IainB

Suggestion: How about opening a twitter thread for the meeting so the commentators can answer questions or raise points of discussion. Works well for Dave Goddard when he does his Premier Sports commentary, can also help fill in gaps etc.

Hope so, maybe the bumps were contributing to the good racing... we'll find out Saturday. Good to see Anders Rowe announced and the rumour about Matthew Gilmour seems not to be true (yet)

Not that I agree that Nigel needs replacing as Kelvin ticks all the boxes for me as far as a lead commentator is concerned, there's only one logical choice for me and that would be Darren Fletcher... he used to do the centre green at Peterborough for a while and has done a bit with Tai I believe, but I bet he's not cheap. And that's the trouble for those of you that want Kelvin back as a co-commentator, now it's on Eurosport, they ain't gonna pay the money, Sky would have, possibly BT Sport as he works for them anyway, Eurosport not a chance!

Off topic but... Good to see Anders Rowe announced and the rumour about Matthew Gilmour seems not to be true (yet)

I'm not suggesting that's a good thing, i think In terms of promotion it's pretty poor

Leicester do the same... often nothing on the website until less than 24 hours before the meeting

The keyboard warriors?

Not me! He was by far the most entertaining rider on the night

Thanks, very interesting

Really? Paint, i wonder? I've never seen that

I'm happy to give any club that doesn't have 2 ambulances and paramedics in attendance at the track a hard time... and have done on the Leicester threads in the past.

I've noticed over the last few years that a number of the top riders in the GP have parts of their engine cases coloured black, Jason Doyle (I think) was riding a snazzy looking humbug at the weekend with a black middle part. My question is are there performance parts or just decorative? It just used to be GM badge that was coloured, red, blue, green etc. again was that just decoration or performance related? TIA

I think the ref just had a strop on during the Redcar match, he pulled a few back

Is that a new rule? I'm sure I've seen movement from the back wheel in the past (on TV matches) and no action was taken

just bad luck

to be fair I think the topic has been started so that we as fans know what medical cover is in place at tracks around the country so we can make the decision before travelling I think the very small list of replies shows that the fans are pretty much in the dark as to what the medical cover is at tracks and are often reliant on "people in the know" that work/volunteer at tracks to come on here with the top secret information. Most of us probably just (naively) think adequate medical cover is in place to have meetings run to completion , which obviously hasn't been the case all the time at certain tracks

Maybe they'll go back to how Sky used to do it. Much as I enjoyed the Nige & Kelv double act, I quite liked the variety Sky used to give in the early days with Floppy & Johnno being the stand outs for me. It will also help to bring some commentary talent on as it's never good to have all your eggs in one basket

Pretty sure Brady said Puk was feeling under the weather

Puk feeling unwell according to their manager

I paid £30 for the Discovery+ subscription and so far it's been worth every penny for the Sam Ermolenko analysis... pure comedy gold

Actual footage from trackside of Sam Ermolenko and Peter Karlsson at the touchscreen

I'm guessing Buster wasn't there then... he may have blown a gasket

I remember the days when a team manager would come onto the PA system to apologise to the fans after a display like that, especially to the travelling fans after making what would have been an expensive journey, but no, I've checked the website out and it's just the usual one arm bandit of excuses... bad luck etc. no such thing, generally you make your own luck, funny how most of the time it's the same old riders having problems with their machinery. When the Panthers could get going they were slow out of the starts and then slower still when up to speed. Aces look the complete package now with the inclusion of Zagar, I wonder if Bewley had still been in the team if the performance today would have been so total (just asking). As usual the day's racing was fast and furious and I enjoyed it all, despite such lack lustre opposition

Don't mention the weather (war)... I mentioned it once but I think I got away with it!

Thanks @GiveusaB, and that's all it is, my opinion, counts for nothing at the end of the day, the thing that does count (for Speedway) though is the pound in my pocket and as far as Birmingham is concerned that is where it will stay until the promotion gets its act together. What on earth Laurence Rogers is doing commenting on what Speedway fans are saying is totally beyond me, I'm afraid in his position he should just be sucking it up and keeping shtum. I hope you have Speedway to watch at PB for many years to come