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Who said there'd been no falls anywhere? We're discussing a track which seems dangerous and has far more than its fair share of falls and injures more than its fair share of riders. Why don't you go through all the NDL matches and count the number of falls and injury withdrawals at each track? I think we all know which track will top the list. But we'll be interested if your figures show otherwise.

The exact same riders who appear in plenty of other NDL matches around the country and manage to stay on their bikes at Belle Vue, Oxford, Leicester, Berwick.... etc etc...

Three withdrawn now... And at least 9 falls. (i've lost count) When are Mr Vatcher and the SCB track inspectors going to stop turning a blind eye to this weekly carnage?

Another bad track at MIldenhall today. Another crashfest. Another 2 riders withdrawing from the meeting injured. Don't the SCB employ track inspectors? Why haven't they been to Mildenhall? They certainly need help. It's a great stadium and potentially a great track, but how can the SCB stand by and see all these crashes and several riders injured every meeting, without doing something about it?

No Brady Kurtz tonight. R/R from BV

Rumours down Exeter way say Henry Atkins making his Oxford debut at Belle Vue tomorrow, replacing Ben Hopwood.

You did. but no problem. Let's just hope Plymouth, Mildenhall and Armadale can complete their teams soon. I don't think you understand how football works either. They don't just have 11 players. A top Premiership team will have 30-odd players, a lesser team maybe mid-20s. They have two transfer windows a main one in the off-season, and a short one mid-season. Quite often transfers are made in the last few minutes of the last day of the window. The only similarity with speedway is that it doesn't matter whether a player is signed on the first day of the close-season transfer window, or 5 minutes before the window shuts. He still is eligible to play at the start of the season.

Topic header is wrong. It's The League Cup, and all the Premiership teams are in it. (Two groups on a round-robin basis, and the group winners to the final.

How's it "Spot on" when Lemon has completed his team, but Plymouth, Mildenhall and Armadale haven't completed their teams Think the phrase you're looking for it "totally wrong"

This poster has it dead right. When they brought in the 3-0, 2-1, 1-2, 0-3, 0-4 scoring system it was the best thing they ever did. Very fair, and it kept most matches alive until the final heat. From the home team trying to win by more than 6 to the away team trying to win by 6, it kept matches alive within a 12-point spread. The only matches which didn't have anything on the last heat were runaway wins. Even when they changed it to 3 points for every home win (because fans allegedly didn't like going home winning with only 2 points) it still covered that 12-point spread. Home teams still needed to push for a win by more than 6; Not to get the full 3 points, but to stop the away team getting a point. Even with that change, I still thought it was a very good scoring system. But this year they seem to have sat down and said "What is the best rule we have brought in in recent times? And how can we mess it up, to annoy fans?". If that was the aim, they have succeeded.

Exactly. Don't even know why he's deliberately misreading it. There are photos online from the press day yesterday of Etheridge wearing No.2.

Thanks for proving me right. As I pointed out, Lemon didn't say he "hoped" Etheridge could move up. He said he believes he's capable of moving into the main body of the team (having been reserve last year). That's clearly why he's giving him the no.2 job to do this year.

Because Lemon said no such thing? Quite the contrary. He gave Etheridge the No.2 jacket yesterday.

There's no problem with Wolves signing a British kid. They're discussing whether clubs can sign foreign assets without them riding for that club.

Completely wrong. I guess you missed the news from yesterday's press day where Blodorn was given the No.6 jacket and spoke to the gathered press via facetime? Just can't come over yet because his visa has been held up. Good old Brexit.

How is it poor? Comparing to last year..... Fricke is a like-for-like replacement for Bewley. Kurtz, Wright, Brennan and Etheridge are the same people. So the comparison is that you think Lebedevs and Blodorn are much poorer than Worrall and Worrall? I'm not sure I'd agree. I'd suggest they may be stronger.... Last year BV finished runners-up to Peterborough. But while BV are stronger this year, Pbro are weaker due to experienced super-reserve Pedersen being replaced by inexperienced Basso, and all the other old-guard being another year older. The only problem is that some of the other 4 teams may be stronger, and I'd say that applies mainly to Sheffield.

Think it's one of the existing 5 signings who can't make it to P&P. Expect the final 2 to be announced.

Not aware of any other brothers in the final. Ila and Pepe Teromaa represented Finland in the 1975 World Pairs Semi-final but didn't qualify for the Final. There's possibly some lesser countries represented by brothers in World Pairs preliminary qualifying rounds. Adi Funk seems to have ridden for Austria in a preliminary round alongside a Robert Funk who may be his brother.

LOL. "I didn't have any bitterness to Smith" < Goes off on yet another bitter rant about Smith > At least you bring comedy value.

The laughable thing is that his bitterness was towards Adrian Smith, but now that Smith has moved on, he's had to find a new target to attempt to troll. What an absolute sadsack

You're entitled to believe what you want to believe. But keep saying it doesn't make it true. (nor does a silly amount of exclamation marks!)

I've read Godfrey's statement . I've also read Dan Bewley's comment which caused Godfrey's hasty panic statement. Which one is true? Well, I make that call based on which person I believe has no reason to lie, and which one I believe has a documented history of not being entirely truthful. Bit of Background Reading

Yes. Definitely seems the case that the Poles have dropped the two league only rule. Godfrey is trying to spin it some other way, because other teams completed their teams early, while Lemon looks like he had inside info from Poland and waited for the rule to be dropped. The teams who completed early seem to have gone bellyaching to Godfrey about being outsmarted. Would be interesting to know which 2 PL teams supported the Aces and which 3 put the block on their legal team declaration.

Michael Masi might have engineered a fixed Formula1 championship with a corrupt end to the season, but he's not really in Rob Godfrey's league.

Why don't you just message his grandson, Mattie Bates?