Roger Jacobs

Post on Speedway Friends Facebook says nothing found to be wrong …

2000 spectators at £22 is highly optimistic. Even if they reached 2000, some would be season ticket holders, and others won’t be paying £22, e.g. concessions, and children (charged at different rates or free). It’s all in a parlous state - hence Sheffield putting riders through unnecessary heats of potentially dangerous muddy riding so they could get to Heat 10 and keep all the gate receipts.

Whichever way they line-up, Heats 2, 8, 12 & 14 are vital - while the heats with the King/Rew pair are very important. King really needs to defeat all of the Wolves - sadly the Wolves top 5 are all capable of defeating King. Rew will have to fend for himself, because King never looks around. On the flip side, I reckon Riss will be excited, because he knows that Sayfutdinov and he will be able to work together on track.

LOL! NB: Abandoned

How did they manage to ride 3 heats in poor conditions to get as far as Heat 10, and then decide it couldn't go on ... that's almost as suspicious as Bates Leicester getting a vital win at Bates Sheffield last week.

3.61 of that difference is Pedersen's average minus the arbitrarily assessed 5.00 given to Tarasenko.

Confirmed Jack Smith replaces Jake Mulford: https://britishspeedway.co.uk/sports-insure-premiership/preview-belle-vue-v-wolverhampton-sports-insure-prem-2/

It’s quite the conundrum. Plymouth say they need an increase of 35% in paying customers. Turns out, they need “only” 110-20 more, because the average attendance is 350!

It’s the happy clapper “any speedway is better than no speedway” who will be clapping and saying that when their track disappears, and they wonder why …

That’s not the point. The point is that the SCB and BSPA/L continue to be disingenuous, and clearly don’t care. Anyone would think it was Sunak in charge - or perhaps he’s been inspired by the BSPA/L operating model?!

King’s Rolling Average average would be a lot higher if they didn’t.

Plan or error?

Bravo! That's the clearest explanation I've seen for a new/different operating model that might just work.

However, it shouldn't be accepted without question.

You said the date was decided before any line-up was known ... well, they knew there would be no Laguta or Sayfutdinov. Although it's a shame Louis agreed with Sayfutdinov that he wouldn't have to ride in the Pairs, it's very disappointing that Louis didn't tell supporters. There was a buzz amongst Witches fans about Doyle & Sayfutdinov in the Pairs. Oh well - at least the Ipswich pairing will get support from Redcar fans

Do you really think Wolves would ask the printer to delay printing their programmes, just in case there was a line-up change - seriously?!

I admire your enthusiasm, and your commitment with BSN - even so, it's a complete joke that Sayfutdinov and Laguta were never going to ride, but nobody bothered to tell the fans. The final section of your second sentence shows how disingenuous the BSPA/L have been.

... unless the prog was printed on Monday lunchtime, they must have known at least on Saturday (assuming the printers don't print on a Sunday). Teams are supposed to nominate their line-up 3 days in advance - even if Harris was on standby (as per the KL website), they should still have had Laguta at #1 in the prog. Before #BusterGate, I was told that Ipswich had not received the KL line-up. I was told in an e-mail from Neil Vatcher that their line-up had been "posted on the line-ups page" - when I asked him where that was, he never bothered to reply. The SCB Statement said: "Both King's Lynn Speedway and Norfolk Arena Limited have been exonerated of any kind of improper conduct ..." When I asked the SCB about the series of events involving those two, i.e. when did NAL inform KLS of the busted gate, Vatcher replied: "Norfolk Arena Limited IS King's Lynn Speedway" (my emphasis). You really couldn't make this up.

It is convention for people watching the Live Updates to mention directly to the updater that there's an error - rather than going on to a chat room and moaning. Errors are made and corrected on a regular basis. Unlike Tatummerr, the texters and updaters aren't paid.

Corrected on Live Updates

Maybe riding in the Euro Grasstrack and World Longtrack in recent weeks has had an impact on Harris’s speedway riding?

It’s Harris who has been overriding.

Not for everyone - I haven’t bought a Star for years, and haven’t seen any other info about him.

He has shown track craft at Foxhall - more than Hume or even King.

Don't reckon your man-crush Basso would get out of your bed for £400 either.