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Or to put it another way, you find yourself unable to refute his viewpoint.

I'd watch those rash assumptions if I were you.

Yeah, tell Shaleshifter not to start a thread when he clearly didn't know one had been placed in existence all of four minutes prior to him posting it.

Josh Auty, apparently.

Jan O Pedersen would have to stalk for three and three-quarter laps!

Well, given that Nielsen is 56 and Briggs 81 you're probably right.

'Rain' is rather understating the case. They're counting the animals in pairs at the moment.

If the speedway-watching public don't want to take it up, that's their prerogative. Doesn't make the offer pointless. Fair play to the Brandon management for trying.

This has been mentioned by both yourself and at least one other poster (without checking back it might be stevebrum). Here we go: Nov 2015 Express & Star, Tai Woffinden Q&A night at the Cleveland Arms with Nigel Pearson: “I’d be back in British racing along with a lot of the other Grand Prix guys – if they changed the Elite League to one set night per week. “There’s a lot of riders riding in the top two divisions and, looking in from the outside, it seems there is a shortage of riders in British racing. “If they took a bold decision and made a set race night for the Elite League I’m pretty sure the likes of Nicki Pedersen, Greg Hancock and myself would go for it. “Monday wouldn’t be good because we have Poland on a Sunday and Sweden on a Tuesday, but maybe make Wednesday or Thursday Elite League Speedway night with every team racing that night. “I can’t believe the fans are happy about seeing the same teams twice at their home track in league meetings, make it one home and one away and see how it goes. “The least they could do is give it a try and see what happens, but yes I would like to return to British racing one day.”

Nicki is 39, Tai 25. Perhaps you should put the debate on hold until both have finished their careers. I will grant you that Tai is unlikely to overhaul Nicki's admirable tally of four Danish championships.

This is becoming a bit too surreal for me!

You may not care what he thinks, but that doesn't mean you should misquote him.

Think there's quite a stretch from the "isn't quite the golden boy" quote from the column to your "Pearson is wrong if he thinks the MAJORITY of people have now took a dislike to Tai"

Scored 11 in the 2013 Golden Hammer to be equal fourth, I believe, being one of only two riders to beat Steve Worrall. Edit: Having checked, the other one was Kyle Newman!

Not the first time we've seen complicity on a Poole thread...

No, I've never seen speedway abroad.

Seems a valid inference given the way you dodged the question.

Because someone who has won it three times and has four other podium finishes wouldn't know a great deal about that, would they?

There appear to be two elements here: One, "genuine British riders". These apparently do not include among their number those born in the Antipodean Republic of Scunthorpe to British parents. Two, "rolled out the red carpet with GB nominations and Team GB places". It's called talent.

Three, apparently, which is what happened.

2013, scoring 11.

Agreed. They looked ominous fixtures from the off, particularly with so many new riders to bed in at Monmore (I'm not losing sight of the fact that Belle Vue have a new track to get used to, but had all gone to plan their riders would have had the Peter Craven meeting under their belts and presumably some practice too before Wolves rode there). Wolves had what looked a pretty decent team in 2012, spearheaded by Woffinden and Lindgren, and lost home and away to Poole in the first two matches and four times to them in all, three of them at home, in the first dozen completed fixtures. They never hit their stride and finished one off the bottom.

Small point, but the other element of American Football which contributes to equality concerns fixtures. NFL divisions are made up of a handful of clubs and their fixture lists are completed by games against teams from other divisions. The schedule, like their draft positions, varies in difficulty depending on previous performance. It's difficult to see that, or something like it, being brought into speedway and accepted by supporters.

Jonathan, you might consider increasing the space between the lines when posting in this fashion, Then we could read between them...

My assumption was that it was Steve Shovlar's query concerning what level of control was exercised at conference by Matt Ford. For the sake of the discussion, could we assume that's the case because I'm sure your reply would interest a lot of forum members.