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Personally I would say he is a self-serving **** (word begins with a C) regardless of nationality, but that's perhaps a topic for another day.

I have never been a fan of using play off's in speedway to decide a league winner, but I have been a lone voice on here over the years. I accept it may have worked in the past to offer some good finals, let's be honest it relies on luck as much as anything. Let the league winner be the team that finish's top of the league. Right now we are seeing 'luck' being the factor in the play offs. Luck that the weather plays nicely, and come late Sept/Oct in the UK it's not something you would put money on. Instead of the league winner being the team that have been consistent from Apr-Sept, that team could have bad luck in one match and lose the title, so the league winner to some degree relies on luck in the play-off's. Recent years we have seen play off matches full of guest riders, and riders who only sign on once their lucrative Polish leagues finish. The biggest farce of all this season, there's only seven bloody teams in the league. If we the TV deal insists on this farcical play off situation, with just seven teams let's just make it that the top two in the league contest a play off final and let that be at the first week in September when we may still have acceptable weather.

How the hell does the SEC have a route to the GP series? We need open qualifiers that any rider, could theoretically qualify for. Not closed shops or wildcard picks for sponsors monster mates. The selection is a farce right now.

Why? Completely sexist to say that. We have speedway experts in both sexes, and equally some very good professional broadcasters in both sexes. The woman who hosted with Scott for BT Sports was fantastic for example.

Agreed that Eurosport coverage is poor, but a disgrace to single out Abi, who actually isn't too bad. I am not sure if this down to Eurosport or a production company, but the actual TV fcoverage is poor. As others have mentioned the helmet cam/drone footage mid race is stupid, we lose half the action. They are good innovations to the overall coverage, but use them wisely, mainly post race when showing replays from various angles. The producer responsible for controlling the main camera coverage often pans in on the race winner and misses vital racing for the minor placings. For commentary I like Kelvin, but I am not sure he is right to be the lead commentator, perhaps needs a broadcast professional with Kelvin as the expert alongside. Scott brings a lot to the pit interviews, and often feels he is underused at times.

I was questioning the use of the word woke, only certain people with a certain view of the works tend to use that word. It’s a shame for both riders, but it’s more of a shame for innocent Ukrainian civilians killed by Russians.

Woke politics?

Why does this production company keep allowing drone flyover to come into view just as the tapes rise with every single race. Drone shots add nothing to the race coverage and certainly shouldn’t keep coming into camera shot. Every GP, every race.

It would be outrageous if he did. He didn't do enough last season and never looked threatening and got lucky in getting a wild card for this season. His form in the GPs before injury was not good. He may be a former world champion, but he's looked anything but that for some time now.

I assume Bewley's done enough and shown enough he would be given a wildcard if he does miss out on the top 6?

Not that night, I think (not sure) that was the riders championship where hew scrapped with Wilson.

He tried the same with me at Sheffield the night he he 'crashed' with Robert Nagy. I think Johnno had already had a go at him in the pits and there were a lot of shouts and hand gestures from fans at the pits entrance, including from me. He threw a punch at me and missed, then the security intervened and they decided I was at fault even though I did not throw a punch and escorted me out the stadium. No issue with what he did, I gave him verbals. I do have an issue with the fact he got away with what he did that night on track.

Hancock then made cowardly comments on his website about Persersens mentality. I always thought Hancock was snide, this reinforced.

Why can’t they just have an additional race off in these situations?

So was I. Didn’t even know Bournemouth fans were there until the 86th minute

Bewley being interviewed post final was refreshing. He seems a genuinely happy guy. Compared to Woffinden he really is a breath of fresh air.

Irony…. Moaning about moaning!

I have no comment on this incident and I assume was just an accident. However I wanted to comment on this and draw your attention to Roman Matousek (She) v Robert Nagy (LE) at Sheffield many years ago. Only one man knows if what happened that night was an accident or not, but judging by his hand gestures the previous night towards Nagy and the way he lined up at the tapes for that race, then it's hard to think of that crash has just a racing incident. So sadly, sometimes on rare occasions I would suggest some riders do look for payback.

Absolutely abysmal camera work again not following the action to the line.

The TV production focussed on the unchallenged leader and completely missed the action in that last race.

Old thread but for me Long Eaton to Edinburgh for a 7:15pm rain off, even though sun was shining at that point.

Is it just me that finds the flashing lights in the GP as they cross the chequered flag quite off putting?

Goes back to this question. Why was Woffinden given a wild card? He never really looked competitive last season, so I can only think of one Monster reason why he was gifted a wild card.

Not bad GP so far considering all the rain.

We don’t have to have ridden to recognise world class and just ‘good’ riders you muppet. We watch speedway so we are entitled to our opinions, doesn’t make us keyboard warriors. The fact is, Team GB bar two maybe three doesn’t have world class riders, that British final was full of average riders, with 3 exceptions and one of those is a fading star.