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Looks like you got away OK.

I think I read that Lewis has soft tissue damage and a very badly bruised left hip. Nothing broken, but I think a decision will be made early I think. Be interesting, with Pepe replacing Kalle in the Devils lineup, to see if he has remembered the quickest way around it. Unfortunately for him, his quickest way was on the inside lines after a great gate, which these days will leave him vulnerable to the fastest outside lines favoured by most riders now. Solid win for the Diamonds I think and hope for no injuries.

Suggest you read and digest both ski's two posts above yours.

gustix has 'like'd your post, as he didn't think anybody read his.

Also, it doesn't say you are right either. Nobody on here is kidding themselves that the product is better than ever, but on the other hand, nobody in the right mind can say that the old days were miles better. If you hosted a yesterday meeting now, todays audiences would laugh at the non professional and amateur way it was presented. It was shoddy and poorly organised. I must borrow your rose coloured specs some day, but I am very much a realist so I won't bother. BTW you being 'right' seems to be a very high priority these days. Sadly.

Probably the Jamie Smith crash.

It used to be featured on our website for a fair time afterwards. BTW Robbo was hurt, a certain bag between his legs was split, something he was reminding folks, including me, who were trying to help him.

Exactly Rob, which is what gets on others nerves. Scunny can't be this bad again, and sorry to see Ash riding so bad. He is a great lad, with great perception and respect for fans and sponsors, and IMO a credit to the sport. HalifaxTiger was at the meeting when he got hurt last year, and it is great to see him back after such horrific injuries. World of difference though between Ask and Josh though. Scunny will get over this one, even on worse tracks than our superb track.

But in your statistics, Tommy parking his bike illegally on the second bend, and your tape exclusions, count as exclusions and you blame the track FFS. In your previous meeting we had 8 exclusions(most in any meeting we have had, 8 out of 31) and your lot got 6 of them, not all falls as I have stated above. There are statistics and damn lies, and then there are your figures. Yes we do. Ludde was brilliant on Sunday, shades of Rene at his best. Why praise someone and try to claim a victory for that, but then continue to knock him for everything you can think of,e.g, passing own riders, not team riding. And then the final insult that there is only YOU not using rose coloured spectacles. FFS.

Nowt to do with the track, but some Scunny fan who wasn't there would tell you different. Fresh shale was put on before the training school at lunchtime, and we didn't have a faller, and the Diamonds would not have a fall other than assistance from a Scunny rider. Beaten almost every time from the gate, the first corner was like formation dancing, with the inside man blocking that line and his partner taking the scenic route on the outside line and then finishing in that formation. Scunny were just never at the races, but there was some decent riding from Tommy, some from David and Ryan was as usual a handful. Birks just not on track and Josh is as always just a crash waiting to happen. Obviously he doesn't like the second bend where he usually crashes, grabbing a full throttle, lifting and causing mayhem for others around him or right behind him in the case of Kerr, who had to grasstrack to save hitting Josh or his bike. What has happened to Nicolai. No points from home or away from beating a Diamond, he never looked like beating others. Once thing through, pleased to hear Thomas J hasn't broken anything in his wrist/hand, in addition to parking his bike in the pits rather than the second bend like last time. DVD's BTW still on sale I hear from GRT Media to check for yourselves. Very disappointing resistance, but still some good racing, especially from Ludde , and three very easy points.

I was thinking myself just before you posted that, that if Rene had ridden like Ludde last night, everyone, including TWK, would be raving about the performance. Sad that sufficient credit can't be acknowledged by some. Thoroughly devalues all their opinions.

Don't bother with Crumpy99 Ian. He's only here for humour value, and having a pop at others like me. Put him on ignore.

Yes, Loan fees.

As the Pyeman has said, we had to stop the training session due to visibility of the goggles, as it started to rain quite heavy for a short spell. That was about 1.45pm but it has stopped, and the sun is back out and it is dry. No probs for tonight.

The rights to the GP's were bought by Benfield Sports in about 1996, for something like £10M, which went to the FIM.

Was it not thought the Robbo and Lewis K would both be back on Sunday, after sitting out the Scunny do on Friday. Perhaps no guest has been announced, waiting for confirmation that they can ride tomorrow ? Training school on tomorrow at 1.00 till 2.30, but of course, sheets and air fence need to be in place starting at 10.30. See you all there.

Stuart is back on Sunday at Newcastle.

You are spoilt really.

Try hitting gustix's head against the wall instead. Much more fun. Yes, Willie Lawson won it i think about 2003 and it was presented to him at Wolverhampton and when I was asked I hadn't a clue what FAST was.

I agree. A decision has to be made and then upheld by everyone, including the WC. We have enough fannying around at the gate, but more gate doctoring is not good. You could see in future riders having gate mechanics, as well as pits mechanics. All getting a bit daft and it should be minimum gate work.

Average fits as well(checked it last night)

Factually correct, but what's that got to do with Newcastle having more cover than Worky. We have to pay more for our Ambulance cover and all the Doctors are speedway fans, one is my daughter.

The riders are wanting more lines and at the moment the outside sweep seems to be the preferred line with more grip due to the dirt thrown there. There is also a neat line exiting both the second and forth bends, which gives riders the opportunity to nip in ahead of the racer around the outside line. I think in Kerr's case he rode the dirt but needed to squeeze through when he might have waited for a better opportunity. Interesting you mention the quality of the skirt as, as you say, the present thickness skirt seems to be soft and easily ripped. We have discussed this and are enquiring at the moment of the possibility of a thicker or more durable strength of skirt. It doesn't need to be say like conveyor belting, something half way that is more robust, flexible to fit, and doesn't allow the footrest to stab it as easy. If you remember when that Czech rider in the second half on the second bend, and Ludde on the third bend touched the skirt with falls, both skirts were torn very easily. The skirts cost £50 every time as well. They should be more deflective.

There isn't, and hasn't been, a "hole' at Brough, since the days of Tom Owen, with his own on the 3rd bend. The track has shale on it, and it is grippy, something a few of your riders forgot last year with Roynon and Howarth going gung-ho and both getting injured.

So by your careful digging, and using your own figures, YOU are saying that there is only 1.2 falls or exclusions for the next worse track to us, and all the others have only one fall or an exclusion per meeting. Unbelievable and untrue.