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Congratulations to the Aces, very strong team at the right point in the season and they had a very good balance from 1-7. The Leicester track has never been great but it’s a damn sight better than what it was when first built, there is plenty of room there, you don’t need every inch to be race able, I like tracks with wide corners as it allows a bit of get off time should a rider hit trouble, some tracks your racing right by the fence, there is zero room for error.

I know exactly what some riders would say “ those long seats weigh to much” 😉

Spires and Cheetahs two different teams but had Bomber been allowed to guest at Oxford for Poole, that would have been interesting, on his home track in front of his home fans, after all, they might have two teams at Oxford, but it’s not two sets of tracks or two sets of fans. Would the fans applaud Bomber if he cost the Cheetahs the tie?

I think it should be a good tie over the two legs, gutted for Ben Cook as one of the reasons I wanted Aces to make the final is that it would hopefully see two full teams and no guests. No idea who will take this or who I will be routing for, been super impressed with Blodorn and Voulas when I have seen them but equally Lions have two ex Lakeside riders in Lewis Kerr and Richard Lawson who is one of my all time favourite Hammers riders. Hope it goes down to heat number 30

No point just turning up for the play offs, you should support your club all season long.

Wilson effectively ended the career of Gary Corbett because of his temper, Lakeside fans will never forgive him.

Yeah I remember that, Robert was riding a Josh Larsen bike and was flying on it, Dugard took exception to being best by him and deliberately put him into the first been fence after the race, but nothing knew there, this is a rider who would punch his own team mate.

Grade all you like, but it’s NOT the tracks, it the bikes

If a race is good enough to warrant a rider get paid for winning it, then it’s good enough for the winning time to count even after an early abandonment.

Could it be money orientated? Maybe Riss will accept a lower guarantee or per point value? Running three teams doesn’t come cheap so maybe they are cutting their cloth accordingly, especially if a rider is scoring well below what his guaranteed points money equates to.

Always hard to promote a team in a City where a notable percentage of the population will have no interest in speedway at all, and what you do have as a target audience is likely to be swayed towards other areas of sports or entertainment. Only a promoter will deep pockets and prepared to spend a lot more than they might get back has any chance of making Birmingham viable imo, Brummies need to have a team that is outstanding on paper or has one or two top well know established World class riders.

British speedways solution to everything, use a sticky plaster without addressing the underlying cause. It was a different time I know but after the war there was a shortage of riders, did they just make everyone double up? No, they ran programs to encourage new riders to take up the sport.

The amount of guests pale into comparison with the number that double up and I think the latter is far more detrimental to the way the sport looks to outsiders.

If my memory serves me right, the 1996 conference league which Arena Essex was in, only consisted of six man teams.

Glad to see Brummies will not be cannon fodder, in a league of just seven you need every team to be competitive, if one or two are not, it makes the play offs for forgone conclusion to the rest, in which case you might as well skip straight to them.