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Yes but it's hindering development.

While I agree with much of what you say, there is a slight irony in the fact that too many NL teams seem to have filled their places with tried and failed NL career riders, who are actually robbing some young hopefuls of a chance of a team place and the required experience.

It's Keskinen but it won't be him anyway.

Then you'd probably be giving places to some who have never shown signs of going beyond that. Obviously the rules will change when the need arrises, much as has happened in the EL.

I disagree about teams looking evenly matched, several look to be merely making up the numbers.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qpT-XcGz_Wk

What happens if the front end goes up, are they designed to accommodate that?

I believe 'wet weather' tyres are being trialled, personally I can't see how they'd work as they don't address the problem of spray (neither did dirt deflectors to the extent hoped for). Track surfaces are a possibility but you would need something widely available and affordable. Rain-offs are definitely bad news, especially when people have spent a lot of time and money to get there, only to be told at the last minute.

Probably because it isn't actually an apology but just another excuse to criticise and insult other posters. It would seem that lessons haven't been learned.

It's even more pointless than the EC.

No.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cFOJ1m0F_yU

I thought it was Newcastle.

How can you decide what is dirty, it's accepted practice to close gaps and it's accepted that some will make the effort to squeeze through or widen a gap to go through? If that action is the result of a rider declaring or thinking that "Joe Bloggs is in this race and I'm going to try and knock him off" then it's dirty but mostly it's just trying too hard or being prepared to take a few risks, without premeditation. Actually, with some of the threads being dreamed up recently, it would seem that too many people are short of something to do.

It's the patch that isn't covered in cowrubbishe.

Mine is green.

I agree, Kus isn't the answer and if someone well below that 8.5 is signed, there will be even lower attendances. You've got to give the people some hope.

As a Speedway rider he was huge! In a very short space of time he was an international and World Championship contender. He also overcame some very nasty injuries in double quick time. I was at Halifax and Bradford for every match he rode in, the move to Bradford didn't favour him, whether it was the track or the fact that at Halifax he was the home town hero, I couldn't say. We can't judge him solely on his private life, there is already too much of that on this forum, including from someone recently suspended.

You'd need to actually own the stadiums to do that.

It's too samey, too long winded and too predictable. Every week at Bradford they brought in a bus load of kids where the riders had often visited the school, they showed them round the pits and everything. After a couple of heats they were reduced to flipping the seats or wandering around the stadium in boredom, I even saw some crack out laughing after heat one, and say "is that it?" It didn't help with the embarrassing centre green idiot, trying (and often failing) to urge people to shout out ludicrous chants. The fact is that it's unknown to too many people, it isn't mainstream and it isn't fashionable and the lack of finance within the sport means that it's stuck that way, you've seen what money can do at Glasgow but some of the televised meetings from other tracks leave me wondering how they manage to make ends meet. The other thing is that as a teenager I could visit a handful of tracks by bus or train, these days with tracks in the middle of nowhere, that's often impossible, so a group of young mates often don't have it as one of their leisure time options.

Fully agree.

There are too many long term career NL riders, blocking the way.

Unless something entirely unexpected happens, Redcar will (again) be bottom.

I thought challenge matches were pretty much the same as an open meeting, so the host club pays.

Did you mean 'their average'? Garrity (PL), Ellis, Cook, Batchelor, Riss, R Worrall,