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I think it is fair to say the management go to a lot of effort - and they get a lot of things right. Just that 'team strengthening' is not one of them

But I can think of a couple of examples where the medical officer has declared visiting riders unfit and the away team has screamed BIAS

Such a shame foe Birmingham they couldn't have Zach Cook every week. ... what ? They chose to get rid of him!!! PS has Pawlicki's finger been relocated yet?

But there isn't a single Monday or Thursday between now and the play-offs when both teams are available. So if it is called off then we probably get a meaningless fixture in October after the Grand Final.

At least a European won.

That makes no sense. They are so far under the limit they could simply have replaced Kemp with Zmarzlik.

That doesn't make sense. Why not just replace Kemp with Vaculik/Zmarzlik. ... unless of course they are both being signed.

I think Plymouth might argue that the British under 21 Semi staging should count as their contribution. It is a meeting there is no great clamour to stage and 15 of the 16 competitors were NDL riders [Ashton Boughen being the exception].

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And that's just the team

No Wayne Hutt. That's a hundred off the gate straight away

Why restrict yourself to Earth, how about trying Mars or Jupiter. (Not sure what assessed average Martians or Jovians come in on though)

Tried, but it said "language not identified"

Indeed. 38+1 [out of 40] in the 2021 SoN. Only Madsen beat him.

Showers, not rain so better than Wednesday when there were showers throughout the meeting (as well as the downpour beforehand)

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Ivacic rode regularly in the Polish third tier last season finishing above Steve Worrall and Josh Pickering. My concern is that he really doesn't seem to be racing regularly. He has potential, but I still find the dropping of a promising 17 year old for 36 y.o. Garrad (even if he has done spectacularly well for us at Oxford this year) hard to stomach.

I wasn't frisked and I had an open bottle visible in my pocket which I was allowed to take in.

Lewis Kerr got pretty much the biggest cheer of the night on Monday's parade. Why would one boo an opponent (unless they'd done something particularly dickish.)

And here are the past winners: 2010 Eduard Krcmar 2011 Eduard Krcmar 2012 Michael Hartel 2013 Daniel Spiller 2014 Sandro Wassermann 2015 Matt Gilmore 2016 Matt Gilmore 2017 Jonas Knudsen 2018 Ben Ernst 2019 Jesper Knudsen Hard to see any of them in future grand prixs

And remember: 1] televised match 2] two home fixtures in 4 days (with Emil coming on Thursday) 3] weakened opposition - all things considered an excellent crowd.

Well it made for another great night's speedway (and all credit to the Tigers and their fans) but it underlines how badly the Spires need strengthening. Mind you on past form our next move will be to replace Tungate with Lambert ... Simon Lambert.

And none of those three (or Adam Ellis) got the majority of their youth experience in the British Youth Championships (Germany, late starter, Australia, and French grasstrack respectively)

An action packed ht 7 - Kvech falling and Lindgren v Kubera. And what did we see?

Particularly the ones about Putin