PotteringAround

I can understand the frustration at Eurosport missing heats, and even starting one match at heat 17, but I don't understand how the poor performance of Eurosport (owned by the American company Discovery inc.) would lead to someone cancelling their BT Sport subscription, since BT Sports are nothing to do with Discovery, and never miss heats Yes. We have all the G.P.s and the British Premiership live, as well as the Speedway of Nations, the British Final, The SEC, the World U-21, Polish matches, Swedish matches etc etc It's not even comparable to your heydey of the 30s and 40s where you never got to see a single heat of speedway broadcast live, and probably never dreamed such a level of coverage would be possible in the future!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rg-jtYXvI7M

Exactly. Nothing wrong with R/R for a genuine injury or a genuine missing rider. Better than loads of guests.... ...but how can it be legal to use R/R for a rider who had a 9 day concussion suspension, which ended 3 months ago? If Ruddick is withholding his services, they should have had a facility for 28 days to allow them to make a new signing. It smells as if Leicester are purposely not letting Ruddick ride because they can get more points from using a facility. Anyone seen the supposed NL coordinator recently?

No problem with the Ryan MacDonald situation. They were only covering with unattached MDL riders as per the rules, and they have recently redeclared with Josh Embleton in his place. The real dodgy one that Leicester seem to be pulling is Luke Ruddick. He was ruled out on 24 May with a 9 day concussion suspension due to complaining of a headache after a fall. He still hasn't reappeared, yet Leicester are being allowed to continue to run R/R for him (which scores good points) even though the 9 day suspension has long passed.

You might not realise that Tac Subs can be used from heat 5 up to and including heat 14 (except protected heat 8)..... but the rules are available to all online, and most fans know this. But team managers, clerks of the course & machine examiners all go on a couse pre-season to have a refresher of the rules, so they would have all known. So it still begs the question why the TS wasn't used.

Why didn't we use Dan Thompson as a Tactical Substitute in heat 14? Also I would have thought Tom Perry was a better choice for heat 15 rather than Connor Coles.

Light rain? It shows it hammering down from 12pm to 5pm. It's raining heavily now. Don't see any chance of it being on.

Is it true that for this ToyStory themed event Jason Pipe is going as Mr Potato Head?

You can now meet Buzz Lightyear and Woody at the NL Fours. That should get the crowd up. After the way it's been organised I'd have thought Mickey Mouse would have been a more appropriate character.