Chairboy

Now that Shanes has been announced by Poole, am I right in thinking that RH are the only Premiership team yet to complete?

Please tell us more!

Every day I click on that RH website, thinking maybe, just maybe...there might be some news about the last rider. How foolish I always feel afterwards. "Why did you look?", I ask myself. Haven't you got anything better to do? What has your life come to? I need help...

Isn't the limit 42.50? Surely that leaves RH with 7.28?

Exactly, Mr Trees. The point is that all England World Cup fixtures have a detrimental effect on attendances at all kinds of other events. Most sports promoters would try to avoid clashing with one, if at all possible.

Ah, that's ok then. Thanks for that.

Monday 18 June, home fixture v Rye House. The same evening as England play a World Cup football match! How did Buster stand for that?!

Can't someone just make up a rumour about what's going on with RH's last rider?

It's been said before, but it's still true - British speedway's asset system is effectively one which was ruled illegal in football years ago by the European Court, and was thereby brought to an abrupt end.

So now we know...having just listened to the interview with Steve Jenson, it is clear Rye House were not in favour of the new 8 point rule

I agree with redandyellow, SJ comes across as a very decent guy. Rye House fans are fortunate to have him (and Warren Scott) backing the sport at Hoddesdon. In relation to that podcast, one question I would like to have been put to him would have been - is he planning any further improvement to the 'stadium' before next season? He seems very focussed on improving the racing product - but can any more be done in terms of improving seating/viewing areas?

Personally, I really don't have a problem with riders 'doubling up' in different leagues. What I find frustrating is fixture clashes causing riders to be absent. Fixed nights should pretty much solve this, shouldn't it?

It may sound perverse -as most contributors on here have disagreed with my views - but I am actually pleased to see that the current system clearly has support from 'the fans'!

So glad you brought that one up - that genuinely was an excellent idea

Fair play, HJD. For what it's worth, I don't like the Away Goals rule in football either! Thanks for a reasonable response to my comments though.

...and possibly a degree of sporting integrity, too. Do you watch football? Whatever you may think of the sport, I think we would all love speedway to enjoy just a small percentage of the popularity that football generates. Football seems to operate well enough with 3 points for a win, 1 point for a draw. Can you imagine football awarding an extra league point if you don't lose by too much? Or giving the away team an extra point for a draw? The league tables in speedway are a mess. Also, if you are watching Man Utd against Bournemouth and United go 3-0 up, do you think it would be a good idea for Bournemouth's next goal to count double "to make it interesting"? Some may say you can't compare speedway to football - but I (obviously!) think you can - and should.

This is the kind of meeting that should attract a decent attendance, with supporters of Premiership clubs all over the country - which is good. And the meeting is on a Saturday, which gives people more time to travel - which is also good. So who decides it is a good idea to have a start time of 7.30pm? It's a Saturday, ffs. With 22 heats to complete it's unlikely to be finished until 10.30. Do we not want kids to attend speedway anymore? Why are we not starting at 5 - 5.30pm?

Too many people are in favour of the end of season play-offs for them ever to be scrapped completely. If your club is involved in them I guess you are happy - but those that don't qualify have to finish their league programme (relatively) early, then sit and watch while 4 clubs have (up to) 4 extra meetings. I know I'm not the first to suggest this but the ideal scenario (in my opinion) would be to amalgamate the top 2 divisisions into 1 big league which would then be split into North and South divisions. The 2 divisional champions could then have a 2 leg play-off to become national champions.

Lol. What did happen to Dag Lovaas?!

I would say it's now looking like RH will miss out (narrowly) on the play-off spot. Even if that proves to be correct, I would also say that the new RH management deserve enormous credit for the efforts they have made promoting speedway at Hoddesdon this season. There aren't that many people around these days who want to devote so much time (and money!) to keeping our tracks alive. They have given it a real go this season and I hope their enthusiasm keeps up for 2018.

To be fair to al concerned at KL last night, they did rattle through the 1st match very quickly - showing that there was a concious effort to get both matches completed within a reasonable time. The 2 mins was being hit as soon as each race ended! For the rain to start literally as soon as the 1st match ended was very unfortunate. Even driving home, the rain seemed to dry up just a few miles from KL.

Ludicrous decision to start at 7.30pm

If King's Lynn eventually do confirm that Thursday will be a double header v Poole & Rye House, one would hope that following the rather 'difficult' double header v Wolverhampton they would at least bring the start time forward to say 6.30pm, maybe even 6pm. I know it wouldn't be a convenient start time for everyone, but surely it would be better than having the 2nd match dragging on towards midnight...

No confirmation of KL v RH on the KL website - or on SGB !

Fair comment from Rob B and A Orlov - but the point I was making with my post was that in the case of King's Lynn v Rye House (and RH v KL), there does not seem to be any mad scramble to fit the fixtures in! Perhaps the clubs spoke and couldn't agree an dates, and have now given up. An odd situation, given RH's recent team changes in an apparent desperate attempt to make the play-offs.