If It Ain't Broke

There was I thinking it was only me that thought doing away with the Premier Trophy and the Young Shield was a daft idea. It now seems everyone agrees well Ritchie Hawkins, Chris Neath and John Sampford anyway. At the time I couldn't really see the argument that the fans only want league racing. Whoever put that one forward was obviously absent in 2005 when we beat Workington in the final of the Premier Trophy and must have also missed the Comets returning the compliment two years running in the Young Shield. Put yourself in the place of the fans now instead of giving you 4 chances of actually winning something we're going to take two away and leave you facing 38 matches of an incomprehensible league format that has already condemned you to mid table mediocrity now which one would you rather watch? Another case of speedway kicking itself in the kevlars. The way the league is composed at the moment The Rockets could end up with a second half consisting of visits from Workington, Somerset, Sheffield,Scunthorpe, Newcastle and Newport hardly a lineup to set Len's bank balance jangling is it. If things go really pear shaped we could end in the other half with Berwick, Glasgow and Edinburgh I'm sure they'll love that as much as we do! Hopefully sense will prevail and it will be a one season wonder but then again speedway and sense the only thing they have in common is you can find them under S in the dictionary!