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Good to see from Birmingham but really not sure where the riders will come from if leagues stay as they are next season and no teams drop out.

This may be a bit off field but a lot of people who attend don’t buy programmes. How do you keep and remember the score as the meeting progresses (especially at Kent where the announcer ‘whispers’ into the mic)! The sport is poorer for this and part and parcel of its fabric.

The majority of people I know who watch speedway on tv and never attend say they watch it purely for the spectacle and sadly have no interest in teams or their riders. Magnify that across the country and team speedway doesn’t have the draw it once had.

The dilemma at the moment is not the NL but what happens to the PL and CL. I don’t think the standard of the NL can be reduced any without making it a novices league and that would be bad for the clubs involved. If the two leagues above amalgamate then there could well be a demand for more riders from the NL, so doubling up comes into play, and we now how that goes!

Yes Stadia UK aka Property developers! The question is do Swindon have the desire to stick it out for a new site or just be worn down by the corporates and then fade away as seems to be their game plan.

Yes but adopted in ‘good faith’ not on a commercial basis I'm afraid.

As Godfrey alluded to in the SS Friday was never agreed for Lakeside to ride on. With Rye moving away from Saturdays I don’t understand why Lakeside insist on riding Fridays unless to accommodate riders.

In May 2017 it was stated in the press that the stadium was manufactured by Werniak in Port Talbot and ready to go but drainage problems to the site was holding construction up.....

How can they afford it running one meeting in 6 weeks! The track against Plymouth was the best I’ve seen and produced good fair racing allowing both sets of riders a chance at this level.

Why were fixed gate positions brought in? With the TS and choice of gates if you were 6 points behind teams had better options.

Not in the CL where the standard is as high as it’s ever been if not higher imo. I agree that we have lost our stars to a point but most have retired and haven’t been replaced by the current crop we have.

Yes I was there in the 70’s and witnessed probably one of the finest teams to win the old NL in 1980 virtually all home grown. Nobody would have predicted what has now happened but mistakes were made.

I do and many years of following Rye has probably brought about that distortion!!

Paying public short changed again tonight. No doubt Silver will have his excuses lined up ready for any verbal challenge to his promoting skills.

Am I right in thinking the last GB team test was against Denmark in 2004?

That’s why we need one league !

Do what Len did at Rye House and move in a few caravans and take up residence!

Are you saying that they need 15 clubs to form a new league?

Not sure if you are being serious or not! Speedway only would lose a fortune whereas the real estate is worth millions to developers. Its another warning to all stadiums of this type be it greyhounds or motor sports stadia the pressure of land value and residential requirement is now too great for some to ignore.

Appears we have a differing sense of purpose Richard.

And was the racing better, big names don’t necessarily mean it’s better racing.

Unless you are a Premier league football signing of course!

I was there and incidents were racing accidents. The 4th bend claimed both crashes where riders attempted to squeeze through on the inside but both Edwards and then Brennan collided with Stoneman, the second incident quite alarming. Something that seems to be the norm these days is riders not checking on one another when involved in these high speed crashes. On this occasion track staff reminding the rider able to walk away in no uncertain terms the he should go and check on the rider in the fence. Lots of atmosphere and a throw back to past Eastbourne encounters I fondly remember!

Well done Poole momentum is with them and signing Harris will prove pivotal. Sour grapes I’m afraid as it’s taken the demise of the club I’ve followed since 1974 to provide them with the rider they have needed all season.

Make a constructive guess then!