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Me thinks trolling is going on here.

Nothing was officially organised so it's a bit off to have a go at the riders that weren't there. Belle Vue pestered Rosco about getting the squad together a few times leading up to the SWC but they were unable to get anything sorted so told the lads they could come and practice if they fancied it. Rosco mentioned about the NSS promotion offering track time during a Sky interview at the British Final. Fwiw Lambert will just go for it anyway and he seems to quickly adapt and doesn't let reputations phase him. Like Tai I expect a max from him. The confident message he is sending out to his competitors fills me with a belief we will still be in the hunt come the last round of heats. Getting excited now!

Aside from the BSI practice session open to all teams, GB have not organised any other track time for the team. Any offers to practice as a team have come from the Belle Vue promotion who made the track available to only team GB riders. Belle Vue hoped all riders would attend but it was not compulsory.

That's good. Natural watering on Thursday followed by occasional natural watering, great stuff. Feeling better after that good news, thanks. I mentioned before on here about watching Egon Muller become world champ. I don't think he would ha e done it without all the testing and practise on his home track. I believe we can win a medal and have Woffinden down for 19-21 points to help us achieve that. I'll be a happy bunny if that's the case come 10pm.

Nicholls shouldn't be picked because he's not good enough and that therefore overrules any other reason.

I'm glad that refs are back in control. There was a blip earlier in the year when the staging promotion was totally to blame and the SCB washed their hands of any involvement. I wish they wouldn't muck about with the rules as to who does what as it makes it look like victimisation against particular individuals. Anyway back to normal now.

All Harris needs is a good bike that will allow him to do his thing. The whole squad should be at the NSS with Peter Johns and Ashtech trying each other's bikes set ups etc to arrive at something they are happy with. Meredith should also be involved and the track should be prepared exactly as our lads want it. If we are just going to turn up like Jonny foreigner and take it as it comes then we're missing out big time. I was in Germany when Muller won his world title after bike, rider and track had become tuned in on the run up to the event and we should absolutely do the same. If we don't I'd like to know why?

Luckily there is a template press statement available on the BSPA website that can be used for last nights fiasco. It goes a little something like this..... BSPA Chairman Keith Chapman said: This is a massive setback to the sport in this country and it can have a negative impact on every other club throughout the UK. It wasnt even a BSPA event, it was down to the us to ensure the meeting went ahead under the supervision of the SCB referee and failed. It is the promoters responsibility and not the BSPA as an association to ensure a domestic fixture which is what this was goes ahead. Its an embarrassment and the rest of the sport in this country could be hit by it. A thorough investigation hasn't already started. Said Chapman: Its such a sorry episode but we have to move on and hopefully lessons will be learnt. From a BSPA and SCB perspective, we feel the need to offer our apologies to the many supporters who travelled to King's Lynn at great expense, but we must emphasise this was a Kings Lynn Speedway event. The SCB hasn't already launched an inquiry into the matter.

In speedway terms the guy's toxic. The BSPA were probably sick of his gibber jabber from the sidelines and decided to appointment him knowing he'd be this bad (well maybe not this bad) so they can oust him later and suddenly look good. Tbh anything would look good compared to this clown, please Buster, just go.

Gate an go once again at Poole, they need to address that if only for the holiday season.

I can see another strongly worded statement from the BSPA, similar in tone to the one issued back in March.

I love little seaside towns like Poole, it allows a chance to escape from the hustle & bustle of big city life. Manchester like most major cities in the world is incredibly full on where the frustration is what to do with so much to choose from every night. Being a 24 hour city means when you do decide its party on into early morning. After a while you just need to wind down with only the sound of crashing waves to attract your attention. People may scoff but sitting in a deckchair with an ice cream and knotted hankie is the perfect antidote to the bright lights big city. It's like stepping back in time a few decades to simpler times, somehow less sophisticated. Just writing this makes me want to make a visit but the dam diary won't allow it for a good few weeks. Viva Poole, may you never change.

£35 for the World Cup race off and final AND parking. Has it ever been cheaper? Go Belle Vue.

It'll be good to see MPT. I've always liked him and think if he had a stable of consistently good bikes would be a star.

