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Twenty-two for the main stand. I would have thought they would at least try to fill the seats by having the same price. It's been shown many times that people turn up for tv meetings if there is some sort of offer on. If there isn't they tend to stay away.

Just looked on the website to see if there was a £10 offer. 22 quid to get in for a televised match? I think that might be the reason.

Maybe they are applying for the wrong visa. As a parent of a British child he can apply for one of these: https://www.gov.uk/uk-family-visa/parent But you don't automatically get that right. You need to put in the application. Unfortunately, the whole visa thing has become extremely complicated since the new rules of 2012, and you need to make sure everything is done correctly.

A rod was made for their own back. Thursdays should have been the race night. Top league should have had priority. Simple as that. It's amazing the clubs couldn't see this coming, but the fans - once again - could.

Exactly. So why not?

It's only below the Danish league because it voted itself to be.

It has nothing to do with that. Denmark gets priority on a Wednesday. It was made pretty clear when the talk was of Britain having Mondays and Thursdays. Then they went back it and went with Wednesdays, and now we are seeing the effect of that.

If he's as fast as he was on Monday he could be up there with the leaders.

Denmark has priority on a Wednesday. It was agreed. Britain has priority on Monday and Thursday.

Working out well, isn't it? This British Speedway riding on a Wednesday thing.

What if it gets delayed by 7 hours? ☺ Seriously, though, surely riders do consecutive nights in different countries all the time. It's part of the job at that level. Leigh Adams used to regularly do Thursday at Swindon before jetting off to GP practice.

Does it? They clearly opted for different destinations. Would Masters have made it if his flight had been delayed by 7 hours?

As he said, though, he thought it made sense to go to East Midlands as he was riding in Leicester, which is logical. And it was only one hour's difference in flight time. It was due in at 13.35 - which should have been plenty of time, even allowing for delays. Sure, the flight to Stanstead may well have got him there on time, but he wasn't to know that. I think he's facing unfair criticism for this.

Go on then. What flight should he have booked?

I've just tried to fnd one for next Sunday or Monday, and it's not easy. Most of them leave in the morning and have 2 stops - taking about 14 hours. I then went to Ryan Air's site and tried to book one for next Sunday. There are none. The only option - when booking on Sunday - was on Monday at 12:30. This is the one that Lambert booked, and was delayed until 19.30. Perhaps those complaining would like to have a go and working out their own plan B. Do they, themselves, work out a plan B when booking a holiday flight? Just have a look. He booked the first logical flight that was available.

I would guess that they are all on pretty full-on schedules and at the mercy of airlines. This could probably happen to any rider at any moment. As someone has said - Lambert was in Latvia not Poland so would be taking a different flight to others.

Suppose these 22 riders had all booked the same flight bar Lambert - and their flight was a nightmare with cancellations and so on - and Lambert had made it back in time. Everyone would have been singing his praises, yet none of the riders would have done anything different to what they did anyway.

Who, I see, scored a paid maximum for Rye House against Somerset, and beat Jason Doyle 3 times.

Interestingly, I have some Speedway Stars from the 60s, and one of them has an article bemoaning the lack of characters like the ones they used to have in the 50s. Plus ca change....

This was my first visit this year. I expected to see the biggest crowd of the season - Poole, Bank Holiday and nice weather. And it was a good crowd. When we arrived I was a bit horrified to see the crowd for the turnstiles snaking right along the stadium wall and round to the back straight. I thought we'd be ages getting in, but, fortunately, they were all queing for one turnstile. The other one had about 10 people waiting! British and queueing, eh? I enjoyed the match. As others have said, for the first two-thirds I don't think there was a single pass, but the scores kept it close and the crowd seemed happy enough with what they were watching. The racing improved dramatically in the last few races - possibly after the riders reportedly told them to stop watering it? It did get more dusty though. Someone said to me before hand that Adam Ellis has a new engine that is extremely fast and to watch out for him. That was an understatement. He shot out from the start in both his first two rides, and was miles ahead. It's like he was so fast that he couldn't keep up with himself! And then came off both times. He was then unbeaten for the rest of the night. Sensational from Adam. I was hoping he'd have been out in heat 15, just because I wanted to watch him again. Apparently there are only two of these engines being used at the moment. I never thought to ask who is using the other one. Robert Lambert maybe? Just a guess though. Poole were okay. The doom and gloom from Dorset is bound to happen, as results aren't going their way, but this is a decent team. I can still see them in the play-offs come the end of the year. Shanes for Nielsen? Not sure how well that will go, but at least Mitchell Davey was able to get a point! Great race from Zach to pass Sundstom in heat 14 - a race that won him man of the match. Personally I'd have gone with Ellis, who looked like a World beater tonight once he got to grips with the speed of the bike!

12 all after 4 heats. http://www.swindonadvertiser.co.uk/sport/speedway/16200554.SPEEDWAY_LIVE__King_s_Lynn_Stars_vs_Swindon_Robins/

I always like Ari when he was at Swindon. He was always popular with the ladies, too, possibly due to the fact that he wouldn't have looked out of place in the band A-Ha! He was a classic case of a rider who could score next to nothing one week and then hit double figures the next. Two meetings come to mind. One was at Coventry, when he broke the track record. That rather stunned everyone and led to discussions about whether or not the timekeeper got it wrong! Another is when he clattered into the safety fence on bed two at Swindon, right next to where I was standing. It was one of those crashes where you could hear metal against metal. A very nasty crash, and one that had first aid people running over to assist him, and help him gingerly make his way back to the pits. He then came out and won all his remaining rides. I was sad to hear this - particularly as he was only 58.

Thought we were going to use Anders Rowe - or is he still too young?

It's been going on for years. I once bought a copy of the 1967 rules on ebay and it contained loads of typed out amendments, on sheets of paper which were just folded up and put inside the actual book.

That's where the issue will really come into effect - if a team wants to re-declare by replacing one rider over 8 with another, but also have a second rider over 8. Will they be prevented from doing that?