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I'm probably being stupid, but I've done that and bought the Poole v Plymouth stream and I'm not seeing a cast option to watch it on my TV? I had no issues last season, the cast icon was on the viewing window on my phone so I Chromecast it but it's not there now, so what am I doing wrong? Ignore above! Seemed it was my Chromecast device. I unplugged it and re booted it and all is good

Is this still the case? If so when? I had heard that a while ago, but I downloaded it only a week or so a go hoping to be able to use it this season.

I didn't know that either but after you said, I found this. https://www.coventrytelegraph.net/sport/speedway/mayor-rugby-tony-gillias-gets-7207324

For me, as an armchair viewer now since the demise of Weymouth & more recently Eastbourne I have to say that the Premier league grand final was the highlight. As a neutral, I didn't favour either team. I was delighted for Belle Vue to end their drought but gutted for Sheffield who certainly didn't get the rub of the green! I thought the racing was excellent with all riders giving 100% and putting it on the line for a trophy that we are lead to believe no one cares about. I thought Belle Vue were fortunate to take such a big lead from the first leg as the scoreline I felt didn't reflect the closeness of the racing on the track and it was a shame it was ultimately decided by incidents rather than racing, but overall I thought it was an excellent advertisement for the sport. As others have said BSN has been another major plus. It's been great to be able to watch Championship & NDL fixtures rather than the same teams all the time on Eurosport. I really hope it's been a success financially and continues.

That sounds a little bit extreme .... For compromise, maybe Poole would agree to scratch the scores from the first 7 heats of the first leg as a good will gesture?

I have a second generation Chromecast which is quite old now and so far it's been seamless. The specification of the phone & TV are not factors as long as the HDMI port on the TV support the Chromecast requirements. I don't know how you'd know but all I can say is that I use it on an older TV which isn't even smart and it's fine. Steve is referring to screen mirroring so in that case the TV & phone specifications are vitally important. WiFi quality is obviously important whatever way you watch a stream. Screen mirroring is establishing a connection between your phone and the TV to duplicate whatever is on your phone screen onto your TV screen so processing speed / memory of phone will be a factor and it will use wi-fi capacity too maintaining the connection between the phone & TV. Chromecast is a completely different process because once you have connected to it, the Chromecast is now hosting the stream and projecting it directly onto your TV screen through the HDMI port and the phone is no longer part of the process apart from as a remote control so less demanding on WiFi. No need to worry about sizing the picture to the TV screen, it's instantly full screen. You can have the phone on standby or use it for other applications without affecting the stream. I believe you can cast directly to some smart TV's without a Chromecast device but mines a bit hit and miss as to whether it appears in the cast devices list and it doesn't on BSN but the Chromecast does.

Yes it is. I had to use this option on Glasgow streams as it seems there weren't permissions to cast. I've only got a basic cheapy phone and it couldn't cope so I had to use my wife's top end phone and even then it wasn't ideal. The beauty of using a Chromecast device is that you only need your phone to log on to BSN and start the broadcast. After you have selected the Chromecast device from your casting options, the stream goes directly from your WIFI to the Chromecast device which is plugged into an HDMI port on the TV and your phone is then basically redundant except to use as a remote control through the Google Home app. I've only got cheap equipment but it works fine even in my summer house at the bottom of the garden which only has a basic TV which isn't even smart. It just needs HDMI ports. Once you have paired the Chromecast to your WiFi on initial setup, you can just put it in any TV in the house without any further setting up. For an outlay of £20 for an older version of Chromecast and any TV with an HDMI port the jobs a good 'un. It works for me anyway. Perhaps others would like to share what works for them as it might help others that are struggling?

Out of interest, how so? My phone is Android and I just start the broadcast on my phone and the cast symbol is at the bottom of the video window. I just touch on that and the list of available devices pops up, I select my Chromecast and it's instantly on my TV so I can't see how much simpler it can be? You are using the Chromecast and not the screen mirroring option? That's a different thing and is a faff!

