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What ever happened to that other 16 year old sensation from a few years back, Ratarubbishz or something like that?

If the FIM were truly concerned about inclusivity in Speedway they'd pay more than lip service to it, if they were that interested in the development of Speedway in the lesser Speedway nations they should run proper qualifiers where Poland, Denmark, GB, Australia & Sweden etc are made to travel to the likes of Germany, France, Finland etc. etc. to compete in qualifying meetings, much like UEFA & FIFA do with Euro and World Cup qualification. You can't just have these teams turn up at the finals where they're sunk without a trace and virtue signal that you've included everybody, it's exactly what they do with SGP4... look at us developing the kids, they're that interested in the kids that the results from the SGP4 at Vojens are still "coming soon" on the website! At the moment the FIM really have got the worst of both worlds, they're not doing a proper development job and at the same time they're not pulling in the crowds either.

While the woke FIM is putting inclusivity ahead of bums on seats they'll always be on a hiding to nothing

Sports that think they're right and the fans are wrong tend not to do too well 🤔

Well, if nobody bid to stage these events the FIM would have to rethink

I think countries bid to stage the event don't they? So question back to Poland 🤔

Why are Poland hosting it then?

Competitively, this is like British Premiership Speedway but condensed into 1 meeting!

Do they? It's tucked away on TNT9 for a reason and they should count themselves lucky with that!

There's a lot of Brits in the crowd... we really will turn up and watch any old crap 💩 😂

Inclusivity, that's the only reason

There's been bigger crowds at SGP. Practice/Qualifying sessions!

... and they're expecting to hold the SWC at Warsaw next year 😂😂😂

The whole thing's a bit half arsed isn't it? The time starts when they close the pit gate! Come on! The camera is often on the wrong rider, with each rider seemingly just being shown for 15 seconds each before the camera cuts to the guy holding the red flag, it's so TV by numbers it's laughable. The clock showing how long is left in the session is unreadable. If they are going to do it they should at least attempt to do it properly and put some thought into it.

The Sprint Races were only brought in to make the qualifying session watchable, which was fair enough imo because if there's Speedway on the Tv I'm going to watch it. The trouble is that the broadcast is that poorly put together it's barely worth watching and to just a sprinkling of people watching it live at the stadium is just embarassing!

The winner of the SGP2 should definitely be nowhere near the main SGP series, it's generally years before they're anywhere near the level required to be in the main series if ever at all. The last WU21 Champion currently in the series is Max Fricke who won it in 2016, it's taken him 10 years to get from that level to his current level and he's still relying on wild cards to qualify.

Not for me, it has to be one or the other, especially with nothing other than pride riding on it, the "LCT" would become nothing more than an end of season fixture filler.

A "wet weather" setup needs to be devised, like in other motor sports where a specific setup is applied to the machinery to make it usable in the wet, what that would be in Speedway I'm not sure as I'm not mechanically minded but other sports seem to manage it.

Certainly not outclassed, seemed to get better as the meeting progressed and won his penultimate ride. Looked like he was riding Dougy's kit. Leicester not the easiest of tracks to get to grips with but he got on okay with it without being spectacular, could be worth a punt as a 3rd heat leader somewhere, but I bet he ain't cheap.

Me too, it was the most memorable testimonial there's probably been I would think, I remember Rick winning it, whether that was the last one to win their own or not I'm sure somebody will correct.

I was trying to think the last time that happened... Rick Miller?

Thought that was quite enjoyable for a testimonial meeting 👍🏻

I'm not saying don't celebrate, all wins should be celebrated, especially by the fans, club riders and management just shouldn't go OTT is all I'm saying. I just think that mentally it's the difference between being happy to make the final rather than winning it. And being a fully paid up member of the anyone but Poole club I'd hate to see Glasgow do a Leicester from last year.

I don't like to see it, not in a qualifier, yes be happy, high five each other, whatever, but all this over the top stuff for winning a semi, not for me. Leicester did it last season and I didn't like it, especially when they were sunk without a trace in the final, they did it again, to a lesser extent last Monday, I just think it sends out the wrong signals, a signal of job done, when the job is far from over! You don't see serial winners Poole doing that kind of thing, in fact you don't really see it much in any other sports. Like when sprinters win qualifiers and they try to look like they're not even out of breath after the race, they're not jumping up and down like they've won the Olympics. It's almost as bad as people celebrating "winning" a silver or bronze medal

Have Glasgow won the Championship?