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When we left Hyde Road in 1987 admission was £3.10 inc programme. That has increased by 500% to today. In perspective for every £100 you earned back then you would now need £600.00.

Tsunami is part of the "establishment" if you like. With his sort of joined up thinking is it not obvious why the sport is going downhill

Speedway is now very expensive in Poland, this is reflected in the falling attendances. Why the big issue over these so called overheads. A speedway bike is the simplest form of motorbike around and yet tuners charge a fortune, why?. Quite simply because they know the worth of a few extra points to a top rider. It is the high wages that have driven the high costs in the first instance.

Yes indeed but Marshall wasn't Spanish, he was the son of a couple of ex pats who ran a bar over there. He did try his hand over here following that venture but was a very poor standard second half junior at best. Think it was Canterbury, he didn't stay long

Run that by me again. Great coverage from Eurosport apart from 100% of Eurosport input which wasn't great!!!!!!! Which part of Eurosport coverage was "great" then ?

You're a legend aren't you You take being boring to a whole new level

We would certainly still have it, that is what I am asking, at what level do you think it would be at?

Of course BSI pay for the rights, a considerable sum. They invest more into the sport than the old day promoters ever used to. The promoters of the sixties and seventies bled the sport dry without investing a penny into the infrastructure of the sport. While stadiums got ever more ramshackle plenty of promoters drove around in Rolls Royces before retiring to foreign climes on the back of a few years speedway promoting. BSI have given British Speedway a massive platform from which to build, it is not their fault that British Speedway hasn't capitalised on it. Out of interest where do you think the sports individual world championship would have been today were it not for the GP firstly and then the intervention of BSI

Unlikely, more likely just trying to cash in on the smash hit production that ran for 8 years from 1972. Bit like having a "one direction trophy" today

Tried your advice, my case comes up next week. I explained I had no intention of buying the 60" LED TV and therefore by stealing it I was not depriving Curry's of any money. I even pointed out that if I liked the TV I could end up legitimately purchasing another for the bedroom. Didn't seem to cut much ice with them

What jurisdiction would Olsen have anyway, OK its a BSI event but they want who they think puts a few on the gate, no way would Olsen over rule that

It couldn't be because Jepsen Jensen is far better than Larsen could it

No, like he said, the winners got 340,000 euros. He wasn't referring to the speedway

There was some good racing but it was hard to see it as anything other than a glorified challenge match.

I take it that is sarcasm, if so you are spot on, they were p!ss poor. Nicholls delivery was akin to how Staechman used to be (very boring) and the other guy simply hadn't a clue

To be honest though nothing they said had any relevance, and it was delivered with zero passion. It shows how important a professional commentator is to any event.

Racing is quitr good now, maybe someone could let the commentary team know. They are as dull as dishwater and are turning a decent meeting into a poor tv spectacle. Get nigel and kelv on board and ditch this guy

Does everyone still think eurosport are great. Total amateur production when they have their own input into it

It has nothing to do with opinion. The old Tac Sub rule could skew a result by 8 points, the current rule can only skew it by 3. You can have an opinion as to which you prefer but the facts are facts, the old rule was more unfair. That said I preferred the old way, it gave a dimension to team managing that doesn't exist now, a team manager these days is just a glorified programme filler almost

But then again if those meetings had been on Eurosport I think they would have been so much better

Do you have to ask?

Well we are not sure now whether the track was flooded because Darren Hartley is not an experienced Elite League ref. It is that experience of reffing at the top level that enables you to determine whether a track is flooded or bone dry

Have you not understood anything that has been written. The "powers that be" have no say in the wildcard rider. It is in effect at the sole discretion of the GP promoter, in this case BSI.

Well no you have confused me, I always thought slander was spoken and libel written. Thank god I didnt go into a full explanation when I didn't understand myself. It would have been a gormless mistake wouldn't it. To be fair though you do gormless very well

Yes pretty much