WalterPlinge

what's the chances that Ged Rathbone might be attending the first day as the outgoing owner of Peterborough, and the other days as the incoming owner of Redcar?

Rider of the year - Drew Kemp most impressive team - Mildenhall team rider of the season - Jason Edwards (huge number of bonus points scored) one to watch - From this year's league - Alex Spooner. For next year Dan Gilkes meeting of the season - Belle Vue v Mildenhall - (Last heat decider. Should have been Mildenhall's only defeat of the year.) surprise of the season - Ryan Kinsley (unsung hero of Mildenhall team) underperformers team - Stoke unluckiest rider - Danyon Hume newcomer of the year - Leon Flint

That makes zero sense! Had Poole used an eligible guest it wouldn't need to be sanctioned.... because....well... it would have been eligible anyway. They had to get permission to use an otherwise ineligible guest. And god knows why that permission was granted.

So the "teams" wore a random collection of body colours? Just as long as they had the right number on the back? And they ignored the rules about a team manager having to be presenr? Sounds like a right shambles.

What? Steve Shovlar supported a club who cheated? Who'd have thunk it!

"Stoke Speedway Shale Event" is nothing to do with Stoke Speedway? I could have sworn it was at Loomer road? You know, that track that still needs to stage Official meetings that were supposed to be staged before 23 September. BSPA/SCB should block them from holding anything else until they fulfill their official commitments.

Wouldn't they be better concentrating on finishing their official fixtures, which should have been completed by 23 September, before arranging something like this?

It's a BSPA shared event, staged by Leicester on behalf of the BSPA. Leicester should never be allowed another BSPA event again after today's disgrace.

Didn't seem a bad crowd at all. I reckon near 500 maybe. But what a disgrace of a track. Made Stoke look like a billiard table. Riders struggling to stay on. Bends 1 and 3 were diabolical. Falls in most races, but not the fault of the riders, purely the track. The only passing came in the title run off when Morley and Bowtell were having a battle, but even then the track was the winner, causing Bowtell to fall. Morley was handed the title in an anticlimax as Bowtell lay there on whatever that rubble was that they used instead of shale. Leicester should be fined and banned from ever holding a BSPA meeting again.

The only thing they could do is take the result at heat 14, and declare heat 15 as null and void? But I really don't see that happening.

Interesting.... http://scbgb.co.uk/news.php?extend.75.1 Hopefully the SCB will be taking action against Allitt for the violence. Also is the referee in trouble for wrongly stopping Belle Vue using Steve Worrall in heat 15?

The SCB should credit a full maximum score to the likes of Batchelor and Morris in situations like this. Using a dead-rubber of a fixture to manipulate the averages is robbing the public. But will the SCB take any action? Of course not.

It was the long since retired Peter Collins. They probably thought Lineker wouldn't know the name of a current rider.

Tony Atkin Started at Stoke in the 80s. (around 86?) And was riding for Stoke in the NL this year.

That's not how it works. It's 9 days for a rider over 20 years of age. It's 12 days for a teenager, and 23 days for a 15-year-old. But whether a concussion picked up abroad causes a concussion suspension in Britain isn't so clear.

Incredible racing all night Heats 13, 14 and 15 were as good as anything you get in the Premiership. The Smith, Perry, Morley, Clegg battle in heat 13 was fantastic, and Smith, Perry and Morley repeated it for another 4 laps in heat 15.... but it was Paul Bowen's incredible win from the back in heat 14 that brought the house down. It's lucky that Paul Hurry doesn't travel north, because Morley was so much better. An excellent choice of guest. Also Max Clegg deserved far more than the points he got. The other Kent riders were a touch disappointing, but they still battled. Is Stoneman always that erratic? Scary! With the cheapest admission in the country at £10, and such a superb modern stadium with a fantastic racetrack, the Belle Vue fans are really spoilt. So it's onwards to Stoke v Brum tonight... Not sure it's going to measure up the same, as Stoke seem to have given up and have already handed 4 points to the Brummies before the start.

Belle Vue called off early last week, but the weather turned out not as bad as forecast, and the match probably could have gone ahead. But it was the right decision as it stopped Kent having a potentially wasted trip. Kent did the same early call off on Monday - again perhaps the match could ave gone ahead - but it also saved BV a possible wasted journey. Early call offs are a pain if the forecast later proves wrong, but when money is tight and long distances are involved, they do make sense.

It's not the format this season. If we want to be able to make a comparison between the NL attendances and what a hypothetical CL attendance would be, then surely we've got to use the same conditions as far as is possible.

Yes, but we did already know, didn't we?

Does seem a strange choice of format if you're seriously going to use it as a guide to see if crowds would support a higher league racing. You're not comparing like with like as you've already lost those who say "It's a mickey mouse 6-man format. I'm not going to that!"

Zaine Kennedy

That's my guess too. Although there aren't really any Midlands Championship teams to have a local 2nd division level challenge with. Maybe Peterborough or Sheffield?

It's not too difficult. Paul Hurry has been signed as the new Kent No.1, but hasn't yet taken his place in a meeting. He was missing today because he was riding in a grasstrack. As he has not yet turned a wheel for Kent, they are not allowed any facility. They had to use an unsigned 3.00 rider who isn't in any NL team. (If Hurry had ridden a match previously, they'd have been allowed a guest). Jack Thomas was missing due to a serious illness in the family. He has ridden for Kent all season, so they are allowed a facility for him. As he is in the 2-5 of the team, the available facility is Rider Replacement.

Going to make the Mexicans pay for it.

Daily Mirror.... Never cover speedway, but when there's a tragedy..... ghouls https://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/other-sports/tomasz-jedrzejak-dead-former-belle-13080538