Roger Jacobs

Tarasenko - not difficult to check the correct speeling

Cloud Cuckoo Land!

After tonight, there's a 3 week gap until the next home match, and then another 2 weeks until the final home league match = two home meetings in the school summer holidays! Riss is more likely to be dialled in to Dial-a-Disc.

Although Doyle seems a bit off the boil, I would have thought the Witches can reach 37 ...

King had a good start with a 3. No one can claim that his second ride was good - it was not good being beaten so easily on his home track by Blodorn.

Hawkins has proved time and again he isn't capable of offering thoughts.

Whichever way anyone massages the stats, King was poor against BV.

Don't think I've ever seen anyone pass on the outside coming off bend 2, the way Schlein took Brennan - Brennan must have though he'd got the K-corridor sussed, and would never have expected that to happen.

If that's the case, he shouldn't be a team manager and motivator ...

That's because he hasn't got a clue.

Looks better because it's very fast. It wasn't anywhere near as good as Tatum is told he has to make it sound.

Hawkins rarely looks or sounds as if he has a clue about anything.

Coin toss.

That's Top Secret ...

Why has he got talkback? It's obviously not doing any good. The camera work is dodgy, and if Tatum is watching a monitor that must be why he misses what action there is! He needs help - either for his repetitive repetition, and/or someone else on the commentary with him.

The stadium is part of Foxhall Heath, which is owned by a group of people. Spedeworth have been the leaseholders of the stadium since it was car racing only, and Louis rents it off them for speedway.

The key element of all this is that in many cases there's nothing to buy. What price would you put on, for example, Ipswich?

Thanks - I've just edited my reply!

I've just read Iainb's reply - it's all very confusing.

Someone with a stopwatch can time the difference

You said: "We'll never know but had the rider not fallen the referee may have continued the heat. " Therefore it sounds as if the Ref stopped it because the rider fell ... which means the Ref doesn't have any discretion, and should exclude whoever is deemed at fault.

That makes no sense. Either it was stopped for an unsatisfactory start, or it wasn't.

A clock is not the issue whether anyone is capable of installing it and/or operating it. The clock is only for show. If the team and riders can't work it out, it's entirely their fault - no change to how it's ever been.

If, and only if, it was deemed an unsatisfactory start. If someone falls, there is no such thing as referee's discretion. 011.1.11 Primary Cause of Stoppage The only person with the power to stop a heat is the Referee. When a heat is stopped, the Referee shall disqualify the rider, who in their opinion is the primary cause of the stoppage.

Except Harris ...