I've not seen much Poole bashing this season. Fans don't like cheating whoever does it they don't just wait till Poole cheat before going on about their dislike of cheating. It's not anti Poole bias it's the fact they don't like cheating. No problem with my memory and I was and still am one of the most vocal about what they did. As I say fans don't like it irrespective of which team it is. The Belle Vue management took to the media all those years ago to apologise for their actions whereas Ford says in the press how he isn't happy for being found out. See the difference?

It says a lot about the Poole fans that they feel hard done to for being found cheating. It's so ingrained down there it's the norm to them and this sense of injustice they have is staggering. Weird.

Gate an go once again at Poole, they need to address that if only for the holiday season.

They say in sport it's the narrowest of margins between success and failure and that's the case here. Had the ref handled Sergeant's fall the same as Roses then the bees would be basking in the glory of a memorable comeback even discounting the golden double. The racing was good, no question. 6. Iversen passed Bates. 7. Harris & KK passed Schlein. 9. Barker and Batchelor had a great race. 10. Harris passed Iversen. 12. Woryna passed Busk. 13. Iversen and Harris had a good race. 14. Bates passed Schlein. 15. KK passed Batchelor. Sky meetings get bad crowds everyone should know that even the ones quick to have (another) pop at Belle Vue last week when we only got around 1000. £10 admission doesn't work, we've tried it many times, it just hits your bottom line. Having said that this was a major own goal for the save the bees campaign. There should have been more of a presence and the riders should have had special one off body covers exposing the blight to the watching masses. All EL clubs get a payout off Sky plus I believe 10k for a TV meeting. Admission income for a regular meeting is around 15k so clubs only need pull 5k from the Sky fund to "break even" were they to let everyone in for free. Similar to Lakeside many years ago clubs should run one Sky match per year where admission is free. It would market the sport to the local population in a way that no other activity could and with Sky propping things up it shouldn't expose the clubs financially. Also if you had an idea that 5k plus people might attended then the potential to find a match sponsor with TV coverage thrown in shouldn't be too difficult. Fingers crossed for Brandon btw.

Matts saw the 40 meetings we scheduled at the start of the year and wants to emulate that, good on him I say. Though we'd currently struggle to have another GP rider in the team due to points limits another squad member would be good to keep Zagar on his toes. We're trying different racedays to gauge response with currently only Tuesday & Thursday not being used this year. It's all about testing things out and to have Ford on board looking for positive change can only help us. Onwards and upwards I say.

He is 9th overall on current stats. If he was only 0.27 higher he'd be number 1 at four tracks. He's no second string.

No, I'm not taking about the corporate jonnies trying to get rid of their ticket allocation, though they are very handy for getting cheap tickets in decent seats. Since the first one I've never pre bought tickets and always used these guys for bargains as they try to offload unwanted tickets. I meant the SWC tickets will be going for more than face value, not less as with Cardiff.

Just on this, Steve did get in front of PK and this was more pronounced from where I sit near the start line that it looks from the camera on bend four. Steve's positioning would have seen him hold the lead at many tracks but the inside entry to turn three is already over these first few meeting a strong line to take, especially with plenty of speed. You need to do what Joe (just) managed to do against Kyle when he "got over him". Steve wasn't far enough ahead to do this plus PK went strong into the turn to regain his advantage. During the SWC we will see a lot of Gollobesque dive bombs on turn three, it's a move you see coming as they enter the the straight and it really gets the heart pumping.

I think we'll see touts outside speedway for the first time in decades and I'm not talking about the corporate jonnies trying to get rid of their free ticket allocation. Be interesting to see what people end up paying. With all the high profile events in Manchester a lot of the touts are "professional" in that it's the only way they make a (nice) living.

Without taking into account it being live on Sky up against one of the biggest live British football matches in years whilst on a school and off night. After the new lot moved in what was the crowd like at Glasgow for their sixth league match?

Heat 1. Lindgren passed Steve. Karlsson passed Matej. Heat 2. Immense race between Joe and Howarth. Heat 3. Cook and Klindt traded places. Heat 5. Steve passed Clegg. Heat 9. Steve and Thorsell traded places. Heat 10. Karlsson passed Craig. Heat 13. Immense race between Craig and Lindgren. Matej passed Klindt. Heat 15. Masters passed Joe.