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Merry Christmas floating turd, thought you'd been flushed away but no, up you bob again. How come your mate Loobrush TomiCzech didn't sign for the Rockets, with his double figure points scoring Rye House engine?

Anal oration.

as in "fell off of his bike"

Funnily enough, I thought it was dragged out BECAUSE of TV! It can't take too much to work out the qualifiers, drag them together & tell them in the pits the order of picks & get a response as to which gate they want. TV will undoubtedly want to show the random selection of gates - what's the betting it morphs from being four balls in a box into a mini National Lottery draw.

It's truly amazing that the BSPA haven't sought to put you in charge of well, everything. With the insightful way you know the answers to everything it would surely only be a matter of 12 months before speedway overtook football in attendances, wages & exposure in the media.

Maybe so. We're the other three riding in any Grand Prix Qualifying Meetings? Will Dick Barrie go to Sheffield with him? The new season takes on hope.

They probably will be ... if they have a broken shoulder blade & ligament damage.

So, what's the location of Sarjeant's address got to do with it? He's been riding at least as long as Knight, seems to regularly pop up in the PL as an NL guest and makes it easy on a cold night to fill in a programme: 0, 0, 0, N. Never even looks like making the first part of a step up. Hopwwod is listed as having ridden for Mildenhall II in TWO THOUSAND AND SIX (!) so the blossoming of that talent is a bit of a waiting game. There would be plenty of teams ahead of Sheffield looking at Nielsen & Jacobs. Ipswich would probably have first refusal. Remind me which one they went for...... I have no idea if it is the case, but either of them wouldn't be the first to over estimate their value. The difference this winter is that the majority if not all promoters are reining in their financial exposure.

C'mon then, Shirley: what's wrong with BBC 3? What's your ideal channel? Ignoring the fact that Sky hold the rights to all brutish speedway, sky you've neatly sidetracked that by lifting PL out of the equation. Well done! So the brilliant enhancement to secure the young audience is to have school kids doing interviews? Classic.

Wow. It's just a short posting but manages to pack such a lack of understanding of every aspect of the subject. The PL (and NL) rights aren't available to be offered to anyone. Sky hold them. What exactly would be wrong with "BBC Three or alike"? As for NL riders doing interviews, it goes from the nonsensical to the deranged!

Can't see any reason why Smith couldn't do both leagues, as he did in 2011. Ashworth would certainly be a good signing. The Argentian COULD be a revelation. That (with one Czech exception) he only finished in front of other Argentinians in the World U21, suggests he could take the NJL by storm.

Because the British Kids that can't get a team place can't be arsed to drive to Glasgow (or Edinburgh or Berwick as applicable)? Could that be it? Even at the sport's height there's always been a stream of Aussies & New Zealanders to the northernmost clubs.

Any chance that the total pony could be left out of the press releases (a forlorn hope, and I guess the A4 sheets could be replaced by tweets): "Alden's name has been circulated" in today's news. Well. that didn't take long as he's just been signed & announced at King's Lynn. Of course he COULD have been signed as a double up rider. Yeah, right.

Who's put their hand up your skirt, Gladys? Explain exactly why "Argie" is anything other than an abbreviation like "Brit". Nothing derogatory, nothing "un-PC" - whoever the Hell put you in charge of such things - about the Argentinian. However, as if it was needed, the performance (for want of a better word). of the Argie in the World U21 rounds showed that he'll be a real find. Like Tanas Sike.

That team would be well worth a watch - who are you going to drop to fit in Edberg & the Argie Second Halfer? Oh, and Micky Dyer is available on loan

Do you mean that it's disgraceful that Dave Tattum has failed to tap anyone up?

Have a look at the thread for the PLRC when people stood around for an hour for no apparent reason. Full of comments about not being able to wait until the next time and they'd be bringing a friend.

What would you prefer? Carry on regardless, incur rental & staffing charges as well as rider travel expenses, get the punters there & when it rains send everyone home? An early call off at least lets people get on with living their lives & they can come back next week. Better that than let them waste time & money turning out for a meeting that gets called off - THAT is a good way of ensuring they don't come back the following week.

So they couldn't afford hime - which is not the same as Bellego being expensive then, is it? If he'd said he'd commute using National Express it wouldn't have cost much - unless they couldn't afford it. The promotion at the time dismissed his not being signed as his demands were excessive. That's been proven to not be the case. Still, don't let the truth get in the way of pacifying in the short term, eh?

I don't think there was anything "apparently" about his signing. Of course, one scenario that fits is that the Glasgow Promotion wer talking more bollocks than the Rangers official who said "The VAT cheque? Oh aye, that's in the post".

Can you explain how a north & south split in the PL would "clearly" save money? Are all riders supposed to move house so they're based centrally in either region? It's a total fallacy theatre regionalisation would save very much, if anything. I think you'll find that it's already occurred to promoters to take into consideration where the opponents are travelling from when it comes to calling meetings off. The same a the time they might become liable for stadium rent. Track covers keep getting hrown up as the answer to every weather problem - except at multi purpose stadia. Then there comes the question of who's going to put hem down. And lift them for track perpetration. What about drainage? The water that is prevented from landing & being absorbed into x square metres of track has to go somewhere. Making tracks smaller - Glasgow, Berwick & Workington will bein favour of hat for starters. Or perhaps not.

How did the best track in the country - according to referees who, in every other aspect know nothing - fare on Saturday then?

Either a : he's under the impression you're a Glasgow fan or b : he's going to kill you in the near future. Not much of a choice, is it? 😄

No one has suggested that anyone would turn out to listen to the centre green presenter, the music, the pies or anything else other than the racing. The reason for stopping off at a country pub would be a pint and a meal. The preparation of the food needs to be right, but even if it was, people will be discouraged from returning by the stench of festering sewage. The current centre green presenter adds to the evenings entertainment what a rancid, festering latrine brings to a Sunday lunch. In my opinion. There's been a number of good suggestions to freshen up the approach to both Saturday nights and beyond. Hopefully they'll be explored.

And there we have it, "put up with" (twice) "not so good" and "whittering on". All the reasons why speedway is dying on its ass, as fewer and fewer people think its a good idea to pay out more each year only to have things that have to be "put up with". What problems does speedway have? It seems perfectly tailored to suit some of its supporters.