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That is on the cards now. No sport can go on hiding behind a total crowd level of less than 20,000 across the whole UK. Speedway in the UK is no longer sustainable, as we have known it. If we are fortunate something like F2, on a semi-pro basis, will emerge from the death throes of domestic league racing.

There was very, very little of that in the first leg - racing I mean. UK league racing on TV shows itself up as exactly what it is ( regardless of what is at stake ) all over in the first 15 seconds of almsot every race. It is never going to play a part in rebuilding speedway as a well supported sport on the terraces. More likely to be a turn off from finding out where you local track is!

That remains the biggest challenge for the BSPA if the sport is ever to even partially be revived. Far too often the "lessons have been learned" chant from them goes out of the window, six weeks into a new season.

I could still do a donut on a bike and I am over 70. I bet Billy Bales could too! Riding at full racing speed in an international meeting ( even a challenge ) is a very different propostion. Back injuries are the kind of injury that you cannpt be too careful with.

Ah Well, they do "manage" it for the gang of wanna be blazers on parade. But as for the fans Hmmm.

All such things are about personal opinion of course and in the light of his Premier League results they would get him a higher rating from me. But let down in his apparent inability to work with the media and his inabilty to accept any other point of view as valid plus his invariable need to whinge about supporter reaction. It's not all happened since social media took off and supporters are entitled to their own point of view. When you acceot the position you must expect some likes and dislikes. Rosco seems to be a Marmite kind of person. He was never going to get on with Tai Woffinden and if you can't do that with your best rider , what kind of "manager" are you? He should have resigned when Rob Painter took over. That was the start of the "modern era" and he never fited in with their aspirations - in my opinion.

Of his role as a team manager and more often his indecision on actions he took as a team manager. I have never criticised him as a rider. He seems to have been a middling rider from what I do rememebr about him. And a lower middling team manager ( in my opinion - of course others like to elevate him and that is their choice ). I have ridden long, long ago and was not as accomplished as Rosco at riding.

Another dinosaur swept away, a good thing really as he was always far from media savvy. Far too thin skinned.

Cook is not enough of a Yes Buster, No Buster, Three Bags Full Buster - kind of man to counter Buster as his friend.

If Buster says it does, then of course it does Mr Webb. He is totally confident and spends hours getting it that way for every match. And as he is only buying one more new club during the winter, he will have a bit of time to consider what is best for the Stars in 2020.

Gone way beyond that. No-one truly professional would take it on, having looked closely at it as a project.

For me, a great racing track, on which the riders can showcase their ability to truly race each other ( and not just chase each other from the gate ) is a MUST. So long as the stadium can accommodate a substantial sized crowd the location is unimportant ( other than for good travel links to get there ). It does not have to be a weekend long trip, if your focus is on that GP round. Better to organise another match the night before or the night after.

There is certainly no way, in my book, that it will make it's Centenary ( unless it bends the rules and moves that to 1923 and not 1928 ). We know that the BSPA are capable of that. Perhaps 1923 will be a "guest" year!

If it's at the NSS then Bring It On! If it's anywhere else in the UK. then it would be pointless. Increasing the number of tracks where good racing is part of the event should be the aim of the organisers. Especially if the idea is to help make UK speedway more buoyant.

Essential nowadays to get it completely right and face up to the fact that Fireputterouter has quite a ring to it, if the pronunciation stresses are in the correct place. Next step will be to call them all Fire Officers in the rush for "democracy' in the ranks. Women's speedway to follow on from the new "craze" of women's football? Have to give away a lot of tickets at Cardiff for that!

That comes just after Busters Busted.

More likely not. By the time the end draws near, there may be only a large handful attending anyway.

Thinking ahead is not the strong point of our UK speedway "leaders", especially if something more glamourous and alluring is just in front of them. Cardiff is blazers on time!

For the betting uninitiated - Ipswich sounds like by far the best bet! £11 back instead of £2.62! I never did understand odds much nor the allure of betting. But we are all different!

I think that that ship has also sailed - despite his public comments Buster "no longer bleeds King's Lynn " ( a nostalgic attachment of course ) but his focus is elsewhere and widespread and his ambitions for UK speedway do not settle around the success of the Stars.

I am not so undecided about Cook as I feel that he can be as much a liability as he can be an asset. Of course, it may be that Robert Lambert will finally leave UK racing in which case Cook or no Cook is a hard one.

I don't think Greg is "done" yet with speedway at the top level inc the GPs. I hope they give him a wildcard and he is in for the season. He can still surprise a lot of people and with much of speedway being "in the mind", age is just another number. If he can still make those trademark starts he will win 50% of his races and that is doing well.

Bomber blows far too Hot & Cold even at a track he likes. And with one eye ( or perhaps both ) on getting back in the GP where will his best efforts really happen?

For the twentieth time this century.

It's often repeated among riders - even very recently - that speedway is a mind game or all in the mind ( once you have mastered the basics of course ). Even Greg Hancock has said it's not all about set ups! Even the "have a go" spirit is a mental thing ( see some irate riders going truly into battle after having been fouled, in their eyes ). So, very likely it is not the bikes, engines or mechanics in Porsing's case - and he will know that.