IainB

I think Hancock did have quite a serious injury (an arm or a leg break), pretty early on in his career though... and didn't he have knee trouble and was one of the first to use the knee brace... memory is a bit hazy, it was a long time ago!

So actually Manchester was bottom and bottom but one with 6k and 5.5k... quite the fall from Cardiff when even at its worst, would have come in 2nd.

Come on let's face it the final is going to be Poland, Australia, Denmark & GB unless we have a mare then it'll be Sweden. That's why the 5 team format suited this competition so well and the reality is there's been no other contender nations come forward since the time the 5 team format was dropped, maybe Russia. This competition would be better run in a group format with the top team of each group being promoted with the bottom being relegated... imo

Storm Goretti has nothing on the storm Garrity has created... I'll get me coat 🥼

There's already numerous topics setup for the AGM... do we really need another one?

A completely different competition 😂 This sport of ours really doesn't do itself any favours with credibility. Might as well seed Ipswich to the final 🤷‍♂️

Please don't mention those 2 names in the Leicester section!

Remind me why Australia have been seeded to the final?

Hoped for... not promised

@THE DEAN MACHINE 👀 If you signed for Leicester we'd have been able to fit Max Fricke in!!! 😉😂

My guess is there's not going to be one as neither will happen.

What a low key statement with many questions still unanswered and nothing really to address the future of the sport other than business as usual. ... a possible 6th team 🤷‍♂️ ... a possible 3rd competition in the PL, maybe they're going to finish the Jubilee Trophy off?

Footballers are employees of the club though and not self employed. I do believe that riders becoming employees of clubs would eradicate a lot of the sports problems overnight... well never happen though

And his Bendy Bully 🐮

okay... give it a shot, and I am being serious, and stay on topic 😃 I think if it's positivity people are looking for, this isn't the topic thread for them. There's plenty of positivity during the season especially on the meeting topic threads, suggesting that once the tapes go up there's nothing much wrong with the sport.

How do you interpret it?

Surely you can't think everybody has done a stellar job and the sport is going from strength to strength?

Yeah, give me the PL featuring no show Ben Cook at No1 (or Jack Holder or Brady Kurtz... or insert the name of your favourite No1) backed up by Joe Thompson and Sam Hagon at reserve 😁

Ipswich to run 1 match at the very end of the season? 😉

Some of the comments on this topic aged well (@mikebv 😉😂) I ran a poll on TwitterX the last time his position seemed untenable and the consensus then was he should be gone... yet here we are 3 years later. He's so far out of his depth it's embarrassing, he may be okay running sleepy Scunny but as a leader he's been about as effective as Liz Truss!

I think you're about 5 years too late with this topic 😂

To what end? Nobody can buy a season ticket 🤷‍♂️

And is obligatorily played at every speedway track on the planet before the final race 😂

C5 is basically a nostalgia channel... so that could be a goer!

Which is more than he did for Sheffield 😁