WalterPlinge

hahahahahahahaha Cheats never prosper.

How ridiculous. He's excluded, so they can still use the joker. So they still benefited from the cheating. Scrap the ridiculous joker rule

Okayyyyy

I don't see Bewley as favourite. The tiny and narrow Plymouth track is the complete opposite to what he's used to at the big wide Belle Vue, and he's only been to Plymouth once last year and didn't do so well.... did OK in the reserve race and then tailed off. Parkinson-Blackburn and Wajtknecht have more more experience of the Plymouth track and go well there, I'd make them favourites.

Glad to have taught you something.

First impressions, you don't understand that the BSPA don't impose fines, the SCB do. And the SCB are (quote) "the independent body to ensure that the BSPA, Members' Tracks, Riders and Officials all act within the Rules and Regulations of the SCB and most importantly within the best interest of Speedway motorcycle racing."

Craig Pendlebury Rob Ashton

Woffinden is not an SCB registered rider, so the SCB have no power to fine him, just as they'd have no power to fine me, you or any other spectator for being a nobhead on social media. Bridger is an SCB registered rider, and when he applied for his licence and permit there are reminders on there about the misuse of social media. If one of my employees went slagging off my company on social media (the company that pays his wages) I would be taking disciplinary action too. The SCB don't clamp down enough on this sort of thing, so well done to them here.

Well that website certainly deserves to be in a museum!! Looks like it was created on a 1980s Sinclair Spectrum. Tried to go to this museum on a visit to Rye House, but they wanted us all to pay £20 each for the little zoo that's there before we could get into the museum, so we told them where to stick it. £80 for a zoo that no one was interested in before we could see the museum....what a joke.

No it won't. They would be slaughtered at Wolves with or without the team changes. The wisdom of the team changes will be shown by how they perform at home for the rest of the season to keep the fans happy. I suspect the changes won't improve results.

Why is Pearson wetting himself about the USA reaching the race-off? Buxton could have beaten the Czechs. USA will be lucky if they score a point in the race-off.

Jokers are ridiculous and shouldn't be in this competition. GB riding brilliantly, but the final will be hell of a lot tougher. Racing not great due to USA and Czechs being way out of their depth. No idea why Pearson is getting so animated banging on about Czechs making a mistake playing joker in race with Cook and Holder. The Czechs were never going to beat a Aus or GB rider if we raced until christmas. Czechs just had to play joker in a race where they beat USA - which they did. USA got the joker wrong playing it against Harris and Batchelor....They should have played it against Fricke, the only rider in the top 2 that they could conceivably have a chance of beating

Would have thought the main priority for Rye House is to be winning at home to keep the fans happy. I'd have thought Kennett & Perks is stronger than Sedgmen & Barker at home.

No chance of seeing Shergar at Poole. It only ran on the flat. Didn't go over the jumps.

Natalie asked sensible questions all night. Never once did she ask the stock Sky bimbo question "Will you be making any changes for your next ride?"

That's what I thought. An average reducing meeting. Bad decision from Chris Durno to disqualify Fricke.

Being frisked by security is the most fun the grannies who support Poole have had in years.

It was Pearson in commentary who said of Bewley "He was deemed too good a rider to be track reserve tonight". Tatum replied "Was he?" and laughed. (Tatum also didn't know the rule about being excluded for a second starting offence after receiving a warning - Tatum rarely seems clued up). So it's Pearson you need to speak to about stating that Bewley was blocked for being too good. Or speak to the BSPA, as it was someone from the BSPA who told me that Bewley had been blocked at the last minute for being "too good". Pearson's comments merely agreed with what I was told.

This was absolutely ludicrous. Chapman should hang his head in shame. How can Bewley (who was not even considered good enough to be put into the 32 for the British semi-finals) be "too good" to be a track reserve for the British Final? (incidentally Jack Parkinson-Blackburn - highest NL average, even above Bewley - was OK to be track reserve for the British semi-final). In any case, surely the point of having a track reserve is to replace an excluded/withdrawn rider and ensure that the remaining 3 riders are kept honest and not gifted a point without trying? If you only want a track reserve to be miles away at the back out of contention, then there's no point in having him at all. Is Chapman really telling us that he was worried that an 18-year-old with 1 season's experience, might score a point in the British Final and this would embarrass the sport? Yet he doesn't see that putting an Australian in the BRITISH Final and having him stood on the rostrum actually is embarrassing the sport in Britain?? The lunatics are running the asylum.

A good meeting, well run with some great racing and not one fall. What a superb track. Congratulations to Craig Cook, certainly Britain's No.1 at the moment and a deserved winner. Congratulations also to runner-up Steve Worrall and 3rd highest Brit Ben Barker. Is it true that Buster Chapman blocked Daniel Bewley from being the track reserve as he thought the 18-year-old kid with 12-months experience was too good and might embarrass some of the field if he got a ride....The same Buster Chapman who doesn't think that having an Australian on the British Final rostrum is an embarrassment to British Speedway?

Was talking to a guy at Lakeside about this. He was saying the same thing about the fixtures being put in during the time the BSPA (Chapman) were looking after Belle Vue, and before the BSPA had made their choice on who to give the new Belle Vue franchise to. As soon as the new BV promotion took over, they contacted all the other promoters where there was a clash of dates to ask for a switch. Lakeside readily agreed to change, as did (I think) Isle of Wight, (There may have been one other). But Eastbourne and Birmingham refused point blank to change dates. It seems it's down to the hosting club to agree or not to a change of dates. They can either go the Lakeside and IOW route of changing date to ensure their fans get to see a full-strength visiting team (but possibly risk losing to that strong team), or they can go the Eastbourne/Birmingham win-at-all-costs route of guaranteeing a win against weakened opposition but denying their fans the chance to see the genuine opposition.

Regardless of Morley's suspicious performances, (flew round BV last year, trailed round at the back this year), there still should be no way Hurry can come in. Lakeside only have 7.48 available to replace Mason, and Hurry should be on a 10+ average. Something is bent here.

They've got 7,48 available to replace him (mainly due to Ben Morley's average dropping by 2 points thanks to some suspiciously bad performances that should be investigated). But no way should Paul Hurry be available on an average below 7.48!!! Hurry should be 10+

Richard Hall wasn't refused, he was just told he had to come in on a realistic average which didn't fit to replace the missing injured rider. Why Hurry is allowed in on an unrealistic average (and for team strengthening purposes, not replacing an injured rider) is anyone's guess. #Bent

At least you all now know why Lakeside performed so badly at Belle Vue and why Ben Morley just rode round looking disinterested. He had a target score he had to get below.