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Can't disagree with much of what you have said there. Leicester's implosion was triggered by the Nick Morris incident but it's how you react to those situations that counts, maybe the Batch signing was a bit knee jerk but who knew we were then going to get the Craig Cook we got... we were still in contention for a pay off spot even with Cook in the team but when the final round of team changes came we were left with the scraps from Sheffield and that for me was more telling than what went on with Batch & Cook... other teams were snapping up Woffinden's, Laguta's, Holder's & Lambert's and we went for Lewis Kerr... it was never going to be enough. Whether that was down to the Bates or Dickson's lack of experience in the big league I don't know. As for the Kemp for Thompson, I kind of agree with you and kind of don't. Undoubtedly I think Kemp was an improvement to the team but I do not think we should have binned Dan off, for me that's more of a problem with the rules that allows that to happen, Dan wasn't the only RS to be dicked about during the season. Stewart Dickson has said we've had a good season, I beg to differ, it started off well, very well, too well? But since the Nick Morris drugs bust it's been nothing short of a disaster with just 2 wins, both coming against a comedy KL team and the 2 draws at Wolves Part of the reason for moving up was the the locality of the other tracks in the league, so with the demise of Wolves & Peterborough you have to wonder whether a drop back down next year will be in the offing, if indeed there are multiple leagues. Personally I have enjoyed watching the higher quality of rider and not the ones that just swap race suits

I'm sorry but you have to realise that Eurosport couldn't give a fig about Speedway or telling the story of the league... it's just about contracted air time and advertising revenue

Laguta was pure class tonight, unstoppable!

They weren't for the pairs

Let's hope that Doyle & Sayfutdinov are contracted for the pay offs

You'll not see him when he loses

Lions, the laughing stock of the league and in a league containing King's Lynn and Peterborough that's saying something! Well done Ippo!

We're well shot of Bomber, he could have seriously cost us tonight

Lions to concentrate on the Jubilee Trophy

So much for Bomber shooting his mouth off in the press!

I think the Speedway fan in me would rather see Ippo in the pay offs... Lions are a shambles

I saw @arnieg heading for the bar

Run off for the bonus anybody?

Seems a massive omission if he was eligible, Perry that is

Could Lions have named Max Perry at Number 8 tonight?

Not for the last few years

Interesting... where did you get this from?

That's not a lot really is it? Makes the fact that they've had 3 non-negative results since the 12th of July all the more worrying

There will come a point where any detectable trace is finally expelled from the body though

The rider?

Who tests the Hare? They never catch it

That's because that is the procedure... no matter how much he dislikes it. He could have p1ssed out any contaminants in his first test, that's the point of having a single test, he could be continuously p1ssing into a bottle until midnight, that is not the procedure and for very good reason

I'd pretty much worked it out before the meeting had started because neither team were allowed a facility and that seems to be the only circumstances where this is the case... which is also something that needs looking at. Crazy that no facility is allowed, but the very next day one is. It not only short changes the fans but if a facility had been allowed you could conceivably believe that the rider(s) had fallen ill shortly before the meeting, anonymity preserved... possibly

Innocent until named in the media

Absolutely spot on, I've just had a quick look on socials this morning and the amount of people blaming everybody and anybody but Worrall is quite unbelievable. The SCB/BSPL may have their faults but this has absolutely nothing to do with them and they'll be running their drug testing using a 3rd party adhering to tried and tested methods that will stand up to legal scrutiny. The whole point of the test is that it's done without warning... he took a test the next day... he may as well take the test in a few weeks, his test may as well test a thousand different categories, unfortunately for him it means absolutely nothing.