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According to Sky's coverage, it was Birmingham's Ricky Ashworth last year! Probably - though most Bandits fans would probably have been shouting for Richard Knight.

I've said for years that GB should take part in the likes of the European Championship, Pairs, whatever. First reason: These competitions keep robbing teams of riders anyway, so if the Brits were involved & if there was to be the odd round over here, it all becomes more tolerable. The BSPA seems to think that Britain is somehow "above such secondary competitions". Second reason: GB these days is pretty much a secondary speedway country. Get over it. Instead of hoping for third place in the SWC and expecting to be 4th - if we're in it, it would be better to enter these competitions & maybe WIN SOMETHING.

Sky have got nothing to use to pad out coverage now that they don't have the GPs. Hence a bit more waffle at the end of matches that finish early, the Big Telly witch Chris Louis & reports from other tracks in case there's a pile up or rain. As far as the irregular coverage - that's what happens with filler. Not much football last couple of weeks as the European competitions reach their conclusions (without British involvement in the main), so they need filler. This week big games every night of the week as the Football League Play Offs begin, so they don't need filler.

Right, so they've checked their availability. Then what?

And then what - declined the Sky coverage because a Swede isn't available? They're hardly likely to tell them to come back next week.

What shape was it when he first arrived at Berwick? I've never worked out what the attraction is in Edberg. Before his fence-changing pile up, he had a few rubbish scores which is why they brought him back for the last couple of matches that season to get an average. Sometimes a low average is simply a reflection of not being very good. Last year was no different. A rare decent score, a less rare break from racing, leaving the team with NL. replacements as he's the lower reserve. Nice race suits aside, there seems to be no difference this year - just waiting for the career break or the "Alex is Back (probably for one week only)" score.

For the same reason a regular at Mortisons doesn't get a free loaf once in a while. You've managed to "flip" what is supposed to be an initiative to bring in more support an more income into a plan to reduce income from the regular source. That's a plan...

Until you have tried knitting with a tartan blanket on your knees, don't come on here with your lid, fast, heavy music suggestions. Maybe musical theme nights would be popular - I mean, who wouldn't like an evening filled with Cliff, or maybe that nice Richard Clayderman. Chris Rea would be okay too.

And THAT is the greatest problem - if Havelock wants to run Redcar into the ground, that's one thing but if your mates are Sheffield fans, chances are their friends might have popped into Owlerton. Probably not now though and whatever gripes fans might have with their promotion & team & bar prices, & burgers & car parks or whatever, it's hardly Messrs Machin & Hoggart's fault for last night's debacle.

THere's no one pillorying any promotion - it's simply a fact that when there's discounted / free admission to be had it inevitably filters into the hands that would have been there anyway. It's absolutely no different - except being much more lo-tech - to the Groupon discounta that Newcastle & other tracks dabbled with last year: A few new extra punters through the door - yay! Most of them simply move on to the next discounted day out next week - oh. Loads of regulars using the discount, reducing what income there is from a normal gate - uh-oh.

Calm down dear - and it's not a very good idea, as has been pointed out &, I guess exactly why Glasgow dropped it 30 years ago.

Looking at that farcical picture, the only question that comes to mind is, following the demise of hight street hardware stores, where would one buy a yard brush? Did Belle Vue genuinely think releasing that picture to the outside world actually put them in a better light?

In that case, if you're that concerned, go and tell her. Or better still, go and tell her and offer your services to help make up for what you perceive to be a shortfall. Alternatively you can simply bitch on about what's not being done right in your opinion and how you could do it better. Maybe you could fix them up with a more appropriate sponsor while you're at it. How the Hell they can "overly rely on the Internet" because predominantly over 40s attend is a joke. They're trying to generate interest amongst those who DON'T currently attend. God forbid that younger people might attend, with their loud music, kids & general noise. Chances are they'll disrupt old fogeys' chatter, sit in their seats that they've had since 1968, not use car rugs and not even bring their knitting.

So you agree that, with the rare exception, the passing on a one line track was down to rider error, not being out wide enough to be on that line. As the main criticism of the Berwick track is that there's one line, it follows that the difference is that riders wander from that line less frequently. I'm unsure what the promotion can do about that.

David Howe apologised to Micky Dyer on Facebook, saying that "it wasn't intentional". Fact. My "Fact." Beats your "End of Story." even if it has been in appropriately used near factual content. In my defence, I didn't say "FACT."

Apart from the rare exception, tonight was pretty much one line, right around the outside. Those that started out there won 9 heats & if those who started out there had stayed there it would have been more (Howe in heat 15 being one).

"The track has so many racing lines" Despite repeating it all night, for the most part if you go out wide & stay there you'll pass anyone in front who doesn't stay wide. How many racing lines does that make? He's big mates with Michael Jorgensen who also rode tonight.

Perfectly reasonable question. Stead suffered his injury last Saturday. By Thursday, we would have been recuperating, but not ready to race. By this Saturday he was. In Barker's case he was "fine" when Thursday's meeting started, THEN got injured & without the NHS providing a general update on his fitness on FRiday, he turned out less than 48 hours after sustaining an injury that caused his withdrawal on Thursday. Any press coverage is better than none. Any speedway is better than none. The reason speedway is where it is today.

Apart from the fact he top scored for Edinburgh last week, I can't see any problem with that plan. Edit - that plan being to use Vissing, before the above appeared at the same time as my own.

And Barker withdrew from a meeting - at Sheffield - with a broken wrist.

So a bit of copying & pasting going on. Superb. Most of the "proper journalists" busy writing features for the Speedway Star, are they? Presumably the tomb could be launched around the tracks by charabanc, complete with egg salad sandwiches wrapped in greaseproof paper.

Out of line? I hadn't realised there was a line to be towed. I suppose it's the logical extension of having the Speedway Mail article written by those who are going to buy it. It's a personal opinion - I prefer it if I'm paying to do the reading, I prefer someone with some credentials to have done the writing. Much the same in other walks of life - there is nothing worse than a singer encouraging "audience participation" in a song: no, I paid to hear YOU sing it - if I had felt the need for a karaoke version, I'd have gone to a bar. Actually I wouldn't - I'd have killed myself first. This is simply "You've Been Framed" in paperback form. "The Fans' View" of the 1971 World Final: - we had ham & pease pudding sandwiches wrapped in tin foil, - Elsie had too much stout & was sick on the bus, -Ole Olsen won the meeting, - wasn't black leather & shiny chrome better under lights They you go - Chapter One, done & dusted.

I'm fairly sure that Dyer wouldn't have been in Edinburgh's team plans, unless they were planning a radical rebuilding based around him. This week's performance from Berwick may well be important, and naturally, as is the way of such things, it's against Sheffield. I don't think Ashworth against his old team (if he's fit) will be the talking point this time. With Stead injured as well, perhaps the first race to be won will be securing the services of a guest if necessary. Advantage Berwick - Edinburgh have no meeting on Saturday.

Can they not just be posted on here then, like your article about the Speedway Mail, there'll be no need to waste a tree or two so that punters can read what they've written? Come to think of it, there's plenty of threads on here in a similar vein - just use that to pad out the lack of ideas for ways to milk the same goat dry…

The loan fee for Dyer, based on the BSPA guidelines, based on his average, would have been covered by a couple of families each week on the turnstile.