so much riding on the result.. Who would want to watch World Class performers in action, on Freesports, competing for a title that is nationally recognised by many millions in Poland..? If I was you, I would take a tent and a sleeping bag and get myself in the queue this evening for tomorrow nights match at the Showground.... Crowd will be huge....

Why are the guests the cheap local option? Because. As the result doesn't matter, why spend money you dont need to..?

What night you can race on determines the play off fixtures rather than your finishing position.. .. They might as well have cancelled the last few weeks when the four were known and gone straight into the play offs whilst the weather was better... Would also have meant less headache completing the 2nd Division fixtures and play offs using all the same riders.. I wonder why the sport in the UK doesnt have a big sponsor for the leagues...?

But the qualification period for the play offs will be over... The Semis and Final should be ran with the averages that the qualifying period ended with.. If it was all ran in the same month it would have been....

Surely they should keep the teams 'as per' for both legs? And forget the end of September averages? Edit. And it will be interesting to see how many attend tomorrow at Peterborough given it no longer matters whether they win or not.. And how many certain riders score if the averages do change at the end of the month..!!

As Vic and Bob would have said.. "That was my idea"....

I actually thought about this at the time I suggested it.. And, for me, if they follow my proposal it's a real win/win... As Kyle wouldnt need to prepare for two meetings, so less work required, and has less 'wear and tear" on the bikes, no need for new tyres, and less travel expenses, he gets paid 50% for the "other meeting".. The promoter of the "other meeting" then immediately saves money.. The obvious long term benefit for the sport is that fixture planning will become a doddle... No need for fixed nights as riders can now actually (hypothetically), be in two places at once... And in this example, think of the incredible excitement it would generate at Glasgow for all the fans as they wait, hushed, for Kyle's score from Sheffield to come through over the Tannoy (other public address systems are available)... One set of fans would cheer wildly and the other would groan loudly dependent on his score... A bit like Eurovision... "And now we have the scores from Sheffield"... Admittedly, if they all run meetings at the same time, some meetings may end up with no riders on show whatsoever, and all you would have then is the excitement of the scores coming through, but give me an hour or two and I will have worked on that.. Gold idea this. It really is..

Maybe they could run both meetings at the same time, and whatever Kyle scores for one team can be phoned through to the other meeting after every one of his races, and his other team then get his score added to theirs?...

The scoring and racing has seemed to be closer this season.. Probably down the same (top), 30 or so riders racing against each other for a variety of teams every meeting... Only Bewley and Holder could be deemed (almost), top level, with the rest of the top 5's all being much of a muchness.... And when one of them is missing then another similar standard rider guests, or similar riders take the RR ride if that facility is used... As virtually all ride in Div 2 as well this has kept many of those meetings close too..

Nice to see a final "town halls" of a start in Ht 15... In keeping with what has gone on most of the night.. And that's all we ask of referees.. Consistency...

Or at least keeps Ulrich in the top two..

Lucky it has worked out like that.. Who could have predicted that...?

28 years.... But who really cares?....

Even closer...

So close.....

Brilliant MPT.... One of those under rated 100% riders who provide tremendous entertainment....

Fantastic camera direction again from Eurosport..... Is the ref doing it?

The ref cannot spot a rider going early from a standing start... So he has no chance when they go past at 80 mph...

I think his five yard head starts when on TV helps...

What a crap ref.... Did he do VAR at West Ham yesterday...?

At this rate Ulrich will stay No1 in the averages... Or at worst No2... Luckily for Peterborough that would mean they could run RR for him and everyone could take a ride...