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Got till the end of October, but yeah, don't know why re-stagings, KOC & BSN semis take so long to organise. How would they cope with rain-offs if it was 2H & 2A?

If it's not being shown on TV is there any reason why both semi finals can't be on the same day? Allow both clubs to choose a Monday or a Thursday for their home leg? Any reason why after finishing top not to allow Belle Vue to race away on Thursday 24th & home on Monday 28th? Could even run 2nd vs 3rd on Thursday 17th as Lynn are fighting for 4th place?

Clubs often offer a free programme to season ticket holders in situations like these.

I'm surprised at how often riders fight for the lead in a pairs event (when it's the semis / final). Going from 2nd to 1st gains nothing. If you try to block 3rd & get passed, you've not lost anything!

I get where you're coming from tk a degree, but Lawson wasn't looking behind much, so it really just looked like he was trying for 2nd, rather than worrying about the rider behind coming round him.

So Wednesday 9th is free to re-arrange the Harbour Masters?

Back in the day, track staff would know they were needed every Friday, maybe plan holidays around away matches or world finals if they were very keen not to miss a match. Nowadays, they may have other things to do on a Friday, but keep the calender clear on the rare occasions their club has a home match? I can understand, not wanting to keep every Friday clear when clubs maybe race twice a month on average, that could go for fans too?

Granted the track wasn't as good as Belle Vue or Wroclaw, but I still thought it was an entertaining meeting.

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.