Tsunami

He seems to have got over his problems and his average must be getting back to where it was. Glasgow was something personal and in his past now. Anybody travelling today, the weather is glorious with sun out all day, warm, no wind and no threat of rain. Great meeting in expectation with two top sides in form. Why not stay behind and watch the Gems juniors taking on the all powerful Dukes from Halifax. Should be a great night of speedway.

The difficulty is if you start explaining in even greater detail how and what is not allowed, the rule back would probably quadruple in size.

Hence his product name.

I think I saw him at the PLRC at Sheffield last Sunday. Don't know what job he was doing, but he looked 'official'.

So why shouldn't it be from the 'circle'. The raft of referees was the natural place to get a successor and Jim McGregor was offered it but withdrew. Neil is a good choice, unless you know different. More conspiracy theories.

Agree, very disappointing.

Was that not the one I mentioned earlier. It was on SKY and it was the World U21 round at Kings Lynn.

I presume there will be a lot of negotiations going on behind the scenes, but cannot be announced till the playoff draws and meetings are arranged.

Yes, and the present graduated points system works very well. It was brought in because at the time both Exeter and Sheffield had such massive home advantages, and they nearly always won on aggregate, and in fact I think both won the PL title due only to the aggregate score points.

Last 3 heats were nominations from scores, and with injuries, you had some riders in more than once.

I heard the 6 man suggestion had been binned.

For a single meeting duration, the recent World U21 round at Kings Lynn must up there with the longest meeting. Early start for SKY on a Saturday and didn't finish till 11.45pm.

Derek used to regularly get pulled up for it. He used to get away with it in gates 1, 2, and 3, but the ref can see you better when you are in gate 4. The technical point was that the bike is not moving at the start, which was thought to be the salient point. But it was considered as cheating and seemed to have disappeared since Derek's retirement, till now with Tungate.

No, just the Playoffs.

I think you are trying to change the argument. Nobody is actually challenging the 'massif', it is YOU who is constantly bagging on about what YOU do for the sport and YOUR connections. Don't try and change what others are commenting on. Self praise is no recommendation.

Great to see and hear her news. Not the greatest thing to wish a former fellow commentator all the best, given the circumstances. Might be some people who are with The Return and Jacques, but the lass has gone though enough and we should be pleased she is going to be alright. St Jimmies to the rescue again.

As I stated earlier , Lambert didn't want to do ht15 on Sunday, after coming back from his poor performance in the GP Qualifier on the Saturday night. Others didn't seem to want it either, till we got two to ride. Perhaps the travelling affects them, combined with the number of meetings they do with doubling up and foreign commitments. I would hope Roy did try to cajole the top riders, as the 4 points was definately on. Strange meeting with the scores at 30-30, followed by 5 5-1's. Just pleased for the win but more importantly, that Plymouth were able to stick two fingers up to the duo who tried to end Plymouth speedway, possibly not just for the year, but possibly forever. Hope they find the 2 culprits and perhaps punishment again using a Stanley knife. Tossers.

I know he said he didn't want to do heat 15 on Sunday as I was standing beside him. Yes, didn't we.

Takes one to know one, as they say.

I quite agree. More silence would say so much more. In answer to any point, or item under discussion, macca has to get in his association with a former world star and sponsorship of young riders and programme heats. It clearly means a lot to HIM, as he seems to say it in answer to anything speedway. As i said, silence would say so much more.

Just need Kelvin and Nigel to give her a plug next time on SKY then. They don't need telling to do it so, just do it.

it was Rob and a great occasion. I did invite him, but I knew he had 4 other events to go to that Sunday afternoon. I spoke with Gordon Stobbs his lifelong mechanic who I knew from the 60's with him being a Diamond fan then, and asked if he would have a word. On the day I said to the trainee riders that we may be having a guest today, and sure enough he got out of his other bookings, and just walked in and got the lads together and talked to them about learning speedway. He spend quite a bit of time with us, gave each one advice and was pleased to have his photo taken by everyone who wanted one. Incidently some of the photos are on our Facebook NEWCASTLE SPEEDWAY TRAINING GROUP. You can spot Liam Carr in his green Wolfsport kit and was having his first laps after coming over from MotoCross. A memorable day, thanks to Gordon and Ivan.

As Ivan used to say, if you can ride Brough Park you can ride anywhere. He was instrumental in recommending young Kiwis to come to Newcastle to accelerate their learning in the sport. Even had him once as a guest tutor at one of my training school. Great experience. Sounds like someones running scared.

Of course it is a bogey track as you always flood the bloody track unto 11/2 hours before the meeting with us. The riders do notice and do talk about it. Even with your crazy rubbishing/fixing of the track you still get turned over big style on our constant racing circuit which gets good praise normally, especially when we have the access probs that nobody else seems to have. Refs reports suggest we are decent.