The Cheese

Because it's part of a government test event. It's obviously frustrating for everyone else throughout all sports who are struggling to keep going with limited crowds but the reality is the only way they'll get back to full capacity is through these bigger events being a success.

Not a huge tennis fan so not exactly sure but I guess that's because this Monday is the first day so has more matches? The 31st has live coverage ending on Eurosport 2 at 6pm before a 2 hour highlights programme but that will cover any delays. Fair enough, was just going by this - https://www.fanseat.com/speedway/premiership-speedway

A little unfair to criticise Eurosport for their scheduling. There would have been a meeting this week if the weather hadn't intervened, they can't be blamed for that. Next week is the start of the French Open which will take up both of their channels which is fair enough. After that there is currently 6 meetings in 7 weeks scheduled; June 7th: Peterborough - King's Lynn June 14th: Sheffield - King's Lynn June 28th: Ipswich - Wolves July 5th: King's Lynn - Ipswich July 12th: Belle Vue - Wolves July 19th Wolves - Ipswich

Disappointing news but not unexpected given recent events. Hopefully Garry May will be back somewhere sooner rather than later

Doesn't look like they are repeated again on Quest. You can watch them here - https://www.discoveryplus.co.uk/show/british-speedway-highlights You'll need to create an account but it's free

No surprise to see Rowe start well, I've said it before but it's impressive how every time he steps up a level he makes it look easy. Not by hitting big eye-catching scores every week but just quietly going about his business even when on paper you might say it's possibly too early for him. His NL average wasn't great when he signed for Somerset in the Championship but he did well enough to move up to number 2 within a few months. Pretty much everyone expected him to struggle there but a couple of meetings in he was beating Craig Cook in Heat 1 and finished that season with an excellent debut for GB in the test match against Denmark. Seemed to make a steady start to his Polish career last year too. For some reason he doesn't get talked about as often as others in his age group but maybe going under the radar slightly without the hype is a good thing.

The Fanseat schedule shows Peterborough - King's Lynn on June 7th. I'm guessing there won't be a meeting on Eurosport on the 31st May because of the French Open tennis

https://www.eurosport.co.uk/speedway/ Might be useful if Eurosport could make the effort to update this page. Going back to their press release when this deal was announced it said "The latest stories and news will be covered in-depth" Since then (October 2019) there has been 1 article which announces the agreement to show the GPs and SoN from 2022. The fixtures page doesn't even have a section for British speedway and I'm not quite sure what the making of Jesse Lingard has to do with the sport? But at least on the schedule they've now updated Monday's fixture to 'Round 1' rather than saying it was from 'Blue Vale' as it suggested a couple of days ago. On a more positive note, the presenting/commentary line-up looks good and it's great that the sport will be shown on free-to-air TV. Hopefully we'll have an entertaining season!

RIP

Do we know if all speedway in this country has been classed as an 'elite sport'? In cricket, Australian Billy Stanlake has been in a bubble and arrived in England on Sunday to play for Derbyshire but has been told he has to quarantine because the County Championship isn't an elite sport. If they had a T20 fixture though he would be allowed to play because that is classed as an elite sport! So potentially we could have the Premiership classed as elite but not the Championship or NDL. Any cup/challenge/individual meetings might not be either.

http://speedwaygb.co.uk/news.php?extend.38719 Confirms this idea has been dropped but a one-off event might take place

They'll be leaping for joy

Impressive start! Probably going to need a couple of inexperienced youngsters at the bottom end to fit in but can't really ask for 2 better riders to pass on their experience at this level.

He had to quarantine but under FA rules had permission to join Chelsea's bubble as he tested negative before flying into the country. So basically he was allowed into the training ground and stadium but nowhere else

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-GB/firefox/addon/adblock-plus/ That's what I used on Firefox, never had a problem with adverts

I thought the same after reading it. Hopefully just the way it was worded and they'll be back next year.

If this was actually going to end with Swindon taking their place next season in the new stadium then it would be a positive step. Unfortunately I think we all know how this is really going to end. Always seemed unlikely it would ever happen and now Covid is the perfect excuse for Stadia UK to not go through with it

New points system this year of 4-3-2-0 so maximum is now 42

Premier League missing out here. Imagine how much clearer VAR would be if Nigel and Kelvin could add commentary to the process

You're right in some of those but others are unfair, Afghanistan especially. Most of them grew up in Pakistan but generally they've all been born in Afghanistan. Their rise to become a really good side with some of the best players in the world is one of sport's great stories.

Is there a confirmed line-up for this yet?

I was only joking in that post (white text underneath!) so I agree with that. Woffinden chose from an early age to represent GB, maybe that was with one eye on possibly making it easier to get into the GPs etc but he had that choice and made it. Personally I think Crump (and Schlein before him, plus others if they're confirmed) is different in that he's always represented Australia. I'd suggest that dual-citizens should be allowed in if they choose to represent GB and haven't previously ridden for another country at senior level.

If there's a few Australians riding then maybe Woffinden will be interested this year Just testing my bait!

Anders Rowe not selected or is that down to him being in Poland and quarantine rules etc?

Good luck to Adam Ellis