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Interesting in that the discussion on Swedish Facebook groups earlier this morning seemed to suggest otherwise. But it's what we normally do in Britain.

Birmingham are getting plenty of flack elsewhere, but I think we should at least acknowledge that they are giving opportunities to six juniors on an almost weekly basis while some tracks do the square root of f'all.

It does. How very 'fortunate'.

Not sure my husband would approve of that!

Your post was a general comment on Riss' form this year (look at the first clause). I was responding to that If I find fault with your opinion it is probably because you are posting rubbish. And if you can't be bothered to work out my gender - well it ain't hard to find out.

Which must explain why he is above Kildemand, Wright, Tungate and Janowski in this year's Oxford averages and that shocking performance against Ipswich where he only got 20 points.

By my reckoning Mitch McDiarmid is now second in Cheetahs averages [all official fixtures exc bonus]

I sense a certain cooling towards running Prem and Championship at Oxford

What a positively absurd post.

That many?

And yet before tonight who had the highest away average for the Stars? NKI and next? Richard Lawson. And neither of them have had the benefit of a spell at reserve.

No, but I am considerably better informed about the issues surrounding the likelihood or not of his appearance. In the 'good old days' we'd probably told he was definitely riding and only discover otherwise at 7.29. Edit: and thanks to the Internet I now can. He's not. In the olden days that news would probably not have reached most fans before arriving at the venue, but now it is in the public domain which rather proves my point.

I find it easier, because: a] social media is constantly updating me b] the Internet makes it far far easier to know when and where riders are committed abroad.

Cheapest lower tier tickets were £145 a pop though

Oh well that's the end of our hopes 🫣

Signing announced on December 3. Not sure we can really use that as an excuse.

Unfair re Jeppesen. He just doesn't like Perry Barr. His away average [2025 all official fixtures] is higher than: Zac Cook, Rohan Tungate, Nikolai Klindt, Erik Riss, Anders Rowe, Keynan Rew, Ben Cook. nb Zagar and MJJ (while there) also average more away. When 3 of your team seem to prefer riding away it suggests that the problem is not the riders but the track.

Musielak has ridden in all seven ht 1s at Perry Barr this season, scoring just four points.

Traditionally under 21 riders have struggled. Even Jason Crump. Top 5 under 25 riders in PGE currently include Miskowiak and Mads Hansen. Not sure how that's an improvement. And these days many riders don't peak until 35 or so [e.g. Lindgren] so discarding them seems arbitrary

Three there's a round at Wroclaw still to come

If Bartek stays in the pits for ht 20 he still qualifies for the final

My husband [with no interest in speedway] happened to be in the room and observed "the rider in the yellow hat's quite good" - so you may be onto something 😉

Avoids clashing with Kent v Plymouth 😜 Seriously I guess it's so they have Sunday as a reserved date for rain-offs

The racing was great as most of us anticipated, with the NSS living up to its status as Britain's no 1 racing track (personally I prefer Redcar and I know Worky has its advocates too) It appears there were issues yesterday, but these were logistical in nature, and can be solved relatively easily with some competent organisational input. [Something our sport is not overly blessed with] What is more difficult to resolve is making the GP series a more meaningful competition. We now have 20 heats of what are essentially exhibition races, followed by the three that matter.

Whether or not you beat your team mate is largely irrelevant. The logical way to do it is: 2 pts for a win or a paid win 1 pt for second behind opponent 1 for third behind team mate or third in a 4-2 0 pts for last or third in a 1-5.