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Thank you boz for the fairest comments on the meeting, and the incidents last night. I heard the riders and the ref insisted that the track be bladed, and then bends 1 and 3 bladed again, to lesson the grip going in. Didn't think it was a particularly good idea to dump the excess on the apex of the bends from a safety point, but thankfully nobody went near them. The Richie/Aaron incident was a racing accident, but caused be Aaron cutting in across Richies racing line way before the 1st corner, and Richie, trying to get out of it by steering to the outside, got his front wheel hooked onto the back of Aarons bike. Should have been Aaron excluded, but just pleased that both walked back to the pits, Richie withdrawn and Aaron obviously injured, flexing his right leg off the footpeg and did well to continue racing. No surprise that he wasn't in heat 15. I think some of the Redcar fans really should open their eyes and give more slack to Richie. They still go about the Kus incident, from 18 months ago, and now saying he was at fault for not conceding to Aaron after being chopped by him. Oh Dear. One of the only things that Chris Gay got right all night was insisting on the track being totally bladed, and it did produce a flat safe strip but totally neutral in terms of passing. Dyers pass was only due to Robbo being stuck trying to protect his partner, but on the whole he was top class all night. The gating infringements, pulling back Christian when he made a brilliant gate, and then all allowing the gate from Osterguaard in heat 13 was baffling to say the least. We got talking to a set of mature Redcar fans, and thoroughly enjoyed their company with some thoughfull banter. We even got invited to stand with them at our next Redcar meeting, and surely that should be the standard of relationships, instead of the henious behaviour toward riders like Richie and genuine Diamonds fans. The usual get out being quoted of 'yes we all have them', but sadly the percentage of those fans at Redcar is not acceptable. And yes, We will probably stand with the same fans next time we go down. Thank you for your company gentlemen. Great result at the end, Redcar got their win, which they should have after we lost Richie, and the brilliance of the tactical move in heat 15 for the DIamonds to get the 5-1 we needed to get the point. Not all bad then.

Many thanks to both boz and Pat for your updates.

Many thanks boz. I think we would all appreciate an update when the circumstances change.

Heard that there is a lorry accident on the A66 outside the Riverside Stadium, and the road is closed in both directions until the lorry is removed. Should be cleared by sometime after 5.00pm.

Bound to be third bend.

...and he was the fastest visitor at Brough last year.

Says the girl in Blue about the boys that are Grey. You obviously haven't seen me on the Squash court.

There is a decent rolling chassis on eBay, item number 181127542960. It is currently at it's start price of £99 with 6 days 19 hours to go. Situated in Basingstoke. Hope that helps. EDIT Just checked and it is not an upright, sorry.

Let's know when you want me.

Ha Ha. I knew you would be lurking. Getting there.

Quite right Paul. The promotion and the fans want Andrew in the team, and Andrew would presumably like to earn some money as it is his living after all. Doing OK with RR, but you are vunerable if someone has a bad night or gets injured. BTW Taylorj is usually sceptical when it comes to Newcastle, so nowt new there. You kind of expect it now.

I think Howarth would have known there was no engine noise behind him. He was late looking back for Rusty, on the last corner last lap, but by that time it would have looked so silly and risky, to have slowed down to a crawl to let Rusty pass. I did say at the time I wondered whether TM Jacko had told Howarth that Rusty was on a TR, but of course he did, otherwise Howarth wouldn't have looked back for Rusty. A decent win, which got of to a great start with some lightning gating, but after the sun break and grading, Worky hit back. Their 5-1 in heat 13 was a shock, and it only needed an unfortunate ride in heat 14 or 15, and we were going to lose a point. Fortunately agent Bach ruled that possibility out. Deeper track last night, fast racing with slower times, kept it interesting. The second bend was usually ridden like in the KB days, when riders drifted right across the track midcorner, and rode in the dirt parallel to the fence out of the second. Bit scary at times when especially Luddi was picking up drive, and he was having to put it down straight and quickly with the gas still on. Luddi seems to love it, and was letting the bike run in the dirt, rather his usual fast inside way. Good nights for Christian and Richie, but not such a fortunate night from Robbo, who was not happy with his, or should that be his bikes, performances. Great having the potential of 5 decent heat leaders in the team and a night like Robbo's does affect the score too much. I am sure he will be fine for Redcar on Thursday though. Not such a good night for the reserves with some still decent support for the team but Lewis very unfortunate with an engine lockup when nearly winning heat 2 with ease. On to Thursday now, and Redcar who must perform better than they did the last time at home to us. Dyer was flying until last night against us, and the enigma that is Kus might start to get points that Redcar need from him. Prospects of a competitive meeting. Apart from the grading, which obviously needed to be done when the dirt was loose early on, there seems to be a consensus these days with a lot of clubs to grade every 4 races, a bit like the GP's. Last night was sometimes extensive with water also put down around the outside lines. We haven't always done grading every 4 races, but it does mean the track is kept similar for the whole meeting and thank goodness gets rid of the disturbing INTERVAL which often used to change our fortunes dramatically.

Or, that Howarth was that far ahead of Rusty, who was desperately fighting to keep ahead of our reserve, he did look back on the last lap and realised he could not decelerate that quickly to let Rusty get ahead of him. What the hell, i was there.

Just light rain as forecast Ian. Forecast is for it to clear up before the planned start time.

Weather seems to be OK for tomorrow. Light rain before teatime, but none during the meeting, will give the track a bit of grip so racing will be good between two fancied sides. I go for a Diamonds win by about 10.

Or a Worky fan either.

Get ya sell there.

Quite agree Jack, and just hope Berwick give us a track that can be raced on and not just ridden on. This is a trial to see if they can.

One can see that.

Steady on dear, have i hit a wrong nerve. Gloating, or explaining the circumstances without any comment King.........pretended to be fit. A sweeping statement, without a smidging of truth. Newcastle delayed the choice until Jason could get a ride to judge his injury and therefore availability. Of course any evidence that you have that Jason was pretending to be fit would be welcomed, or an apology to Jase would be acceptable Making me happy is discussing something without someone talking rubbish back. That'll be you.

It wasn't Leicesters choice.

To allow for a full RL pitch would dictate the size of the speedway track. Let's hope the size and width of the speedway track remains the decision of Belle Vue.

Be good if someone copied this and 'used' it in court I think.

The Newcastle promotion waited for broken arm victim Jason to have a ride on a dryish track to test his recovery. In outings at Northside he declared that his rebroken arm had still not healed, and was unable to take the ride offered. Blackburn and Kerr were selected to be double uppers at reserve for Leicester, but Kerr jumped at the chance of a full team place on offer at Newcastle, despite the extra travel. He looked great last night and could have been offered heat 15, but he ended up with a paid max in only his third meeting.

I understand that he is still with Scunny, but must honour the Mildenhall fixtures as first choice. Josh is definately well worth sticking with and there was not hint of a suggestion that Rob would dispense with the services of Josh in his interview with Josh last Friday.