John Hannibal Thomas

The whole show is a joke, Sky obviously pay peanuts and get monkeys.

The crazy rules exist to this day! Have you seen some of the ridiculous names the Speedway Star scribes have?

Barry Wallace, say no more.

rather poor line up for him to be in, I have seen stronger George English memorial line ups than that.

Also described as the flukiest double figure score ever seen in sports entertainment.

Edinburgh have been using a lady in their team for the past few years according to Tai Woofington. That lady goes by the name of Matthew Wethers.

that would be a shame. what about a thread for non believing promoters? hippies?

the riders are lucky there are no Jewish Promoters otherwise they would never get paid!

standard bikes. muck real dirty racing, not todays hommish attempts of piffle. those were the days.

Speedway was rather fickle in the days of Nielsen and Gundersen, todays World Championship is worth far more than a World Championship back then.

Well done Nicki! best rider in the world by miles. I trust those phone calls thanking GE & Selwyn have already been made.

Well done to Greg on doing a "Leigh Adams"- winning a GP because the top boys were having their own race.

easy for Nicki, this system sorts the men from the boys and once again Nicki will roll up champ in 2009. if only this system was in place for the last ten years we would not have seen the likes of Crump - a ginger world champ - winning due to the fact he often scraped into semi finals, scraped into final then won getting 25 points as opposed to the 15 he would get if he done that these days! Nicki was spotted on his mobile thanking the Diamonds promotion for all they gave him, his Grand Prix status.

pats on the back from the slick lovers like Andersen, Crump and Adams.

On par only with some of the refereeing this year at Brough Park, we have seen worse in 2008!

Once again a Diamond is on his way to greatness. Maybes Nicholls needs to dial George English to arrange true mentorship?

We need to replace Nigel Pearson with a black man like Tim Westwood then we are on to something.

I think a lot of it is down to presentation, most speedway tracks put on a very 1970/80s white, tory ruined british slant to everything they do. If they tidied the place up a bit, put some rap music on and invited someone like P-Diddy or Andi Peters we would be on our way to harmony.

is anyone surprised the speedway fraternity are unable to use sky plus? - they are after all uncool people

The Spirit of Juul was evident amongst the Geordie Danes. Just think how could Hans Andersen could have been as a Speedway rider if he made the right choice all those years ago!

so true sub, hopefully lynch will be on the dole within days after including stead and allen to start with.

with the likes of alan, selwyn, henry and muck man in his pit crew this boy would be world champ quicker than simon walker for sure!

I think Jason King is the shining light of British Speedway and he should be in the team for sure. spray them Kingy - in 2009!