Uluru

Seeing Chris Holder in Britain again, plus Tai Woffinden leading GB, makes this a really 'big' meeting, and Glasgow will surely be seeing their tickets flying out the door (or the website) this week. We've booked ours -- but will there be a pay-at-the-door facility, or is it tickets only?

Fair enough, but I'll be keeping an eye open for the results from the big grass or long-tracks in Germany or somesuch places over the weekend, just in case it's a working holiday.

Is everyone fit for this one? No call-offs?

Isn't the plan for the Aussie GP to return in 2019, hopefully at Adelaide Showgrounds (with Ipswich still in the mix)?

From where I am, they've switched race-nights three times in three years, and even now have had matches this year alone on Friday, Saturday and Sunday. This really can't help. I was told their big success after doing up the stadium was having a family atmosphere on Sunday afternoons. Why change?

Your Championship is being screwed by the Premiership. Why don't sharks eat big-league promoters? Professional courtesy!

Not a big fan then, mate?

I didn't say it wouldn't be sensible to change. I said it wouldn't be changed, so this was therefor a pointless topic. So --- up yours, mate!

Stupid topic. Schedules arranged months ago, to let every club get a home meeting. Move on.

If your promotion bring that one back, they're undoing in advance all the good work which will be done by signing Worrall

As I have also contributed on the Somerset page, this smacks of the Management Committee trying to decide which of their buddies should be strengthened instead of the Rebels by refusing to approve what should be a straightforward signing of an unattached rider by an upstart little club wishing to (a) replace an overseas rider with an out-of-work Brit, and (b) continue to upset the 'old pals' mafia by continuing to outwit and outscore the 'establishment elite'

This smacks of the Management Committee trying to decide which of their buddies should be strengthened instead of the Rebels by refusing to approve what should be a straightforward signing of an unattached rider by an upstart little club wishing to (a) replace an overseas rider with an out-of-work Brit, and (b) continue to upset the 'old pals' mafia by continuing to outwit and outscore the 'establishment elite'

Have to agree. The last two seasons or so have been quite dramatically awful. You need to go back a long way -- Ducker, maybe? -- to find a chairman who has wrought so much carnage under his stewardship.

I've been told that Rebels are against BV Aces in KO Cup semi-final. Any chance the OTA leg will replace one of next month's planned matches with Rye House? Or be an extra fixture?

Now there's a question. Are there going to be promotion/relegation play-offs again this year?

You've got Rebels reserves in wrong order. Jake Allen is No 7

It is OK, Vatcher will change it in midweek to a definative point for one or the other.

100% agree, mate. You can't spout off at an employer and expect to keep your job. Onlookers will always believe what they want to, but if they weren't there when it happened they should shut up and move on.

His travel money from Brisbane might be a bit stiff.

From what I was told by a good source and backed by conversation with a rider, the crapping upon was initially in the other direction. Berwick's promotion deserve support from any fanclub using their name and surely speedway supporters clubs exist to do everything to help keep the sport alive in their area. Donations towards a promotion's expenses are surely vital to this.

What does it matter, if the referee has put the two-minute warning on IMMEDIATELY he signals a recall? Have as many hangers-on as you like out on the track, the riders still have to be back in 120 seconds.

As ever, team suits are great at the P&P. Then two weeks in, you lose a rider to injury. Replacement arrives, but no suit for him. Then you change a reserve - ditto. Then you re-declare, change two riders to benefit the chances of winning That leaves three team suits and four wearing tatty football jerseys, or old race-jackets from another season. Professional, oh yeah....

.......and the last I-don't-know-how-many posts have to do with a TV deal because.....?

I loved it when riders were easy to recognise by their personal, rather than team coloured suits. Plus, when you have a guest, or introduce a new rider to the team after the start of the season, all that is needed is to hand him a race-jacket, and the team still looks like a team. Race jackets for me every time -- unless a major team sponsor makes the promotion an offer they can't refuse.

June 14 to July 15. But BT Sport don't have UK rights to any of it, so they should be anxious to put alternative sports on during this period. Premiership meetings from June onwards would make sense. I expect, like last year there'll be ten domestic fixtures (every track once at home, once away) leading up to play-offs. In Australia, with soccer rights sold by FIFA to SBS and Optus, there's hope the UK meetings will be shown on Foxtel or one of the channels not showing football.