RobMcCaffery

If even the Marketa can be made to give good racing it underlines the progress that SGP has made this year in providing greatly improved racing. Despite weather and the problems domestically the racing so far this year is suggesting we're enjoying a vintage season.

Harris on the rostrum! Great to see our league's entertainer putting on a show for the international audience at last.

Well worth the long wait.

Okay, who told Chris it was a league match? Lovely stuff!

Lovely to see that Berwick Bandits banner so prominently displayed!

The Polish starman graces us with his presence. Has anyone got a mop?

In these days of mass doubling-up there's plenty of riders from the EL riding in the PL and vice-versa. As long as the EL team is competitive who cares which other league they ride in? If you took Doyle out of the Robins yes you do have a team of PL riders, but NOT a PL team. It would be way over the PL points limit. Sky showed a great match this week between King's Lynn and Coventry. I doubt whether many gave a damn what the 'standard' of the riders were - they were far too busy watching the racing. Better watch out for next week's Sky matches - all of those riders look PL standard - well, most of them ;-)

But it's not about you is it? It's about all of those who enjoy a bunch of blokes riding round in circles as well as a football match. I find it so sad the way people have to belittle other people's sporting interests. I suppose that's what you get reading a bunch of blokes spouting rubbish on a forum..... I love speedway but also enjoy several other sports. There are plenty I don't though but I respect the rights of others to enjoy them.......or on TV, news (bunch of people saying words), drama (bunch of people saying other people's words), soap operas (bunch of people saying other people's words over and over again). or TV itself (bunch of dots whizzing round a screen).

Isn't that a different type of bandit?

I prefer my software on the pc, bought with a single one-off payment rather than constantly being charged 'in-game' or monthly. The current online with 'in-game' purchasing will be seen through eventually.

So often in televised meetings the crowd's out of sight of the cameras on the home straight. That said the crowds obviously stay home but then the promotion do get compensation from Sky theoretically to cover it. It does suggest that it's dangerously easy for people to decide to stay home - could it be the price is too high? We had it thirty years ago on Screen Sport - people at the studio joking there were no crowds. We told them we couldn't force people to move round the track - instead we deliberately tried to show the home straight crowd views, say in the background of interviews.

They still haven't even got planning permission!

May I suggest that if you have such a job and if you are contributing here as part of that job that you really should be using your real name rather than hiding behind a pseudonym? That goes to all others in such a situation here. Surely it's only fair that people are able to distinguish between those posting as supporters and those posting as part of their job?

Yes, I hate cruelty to horses too, even if they're dead.

Of course it is. Lambert was riding against heat leaders and the occasional second string but no reserves as a heat leader so his is falsely low. Meantime Korneliussen was racing a mix against all classes of rider including easier rides against the reserves and his is falsely high. It's far, far easier to achieve a six point average from second string than heat leader but not as easy as while riding at reserve. Since the protected heats formula was introduced averages have been totally meaningless. Using them to then determine team positions is ridiculous. If anything Korneliussen's average is actually less false since it was earned riding against heat leaders, second strings and reserves as all riders did prior to the new formula being introduced. On a more relevant note, what a great speedway meeting that was!

So that excuses coming up with a comment like that in a forum like this? I didn't know this forum was adult-only.

Crazy that Robert Lambert's a second string on an equally false average.

If it's drivel, why do you think all sports broadcasters show it and millions of people watch it? "Everyone's out of step except me" syndrome.

I've worked at Lynn and know those sun breaks are necessary. Last thing you need is to head into a corner with the sun straight in your eyes. It's all down to the alignment of the track, flat country and no buildings to block the sun when it's setting. They were necessary 16 years ago and I can't see the sun's changed its habits since then.

http://www.streamgaroo.com/live-television/united-kingdom/sky-sports-1-live-stream There are multiple streams. Look for the "Switch Stream' tab to select another if this one fails.

Yes, best to watch out for the ones just saying 'sell' - you never know...

That's great to hear. The attitudes we met with at some tracks were worse than disgusting. It's a good job we were speedway fans at heart or we and the station would almost certainly have pulled the plug after the first season. I look for signs that that minority attitude has gone - and hope. Berwick deserve their success. Speedway has to work for its media coverage and it's great to hear that the Bandits are getting their reward. I can't wait to see this match, especially with relatively local opposition - and then the delight of the Scottish derby!

Yes, letting others share the project via Open Source is would be great but I suspect people haven't given up because they couldn't see a profit. It's far more likely they got a message from Go Speed asking 'where's our cut?'

Why can't people do both - go to speedway AND watch it on TV? Is there some rule I've not seen? Who forces us to choose one or the other?

They're the ones begging for someone to buy from them and wishing it was a rugby match.