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Was at the cycle speedway in Leicester & looking forward to seeing the Speedway afterwards. While it rained at times, they just got on with it. Almost looks bad for Speedway that an amateur sport with brushes can get a track ready, but a professional sport with tractors etc can't?

Realistically Lynn won't be making the play-offs, but 2 defeats by Sheffield would increase their slim chances. If I was a Lynn fan, I wouldn't want my riders guesting for a play-offs rival. If Belle Vue were missing a rider & needed a guest, I'd be encouraging them to score as many as possible!

Think the ref got every decision spot on, well done 👏 Brilliant performance by Australia. GB did better than I expected

I would've given him a shot once they had fallen behind, nothing to lose at that point.

When a reserve can have as many rides as a team man, doesn't do much harm.

A team could save their best rider for the last heat, but it's all over by then? I'm not sure the managers looked at the other teams picks before declaring theirs, to try & be more tactical.

If all the heats finished in that order, after 16 heats scores would be: Australia 37 Brady Kurtz 12 Max Fricke 10 Rohan Tungate 9 Ryan Douglas 6 Denmark 27 Leon Madsen 10 Mikkel Michelsen 7 Frederik Jakobsen 7 Michael J Jensen 3 Poland 17 Bartosz Zmarzlik 9 Maciej Janowski 3 Dominik Kubera 3 Patryk Dudek 2 Great Britain 16 Robert Lambert 11 Charles Wright 5 Adam Ellis 0 Leon Flint 0 * counting 4 fastest riders per team

If that's the case, why didn't the BSPL choose the 19th & 26th September, why is the final being raced in October?

Poole are massive favourites, but Berwick have shown shocks are possible.

Good points, for the future of British Speedway, I don't mind Champ moving closer to NL level. It's such a big jump currently for the next generation to make the step up.

People can only comment on what they've seen, we've seen Harris ride into Barker, we've seen what looks like Harris stamping on Barker, with the bike blocking the view, we can't be certain either way. We've seen Barker ride up to Harris to complain apparently unhappy with what happened in the race. We've seen Harris shove him away. Now I didn't see anything wrong with what happened during the race, certainly nothing to cause Barker to be so upset. I'd barely even call it hard racing. Now Harris has told us that Barker said unsavoury things, if true that's uncalled for by Barker, but that's one riders word against another, gonna be very hard to prove.

If there was an unlimited list of riders wanting to ride in GB I'd agree with that. But feel that limit would make the league a lot more uneven.

It's only 1 match, if they race on GP weeks, no reason not to race on the SWC week. Would be different if it was still a full week event.

The bit about him not stamping on Barker could be true, hard to see with the camera angle, but he purposely rode into him, hard to deny that.

That's certainly my biggest pet peeve. I've had holidays planned, only for a meeting to be postponed & it wasn't due to the weather. I feel like current promoters only plan for home fans only.

Anyone doing that should get a ban.

I find it frustrating clubs have big gaps in the fixture list, then run all the finals so late in the season, in this case, seems no reason for the KOC concluding in October.

A few thoughts on the tac sub situation, if Berwick had used Battye (not as a tac sub), they wouldn't have been able to give Morris the t/s in heat 9 as they weren't 6 down. That would also have meant having to give Smith a 4th ride. TM probably would've got grief for not using a TS as Battye could go in any heat. So the choice was between Palovaara & Etheridge, in hindsight they made the wrong choice. But at the time both had started with 2 second places, using Etheridge would've given him three-on-the-trot, although Battye ended up having three-on-the-trot later on, I can understand the Palovaara decision. I wouldn't call it a howler by the TM.

Thsnks for the clarification, as Glasgow had been using 6 point guests for an 8 point rider, had assumed the facility had run out, mustn't have been any 7 or 8 pointers available. I hope the facility isn't extended, far too many guests are used in all leagues, but if clubs know they don't have to sign a replacement, why even try? I'm not suggesting Glasgow didn't try, but maybe they found a 6 pointer willing to come, but decided guests would be stronger? Not just Glasgow, all clubs.

Jason Edwards did score 11+2 on hid last visit to Plymouth, so don't think you can blame Glasgow for selecting him as a guest. All the guests will be weaker as Glasgow can only pick riders up to 75% of Howarth's average. I was surprised Glasgow didn't find anyone, along with Poole, think there a club that would find a rabit out of a hat?

Then get jobs with a new club and can win manager of the year 🤨

That's the downside of having a stronger rider (especially at home) at number 2. Joe's last programmed ride in heat 10, so track can change a lot before heat 15, although he was then used in heat 16. I would have Klima at 2, Joe at 3 or 4, if only at home?

Poole are safe in the top 4, so plenty of room for complacency lol! Of course, they'll want to finish top to get the 2nd legs at home, for big crowds.

Next "Young" Stars home match postponed due to stadium unavailability. Do Lynn not own the stadium? Seems short notice. Always feel like the NL get treated like a 4th rate league when fixtures get changed at short notice.

For GB I wouldn't have picked Rushen or Cairns, their time will come, but don't think it would benefit them riding this early in their career against such strong opposition, plus GB have stronger options. I'd have used Lawson if he rode in the British Final, maybe King would've been my pick ahead of Brennan?