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In my mind a shame as he's always had plenty of respect shown by Lynn fans...

Sorry, that was below the belt lol It was the tone of ‘he needs to shape up’ that got me, hard on him I thought. Niels has high standards, we know that, we should do after six years, this being his seventh, he has said he’s not 100% fit so we need to give him a few meetings surely rather than coming out with such tough soundbites? Hit a nerve I guess m8....

You'd rather watch Kildemand, OK if he has his non-reckless head on perhaps..

Christ, you sound like a Poole fan! He deserves a meeting or two no?

It is flipping extreme, can you imagine doing it, not me!!

I thought the Championship promoters voted against Thursdays and as they have more members?

Or maybe Robin Brundle has just added his ideas and enthusiasm to the show? I thought last night that the hot laps are a double whammy as they bring in a lot of the crowd earlier than normal so there shouldn't be any holdups to get a big crowd in....

Not according to Kasper who had notched up faster laps than NKI the day before on a slick track.... he was expecting something similar but it was gripper, deceiving obviously....

Hot laps were a good addition to the night, knew away teams wouldn't be too chuffed about them. Added to the VFM of the evening, what do you say moaners and groaners aka MAGS

Future looks rosy

That's cos when u get older you're worried about waking up at all

Of course they will, they don't want any of their riders racing elsewhere, they want exclusivity for their zlotys (if they pay up!). It's sods law that Vaculik got injured first lap..... couldn't make it up eh! Let's hope Freddie fancies a few weeks or more racing for Leicester..

Freddie?

Maybe he already has ....

They must fit Freddie in at some point .....

No doubt Mark Lemon has him on his radar .....

Speedway is dangerous enough for the guys who take part, the 2017 World Champ almost lost his life in 2016. I think we forget this potential danger? Bloody bangers etc bring spectators in but they aren't every week and it's a hobby not a pro sport. Stocks are the same aren't they? Yeah people go to see the crashes but the drivers are protected by their cars.

British and World.... all hypothetical anyways...

He wouldn't have had the option not being in charge of world speedway?

Take a look at the old West Ham stadium....

The Polish don't do anything different to here but they have bigger crowds, pay more money to the riders so they give 100% 100% of the time on the best equipment available as they don't want to lose their jobs, they have been able to build new, speedway only stadiums within walking distance of their town centres with money from wherever (some say from dodgy sources), they have signed a huge TV deal so more money for the coffers. Not sure that British speedway has ever had quite this, apart from 90 years ago when of course state of the art stadiums were built all over the country.

Promoters have never had the support of councils, we are a tiny country compared to Poland. 100% the promoters from the early days must've had support as there were some huge stadiums built but of course the support of the fans in their thousands was there too. We know what has happened to most of those stadiums though, flatterned for housing Had the original stadiums been council owned and Speedway had remained a high profile sport here we may have had something like Poland now but it didn't lol The fans don't admire riders either as they do in Poland, we have become pretty much blase about them and the racing, easy come, easy go it seems. Years ago they were on a pedestal and revered, all we do now is complain about the racing they are dishing up. I think sometimes we forget what a dangerous sport it is and how close to the edge the guys are but that's us.

We've got what we've got, if we went to support our clubs with the same enthusiasm as Polish people, bought merchandise like they obviously do, were proud to support our team as they are, chanted and cheered our team like they do then we might have a different product on our hands. Their clubs have EVERYTHING going for them, support from every which way, TV, council, fans and sponsors. Every rider is desparate to get a ride out there as the rewards are good. They can't go wrong. Compare that to the UK!

Have you listened to Hancock’s Reel45 where Chris says time and time again that he’s waiting for his passport and can’t do anything without it (why he didn’t say). He also says that he has all the same probs as last year re his son and ex but is coping with the situation better which hopefully is a positive for his fans and clubs.

Christ, they've changed that then, was meant to be the best day of the week!!