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Hope you enjoyed it. I suppose some Panthers fans will be disappointed in the result but as a sort of neutral (I did want Peterborough to win) I thought it was a brilliant match and that's all that matters to me. I don't think some of you fans appreciate what a great racing track you have and I wish it was just up the road to me instead of the rubbish Leicester one. Very impressed with the speed the match was run through too ~ all over within an hour and a half and that included the grading and watering. I needed that to renew my love of Speedway after spending an hour the previous evening bored stiff waiting for the sun to go down at Beaumont Park. Racing looked great to me and certainly not a 'one line gating competition.' Really enjoyed it.

Well, you were right about that but no interval thank goodness or there would have been a lot of people facing an £85 fine for being over 4 hours in the car park. So for future visits I've now got to consider not going when it's sunny unless I want to stand around for an hour doing nothing, obviously not going when it's raining and probably not going when it looks like raining so it doesn't really leave many options. No good thanking me for my patience because I wasn't ~ I was actually really cheesed off and I'm sure I wasn't the only one. Speedway really does shoot itself in the foot time and time again. Good crowd tonight but I wonder how many will be encouraged to return. With grateful thanks to False dawn for his company and relieving the boredom.

I'm quite surprised anything on my programme was correct as you probably know.

Well, he rode tonight and scored 8 points if my programme is correct so he should be okay. Won't really make much difference though as Poole will easily win.

That will be interesting considering 4 of the ex Bees now ride for Leicester. I wonder what riders Coventry will use.

Because the cut off date for the play-offs is the first week apparently. Also Colin Pratt was asked to do the fixture list with as many matches as possible during the school holidays. I still reckon SCB would do a better job.

Prescisely! How about keeping us 'old' fans rather than trying to attract new ones who will probably attend one meeting to see what it's all about and then not bother again. By 'old' I don't mean in age before SCB jumps on me and starts quoting anoraks, garden chairs, flasks and cucumber sandwiches etc. Since Coventry closed I'm finding it hard to keep my interest which is sad because I've been a fan for around 68 years but I'm fed up with not being able to see the teams that were signed at the beginning of the season, just a few originals backed up with a selection of different guests. I never thought I would voluntarily miss a match but I didn't bother going to the Lions v Somerset one last week and am now wondering whether to make the effort to go to this one.

Looking at the updates site Wolves were only 5 up after heat 12 so in reality the result could have gone either way but they piled on the pressure in 13, 14 and 15 getting two 5-1's and a 4-2 which made the scoreline pretty huge in the end. Would Garrity have made any difference or not? The jury is out on that one.

And neither apparently can you. The pair of you are like two year olds so the only solution is to put you both on ignore as you are obviously going to carry on with the stupid pointless arguments. No wonder this forum has lost some decent posters over the years as they've got fed up with all the inane drivel.

Yes! That way the rest of us might be able to read the thread/s without having to trawl through all the twaddle. As you seem to get into more arguments than most on here give us all a break and don't bother replying. We can make our own minds up who is deliberately trying to get a response from you so if you don't reply they'll give up.

Don't understand Rugby and can't watch the GP so just as well I am not interested. Lol. Having been on holiday I've got loads of programmes to catch up on so I'm happy. Looks like they have won so well done Lions.

Looks like it as the last time the website was updated was a week ago. No excuse for it with the technology available these days, but perhaps the promoters just want fans to turn up and find out when they get there. Too cold and windy for me so I'm stopping at home.

Always quite a lot of children and younger people at Leicester. Mind you I don't know how long this is going to last if the Lions don't start winning soon.

How do you know they're not? I think Neil Watson might have a better idea what is happening and he's said your comments about the Coventry asset situation are incorrect.

Just to make it clear I 'liked' his post because I live in Leicester and agreed with 80% of what he said but certainly not that bit. I think we all know his views now and I'm rather hoping if there is actually reincarnation that he comes back as a Black Australian.

I'm not at all bothered by any of the things you mention but I would hate for UK Speedway to be as partisan as it is in Poland. Now I've lost the team I supported for over 30 years I'm sort of neutral until I get into the habit of being a Lions fan again and I know whichever team a person supports they are always willing to have a friendly chat. I'd like to bet home and away fans aren't like that in Poland. The only really unpleasant thing that's happened over all my time of visiting different tracks was at Newport, prior to a GP several years ago, when a group of Poles sitting at the back of us kept spilling beer everywhere and we ended up stinking of the stuff, even the poor dog got soaked, so we had to move somewhere else. So thanks but I prefer dull as dishwater to over exuberance, especially if it's fueled by alcohol.

Each to their own. I wouldn't want to be caged in like an animal and I'd hate Speedway in the UK to be as partisan as this. I know I can stand next to visiting fans and have a nice friendly chat throughout a match so Polish style doesn't impress me one bit I'm afraid but I know there are others who would love it. Just not for me. I wouldn't go anymore.

I guess Poole are going to easily win and I'm quite relieved I'm going to have to miss it.

Didn't Todd have a falling out with one of the team? Seem to remember some hassle but can't recall who the other rider was.

Blimey! Even I can remember one of those and not many Speedway things stick in my memory. Just toddling round at the back in all of his heats....I won't say all of his races because heats is the best way to describe his efforts as he certainly didn't race.

It's confusing because gustix obviously removed/hid all of his posts, although you can still see some of the quotes. I wouldn't bother trying to make sense of it though.

I've got him on ignore so can't give any recent examples and I'm not trawling through the archives because I'd only get irritated and that's not a good idea just before bedtime. That's life ~ some people on here find that Gavan, Steve Shovlar or Stevebrum annoy them (to give 3 examples of others who sometimes get hostile replies) but others don't. Those that receive hostile responses often attract them and are quite capable of giving as good as they get. Like I said ~ stick around and see how things go. I'm sure you've got a higher tolerance level than me as I have to watch my blood pressure.

Stick around and read his posts and you'll no doubt eventually realise why he gets these hostile responses.

Thank you for listing them. Looking at some of the riders mentioned I'm not surprised now that they came bottom of the league. As to the Cougars are any of them still riding? Well, apart from Ben Barker who obviously is because even I know that. Ben Powell rings a bell too because I seem to remember him aiming his bike at another rider after a race and he got the sack. I don't think he rode again over here.

No idea who was in the team but 2004 was pretty bad to be a Coventry fan as both the E.L. and N.L. teams came bottom of their respective leagues. Strangely enough I really enjoyed that season as the racing has always been more important to me than having a team where it's a foregone conclusion they will win every week.