crazyb

Guests were making it a laughing stock, but so are riders riding for two or three teams, albeit not in the same leagues. To me it's no different. I agree that teams should and must be allowed to ride on the night that pulls in the best crowd. It's a no brainer really

And that includes those stupid bloody politicians

Don't issue a licence to him next year

No he didn't. It came out of the BSPA purse

Four loads of wet clay added before BV meeting. Nothing else. Normally it is two of clay to one of shale. That's why it was crap

Sorry, meant to say" that's even an understatement"

That's even an overstatement

Bring back the second-halves and get some youngsters having a go against the 'big' boys. It's the only way to improve

Why not cancel the match. It shortchanges the public but when has promoters ever thought of fans. There are enough dates in the calendar for re-runs: we have less than half the meetings we used to have, even for taking into account the tracks have other things on such as greyhounds

Never in a month of Sundays is it as good. Cut down on the expenses and have one rider from each country, or just cut the cards

So, whatever happened to the World Team Cup, not enough riders to go round, or too expensive

He doesn't rife in this country and the SON is only a glorified pairs meeting

British speedway should have come out of the FIM years ago and done their own thing. The FIM have never been interested in the sport this side of the channel

In order: 58.9, 58.9, 59.9, 59.3, 58.2, 58.6, 58.8, 59.6, 59.3, 59.5, 58.2, 58.9, 58.6, 59.5, 58.5. Just hope that Chapman can get the outside line working later in the meeting.

Agree. Absolute cr@p fixture list.

It's the BSPA themselves, not just Chapman, who own Pboro and Ippo I'm sure: bought, on paper, purely to keep the league going.

All about staying injury free: Panthers know all about that from last season

Just hope Chapman can prepare a good racers track, unlike his own one-liner.

It was the riders who wanted it like that

Correct 150%

Football is around 100 minutes now. If you stop riders gardening (that was supposed to have happened), and referees be sharper when they put on the 'two minutes" then meetings might get back to under 90 minutes

You're not very good at geography either

Would sooner have had Edmund Blackadder. Not many had vans then, used to be a bike rack on the back of a Cortina

That incident was nothing to do with the court case. Howe shouldn't have got involved. Doncaster said that he contacted Ronni later to say that it wasn't Ronni's riding, it was the bike lifting that caused it. I agree that Howe should have been thrown out of the meeting, and never allowed to race again

Can't see what all this has to do with PC, he packed up years ago! Mind you, he could still be coming to the tapes when the others had gone, but he could still pass 'em. There was a time when refs would give five minutes from the end of one heat to the start of the next. Don't know whether it was ever in the 'rule book', but meetings were completed much quicker than now, and there were at least nineteen races. They also had the two-minutes but refs were much stricter then. When I was a 'pusher' at Lynn you got the bikes ready at the pit gate for the next heat before the start of the current one. So why can't the 'mechanics' do the same now, bikes haven't changed that much. PC is correctly blamed for many things, but can't see what it has to do with this; just instruct clerks of the course, team managers and referees to be stricter with time limits, and the Bloody stupid p****s association to back up refs to the hilt