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Guests will be a nightmare - only KL not riding of the PL teams, and three of their riders will be in the Championship double header at Scunny.

Unless it quickly establishes meaningful channels to communicate with the BSPA and some semi-official status (for example a slot at the BSPA conference to give a presentation on fans views) then it will be just another echo chamber of the dispirited and dwindling faithful lamenting the decline of our beloved sport.

I had three thoughts on hearing Holder would be missing: a.. That's a shame Holder has been fantastic to watch on my previous visits to the Showground this year. Oh well I'll just have to make do with Barker, Wright, Cook, Heeps, Harris, Riss....... b.. Good it makes the competition more open c.. I bet there will be pages and pages of bitching about this on the BSF and facebook

Interesting article here, which may hint at future difficulties for Aussies coming over here https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2017/aug/08/just-not-cricket-english-clubs-cry-foul-over-new-ruling-on-amateur-status While few Aussies come over here on holiday visas the story foreshadows a possible tightening of visa eligibilty across the board. Also note the suggestion that it may make it difficult for Brits planning to winter down under.

Exactly what I said yesterday.

Riding in a benefit meeting in Sweden (so no facility) http://www.aktuellspeedway.se/sverige/dennis-jonsson-race/match/10598/

So wouldn't that imply Chelsea cheat in almost every match by selecting from their squad instead of their strongest 11. Peterborough did not cheat, they did however let the sport down by failing to treat a BSPA marquee event with due respect. But the BSPA is a long way from the moral high ground it should occupy before it starts lecturing the Peterborough promotion.

Good to hear reports of a healthy crowd. The 250cc class has been excellent this year with six or so well matched contenders.

They are a good team, nothing special other than that they have wildly exceeded expectations (particularly Bellego).

Assuming PL x 1.25 for Huckenbeck this team lines up with a 40.71 combined CL GSA. That is below 8 of the 10 CL teams, only Berwick (39.88) and Scunny (39.95) are lower, so with home advantage you would have to fancy Berwick and Scunny to win at home against that side

But we shouldn't have to imagine. At least we should know how and by who the decision to approve the new KL line up was made. The lack of transparency is shocking.

Didn't I read something about that in Backtrack :)

Danny beat Wells, Robson and Harris when riding at Rye for Leicester earlier in the season.

Yes they thought about supporters when they responded to the howls of outrage on this very forum last season over Lindback's replacement by Andersen (and also Kylmakorpi by Woffinden). Belle Vue wouldn't be in this position if the BSPA had ignored supporters.

Yes, one of those three

No the team manager has to ASK for it. I have seen a match where IRR was available, but not used - I heard the referee explain to a fan after the meeting that 'yes IRR was available and the TM could have nominated one of the eligible riders' but he simply omitted to do so and used reserves. The team lost the match narrowly so the TMs omission probably cost his team the match - no prizes for guessing who this genius was!

Over three rounds. Tabaka won with Magosi second and Benko third (young Zoltan Adorjan is fourth despite missing a round) http://www.aktuellspeedway.se/ungern/ungerska-masterskapet/serietabell/ As is often the case it doesn't look 100% correct!

New team - Would that be the one that thrashed Somerset on Wednesday and stormed to a 22 point defeat last night? And as for Worrall not riding Poole for toffee - remind me who top scored on Wednesday.

Well it was bleedin' obvious wasn't it

"The racers are a bunch of young tanned and extremely fit athletes" ...so not coming to Stoke then! And thinking of past team USA tours in the UK - not Tuff McBride, Jim Terchilla, Jamieson Dilkey or Eddie Castro.

I think this is what Sir Humphrey (the original one) would describe as "courageous"

I would assume 10 heat semi finals with four rider races. That's two races per rider with each team being represented in eight of the ten heats.

Correct - as set out in 15.14.3 "In a re-run of heat 15 a non-disqualified rider who is unable to take part may be replaced by a reserve or another ‘qualified’ rider." for a starting offence it's 15 metres or a reserve.

Weekend school term ends, please NO.

As far as I know nobody has managed to find any evidence of any speedway in Germany this week. The last one I can find is the German under 21 championship last Sunday (won by Daniel Spiller)