Cue Ball

Wtf Thankfully I am away this week and so missed what appears to be an absolute nightmare of an evening what happened????

That was embarrassing. How can we fail to win a single heat in the last 9 races? A few riders need to be apologising for their performances I think. Hats off to Lakeside, they were far and away the better team on the night. Fair to say that our season will be done and dusted by the end of August.

I may have posted too soon

Rained for about a minute so far, nothing to worry about yet!

Agreed - I do like a trip to Scunny, but can't make it this week, so fingers crossed for rain

For those who have this meeting a miss.... big mistake!! Been some absolutely cracking racing

Although.... there was a post on Facebook or Twitter earlier saying that it hadn’t been authorised by the BSPA yet and I notice that there still isn’t an announcement on their website

Not the best meeting by Scunny standards, didn’t think the racing was that good, track looked a bit rough in places and half of every lap were just hazy riders seen through the dust. Worrall was woeful, think I would have taken him out of his 4th ride and given Shanes or Wood an extra ride. Nicol on the other hand was brilliant, first sight of the track as far as I know and came away with 2 wins over Auty and another night had 2 other rides that could have been wins. Brilliant signing!! Scunny deserve to go through over the 2 legs - if not for Garrity riding like Garrity and getting injured, we would probably have only just scraped a home win last night.

It was only heat 15 that went past 10pm - Think it was probably more to do with the promotion wanting to complete the match for the paying supporters - given you had Berge and Auty in the last race and we were down to one fit heat leader, I doubt we ran it with the view of stretching our lead, the reverse was more likely

For Scunny Berge was awesome and Garrity looked very quick before his crash (hope he’s ok), Auty started well but faded as the meeting went on, Allen just looked angry and seemed to be particularly peeved with Auty. For Sheffield, Broc looked good again in a couple of rides, Todd looked good and was impressed with him coming from the back to take points in a couple of rides when dumped to the back in hard first turns, Bjerre and Wright just looked a bit off the pace compared to usual but still had decent night - can’t believe Wright walked away from his crash or that nobody hit him, Shanes had another good night and Wood had a decent race and looks like getting back to where he was last year

Proctor scored 12 for Workington at our place in May, not a bad return for an away rider.

Proctor on Thursday, Richie Worrall on Friday

If Glasgow hadn’t got 2 5-1’s when they had watched the track being graded and watered in the interval whilst Sheffield had a cup of tea, the score line would have been even less pretty. Worrall and Harris were woeful, Stark and Robson tried but for little reward. Vissing was steady. A decent debut for Nichol, if not for his chain he would have outscored anything Jan has done so far this year. Can only see him getting better.

Personally wouldn’t want to see Lasse go. We aren’t going to win anything this year and so would prefer to stick with a team that wins and entertains at home - Lasse is the most entertaining rider we have and drops very few points at home...

Feel for Jack - thought his last meeting was his best to date, but something had to be done to try and strengthen

Well... I know the track being as rough as a badgers arse didn’t help matters, but not the best meeting. Berwick were fairly woeful with pretty much Gappmeir and Howe coming out with any credit - particularly Howe who after his crash was pretty much dragging his left leg when he tried to walk. Nice to see Todd getting a max and I thought it was possibly Smith’s best meeting to date (prior to him coming a cropper)

Is Jan now a permanent fixture do we think?

Although... if we could fit Berge in, it wouldn’t be a bad thing

Not a bad meeting, but think we used our get out of jail card to win that one. If Klindt had ridden like he can or Compton hadn’t tailed off in his last 2 we would have been in trouble. Nice to see Ty back to his best. Thankful to Graversen for last year, but he needs replacing ASAP. Even 6 points from that position would have turned it into a 52-38 result.

I fear for Sheffield, we struggled at Newcastle and only scraped a draw last night at home. 55-35

Fair play to Peterborough, a deserved draw. Don’t think Scotty has ever ridden Owlerton that well before. Losing Howarth / Howarth not riding to his normal standard had a big impact and not helped by Graversen’s non-impact on the meeting. Not the best meeting, racing wasn’t great - track seemed very dry and slick by the end.

If the top 4 and Shanes ride like they have been doing at home, Sheffield should be fine; if Graversen can hit the ground running it should be a comfortable win. Famous last words

He should be ok at home, although think people will probably see what a difference riding in the main body makes. Away from home I’m not sure that it will net us many more points than r/r - hopefully I’m wrong

Graverson is back...

Did not know that!! Thanks