PotteringAround

If they then changed the scoring from 4-3-2-0, to 3-2-1-0, then it would be perfect. Second and third should be ranked equal to first and last. only If there's a tie on points at the end of the night, do you count back including bonus points.

Might be training an understudy, but he's running the show.

I'm not normally a big critic of Kelv. He does a decent enough job on the Premiership, but he's having a stinker this week. I know he's been thrust into the main commentator role, which was never his job, and he's having to commentate from a studio in London using the same (not great) pictures that we are getting, rather than being at the meeting. But he is very below par this week. He doesn't know who most of the riders are (including in the British team). Surely he could have done some research on the riders and jotted down a few talking points, rather than admitting to not knowing anything about them. Then again, our other British representative, Mr Morris, isn't covering himself in glory either. Rushing riders out with only 60 seconds to go, when one has only just had his bike returned to the pits. You get 60 seconds after a high speed crash, but Morris can stand out on the track for 15 minutes conducting unnecessary track grading and overwatering,

Kelv doing Britain proud. Couldn't tell the difference between Dan Thompson and Luke Killeen, and now he says he knows nothing about Luke Harrison.

Why is Kelvin obsessed with the fact that teams are using riders 1 & 2 for the first race, and is greatly surprised that no team manager has made a change, to the extent that he tells us every race? Surely it makes sense to list the riders you intend to start with, as Nos. 1 & 2 ?

Got to agree with this. Hitmen is one of the more original, better nicknames. Much better than the weak "just pick an alliterative animal or bird" nicknames. They should seriously have a rethink about this change. "BULLS HIT WITH POOR NICKNAME CHANGE"

As people have pointed out, one big league of 14 teams with 7 man teams would be impossible. Take out the 25ish riders who ride in Poland (and are only available to Britain on Monday and Thursday) and reduce all the doubling-up riders to a single team (another 30+ riders) and you've barely got enough riders left to staff 14 teams of 3 or 4 riders. You'd need to take every rider from the National League, including every novice 3.00 NDL wobbler, and you still couldn't get to 14 full teams. The standard or 14 teams would be somewhere between Championship and NDL. The level would be a big comedown for Workington or Plymouth fans. Imagine asking fans of Belle Vue, Ipswich or Sheffield to watch that!

I haven't done any counting up myself, but I'm taking the word of people on here that the BSPL hold 32,000 of the 50,000 shares in this mysterious "Speedway Futures Ltd". That would appear to mean that the BSPL own 64% of the company, and these unknown people own 36%. So if these people were to sign a TV deal for £10M over 5 years, these people will be creaming off £3.6M for themselves? That's a worse deal than when Terry Russell helped himself to a cool million from the £5M Sky deal. I wonder, how much did these people pay to acquire 36% of all the sport's media income?

Well, there's 4 posts claiming he isn't in the Poznan team. None of them specify it has to be the 1-7 or indeed mention any riding number. I tried to help by advising that he was indeed in the team, but it seems to have just angered you for some bizarre reason, rather than informed you. Perhaps a lesson not to try to help some people in future.

Yes.

Must be his twin brother that Poznan have signed

And for the third time. He's riding for Poznan TONIGHT against Leszno.

Nothing to do with tomorrow or Sunday. He's riding for Poznan tonight against Leszno. And it takes priority over Britain

The match is tonight. It takes priority over Britain even though it was rearranged last week

They've got a rearranged fixture against Leszno, and thanks to the stupid international agreement, it takes priority over Britain even though Thursday is Britain's protected night.