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Easier said than done, off top of my head these are all needed... - A decent track shape conducive for racing - A well prepared track - Teams with riders of similar levels? Not something easy to create across all tracks and teams. To be fair, change can take time.

Bt Sport coverage is pretty good. Only thing to improve is the commentator who spends every race screaming rather than actually commentating.

He shouldn't have to ride here if he doesn't want to, but all riders who used British speedway to become the riders they are should 'want' to ride here.

I just found this interview with Woffinden, which for balance I want to share. Most of you will be aware of it, but I wasn't and this puts things into a different perspective. The only thing I would add though, Woffinden's motives were right in organising the fitness stuff, but it's worth mentioning he is not the team manager, so maybe he should have planned it alongside Rosco (it's not clear if he did). Also did he arrange it on a day and time that worked for all riders? It sounds like he was right in what he tried to do, but maybe went about it the wrong way?

Some people only want to be surrounded by sycophants.... perhaps that's Tai's issue?

He shows his unprofessionalism with all the others... but this I think many of us kind of assumed, but I am surprised he vocalised it.

What we he actually saying though?

What had he actually said last night?

aah that explains it. I had looked earlier and I couldn't see what he had done wrong.

The top Aussie is Chris Holder. He took a year out if memory serves, but apart from that he's been an ever present in the UK for his entire speedway career. Hardly a bus stop.

Mmm, are you just looking for a dig at the forum? I don't recall the forum being negative at all as the meeting went on. Without question, we would benefit from his experience in Poland, but I don't want a rider who isn't prepared to ride for the cause. He can not be allowed to pick and choose. So yes we may get battered in the final, but at least those riders will be riding because they want to represent Team GB.

You are aware that Poland are seeded because they are hosts, not because they are champions?

Why is Pearson and Tatum still banging on that Hancock stood down to give youngsters a chance, they make it sound like he did something for the good of Team USA kids, he did it for the good of Greg Hancock and nobody else.

Well compared to Poland, British speedway is no longer that entertaining. But Kings Lynn is a good race track, the problem is that tonight is a two horse race because of the farce of seeding hosts.

I love the SWC, but the sporting spectacle is being diminished in two areas. 1 - Joker makes it a farce. 2 - The hosts should not be seeded to the final, let them earn the right to be there (I said same last year when Team GB were seeded).

Pearson.. "he's getting a standing ovation"... the camera pans to the crowd who are all sat down. This is the downside of the hosts being seeded to the final. It does see fans robbed slightly of seeing Poland ride this year in the SWC week.

Not sure it's much further than when he rode for Belle Vue.

Not sure he's sticking his finger up. He wanted a holiday, at least he was honest about it, I just don't agree with him doing that. Unlike Hancock who people seem to believe his excuse that he wanted to give the kinds chance. He's an OAP, I don't mind him saying he wanted a mid-season rest in his older years, but don't trot out the same lame excuse he used last season to avoid coming to Belle Vue.

This is right. I used to see a lot of snobbery from Elite League fans on here in the past. Good racing is not exclusive to SGP stars. That said, on another subject even if we get tanked tonight or this week I hope Tai is not allowed to walk back into the team next season. He can't be allowed to pick and choose when he rides for Team GB, you're either part of the team or you're not.

The GP tonight was everything that is good about the sport I fell in love with thirty years ago. Fantastic, exciting hard racing, with riders throwing bikes at each other and then shaking hands afterwards. If only every meeting was like this. Edit: It was also great to see great sportsmanship twice with riders falling, and getting themselves up and off the track for the other riders to carry on.

It's not racist to call someone a p1llock, you p1llock.

Why is that plonker who commentates screaming 'get out of the way, I'm coming through' multiple times in one race?

Should a non British rider be allowed to ride in our British Final? No. As you rightly mention, a licence of convenience. Seen it in other sports (like tennis) where people seem to chop and change nationalities all the time. How typical... Phil and the Speedway Star are routinely criticised for not challenging the sports elite, and when they do people still whinge. Just because it happens in other countries does not mean we should roll over and let it happen here.

Except this year he's making it clear in advance at least. It's a bollocks excuse he's giving though, only the most gullible sycophantic fool would believe that. Hancock does what Hancock wants for Hancock.

Why is that P over pronunciation plonker going on about bloody pizzas? He spits his 'P's' out like that episode of Friends where Joey was taught to spit P's.