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Stupidity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result.

As Bomber said on 360 speedway there is not enough meetings for riders who only ride second division, more riders will end up retiring because its not worth it. Less meetings means you will see more throw away call offs because so many potential restaging dates.

Seems a bit of a strange one, Mitch is an entertaining rider who likes to have a blast around the boards but the Northampton track as it stands will not suit that.

2026 is done and dusted, all that’s important now is that the refs are aware than if the front wheel is over, it only needs the back tyre to be touching the white line to be enough to warrant an exclusion, so we never have to go through this again.

Don’t try and run before you can walk! Sort out the product first then worry about trying to get TV deals. Put the current product out on mainstream TV and all you will do is confirm the publics perception that first out of the start always wins and if you go you get covered in dust.

If they already have 19k, it would only take 500 fans donating £50-55 each (once, not every moth) the fence would be paid for.

No matter how many teams in a league you will always have a divide between those at the top and those at the bottom, the less teams you have doesn’t change that parameter. A top four from a league of 12 will be more equally matched than the top four from a league of 6. A play off system with the top four involved should only happen if the league has at least 9 clubs minimum. For leagues of 7/8 teams it should be 2rd vs 3rd with winner playing 1st, and for a leagues of 6 teams or less it should be scrapped completely.

The play offs are such a dichotomy, on the one hand they can and often do provide great crowds for the finals BUT for the period between the season starting and then its a lame duck financially wise. The play offs are here to stay but they simply must find a way of making the qualifying matches actually mean something because one meeting is not going to pay for all the rest, and for those who don't make the finals, they are on a hiding to nothing. Maybe only meeting the other teams once would help? yep that's just five home league meetings but if your losing money every time you run, the answer is run less often, and if you run less often, people will make more effort to come because now your dealing with limited chances to watch certain terms and sometimes certain riders.

It’s not about people accepting the result, it’s about what can be done to prevent such instances again and making sure the authorities have things in place accordingly.

But is there scope in the rules for a ref to alter the result of a completed race? Take for example also recently when a race started and was completed with two riders off the wrong gates, the race was run and even though the mistake was later picked up on, nothing was done. What would happen if a race was completed and no one noticed that it had been completed with a rider that had no dirt deflector, or wrong helmet colour until afterwards?

I don't know if the modern rule book says anything about curb height but there used to be something about a maximum height it could be, so that the front wheel could safely cross it without causing an accident.

SCB have said then a mistake was made on the night, so where is the details of how the person making that decision will be disciplined for effectively bringing the sport into disrepute?

The ref from the first leg who missed the tyre warming should be disciplined, the Poole leg is not so clear cut, riders leaving the track is normally black and white and is followed by an exclusion light, saw it happen all the time in the late 80s before Arena had a safety fence installed. Thing is if Cook had sat behind Pickering it still would have been a Poole win, its not like the pass enabled the win. I think its one of those things that a decision has to be made in real time and thus conclusive, once a heat is completed other than a tie for position on the line, the race should be called. Anything that comes to light afterwards should result in the ref being disciplined and banned for a period of time and certainly losing the right to ref any higher prestige meetings, they are paid to do the job, hit them in the pocket.

Genuine question, what happened to the air fences at the likes of Coventry, Lakeside, Rye House, Swindon, Wolverhampton, Birmingham and Peterborough? There could be a big second hand market out there.

If Poole want to prepare their track slick, that’s up to them, same with Oxford and Northampton to name three, the racing might not be up to much but it’s not dangerous track because it’s slick. It just means the racing tends to not be very good if your a neutral, but as fans we have a choice to buy these streams or not, I decided after after break to give the British promoters another chance and buy the BSN package for both leagues this season, more fool me, I won’t be doing it again. 15 clubs in all and only four maybe five tracks I feel confident will produce a decent level of entertainment,