IainB

I take your point about budget but all teams are built to a points limit and generally all within a point or 2 of each other, some how he manages to set an environment where riders you'd never dream of being any good coming up with those goods throughout an entire season

It's tricky as a lot of managers have to work with what they're given and it's whether they can add any value to that I think you've obviously got to say Middlo, his track record speaks for itself & and I may be biased but Stewart Dickson, they both seem full of enthusiasm and generally get riders punching above their weight. Obviously Pete Adams is another one, maybe not so much recently but he also has a strong track records at team and individual level.

Scott Nicholls! Absolutely wasted at Eurosport... come to Leicester

Jenkins: man of the match... sorry i can't use the word man anymore... rider of the match

Oxford were there for the taking tonight but Glasgow just didn't have the heat winning fire power to take advantage of Oxford's injuries. Can't see Tigers seriously challenging this year unless there's some kind of reshuffle

Weren't they scrapping with each other earlier in the season!

From reserve though... maybe I've just not seen the best of him this season

Can't help but think Brennan has plateaued a bit this season, maybe even gone backwards a little. Hope he can turn it around next season

Unless they're going to water the inside of the track they're completely wasting their and everybody else's time

To be fair I'm not sure it should just slide away like it did, looked like it was on rails, lucky really it didn't slide away from somebody who needed it.

There's a lot of "snug" race suits on display tonight!

Good effort from the track staff... replacing the whole 4th turn air fence quicker than it takes to change a tyre at Glasgow

When the air bags go pop, are they repairable at all or do they go in the skip? Bomber to go for me

A bit worrying how it just slid away though

Better for it to collapse i would think, disperses the energy, it's when they go under it that there's generally trouble

Nice selection of nibbles in the Oxford pits, Jammie Dodgers, Haribo's... breakfast of champions

I don't know... the obvious thing to do would be to have a large screen showing the broadcast with the audio piped through the PA system at the track

I'd love to go to Peterborough on Monday as I've hardly been this year now Leicester fixtures have often clashed... but after experiencing the televised meeting at Leicester this year I'm just not going to do it, far too much hanging around with absolutely nothing going on.

One can only hope!

You only have to look at the extra "incentives" promoters put on for TV matches to mitigate the fact that it's on TV and there will be long delays for those that attend... in over 20 years of TV coverage... except from the occasional reduction in admission by some clubs, nothing!

Yeah, no, for sure... Your "ten minutes" was actually 22 minutes at Glasgow and 18 minutes for the Pairs at Leicester, what a build up to a semi and a final, watching a tractor go round a track. It's partly why I stopped going to the CLRC, that and the crap racing at Sheffield. Fortunately the racing at Glasgow was pretty decent but a 20 minute delay in running the semi and finals at these events is just unacceptable. I was at the Pairs in person and the 18 minute delay seemed like an eternity at the end of the night so goodness knows how 22 minutes seemed!

Erik Riss has already started a "ride slow" campaign in support of Doyle

Did Ben Barker refuse a 2nd test last season? If so he probably thinks an 8 month ban served through the close season is better than having the book thrown at him for 2 negatives?

He seems to have gone to the Frank Ebdon school of refereeing... he's always pulling races back when there has been no visible infringement

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