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Absolutely my friend...I loved Custom House.

Fantastic speedway...we don' t see meetings like this every week.

This meeting has had everything. Pity Eurosport are not showing the GP Challenge though. Very impressed with Laguta...hope to see a lot more of him next season. I have to say I'm looking forward to next year's SEC more than GP. I think this meeting demonstrated my point about big open tracks.

That would have been one hell of a race had Kildemand stayed on board. Well done Emil.What a meeting.

To be honest it was said tongue in cheek. This is without doubt the best speedway I have seen all season.

I wish I lived in Czestochova...I would buy a season ticket for next season tomorrow.

How good would next year's GP series be with Sayfutdinov, Kildemand and Laguta on board?. The selectors have a job on their hands when handing out the wildcards.

This my friend is what speedway should be like...Brilliant. I'm loving this. Forget GP...SEC for me!.

Emil is a World Champion-elect...he has to be in the GP.

This is a great track for outright racers,

Kildemand fantastic.

it's a long while since Plechanov and Samorodov, and a little while later Klementiev thrilled us at the top level. All praise to Emil and Grigory.

Laguta looking very impressive. I came in for some stick for extoling the virtues of big tracks, but this track is giving us some spectacular speedway.

Emil in a class of his own.

"Old man" Gollob showing his class.

That could have been so much worse. My admiration for Kildermand is growing. would be good to have him in the GP's.

Go Emil. The GP series will be so much better with him back in.

Looking good so far. Difficult to estimate the crowd in such a huge place. Plenty of empty spaces but crowd seems fair. Still backing Emil.

With the geographic spread of teams, particularly in PL a reserve may be British but may not be local. As he is unlikely to be too financially sound this could cause hardship, though I understand your point. The days when a rider could push his bike to the track for a home meeting are long gone. In a Utopian world every team would be full of stars, mostly British and all living a stone's throw from the track. If only!.

If there are 12 teams in each section racing 22 league matches a season, plus cup and local-derby mini-leagues, there would still be enough diary dates for an inter-region competition if desired, or feasible. Maybe an alternative to the top team in each section meeting home and away to decide the league championship would be the top 3 in each section forming a mini-league of 6 to battle for the title. Ok...if Edinburgh ended up in a mini-league with Somerset it would be a financial headache, but let's face it...the current structure needs an overhaul. I forget how many teams the inaugral British League had back in 1965 but I know it worked fine.

I have long been an advocate of all teams irrespective of league having to track British riders at reserve. The notion of paying Overseas riders to improve at the expense of British youngsters is patently absurd. I'm all for Overseas "stars" ( a somewhat loose description in the current climate) enlivening British sides, but in order to increase the British rider pool for the future the foreign 6 or 7 needs to be scrapped.

In principle this would work...somewhat similar to the old National/Provincial Leagues amalgamation in 1965. But why split North/south in to 2 leagues of 6 and race each other 4 times?. Surely a North/south split with 12 teams each, racing each other once at home/once away and with a revamped Cup competition and mini-derby competitions would work better. The table-topping League and Cup sides from each regional split to meet each other to decide League and Cup champions. Keep it simple and it will work.

If only every rider was a Peter Craven what a wonderful sport this would be.

Shag carpets can leave nasty burns.

The noise situation is a farce. The bikes are running for 20 minutes and there are not enough people at most meetings to whip up a storm. There is significantly more noise at most football matches. I remember Romford having to close because one resident complained. Why are we such a nation of kill-joys?.