'Dean Court' please? I refuse to call it the 'V' word!!

I'm not that tech savvy but the main advantage of BSN over some of the club streams for me is that it gives me the option to Chromecast to my TV. When we bought our TV a good few years ago it was all a bit of a minefield as smart TV'S varied considerably as to how smart they were and I didn't want to spend a fortune so the salesman recommended buying a Google Chromecast which at the time was about £30 but I think you can get them cheaper now. It's been worth every penny and so easy to use. I just start the stream on my phone and click on the 'cast' icon and the Chromecast which is plugged into the back of the TV takes over the stream and it's just the same as watching a TV broadcast. I don't even need to touch the telly, it instantly comes on the screen as soon as the cast option is selected. My wife won a Firestick which I believe is similar but I can't get on with that! Chromecast is simplicity itself though. I'm sure you can cast from a laptop too although I haven't got one so never tried. I can only echo what others have said in praising BSN though. I can't justify a full subscription as I can rarely watch the live events but I quite often buy to watch on catch-up which is cheaper and the odd weekend live fixture if I'm home.

I've no prejudice against the idea in terms of noise or smell but I'm not seeing any cost benefit to it as far as bringing riders into the sport. The problem with the idea of making the NDL electric only is that NDL riders currently double up as rising stars or second strings in the higher leagues, so would now need 2 sets of kit, adding more expensive rather than reducing it. At entry level (i.e youth or amateur) Speedway is not an expensive sport to enter. A pit bike engined laydown can be purchased a fraction of the cost of one of these electric bikes and they are certainly quick enough to establish if you are capable of progressing in the sport. Around the smaller training tracks like Lydd, I've seen them post times similar to the 500's. The biggest problem in developing riders currently, is track time and availability. If these electric bikes allowed for more venues to operate structured training programs which are not possible now because of noise curfews then it would be a good thing.

I certainly don't hate Tai. It just seems to me that he's lost the desire to win in the GP. He's been there and done it as a triple world champ but maybe he has a different mindset now that he has a young family and he seems content to do just enough rather than put it on the line. He's earning his bread and butter in the Polish league and obviously he wants to be in the GP series to keep sponsors happy but he's lost his edge. How often has he had world beating rides in the qualifying heats only to disappear in the semis which has cost him dearly? In fact he is probably the only rider in the top ten finishers that didn't score more under the new points system than he would have in the old system because of this. My problem with him is that when it's gone badly for him, it doesn't seem to hurt compared to say Doyle or Freddie who are on it 100% and visibly angry when it's not gone their way. Maybe that's just the persona he likes to project but to me you've got to be in it to win it and to me he just doesn't seem to want it badly enough now. I could be wrong.

I work a night shift from Monday to Thursday so Wednesday's are no good for me, hence I can't go anymore since the demise of Weymouth & Buccaneers unless it's a weekend fixture at Poole. I'd managed to get on a first aid course during the day for Wednesday so I can go to football but now I can go to Speedway too so I'm really looking forward to it

Excellent! Friday works for me

I believe that Torbay Council own the land on which Plainmoor is situated although GI are in discussions with them about buying the freehold. A new stadium is promised at another location though so what could possibly go wrong?? It seems to have gone quiet about the Poole situation, but Poole stadium can't be viable on the Speedway income alone unless GI are happy with the income from the carpark which is used all week due to its town centre location, with the Speedway just satisfying the 'sporting use' clause of their lease with the council. I must admit I don't fully understand the situation as it appears that the stadium site is earmarked for development as part of the council's local plan, but it's all a bit sketchy as to what that plan is. As soon as relocating the speedway is mentioned then we know it's all over for Poole as it won't happen.

Hope not. Bournemouth are at home to Southampton on the 19th. Might affect the attendance going head to head with the south coast derby.

