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Are the aces allowed to call off the meeting, or can it only be done by the referee? Seem to recall there were some restrictions imposed after watergate?

Nicki fences Greg. Greg rugby tackles Nicki and then gets a 5 year old to pen his "apology" statement. And still Darcy manages to come out of the incident looking far worse than either of them.

Tai 40 more Kk 40 more Holder 40 more Magic 40 more Cook 40 more

How are Coventry to blame.? Yes they should have lowered the prices to encourage pre purchase of tickets. But surely neither Coventry or Poole are to blame for the meeting running to exactly ten heats?

Surely if you are trying to avoid finding out a result you avoid the official website!?! Or is that just me?

Truly excellent meeting, most enjoyable. Congrats Sweden

So out of interest what happened to the track between heat nine and ten to change it from safe to unsafe? What a promoter said on camera should have no bearing on whether a track is deemed safe or not?

If that is the approach u take though then you surely have to include a rider riding to the tapes? Surely that is "action" also by that definition

The report will come out at the same time as Darcy's statement I reckon.

Yep, I got that one wrong.Now let's see if ha will admit that batsman pretty much never get run out in the bowlers run up (a quite distinct action from the delivery stride)

Reminds me a little bit of a young Andy smith in terms of physique, way he is not overawed by reputation, and way he works his way through the field after missing the gate, though clearly he has a much more polished style and far less wild than smudger was. Hopefully will kick on to be a world class talent, must be a chance of world u21 champ at some point and hopefully in GPS in 3-5 years time. I think its almost unanimous that he should have got a wildcard - really can only be explained by pettyness on the part of those making the decision that he hasn't been given one?

A rider can be excluded for touching the tapes before the green lights come on. When was the last time you saw a batsman run out as the bowler was on his run up?

In that case you would have to say a speedway race is "live"as soon as the two minutes warning goes on

So we would have lost 2 points in heat 8. Gained 5 in heat 9 (assuming tai won). Given that Aussie won by four, on what do u base your claim that we would have got a run off? Agree. It also made sense to have tai or bomber against Greg, as the hope would be that you could get a two point gain by winning and Greg second. Much as Lambert showed huge promise, and I certainly don't blame him for the defeat, those were the two key moments for me ( though you could add the third places tai and king ran).Good effort, and just a shame the ridiculous rules around no reserves mean we are now meeting Poland instead of Sweden who I would have fancied us to beat. Imagine it will be the same team, though cook a possibility to replace king? Do either of them have much experience around vojens?

Agreed. Batsman plays and misses the ball is in play for under a second. Ball hit to boundary - maybe 5 seconds? Average over the ball would be live for maybe 30 seconds? So in 10 overseas around 5 minutes Max.If you include bowlers run up then u need to include riders waiting at the tapes.

Phil was probably on a par with, or a little below the louis's (I'd tend towards the latter). Jason though is one of the top ten of all time IMHO, so as a partnership I'd definitely give the crumps the edge. Most closely matched brothers - the Grahames? Boococks? Morans?

Surely there is no question which crump was better?

Anywhere I can view the interview?

I dont believe you get a refund if u go to the cricket and there is a result under the DL system. And i think you can get a result with only 40% of the match completed? Sports with a propensity for being affected by weather need to have such rules in place The issue in speedway isn't the rule its the way it is enforced.

The heat 10 rule isn't the issue. The issue is the way it is applied by weak officials who lack the balls to call off a meeting after 8 or 9 heats, or having deemed a track safe stick to that decision beyond heat 10. Pearson banging on on sky about getting to heat 10 hardly helps. Warsaw was another example where weak and incompetent officiating was the chief issue (note not comparing Warsaw track to this one)

Of course in the 80s there were no refunds if it went past heat 6...

OK you can do division. So the question is why do you think 45/6 is relevant to averages, despite the numerous posters pointing out the reasons this is irrelevant? Passed basic maths, failed applied maths and literacy?

What is 84 divided by 9.3? That is an equally relevant calculation.

Are you starman in disguise? I think the penny will drop around the same time jerran hart gets released

Top 3 of zmarzlik pp and bech?