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Oxford shouldn't have been allowed to drop Klindt & use a guest for Kerr.

As long as he didn't leave while GB had a chance of winning, that doesn't bother me. Mind you, can't remember the exact year(s), Robert Lambert got entered into the GP qualifiers, despite not racing in the British final, placings from this meeting should decide who's nominated imo. So if riders loyal to British Speedway/ the British final get overlooked, how can we expect them to be loyal in return (country ahead of club)?

The British sides selected by Allen & Stead, seem to follow a list of rides, which doesn't change. Woffy, Lambert, Bewley for SON Add Ellis, Brennan for SWC So for European events it's Bewley, Ellis, Brennan, Harris (then dropped for Jenkins). Now we have Boughen ahead of Dan T. It seems like ability doesn't move you up the "rankings" mainly how willing riders are to travel. Connor Bailey as U21 Champ not a reserve for Cardiff as he didn't travel for European events for example.

That doesn't bother me as much as the fact that rider A could win the world title ahead of rider B, because rider C beat rider D in a race they are not in (different semi finals).

The simple answer is no seeded riders. Or one seed (to cover for injury). Top 7 from previous years GP qualify. SEC Champion. Winner of qualifiers (for non-gp riders). Top 6 from GP Challenge. 1 seed GP Challenge is: The bottom 9 GP riders U21 Champ Overseas Champ (USA, Australasia) basically non SEC countries. 2nd - 6th from qualifiers (for non-gp riders). Imo a riders age / nationality / gender / race should NEVER come into it.

Is it really any "damage" Ipswich will 99.99% make the top 4, doesn't matter what position they finish in (1st - 4th).

Is Adams suggesting that this is a positive? In effect is he saying "people thought we were gonna get thrashed, but it turns out we're only getting beaten not thrashed?"

They have established a "rhythm" they had a couple of good starts to matches then lost, now they've stopped their good start to matches & still lose. No wins in 5 matches, sounds like they've established a rhythm to me?

Same thing happened with Laguta last year, 7 day ban - no meetings missed.

Can't disagree with any of that

If Birmingham don't make a change (Klindt for Lampart for example) then keep losing at home, it could certainly hurt their crowds cause it'd either appear, they are not trying to strengthen up, or more worryingly think they don't need to strengthen up.

I'm glad the grading rules are not set in the rulebooks, allows clubs to grade at the correct times (as long as they have common sense). I remember Berwick used to grade at the same time every week, for example after heats 4,7,11,14? Then if a team had r/r with reserves having 2 on the trot, they'd still follow that plan. So there could be 2 on the trot between heats 3&4 (delay) then track grading between heats 4&5 (delay) then 2 on the trot between heats 5&6 (delay). It never seemed to occur to them to grade the track when a rider had 2 on the trot!

Wouldn't work, what if the away team needs a win to make the play-offs, home team calls it off due to "dodgy" weather forecast & then qualifies.

Remember when Tom Armstrong got sent home to Australia by Scunthorpe after only 3 matches. Not saying it's right, but it has happened before. Think they did the same with Jedd List.

While Milik scoring well in Poland doesn't guarantee a good score in Britain, it's a far more promising situation than if he had scored zero. So there's some hope he can turn his form around for Birmingham.

This decision really is indefensible, even if Lynn have found a forecast that doesn't look good (BBC) the fact that another (Met Office) shows a lovely day, means one of the forecasts has to be wrong. So with that level of doubt, they can't just choose to follow the forecast of their choice. The only option is to race the meeting - unless a thunderstorm comes first!

Forecast looks perfectly fine, I'm surprised SCB / Phil Morris allowing this to happen. As Lynn appeared to have good guests lined up, it's confusing, if the weather isn't the reason for the postponement, what is?

Poole 99% certanties to go through for me. Only question is will they win both legs?

Going back to 2006, when the graded reserves were supposed to stay there all season, Steve Boxall & Jon Armstrong got moved into the top 5. I guess it seems British Promoters are mostly concerned with making sure one team doesn't get an advantage.

To win Lynn need their reserves to heavily outscore Sheffield's, I thought that might have been possible in the reverse meeting but Gilkes had his best match of the season, more of the same & it's a big Sheffield win.

Well done Plymouth, hopefully shut up a few of the haters. For the record, I don't think Plymouth are strong & predicted them for the wooden spoon, but they are not as bad as some made out.

Just seen the clip of the crash between King & McGurk. 1) how on earth can the referee award that race when Batchelor & Knudsen were virtually level 2) why would you give the benefit of the doubt to the offending team (that Batchelor would have held on to win) 3) if it was re-run, Redcar could've used IRR in the re-run & heat 13. So the innocent party (Redcar) were worse off for the rest of the match The only benefit of the race being awarded is King being paid for second place.

I would say it depends on the rider, for example Klindt has previously averaged over 6.5 in the Prem, so to drop him may have been too soon as he could replicate that form. Similar thoughts about Lampart at Birmingham, has been a good rider abroad so there's potential there. Liebman doesn't have that same pedigree, it's not like she had the scores Vuolas had in the U24 Extraliga for example. So if he had started slowly, I would be more likely to give him longer to find his feet. I don't really see Workington making a change tbh, they showed that last year allowing Kelsey Dugard to go, but keeping Harry McGurk when he dropped almost 4 points off his average. Promotion seems to be more loyal than others, which is a good thing, to an extent.

I'd have to disagree with that point, clubs don't sign Speedway riders just because they try. If Workington thinks she'll improve & hit her 4.00 average - then that's the reason not to drop her.

That's a good point, there's no rush to make a change, as she can be replaced anytime by a fellow 4.00 rider. As long as Workington can stay in contention for a top 4 spot that is.