cinderfella

So will Ipswich withb3 riders now injured go knocking on Criag's door?

Rory Schlein would make a good replacement for Riss

Given that Somerset are not running there should he a few options available at both ends of the team.

You forgot the becoming environmentally friendly bit about swapping to push bikes

Can't remember who but there was a rider in the late 60s/early 70s used to use an old hearse to transport his bikes around and dressed appropriately.

Going by lack of decisiveness don't think they have any

A good management/admin team would be capable of bringing sponsorship money into the sport and their salaries could be paid from that. We can't get rid of the clowns running the sport as it is but anyone brought in would have a proven track (no pun intended) record. There have been various names of folk who have improved other sports bandied about in the past. Perhaps if you should get real if you think British Speedway is being managed properly. British Speedway was where every rider once wanted to ride but even the top British riders don't want to ride in their own national leagues these days and our sport is being dictated to by another country.

I think there may be a few pull out especially if certain changes are enforced.

This has been the whole problem with British Speedway for the last three decades at least - Promoters seem to be only interested in what benefits their own team regardless of which level they race at. IMO the only way speedway in the UK is going to move forward is with the formation of a TOTALLY INDEPENDENT administrative ruling body working alongside a committee made up of Promoters, riders and fans from all levels of the sport. I'm not going to hold my breath waiting for that to happen though.

Which one did he sell, Witches or Panthers?

Pretty bleak when you consider the same happened at Workington

Well that would mean Buster has a 50% chance of winning the league lol. No wonder he wants it to go ahead.

The way things are going all professional sport is going to be put on hold. Just look at the number of soccer or rugby teams that have players test positive for C19 especially after trips abroad.

If this isn't a good reason for combining the Premier and Championship leagues I don't know what is.

Should decide on 1 league

Get the feeling that some Promoters are burying their heads in the sand hoping they don't have to deal with the inevitable. A week isn't going to make that much difference unless they are all waiting for the Polish Authorities telling them what to do next?

I think Alan Dick's letter puts forward a fair and justified case for retaining the 2020 41pt team building average. The legal and financial implication could have a detrimental effect on some clubs should they now, after agreeing contracts for 2021 with riders, have to break them.

Hey haven't we all been conned for years anyway? As I see it there are 90 points in a match- 45 available to each team so surely team building averages should be built on 45 points? If a team is built around anything less than 45 where do the points disappear to? Can you imagine a similar type of stupid rule being introduced into soccer where they have 11 players but a certain players are allowed to score? The sport has been diluted down through various rules over the years and we wonder why British Speedway is in a poor way?

You think Hull was bad? You should have seen Paisley

You mean he didn't come first every time?

The SCB used to issue referees with a crude homemade t-shaped device which was the same as the diameter of the carb.

Leon was brilliant and it would have been interesting to have seen him on a machine with a PL (or even International) standard engine. Bewley, Kemp and Rowe's bikes did look faster and I believe the winning times showed that.

I'm not aware of the technicalities but I think I read it in one of the posts in this Forum regarding allegations of an engine that was used in a Polish meeting a few years ago with, sadly, fatal consequences. I believe both Jawa(JRM?) and GM still manufacture both short and long stroke engines so both must be used.

Seem to remember a rider rightly complaining that he had to do without his best engines for several meetings while Jim McMillan the SCB technical guru inspected it at SCB HQ in Rugby. Of course the real travesty was back in the 70s when Barry Thomas of hackney won the U21 title and was accused of having an oversized engine which was taken away for examination. I don't think he ever received an apology for the way he was treated and his reputation tarnished.

I was shocked to recently discover that putting a short stroke piston into a long stroke cylinder actually increases the capacity but is quite a common practice. As regards engine inspections I know of two incident, one involving a Diamonds rider who refused to let the referee check his carb size using the SCB supplied measuring gauge until he was shown it had been Vernier Measurement certified for accuracy and the other involved a top rider refusing to pre-meeting inspection of his carb in the pits because of the amount of dirt about.