Truro Robin

I think this one could be going down to the wire tonight. Ghostwalker, why are Gnistorna not using Max Fricke much this season?

Referee being rather generous tonight.

Here we go then......

You can't beat "team" speedway, in my opinion.

Alan. Excellent! I'm ready for some tea time viewing.

I wondered if anyone knows whether Malmo TV are streaming Gnistorna vs Griparna tonight?

An enigma even in a single meeting.

Tough on Iversen. Engman looked out of shape to me. Great pass by Ward

Antonio really seems to be the form rider at the moment.

It's not a question of them not being good enough. The gaps between the 3 leagues just need to be evened out. If for one season a PL points limit of, say, 36 was put in place plus each team had to have a British 3 pointer as their seventh rider, then the points limit could be re-assessed the following season.

That's a shame. I enjoyed watching Gnistorna's matches earlier in the season.

Thanks for all the info. I'm enjoying the Masarna - Vastervik stream.

I think that sums it up perfectly.

The flag you're referring to is the flag of the Duke of Cornwall. A lot of balls in more than one way.

Great post!

I completely agree. I think the points limit should be something that can be varied depending on the circumstances. The time seems right to lower it in the Premier League to encourage the flow of British riders up from the National League. Maybe another option would be to have an assessed 2.00 average for British riders with little or no previous Premier League experience. ( I'm sure this was the case in the old National League back in the 80s ).

Cook, Kennett, King & Morris are all current Elite League heat leaders. Morris has ridden as No.1 for both Glasgow and Swindon this season.

With the success of the British Youth Championships and more young riders coming through the MDL & NJL, surely it is now time for the Premier League promoters to grasp the nettle and lower the points limit for next season. The step up from the National League to the Premier league has become too great. Rider's such as Dan Greenwood, Oliver Greenwood, Max Clegg, Ben Morley etc. should be able to hold their own in a Premier League reserve berth, not struggle to hold on to a 3.00 average. You only have to look up most Elite League doubling up rider's averages to see how small the gap in standard has become between the top 2 divisions. There needs to be a steady flow of British riders up through the divisions to make British speedway more viable. The National League have done their bit this season, now the Premier League needs to follow suit, while the Elite League really has to think what happens next with the Fast Track system.

I have to agree

If you read my post I said "in an ideal world". In today's current climate I would keep the points limit low in the Elite League and lower it in the Premier League to obtain more of a balance and flow of riders between the 3 leagues.

No I don't know - define what you mean by indigenous population? Exactly!

They get their riders from allowing their current riders to improve over a period of time, promoting Premier League riders, bringing in new overseas riders. Thinking long term. A 42 point average just promotes mediocrity. As I said, there's only 3.18 points separating the highest averaged from the lowest averaged team on the current GSAs. Hardly a huge gulf between the two

So how do you define Political Correctness TWK? It seems to me it's a term used by some to dismiss any form of reasoned debate about certain issues. So who are the indigenous population - the celts?

I think that in an ideal world, whichever team finishes with the highest combined average, that figure should be the points limit for the following season. If you look at he latest Green Sheet figures, there is only 3.18 points between the highest ( Swindon 34.71 ) and the lowest ( Leicester 31.53 ) so you don't have a huge disparity to deal with in the first place. Obviously, if you wanted to do away with doubling up and the Fast Track reserves, then both the Elite League and Premier League would need to lower their team building figure for a season to allow for this to happen, but that's another story!

If there were any, other than Antonio Lindback .