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Shame no Cookie, he's about the only rider in this league that can put bums on seats. CL has done his best to avoid clashes, but obviously he would have needed a crystal ball to know that Cookie and Joe would be riding when this fixture was made. Been on my hols so haven't been deafened by the back straight mob yet, will I need ear plugs?

Ever since they made it 10 heats, sod off, that's your lot, I've never been near a track when there's a threat of rain. But years ago when Arena V Newcastle was off at the last minute around a dozen off us kicked up a stink, started getting aggressive and we all got our money back. I don't usually condone violence, but it seems the only way to be your money back at certain stadiums. I will not be conned, and will do whatever it takes, you lot must be too nice.

Last Friday's result gave us a bit of hope, but seeing what happened there last night, it doesn't look so good now.

If it's a realistic league with no GP riders, and a sensible fixtures list then yes. Speaking to those that were at the Kings Lynn trial meeting, the majority appeared to want something along those lines.

Even with the proposed 6 man teams I doubt if there's enough riders to go around. Certainly not enough No1's, as one proposal is to bring the cost of a 1st division meeting down from £20,000 to £15,000. So what that means for the 2nd division appears to be a very cheap product, will we be one of the 4 going up???

But if we had meetings every Thursday our season would be finished by mid July. Hopefully these new changes come in next year, no more silly 6 point thing, no doubling up, so no need to avoid fixture clashes. But that's what the fans want, so I wont hold my breath. But I'm led to believe, two realistic divisions of 12 teams (with the conference for development teams only) is what most of promoters also want.

All on here have been saying it all season, if the top 5 do the business then we should just about win meetings. Took long enough but at last they all perform on the same night.

Not much chance of that bruv, he appears rather deluded looking at some of his posts.

Hopefully the forecast will become a bit clearer tomorrow, as we all know, no forecaster can predict storms with any certainty. With no footy on the telly and the pleasure of Newcastle's No1 fan to keep me company I'll be heading for Foxhall after I've voted. Only my 3rd visit this season, but if the BSPA implement all these new ideas for next season then I'll become a regular again. I assume that Danny will parade his trophy before the meeting, not that he really feels like a Witches rider to me, more of a Bee than a Witch. Roll on next season!!

I'd be very surprised if he did. Some don't bother when they're just reserves.

Lawson found enough to go round barker in 13. From what I saw, if you were quick enough you could do it, inside or outside. Only my 2nd meeting of the season, reasonable night out, but will only go when nothing better to do.

What was the crowd like last night? Good enough to pay for all those bonus points?

At least they've done something to try and address the current problems. Now I'll certainly make the effort to go on Thursday.

This is the big one for the Witches. If we have any aspirations to sneak into the top ten this season, this is a must win. Got better things to do than watch this shower on Saturday, but might make the effort next Thursday.

Looks like I picked a good season to fall out of love with the sport, supported the Witches through thick and thin for decades, but doubt I'll see many meetings this season. Been mentioned before, but who the hell do you get rid off, they all appear to have the odd good meeting in them, but far too many bad ones. One more thing, last season some of you lot were blaming Phil for the teams performances, why aren't the same people blaming RH?

My first meeting of the season. Someone (far more knowledgeable about the sport than me) said to me at the start of season "I can only see 3 worse teams than us, we might scrape into the top ten", watching that lot tonight, I think he could be right. It's OK us hearing "when they all click", but how often is that going to happen?

I'd rather have no meeting on a Thursday than clash with the EL and lose half our riders. CL has done everything he can to avoid clashes, giving up the Bank Holidays must have been hard, but he put the team first. Originally i was happy about restricting the doubling up riders, but if we come out of the EU, half of the Europeans wouldn't get a work permit, then we'd end up with about 4 riders per team.

With no wind about it looks like the forecast wont change much. Shame, as I'm like many others these days, I wont go near a Speedway track if there's a threat of rain. I'll get home from Footy at 17-30 and make a decision then.

If Lewis rides anything like he did against when the Diamonds came down in June, I'll be very happy, he was brilliant that night. Happy with the 1-7. Is there any news on where Cam and Rohan are likely to end up? Must have been a big track with large sweeping bends then, he's not the smoothest when it comes to turning left on most British tracks. And there certainly appeared to be a motivational problem with him, maybe we were paying him too much, then he only had to do it when he fancied it.

I'm fairly sure CL has his 7 in mind, as do most other promoters. But if I was a rider I wouldn't sign until Glasgow have completed their team. It's only a short career, and you'd be a fool to turn down the sort of money they're paying. The word on the grassbanks of Mildura the other night was, Berwick thought Richie Worrall would be there, until Glasgow came along with £50 a point more than they offered, can't turn that down.

I'm sure the promoter will be happy with the crowd of 26,000+, but next year they should let more of the expensive seats available. I spoke to fans who wanted to sit on the middle tier, but the website said it was sold out, but they only sold tickets to the public for half of it, the other half (which was almost empty) was just for corporate and other groups. Anybody thinking of going next year, buy the cheapest on the day, and sit where you like. This also applies to most of these large stadiums that stage gp's. I paid 49 dollars but no one stopped sitting up top where the price was double that. For those on a budget (like me), it can be done for a reasonable price. I'm out here for two weeks, 2 speedway, 6 soccer, 2/3 cricket, 6 internal flights, 2 buses, 1 train, all accommodation and transfers will easily be done for under £1,500 it would have been £200 less had I known about the meeting today earlier, but the flight to Perth this morning put the price up a bit, never mind, just hope I see a good game.

As Bruv said, Swedes ride on a Thursday, and as much I liked Lasse, it did get on my wit when he missed meetings to practice on a Thursday for Danish U21 meetings on the Friday. So CL went in the right direction to get 2 Aussies and a Yank, they put you first (except World U21), just none of them lived up to expectations. But I'm sure he'll put together another good side, some of the pundits will say we're favourites for the title, and then certain riders will have an awful season and their average will drop by a point or 2. After a few years of optimism at the start of a season, I'm going the other way next season, I'll assume all our riders will drop their average, and hope for the best.

I think we all agree that the date is stupid. But there must be a good reason for it, I just wish the BSPA had the sense to tell us fans (who now can't go) why this date was chosen, when none of the competing teams are riding on the Saturday or Sunday. It's hard to believe that there was not one venue available at the weekend, please BSPA tell us why you chose a Thursday at Redcar, when you originally stated it would be on a Saturday.

No need for answers on a postcard, we've all seen him fly around big tracks, he justs struggles turning left on smaller ones. His fast bikes and his gating means he gets his fair share of points, but he still gets halfway round a bend and then has to yank the bike to get out of it sometimes. He also sometimes ends up in a heap if he tries a big swoop, after all this time he just doesn't look a natural on the smaller tracks.