TheScotsman

Depends what's causing the boredom. Constant home wins do not necessarily equate to boredom. Dull as ditch water presentation / dreadful track conditions / long delays between races all do make for boredom though. Only been at Rye once this season (for the Peterborough meeting) and the presentation was not worthy of the name. Long delays with no conversation from the announcers at all. The racing wasn't the worst I have seen, and the track's not great, but it was the delays and the lack of presentation that was the killer.

I think practice is in the afternoon so No big deal flying over in the morning.

Cookie only turned 27 last month. He has been riding 6 seasons now. Each year he has substantially improved on the previous one. John Louis was nearly 29 when he had his first meeting. He finished 5th, 4th, 3rd, 6th in his World Final appearances. Greg Hancock is still going strong at age 44. So injuries permitting Cookie could well still have a lot of high earning seasons ahead of him. But he does need to be given a place in some other countries' leagues. He can't just demand them and they will come running. But he probably does need to show up well at Cardiff and/or in the SWC to let them know he is around.

Easy to say - not so easy to get the team place. And then there's the expense involved - not cheap to keep kit in multiple countries.

Yep even Peru against Iran rather than watch at Lakeside!

Well done. Monarchs! #19.

I wonder if any more of them will bother to turn up for the meeting? I would rather watch Italy v Costa Rica or even Switzerland v France than go to watch Lakeside!!

It would have been better if the reserves points only counted at a 50% rate. There is far too big a gap between top FTRs and bottom FTRs which completely skews the team scores.

Might have been less confusing to have a Lakeside v Kings Lynn thread!!

Cookie is more than useful from the back. Re going fast he didn't think he was last night....... Craig Cook @the_cookstar · 15h Well tonight was very productive. Finally got a decent score at Lynn, wasn't the fastest by a long shot but the bike was gating so well That sounds the perfect solution!! I was thinking of fast growing trees but they would have taken years. For the balloons, you've already got the pumps working on the air fence so no extra cost there. Bloomin brilliant!!

Yep gardening was the worst I have seen in a league match. Cookie seems to have carried it on from Monday.

Agree. Always used to be a couple of laps after each race when I was a lad.

AND now the stream has run out of time with 1 heat to go at 10pm. Ridiculous how long It's dragged on. And they still have the MDL match to follow.

Tedious on the stream too. Poole meeting just finishing. 6 to go at KL.

Grow some taller trees.

An hour and a quarter for 4 heats with No crashes? Slow pace of life in Norfolk.

All joking aside, this might be an awful lot closer than most folks think. They do usually put on a big performance at the Dale and have the likes of Garratt who will be bringing with confidence after wopping the world champ. They have enough others who can do well at our place so we will all need to be on the gas from the off. Dunno where Cookie's bikes are likely to be and Deek needs to find form. Should be a comfortable win on paper but who knows on shale.

He would still score half a dozen including a fall!!

Bizarre. Did he disappear to avoid the meeting being abandoned if they had had to kill his pain and take him to hospital?

At least the meeting got started.

Health & Safety.

Morphine works in mysterious ways. Kyle Howarth is fit to ride at Peterborough tonight apparently!!

And not so much as a tiny little nibble. Better change the bait!!

I agree with foamfence.

I'm rubbish at the lottery too!