Colin, once you lose something from the TT, you won't ever get it back. there's no way morning practices would ever get the go ahead now, so there's little point debating that they are required (I for one actually agree with you on thie point, for a change).

TT's have been held on other circuits before. Ie the Clypse course. I do think it isn't a "proper" TT, such as Joey winning in the pouring rain on the 250, one of my favourite ever TT races, but if that's the only way we can get real racing machinery (apart from sidecars) here, then so be it. If you look at the solos on the mountain circuit, they could be all the same but in different colours. That's not the real racing I was brought up on.

I have personally been on the receiving end of you giving officials loads of stick, yet I don't see you out there helping. The TT needs more people who are proactive, not moaning for the sake of it.

Well said Wantan