Hamish McRaker

If you're going to keep Max Fricke, you'll need the new big hitter to be at No 1 and he'll need to still be at No 1 when the season goes into September

It's pretty simple and has been said by many others - can't perform when the track is wet, maximums all along when it's warm and dry. He needs a winter practicing on frozen lakes in Finland

They seem to be on a different planet, unfortunately

He must be getting old. Puts "Young" before every rider's name, he'd be saying Young Scott Nicholls if he was commentating on Oxford matches

UK has gradually given up priority race nights including Thursdays as the Polish juggernaut continues to crush all in it's path. May as well just run at championship level with remaibing UK tracks on whatever night they choose.

Unfortunately, and ironically on the day that the Premiership concludes it's season, this is a reminder that attempting to sustain a higher-level league in this country is becoming ever more impractical and may have gone beyond that stage. It just isn't sustainable and is financially bonkers. Professional sport now involves having to accumulate and run with terrible levels of loss and debt, meaning that the weaker clubs in so many sports are falling like leaves from the autumn trees.

So it sounds like they currently owe money which they are unable to pay (presumably including to riders) and unless this is cleared, they will be unable to declare 2025 participation when the deadline comes up (I e. BSPL conference). The Directors are unable to finance this, and are seeking persons to contribute and bail them out, and enable them to declare participation in 2025. If the Directors can't provide this finance, then what chance is there of them being able to keep chipping in and keep the club afloat during 2025, as they seem to have done during the past three seasons? And as someone has said, this puts them down in the bottom of rider preferences. I heard that, when David Hemsley's promotion at Leicester hit the buffers at the end of their previous and ill-fated dabble with the top league, Keith Chapman bought the club and cleared the debts before selling it on to the Bateses. Maybe he could do the same for Birmingham, although obviously not selling to the Bateses this time

I do.

Max Fricke would do a great job as no.1 for Birmingham, King's Lynn or Oxford.

What is S.Worrall's average now? Needs to have recovered from his illness of course

Creative thinking. It's what's needed.

It's time to part company with Max Fricke, Leicester nor any club for that matter will ever win a title with him at no.1, good rider though he is. Jason Doyle is the best rider Leicester has had in the current era, he's a winner and the club should be going the extra mile to try and get him back on board. Szymon Wozniak will probably lose his GP place and could be ideal to have as the second rider of a new spearhead. He'd possibly be assessed as 8 but if given 7 would be a great acquisition and would possibly enable a clear third heat leader to be brought in. Overall, I think Leicester should ring the changes for 2025 but that could include bringing back some riders who have been there before, Dan Thompson being another, and his brother Joe.

I'm sure the management took that into account when they made their decision

Hiding behind his captain most of the time

1 Doyle 2 Dan T 3 Tungate 4 Tarasenko 5 Wozniak 6 S. Worrall 7 Joe T

Leicester will come back with their pants on fire in the second leg, whenever and wherever it actually happens. Mr Dickson will make sure of that, most of that team will receive such a roasting at gas mark 12 that their kevlars will glow all week

There's a good bakery up here on Harris, they could maybe be persuaded to produce some on a one-off basis, if the price is suitable?

Yes, I suppose it is! Maybe a few meetings can be preserved in the traditional version for analogue old farts

So the answer to ensuring that speedway survives and thrives is to design it to suit Gen Zedders or whatever they're called, with their shortened attention spans they should be catered-for. Reduce races to one lap, with electric powered bikes, introduce online race prediction competitions via Tik Tok or whatever, and run races in blocks of 6 with track grading breaks. Sorted!

I think Leicester may have already peaked and are not quite at that level now, whereas the signs are that Belle Vue are now on an upwards trajectory

Tripe is a fine, cheap and nutritious food, to be enjoyed cooked with onions and accompanied by dauphinoise potatoes on a cold winter day.

What it needs is a very large wide vacuum cleaner built into a 4-wheeled vehicle that sucks up the dirt out by the fence around two bends then deposits it on the inside of the next two.

Don't take concussions lightly. Their effects can last for a lifetime. This 9- day business gives the impression that afterwards everything's back to normal, but not so

Looked like there were some serious conversations between J.Holder and Stead, which contributed to JH declining or not available to be interviewed. Maybe the Holders thought they'd done their bit at Belle Vue whilst others hadn't, and were doing a "work to rule" last night?

No problem with Kvech there, that's racing. When 4 riders are going for a narrow funnel, any contact is going to at least double the risk of consequences beyond the control of the riders. Sensible decision in that case to do it again with all 4, just as it should have been with heat 3 where Rew was unjustly excluded.