Hamish McRaker

I would suggest that for short-term illnesses and miracle recoveries, you cannot look much further than football, especially the expensive sector. Miracle recoveries seem to be hastened by the appearance of yellow or red cards,or the award of a penalty!!

Scenario A. Referee awards race 1-5 to the disadvantaged team afterwards. Scenario B. Rider 2 re-instated

Ok I admit I'm chucking a pebbles into the pond here. So what about a one-minute warning (or even 30 seconds), starting immediately following the red lights coming on, and riders have to be right up at the tapes.

Simple solution to that. Just remove the incentive for the "jumper" to disrupt. Referees empowered to not only retrospectively exclude the jumper if he finishes in a point scoring position, but can also change the race result to a 1-5 if the jumper has caused disruption during the race.

Time for annoying and time wasting re-runs caused by a rider jumping the start to be done away with. Just let the race continue to the finish, and the offending rider gets excluded after the finish.

Strange, but I don't recall Jason Doyle criticising British speedway when he began riding here.

I think the four teams that qualify for this year's playoffs would do fine

I can't see how there could be a promotion/relegation playoff. By the time the championship playoffs have finished a lot of riders will have wound up their UK commitments and set ups for the year, and the weather will be getting very unpredictable. Also I can see the Premiership increasing to 12 teams for next season, with a championship made up from what's left plus some of the NL clubs. Then a third tier entirely youth/development. Our Premiership and Championship will become a development league for Poland and a home for Brits, Aussies and anyone else who wants to earn a bit extra and isn't getting enough employment elsewhere.

And what about the relegation & promotion play off?

Hang on a minute. Has Somerset management said anything yet or has this been started off by some trigger-happy twitface

Use whatever language you like, he had to withdraw from the meeting. Nothing to see here, move along. Maybe he shouldn't have accepted the booking in the first place

This current crop of Australians (and I include Saint Tai) seem to go around with chips on their shoulders and a sort of attitude not evident in their predecessors. Something of a contrast with the new crop of top Poles (and the non-top ones) such as Janowski who seem not to have the same nasty attitude.

It's sad, so sad, it's a sad sad situation, and it's getting more and more absurd

Is the "AFA" a speedway stadium which also stages stock cars and bangers, or the other way round?

It's been a wee bit quiet news-wise about Kim Nilssons injury and what plans Leicester have during his absence. Maybe a replacement has already been signed but couldn't be announced just yet??

I'm trying to focus on who are good team men, as opposed to individualists who don't have much of a team ethic. Riding on a poor track can be part of that, but it's more the team ethic thing I have in mind.

Kings Lynn and Poole?

I had the impression that Bjerre was instructed to finish second but decided to ignore it. He can be like that. Probably Morris had been given the same instruction. It would have turned into a farce with both of them trying to lose - reminds me of a boxing match in an episode of Porridge

Recent events at Kings Lynn had me wondering who have been the best team-men in speedway, the kind who take the lead and give it a go no matter what the conditions, ride through injuries etc, and on the other hand the prima Donna's who tend to just turn it on when they feel like it. Can two teams of 7 be found? I will start by nominating the one and only Chris Harris as captain of Team Men.

Congratulations to Mr Rossiter on making himself look and sound like a total prat. Still, it's not too difficult, what with him being 99% of the way there anyway As with the TV match against Eastbourne a few years ago, the track last night looked to have been prepared as to produce error and incident

Just a thought - did Mr Lyon go to hospital with Mr Allitt?

Other ways of earning a living are available......

Will Batchelor get a sick note from the Medic for sunstroke if it's too difficult for him?

C.Holder I think may be a quite complex character who can switch quickly from easy-going to awkward/difficult if something isn't right in his eyes. I imagine he can be difficult to manage, especially if the manager lacks good man-management skills. Holder seems to have got this way over the past 2-3 years and if he doesn't do something about it, nobody will want to employ him. Batchelor comes across as childish, someone who tends to blame anyone or anything except himself for his shortcomings or when the going gets tough. He would also be quite difficult to manage. Together they probably present a considerable challenge to manage, beyond the capability of the majority of speedway managers and promoters. Together they could also have a significantly negative influence on team harmony.

Would seem that K.Chapman has got some serious thinking to do, and needs to make crucial decisions within a short time. The future of Kings Lynn speedway is at stake, so he needs to get it right. No pressure.