IainB

Never saw him... he was always riding for Edinburgh on a Friday night when he should have been at Coventry, risking his life for my entertainment. I'm afraid he's a has been. You'll be telling me next that Saint Craig has withdrawn so British youngsters can gain some experience of a big event, the scales will fall from your eyes one day

Craig Cook withdrawn... can't wait for him to risk his life for my entertainment at Belle Vue tomorrow and then at Leicester in the evening, he's a waste of space

So far this evening he's had 2 opportunities to risk his life for our entertainment and get competitive track time and he's decided to quit after 2 laps!

We need an advert on TV, with sad music and pictures of OAP's sat in deck chairs filling programmes in, riders sat at home with bikes in the garage and nowhere to ride... Can you spare £5 a month? £5 a month could help save this sport. For £5 a month you can adopt a fan, you'll receive a monthly programme with all the times recorded and R/R amendments made.

I notice there's a save Coventry Speedway banner on the safety fence... right next to the save Peterborough Speedway banner, oh hang on, there's not a save Peterborough Speedway banner, that must be down at Monmore for tomorrow's televised meeting, along with the save Wolves Speedway banner

Miss Championship League

The averages game cripples this sport, they should move to rider grading again

Some already appear to have a spare one

Cook to win, Batch 2nd, 3rd is anybody's

I'm just wondering whether we can throw another championship onto the end of the title... The Championship League Riders Championship Championship? Sounds so much better

Is Schlein still riding?

Looking forward to a night of high farce, weather don't look great for later either!

Why so? Scratching around for riders?

We'll have the scraps

That's all well and good saying that but under the average points system you often have to make 2 changes to make the one change you actually want to make with the riders available who want to ride here

Did all his engines last night apparently

Nadine Dorries

That's because it was only a very light shower!

There are many riders around Europe that could still do a job, Lions legends Vaculik, Wozniak, Nilsson, Przedpelski... any of the rest of the GP field or even the GP Challenge field, Chris Holder... or take a punt on a youngster like Peterborough and KL have done with Wojjy and Bruem, it may just pay off like it had with Wojjy (until whatever has happened, happened). As things stand at the moment, even if we do make the play offs... we're toast I noticed that too and the way that Stewart Dickson had to call him over to the riders waiting to go out in heat 2 to pass on track info. I think it's fair to say that Max is currently learning his role as Captain, but he has been the shining light of our season since the wheels have come off, his commitment on track can't be questioned, if he could just maybe learn to do a bit of team riding...

Is that all... there's still a few hours left yet

The thing is if the council wanted to sell the land it doesn't matter if there's a kitten orphanage built on the land they can sell it... unless there's some kind of covenant in place

The only things I've really read on here are people saying we can't criticise him for poor performances because we don't know what he's going through, clearly making reference to his well publicised mental health issues. I haven't read one comment saying his poor riding is down to mental health, just people saying don't criticise because he has had these problems. For me I'm not really bothered what his issues are, thats his business, like you say he's clearly a shadow of the rider he once was, a GP rider a few years ago. He has been on the decline since leaving Belle Vue though. To keep it simple I've seen a team go from genuine title contenders to a team that really doesn't deserve to qualify for the play offs, I don't blame Craig Cook for this, like you, I blame Nick Morris

The trouble with R/R is that it's OK when the team are riding good, if somebody gets injured during a match or a rider is having an off night it can all come unstuck pretty quickly, seen it many times. Like you say maybe in hindsight it would have been better not to have chosen 2 riders the rest of the league had already turned their noses up at. Of course we also don't know what budget the manager is working to

Had a nice little thing going on with Fricke at number 2 but has had to be moved around to cater for the alarming form shown by Cook (sorry to bring it back to him), also said he'd received some crap news from Aussie a week or so back, maybe that's effecting him a little bit also?

I'm not sure what the absolute crap is? All I've read is he's riding crap and not scoring any points, both factually correct