Tsunami

A loan rider is first available to his asset club, Swindon I believe. The conditions of the loan agreement mean that he must be offered to that team first next year, before he can be made available to anyone else. Recent form by a certain team suggests they will have already talked to him. Poaching, let's call it shopping early.

Which demonstrates your lack of recent history. Nowt new there then.

How many more have they poached.

My gossip is £18K between two riders.

Possibly because it isn't 'rough' these days, or can you not see that from the sofa.

As could be seen from the polls taken before the season, Ippy were the popular choice as PL winners, closely followed by the Diamonds and Somerset, and that was based strongly on the strength of your reserves you had signed. The 5 above them could have been strength in depth, big number one or top two big riders, you were stiil strongly fancied. The design of the side did not fail anybody but the form of individual riders did. Of course your start damaged things very early. We were at Redcar on the Thursday night opener for you, and we anxiously awaited the updates of the serious injuries that you were so very unlucky to receive on that night. That night, and those injuries, ruined your start and after that you were rebuilding with unjustified criticism. A lot of sympathy for you after we had a similar year last year, but but for those injuries and a major drop in form of one special rider, Ippy could have walked this league(with us still in second place like )

Here's hoping.

Well Sunday sees the last training session for this year, and the weather forecast is good and sunny, with only a small patch of light rain mid afternoon. As usual it starts at 1.00pm and goes on till 2.30pm with no racing and no starts. It's all about getting experience on a motorbike and seeing if you enjoy it without the expence. Bring your own gear, if you have some, and/or make sure you wear your stoutest boots. Remember it is all FREE and it is for Diamonds fans. Once again, if you can come at 10.00am to lay the dogtrack sheets, it would be greatly appreciated.

Must be nowt on the tele tonight.

Quite agree, for me this was a disappointing result. How many times this year have we lost meetings after being in the lead, and once by 10 points, and still lost. Christian, if his bike was OK, had to be in heat 15. Robbo did not seem like being at the races and even Ned might have been a possibility, assuming he was OK after his heat 14 tumble. The one point was my least expectations, especially with Poole failing to score for Ippy. The one point will be a cushion and, if we don't get 6 points from Edinburgh and Plymouth away, could give us a better position on first picks for the playoffs.

Wonder what BFD's take on that.

In statistics, you should never average an average. Weighted average is more appropriate and there's less chance of distortion.

Nice to see you on form again Mr C. About that sausage sandwich......... Dave

Is it something in the water at Ipswich that produces responses like yours, Snacky, Love,etc.

Limits are applied to the period you can carry R/R. If at the beginning of the season, you suffer an injury that is obvious it is going to be season long, you will not get R/R for the season, but only for sufficent time to genuinely replace the said injured rider. If it is late season, and with the current shortage of riders, the rules have not been applied strictly. It's a genuine case of the BSPA acting in the 'best interests of the sport' but they will not be given that credit by the usual ones on here.

Not the best of meetings due to the succession of 5-1 's, shortly after the first bend usually. I am NOT a Fisher fan, but after his last outing here, he has at last learned how to ride Brough. Tonight he was a lone shining light, plus a subdued Gathercole to a lesser degree, and the only excitement on the track was when he was involved, especially the superb heat 9. Hard fair and fast racing. Yes, at Brough Park to anyone from that new grippy track known as Worky. 3 easy points with a poorish crowd, no doubt due to the absence of Barker. Nice to see a decent assembly of Plymouth supporters, and oh how we can sympathise their plight, attending their speedway but bitterly despising the person they were giving their money too. Let's hope what is in the offing comes to fruition and a decent leadership and promotion is installed that their fans trust and can believe in. On your way Mike but you should never have been allowed to promote in the first case. To allow you to continue this year was one of the BSPA's greatest mistakes this year at the last AGM. Here's hoping next year can see you copy the fortunes of Leicester this year.

And it stuffed us last night as well.

Ah, bless him.

I would refer you to my post#49 which woud be the reasons why it is not in the 20-12 Rule book. NB Also see the post#58 from Catch Me If You Can.

That's what I understood. Due to the shortage of available riders, and the huge backlog of fixtures in England, there has been a relaxation of the rules to give teams more options to agree a fixture.

Yep, the assembled masses at Brough know what racing needs, and that is a bit of grip. That's not the thing in your hair, like.

I'l take your word for that, like.

Looks like the weather is good on Sunday so we should be holding a training school at 1.00pm till 2.30pm. If you have your own gear bring it, and if not then make sure you wear a strong pair of boots/shoes. Should be good, it's FREE, so get yourself there you Diamonds fans.

After last night poor result and performance, maybe Saturday will bring more joy as we go hunting for points. Much will depend on Berwick's guests but the performances of the reserves, especially the senior one Ned, will be what decides who gets the points. Great £10 offer from the Berwick promotion for this meeting so lets hope the travelling Diamonds fans attend in their masses and get behind the team to try and take all the points.

Ring the number, say late at night, and the operator will book your seats for you. Been very helpful twice with me so far, and I got through in about 2 minutes with less traffic at night time.