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I agree with you 100%, and my comment was completely rhetorical! I just get tired of speedway fans slamming other sports - and far more popular and successful sports - simply because they don't like it...

I never said you did. Just that a lot of people reading this thread are doing that very thing...

That's the problem. It's easy for speedway fans to dismiss other sports, but there has to be a reason why nearly everything is more popular than speedway...

Yes, it's terrible that riders qualifying for a final (using a system that is the same for EVERYONE, and which EVERYONE knew in advance) get more points than the others... Tsk, tsk...

That does sound like darts here in the US, then. What I find sad is that dart players keep bleating about how it should be more popular, and should be on TV, but aren't interested in helping the cause. I hadn't really thought about that in other sports until you mentioned it. Only in speedway will fans "refuse" to watch the sport they supposedly love!

Do table tennis players watch table tennis on tv or live streams? The reason I ask is that I have been thinking about darts in the US, and also speedway. One thing about American dart players is that unlike the British, the vast majority of American players (both league players and national circuit players) aren't interested in watching darts. We can see from posts here on the BSF that there are many who claim to be "speedway fans", yet refuse to watch speedway on tv (notably GP's). I wonder if other sports have the same issue?

We used t' dream o' livin' in lake!

That's they way you have to be in professional sport. Of course, you enjoy your successes, but getting carried away with it can be very counter-productive. It's far better to stay at the same level mentally - regardless of your ups and downs - rather than put yourself on an emotional roller-coaster. Good or bad, what's done is done. You can't change what's happened, you can only change what is going to happen.

Glebe Park is a place I would love to visit before I die!

It is what it is...

Hey, don't get too carried away; my Scottish team is Brechin City! Seriously...

But I heard he was a boring, one-trick pony???

I never thought I would see Falkirk mentioned on a speedway GP thread!!!

Wasn't that Roald Dahl?

Apparently, it is what is is...

It might have been...

But it might be...

Same with what I have in my underpants...

I disagree. What if it ISN'T what it is???

Terrible thing in motorsport, eh? Having fast equipment...

Give him a Ferrari engine; that'll slow him down...

Great ride from Lindbackwards there...

Most people won't care; it's the points that are the important thing!

I just hated his helmet, and those bloody green leathers!

Couldn't have said that better myself. Perhaps they learned the whinging from BSF members???