IainB

Mayfield Sports Events... start as you mean to go on 😂 It's a new era...

It's cost cutting isn't it... but 2 meetings and 2 practice/quali sessions on one track in 2 days is too much imo.

It's been over ridden and over watered

This meeting would have been abandoned in the UK with the amount of water on the track in heat 5! 😂

Were they arranging fixtures knowing riders would be unavailable? When guesting was introduced was it to cover any excuse or just injuries?

They should not allow facilities for non- injured riders, give a kid a chance, god knows they need it this season. I wonder if Edinburgh would have been so keen to agree to the fixture knowing they'd have to track a junior 🤔 Looks like it's R/R tonight for DT.

Of course 👍🏻

All on track at the same time doing their own thing.

They're all in it together though... that's the sad truth

Everyone is entitled to be a little grumpy once in a while... especially on here 😂

Any links for tonight? @stewmac @racers and royals You guys are normally all over this 🤷‍♂️

The expectation that your clubs management doesn't arrange a fixture when your number 1 is away? That your number 1 is content to accept a booking with no guarantee of getting a ride 😂, that product? Fine? Come on man... let's see what the crowds are like at the end of the season at Northampton, I was there and I can tell you, that although it was a decent crowd, they were the crowds that were commonplace when I first started attending speedway, so forgive me if I'm not doing a jig of delight.

Not at all, welcomed back with open arms at Leicester, he'll not be missing any of our matches to go and sit in the pits in Poland 😂 This kind of situation sums up why the sport in this country has become the tin pot third rate product it currently is.

If ANY Edinburgh fan attends this meeting, I'm sorry, but they're a mug, plain and simple.

I think if Dan Thompson wants to build his speedway career by traveling to Poland to not ride he should drop Britain... Or ... he could give Poland a miss until he's good enough to ride over there. If and when he's good enough Polish Clubs will be knocking his door down to sign him and he'll be able to name his own price.

... and not ride! Didn't get a ride again today Complete madness!

Has Marcelina been recruited by the FIM? Official programme holder 😂

Just when you thought it couldn't get worse than last year... it does 😂

I can zone Tatum out when I need to, what's not acceptable is televising a timed qualification event and not show the viewers the on screen times... like you say... the rubbishe we have to put up with!

Coverage is still a shambles... no times being shown and sound about 10 seconds out of sync 😂

Quali on TNT5 now (13:00) if anybody is interested

Yes, I mean from the point that they took over... but unless you are prepared to travel to Europe you're only going to see our national team ride at home once or twice a year and this year not at all. I'm struggling to understand how this benefits British Speedway, it garner's little to no media interest, they may ride around with Daily Star plastered on their arses but just doing a quick search now on their website and the last Speedway story was about Emma Jones and the one prior to that Linda Lusardi! They'll be shown twice this year on pay-TV if they're lucky and they're just bringing on the youngsters, meaning they often miss British club matches so they can gain international experience and then be poached by Polish clubs leaving us using journeymen guests or rider replacement in their absence!

It's all very well and good having a professional national team, which has absolutely knocked anything that came before out of the park, but... to what end? How does it benefit British Speedway? It very nearly wasn't even on TV last night and even then behind a £30+ per month pay wall. We don't even get to see the national team in on track action in this country and the only connection it has with fans is through social media.

Does he still live in Marlborough? Marlborough to Worky 299 miles, Marlborough to Berwick 347 miles, those extra 48 miles at 22p per mile £10.46 lol I wonder if Mr Dickson advised him to take the Worky fixture 🤔 This is where the spineless SCB should step in and enforce his agreement to ride in the initially agreed fixture... not that they should have sanctioned the fixture in the first place. It's no way to run a professional sport!

Even the "hype" man on the Berwick website is struggling to talk this one up... Roll up, roll up... "We still await confirmation of the extent of Peter Kildemand’s shoulder injury while the search for a suitable guest for our influential number one continued through the night. Visitors Edinburgh are in a similar situation attempting to find a replacement for paid maximum man Dan Thompson who, as he was for the original, rained-off, staging of this BSN Series encounter has been called to Europe by his Polish club Lodz. With Kyle Howarth already snapped up by Workington this afternoon both teams are struggling to find a like-for-like guest." ... "Tonight is also the crunch for both side’s semi-final hopes"