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It would have been Tommy Jansson's autograph if my mum hadn't had a clear-out of my old bedroom after I left home and chucked out my autograph books.

Natalie covers Moto GP for BT Sport now. I would assume this is a better gig than league speedway on Eurosport.

Another good thing with David Rowe is his analysis of what is going on. He did the European championships on Eurosport and gave an excellent heat-by-heat breakdown of who needed what for final positions and stuff like that.

It was someone called Alize Lim. Definite TILF - but a rubbish presenter.

Considering Nigel and Dave Lanning both did darts, might it be worth looking in the Darts world for someone I wonder? It is very much the Eurosport way to use former participants though. I signed up for Discovery+ during the Australian Open tennis and they had a female former player presenting - presumably because she looked good. She was an absolute disaster. It will be interesting to see if they use her again for the French Open next week.

He's back. Now we know that the clutch cooler cools the clutch down. Love Sam.

I thought to myself when watching his first race that he looked like he was riding the track the same as he would ride Belle Vue.

Looking here: FIM Speedway GP 2022 Ticketing Information - Help Centre (principalitystadium.wales) it would seem that the only option you have is on a phone app. If you don't have that, I guess you need to go to the ticket office upon arrival. What happens if I lose my phone prior to the event? Please visit the WRU Ticket Office which is located between gates 3 & 4 of Principality Stadium on Westgate Street. What happens if my phone battery dies before the event? Please visit the WRU Ticket Office which is located between gates 3 & 4 of Principality Stadium on Westgate Street. It seems that this is a Principality Stadium thing rather than a Speedway GP organisers thing. Welsh Rugby Union | Wales & Regions | Digital Ticketing (wru.wales)

Worth watching for Sam's anslysis moments on Discovery+. Better than Alan Partridge.

There was.

I think so, yes. Certainly Chris and Kelvin aren't aware of it if it's true.

Certainly looks like it. If this is true I'm surprised it hasn't been made more widely known. That is quite a big change.

Qualification now on. It's Kelvin Tatum and Chris Louis.

Not arguing. No issue. Just pointing out that the forecast was mentioned as part of the reason for the cancellation, which was why people were talking about meetings being called off as a result of the forecast.

The club statement did say: "This is due to inclement weather with more forecast throughout the day in the city" which is why people are talking about the forecast.

Forecast show rain now until about 11. Then dry until 4pm. Then sunshine and showers until about 7. Then a dry evening. That would not have been a rain-off a few years back. I think these are financial decisions as they feel the crowd might be down.

I'm not in Sheffield, but the forecast seems ok. Just showers and sun in the afternoon with a dry evening.

What is going on with these cancellations? Surely people are going to lose interest if meetings are "rained-off" like this. It seems a bit foolish to me.

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I think they had it right with the 3-2-1-0-1-2-3-4 system. I think that worked well. They should have stuck with that. Unbelievable that they changed that because sometimes supporters went home disappointed that they didn't get 3 points after winning at home and now have a system where home supporters might go home disappointed with not getting a point after getting a draw. The response to someone querying it says it all really. "Let's see." Brilliant.

This is the wording on the website: "Due to limited parking at the stadium, free parking will be available thanks to Unipart at their site just a short walk from the stadium (approx 800m) on a first come first served basis, please remember to select this option if required when purchasing your tickets as this will be required when arriving at the car park." To me that says that you can only park there if you have booked it in advance. I used to use this car park before and it's much larger than is needed for a speedway crowd. You could just drive in and park. Mind you, it's been a few years now!

I don't know why they are doing that. It was always fine to park there in the past. I don't think many speedway supporters are in the habit of buying advance tickets as it's never been necessary.

I suspect that is not going to go down well with some people.

I have to say, I'm slightly confused by the car parking arrangements on the Oxford website. It says there is free parking at the Unipart car park, but you need to select that you want this when you buy the tickets. Does this mean that you can't park there if you don't buy a ticket in advance? I think they missed a trick by not having their opening meeting as a challenge against "Swindon" by the way. Would have got a few up from Wiltshire for that, I reckon.

Won't the away team get 2?