Hamish McRaker

All fine and good if a venue has the luxury of being able to set out a track without any impediments, then yes also make it as smooth as Roger Moore. But if that's not the case due to the venue having to be used for other things as well, or if the original designer of the arena and track was an idiot as with Leicester, then it needs other ways to ramp up the entertainment.

Regional papers these days are often about 2 weeks+ behind with anything that isn't mainstream, or assaults and murders. Maybe they still catching up with Leicester's team changes from last week!! You can hardly blame them for getting confused, the poor little interns.

I liked watching the riders bouncing and bucking around on the bumps and ruts. A true test of the men v the boys, with boys getting badly freaked out. They need to get practicing on ploughed up fields to stop them becoming like a bunch of mummy's boys whenever a track isn't like a billiards table. In fact what speedway in the UK needs is to have more tracks like ploughed fields. Otherwise it gets like the Andrex league in football, full of spoiled little mummy's boys. And don't get me talking about covered wickets in cricket. Incidentally I saw a programme on the gogglebox a couple of weeks ago about some race down a steep hill near Gloucester. The competitors have to chase a piece of cheese and although they start off by running, they soon just roll and bounce all the way down. If Chris Harris ever decides to give it a try, I'm sure he'd win. So why don't these new GB trainers take young riders out to steep hills and get them doing that sort of thing as well as practicing on ploughed fields? This is the entertainment business, so well done to Poole.

But he's been moved into the Sheffield side. I hope the lad has a decent sense of direction and a good satnav

Spectators with dementia would find this very stressful indeed and it would probably cause a worsening of their condition. This in turn would led to a substantial reduction in attendances.

I used to get annoyed by a race interrupting a good conversation

I think the BSPA is keeping the plans strictly under wraps, in case Poland finds out and copies them

Was thinking of dinner at the time

If the man possessed a heart it would call for a large steak to be hammered through it.

Newman looked crocked on the gogglebox last night. Struggled badly with the grip. Is Danny King anywhere near being available again? It's only rearranging the deck chairs now, though isn't it??

Just like the Swindon fella did last week !!

Poole call in James Sarjeant to replace JG (as a sub-4 CL rider). Unfortunately he injures his throttle hand when charging through the tapes at the first attempt to run heat 1, cannot continue and has to be withdrawn from the meeting. The Poole reserves, who happen to be both on fine form, can take the remainder of his rides between them. How's that?

Aparrently Josh Grajonek was seen at Dusseldorf airport this morning waiting around the check-in area. And the FIM has scheduled an urgent meeting for 29th November (it's the earliest date all 18 panel members are all available)

Oh, like Stoke then? PS as I am in the Outer Hebrides, does this excuse my ignorance over Lodz?

BT would be missing something by not televising it. " Correct me I'm wrong, Kelvin, but I think this is the first time this has happened in a league match since I started commentating" "Certainly is, Nige, good luck with the commentating there."

If he's not, then I expect that Chris Harris will guest for him.

So Swindon is being cunningly shafted to the point where it becomes unfeasible to operate any more? Add to that, environmental issues (stemming from poor water supply of course!). Problems with flooding to dwellings due to the prescence of a stadium. What a bunch of fools they've been made to look. Or are they??

Far from perfect!!! The choice of words is extraordinary.

Heres a conspiracy theory. Swindon stadium owners know that in present circumstances, overnight track watering is needed. Swindon promotion probably asked them for necessary access. Stadium owners say no dice, guys. We can't have the local residents being disturbed by additional activity, especially at night, and dog racing has priority access outside of your allocated hours anyway. Developers give stadium owners a pat on the back for their help in further discrediting speedway. "Won't be too long now until you can hand it over to us for a nice fat cheque and we can send in the heavy plant."

Have you read it? He is doing far more than that

What are the chances of substantial numbers of complaints from the new local residents (encouraged by the developers) being lodged with whatever relevant authority to the effect that Swindon speedway is a serious environmental health problem, and that it should be immediately closed down at least temporarily but also possibly permanently. They will now have plenty of substantiating evidence, especially as the residents will have had windows open, and today they will also probably be plastered in brown dust. Had it not been for the TV coverage I wonder if the meeting would have even gone ahead, to judge by the track's condition and lack of watering equipment.

It was like watching the last rites being given.

Are you aware that he is in a Communards tribute act?

Merde!

I look forward to seeing Nige and Kelv suitably attired