The Cheese

It's when incidents like this happen that the lack of media coverage isn't such a bad thing. Within a few hours of this postponement there should have been an announcement of an investigation into the circumstances. Contact people at the stock car meeting to confirm that part of the story. Phil Morris should be there today to see for himself this damage and what's needed to fix it. It should be easy enough to then see how difficult it is to get those replacement parts. When Morris took this job he said: "There are three words associated with this role that stand out for me: integrity, transparency and perception, and all of those are big things for me which I feel need to be improved." Now is the time to prove that things will change. Maybe King's Lynn are telling the truth, if that's the case there's still no harm done in looking into it.

Woffinden - £100 less Doyle £50 less Fricke £50 less

I think it's rather unlikely they'll manage to sell 20k season tickets with a ground that has a 17k capacity.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/speedway/65013690 Was on the BBC Sport homepage earlier in the 'Sports news around the UK' section but it's since been replaced. Nice to see a rare article anyway.

Sheffield Belle Vue Ipswich Leicester Wolves Peterborough King's Lynn Not 100% on the order, I'd say the top 3 will certainly be in the play-offs and 4/5/6 all have a good chance of joining them.

Another great signing for the whole league, good to see some big names back and hopefully that results in higher attendances for all.

Exciting signing for the league, credit to Ipswich for getting it done. Will be interesting though to see how much, if any, attention this gets in the media.

Unsurprisingly a google search for Robbie Williams and Stoke's stadium brings up no results. I'm not sure how recent this is supposed to be either as they've been owned by the co-founder of bet365 and one of Britain's richest men for the last 15+ years so it's unlikely they needed the extra cash. As you say, the Jackson stuff is a load of rubbish too especially considering that 2 of the directors running the club at the time of his visit were later convicted of fraud. The FA Cup match against Man United is correct but it was the hard work of the Supporters Trust and ordinary fans that was the main reason the club survived. edit: Can't seem to find any evidence of Simply Red and Ipswich either!

What power would the Hancock's have to contact Rob Godfrey and oppose them getting a licence? The club has been closed down, has no track and as far as we're aware they have no plans to reopen somewhere else. This new company was planning on using a different name and is 10+ miles away, surely it's irrelevant what the previous Somerset promotion think?

Ben Barker gives his version of events* https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-cornwall-64339548 * about septic tanks overflowing

Same for me. When it came by Royal Mail it was almost 50/50 whether it was on time or late/delivered to wrong address/not at all. Much better since it changed and it's delivered 6-7am every Thursday, no issues at all.

I'd like to see them shake-up the play-offs to reward the sides that finish higher, it's absurd that they go into them with no advantage over a team that finished in the bottom half. Something like; 1st v 2nd - 1 leg, winner straight to the final 3rd v 4th - 1 leg, loser knocked out Loser of 1st/2nd v winner of 3rd/4th - 1 leg, winner goes to the final Final still to be held over 2 legs Of course that would need the league to be completed first which might prove difficult but the side that finishes top does at least get some reward for doing so. 2nd still have 2 chances to make the final whilst 3rd and 4th have a more difficult route which should be the case in such a small division. It also makes the final league fixtures more relevant rather than the top 4 being pretty much sorted a month in advance with nobody overly bothered where they finish.

Well done to Belle Vue, nice moment for the 2 younger riders to seal the title. Pleased for Mark Lemon too.

Not sure what to make of this. If the rules don't allow for changes to be made at this point then there shouldn't really be any "in the best interests" exceptions. On the other hand it's good to see Lambert back (even if only for a few meetings) and it's preferable for a club to have a signing rather than guests.

Sad to see this confirmed although clearly it's been obvious it would happen for years. Poor statement, the vague mention of a new stadium just seems to be another way of stringing along the fans. Also unacceptable that they've been sat on this news for a month and only acted now because it was brought up on here.

Outstanding from Bewley again, possibly more impressive than his Cardiff win considering he wasn't at his best mid-meeting and it was on a track where half the riders hadn't given up. Excellent result for Lambert too. I think he gets some of the criticism because Bewley is progressing quicker, without Dan there people would be pretty happy with how he's doing. He's maybe taking a slower step towards the top but that's fine. He's still young, still making progress and with a little more consistency there's no reason why both of them can't regularly be on the podium.

Well done Dan, fully deserved the win.

You'd think Ellis was a Championship reserve who somehow fluked his title last year reading some of the comments on here. Okay so he's not been quite as good as last season but he's still got the 3rd highest average amongst British riders in the Premiership and qualified for the European Championship. And maybe worth remembering 2013. Nicholls finished runner-up to Woffinden in the British Final. Harris (3rd) got the wildcard instead. I'm a Harris fan and wanted him to win this meeting but I don't really see that he's in much of a position to complain given the chances he's had previously. Brennan's time will come. He's been unfortunate to miss over a year of development through Covid and injury but you can see the progress he's making. Hopefully he'll be given the 1st reserve position, get a couple of rides and I'm sure he'll get the wildcard sooner rather than later.

Was going to say I was surprised at the reaction here but maybe I shouldn't have been! That seemed the sensible decision to me, to go with a winner on race times would have been a complete farce. Clearly it was unfortunate for Harris and Brennan especially but someone was going to miss out whatever they decided. Let's not forget the whole Cardiff wildcard thing is a bonus anyway, the main focus should be on the British champion and the fairest way of doing that was obviously a restaging. Some of the comments about Ellis on this thread have been disgraceful. He's done nothing wrong. He unluckily missed out last year but got fortunate this time around, that's the way it goes. Good luck to Adam at Cardiff.

William Hill have slightly different odds on a couple of the rider match-ups and winner of first 4 heats. Need to go to Motorbikes, Daily List section to find them and don't seem to be doing overall winner.

BSPA website has Jack Smith and Harry McGurk as reserves

1. Craig Cook 2. Leon Flint 3. Chris Harris 4. Steve Worrall 5. Kyle Howarth 6. Dan Bewley 7. Paul Starke 8. Danyon Hume 9. Charles Wright 10. Lewis Kerr 11. Richard Lawson 12. Richie Worrall 13. Danny King 14. Scott Nicholls 15. Adam Ellis 16. Tom Brennan. Reserve: Connor Mountain

https://britishspeedway.co.uk/results-scorers/mondays-results-8/ Did Peterborough not notice the extra Zagar? Chris Harris will be disappointed he didn't come up with that idea!

Looks like they aren't even bothering to show highlights. Can't say there's no room in the schedule as the highlights from last week's Premiership meeting are being replayed 3 times on Friday

Wednesday 27th meeting isn't being shown on Eurosport 2. Nothing else live on, but they are showing highlights of the last GP between 6-7pm!