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Full marks to KK for his commitment to the Bees' cause tonight. And ditto for turning out twice on the eve of other bookings. Good to see. However...'unavoidably missed recent away matches'? The SEC is not exactly -- well, not exactly the GP, is it? No guest/RR for it, which is why the Bees had to go with 'junior' replacements at Leicester and Lakeside. Not having a go here, but with respect to Neil perhaps just a little too much top spin on that one. Edit: Remiss of me not to congratulate the management on the double-header pricing.

Two different concepts, surely, the BSPA as a body and one as an individual club promoter?

Not to worry. Even four bonus from five rides for a No.1 riding away must be unusual.

On the contrary, on that one he'd be gating at Monmore and taking the third bend on the East Park cycle speedway track. Edit: In passing, a bonus point in each of five rides tonight for Lindgren. I'm sure there are other examples of a No.1 recording that performance away, but it strikes me as rare. Anyone come up with any?

Peter Karlsson. Injury from Monday's crash at Monmore.

First two R/R rides tonight taken by Howarth and Clegg. Not sure I've ever seen Beo and Peter Adams in the same room...

All well apparently, Dave.

https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2009/jan/08/england-cricket-kevin-pietersen-peter-moores http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/cricket/article-2554883/PATRICK-COLLINS-Kevin-Pietersen-just-does-whats-best-Kevin-hes-playing-for.html

My caveat there would be the double-header against Lynn and Swindon. These two-match nights always seem fraught with potential problems to me.

Never mind Notts, it wasn't plain sailing at club level with Cannock either!

A major opportunity to create mayhem here, but honesty compels me to say no! In the spirit of disclosure, how many points constitutes the compulsory rest period?

Just for info it's neither, using 'rider' in its professional sense. Steve is a fan of the sport who did some training schools, bought a bike and has a skid at amateur level for the fun of it and, presumably, to gain more of an insight into speedway.

Somebody better tell CVS: http://www.wolverhamptonwolves.co/news.php?extend.2416

It would be interesting, should some brave soul with time on his or her hands be willing to take it on, to see what percentage of Starman's getting on for 16,000 posts are along the lines of 'you are clowns for posting on this thread'. Certainly excelled himself in the last few days.

Generous if anything (sorry Steve!).

I see what you did there!

You might have started him with an easy one.

True enough, but the tone of those posts (and I made one of them) would surely have been very different but for him being identified with you know who.

Just when you thought the thread was beyond irony...

I'm with you up to a point and appreciate the time factor to which you refer. But the home riders will still be a decent degree better off by the end of the regular season. And if there are that many good lines it should be harder for the visiting riders to find the optimum one quickly.

Up to a point, perhaps. I saw film of the NL meeting (the first of the season?) where that wily old bird Jon Armstrong weighed it up, plonked his back wheel on the dirt line, went round the home opposition and took off into the distance. But sheer familiarity with the surface and layout over the course of the regular season should bring some advantage, surely, even if it's as straightforward as which gearing for which conditions at which point in the meeting?

I would have thought he had enough on his plate without concerns about a small white heron.

He's broken cover! Yoicks, tally-ho and hark forrard!

As an aside, the Express & Star and its sister paper the Shropshire Star will be carrying a large feature piece interview with Nielsen tomorrow.

Thanks, Wembley certainly strikes a chord. Not sure about Briggs.