Interesting question, probably not many. A quick Wiki search shows that most definitely don't but others not so clear. In the Premiership all but Kings Lynn are listed as tenants of their stadiums. I don't know if Buster owns the Norfolk Arena lock stock and barrel. Of the rest, Glasgow are listed as stadium owners. The ones that are unclear are Leicester, Scunthorpe, Redcar and Kent at Iwade. Perhaps those with local knowledge could clarify?

Mine's okay

The trouble is, no matter how many officials you have or how many angles you view it from, in some situations it's purely subjective when apportioning blame. What are people's objections to a staggered restart if a referee called it as a racing incident? It seems perfectly reasonable to me. It shouldn't take any more time than the current system and I would have thought it fairer than an exclusion based on a toss of a coin when the referee isn't sure. In the current system, how often do we see a rider who was tailed off in the initial race pop out of the start in the re run? At least it would negate that.

The football has already be re homed once after the Recreation Ground site in the town centre was developed in the late 80's. I just think it's sad that sports clubs which represent their towns and should be focal points of the community are shunted out of town to the back of beyond so that someone can make loads of money from their spiritual homes. Where do they want to move it to now?? It's already bad enough. I took my grandson to an evening game last season after a day in Weymouth. It was a 2 mile walk back to town down unlit paths and roads as there was no public transport at that time of night and we only just caught the last train home.

I understand the principles but having only ever ridden a speedway bike very badly and spannered for my son at amateur level using Jawa long stroke engines I can't speak with any authority, so in your opinion would a rider on a long stroke engine have been competitive or even gained an advantage in this meeting at Peterborough? Would the high revving engines advantage have been negated by a prematurely degraded tyre? It does seem a crazy situation on the face of it to spend so much money if no real advantage is gained so is it simply that no one wants to go against the status quo?

I was at Anfield Saturday and the floodlights on top of the stands were blazing all afternoon in brilliant sunshine. Money to burn obviously.

VAR is a joke. I agree with it in principle but it was supposed to be about alerting the referee to a clear & obvious mistake that he may have made, not micro analysing every goal and using laser line graphics to show that a boot lace or strand of hair was offside. Those aren't clear & obvious mistakes. Indeed, there are many incidents where 2 riders simply arrive at the same piece of track at the same time and it's impossible to apportion blame. My main gripe is when 2 riders are side by side down the straight with the rider inside slightly ahead and the outside rider comes down on the entry to the bend. After all the replays the commentators say "there was contact, he's clipped his wheel/leg, he has to go" before the leading rider is subsequently excluded. Fair enough if he has left the other rider nowhere to go by moving him out to the boards but quite often the leading rider has taken a natural line into the bend and the following rider has plenty of track outside of him but is too close to his opponents back wheel which is inevitably going to swing out. Then you see aggressive and dangerous moves go unpunished because the victim managed to stay on the bike even though it ended his race.

Looking at Google maps satellite view, there appears to be absolutely nothing left of the track or stadium. It just looks like a rubbish tip now. I know there's been various stories in the Dorset Echo over the years about potential new sites but nothing has come of them yet so I'm not holding my breath

I believe they are. There has been a lot of talk about searches for a new venue. I'd love to see it happen as l have many happy childhood memories of going to the old Radipole lane track in the 70's after a day on the beach in the summer holidays. Weymouth on Tuesday's and Poole on Wednesday. I have to say though, that even back then when speedway was in its heyday the crowds were a bit sparse. I got back in to speedway after a long absence during a camping weekend in Weymouth many years later, after they had put flyers on all the car windscreens in the town centre car parks advertising that nights fixture so you can't say they didn't try to promote it. Weekend fixtures suited me due to working nights during the week and I was then a regular until it sadly closed. If it was a bit closer to town I think it would have picked up a lot more trade from holiday makers and prospered. I know that could never happen these days but the trouble with putting sports venues on industrial estates out of town is you're only going to get the die hards and not much passing trade.