Hamish McRaker

Will Wolves make a pre-season change and replace Nicol with Nicholls?

Due to the strict time limit imposed on parking at Leicester, and to help meet anticipated demand levels, free parking will be available at both Peterborough and Sheffield speedway stadia, with free shuttle buses provided to and from Leicester.

Looking at those "ten years ago" pictures of various riders, on the SGB web page, the main changes seem to be addition of facial hair. From being smart and clean-cut looking, some of them now have more resemblance to bin-men on their days off. If you can grow a proper beard, like Nicolai Klindt, then by all means go for it. But too many of the others ought to buy a razor and use it.

What Wolves are doing is akin to a mother who gives birth to a child but buys a double baby buggy and uses it as a way of "incentivising" the child to behave itself.

With your Sheffield connection, some personal tuition from Nicki Pedersen could be just the job?

Who will be the Lions captain? There is no obvious choice. If either of the Thompson boys has to miss a match or two through injury, will the Lions have a 2-pointer up their sleeve ready to stand in?

Thats a nifty team for your home track, should get the punters in. Shame you coudn't have fitted in Danny Ayres as well

Zagar?

Chris Holder?

Places pressure on Perks to do the job of the "senior reserve" now. Is he up to it??

Is Greg Hancock going to resume his riding career?

I bought a pack of frozen Mexican faggots today

Ricky Wells will probably just not be re-engaged by Poole. Jonasson was clearly just in no fit state to ride in the first place, was only a short term signing and so he can slip away, again. But will Poole have the balls to sack their two main failures, or will it be all pals again and everything forgotten? Playoffs are a fact of speedway life and they usually take place on difficult tracks, either doctored or weather-related. If a team decides to include snowflakes in it's team, they're just increasing the probability they will fail as a team at this time of the season.

Hey, leave the Tory party out of this

Nasty case of splinters in his backside caused by sitting on the fence too much. Lying on the beach probably beats the **ck out of riding for peanuts at Sheffield and going through the motions for Peterborough, although swimming in certain parts of the Med you do literally go through other peoples motions.

Kelvin Tatum assisted by Nigel Pearson is the obvious choice

Possible alternative version: "The only reasonable offer made so far, has come from a Mr K.Chapman of Norfolk, so please, please, if anyone has some spare cash and wants to prevent him from buying Sheffield speedway, get a move on otherwise we won't have any choice but to sell to him."

Playing Elton John's "Saturday Nights Alright for Fighting" over the PA a few times? In fact Eastbourne should adopt that as their main intro music.

What will Leicester do, to give Craig Cook the needle?

I guess it was down to who was representing the riders' cases, and how well their case was put.

If that's correct, surely the other riders bans have to be lifted too?

On the Eastbourne website you can find a report on the league match at home v Glasgow back in May. Accidents galore, especially by the sounds of it during the first 5 or 6 heats, plus the serious injuries suffered by Brennan in heat 12, by which time the overall incidents rate looked to have dropped. Subsequent comments by Eastbourne management were putting the fault for the successive run of defeats at that time squarely down to riders' poor on track decision-making. But I bet that match and the number of incidents, especially early on, had lingered in the minds of Cook and perhaps also other riders and they arrived at Arlington with minds already on high alert.

I would go for a letter from SCB to both clubs, strong warning, keep your riders in order, otherwise in future you will be punished as a club for bringing the sport into disrepute

Suspending these riders only causes more problems than are solved. Fines have to be the right way of dealing with it, together with appropriate levels of punishment for their clubs. To begin with, fine the riders their earnings from that match, then a percentage from a set number of matches from now onwards.

That Marshal was dumb to walk in front of a 500cc bike & rider. Eastbourne should be fined by the HSE and ordered to train their Marshals properly. The riders were also dumb and beside being brought to book for being unprofessional, probably breached SCB regulations.