Star Lady

I agree with your first sentence BUT if Swindon were 8 points up Rosco would want it rushed thro.

Karma

I'd dispute that when it comes to King's Lynn this year. Seems to me Eastbourne riders are pretty loyal too. You can't blame riders, they have a living to earn. It's up to the promoters to use riders that will fulfil their fixtures and get them involved with their fans and more importantly the local community. Even better when they use riders who are local to the area

Well it's livened up a bit now. Still think this track is not worthy of what is allegedly the best speedway in the world.

I don't count the first 2 bends as overtakes. If I missed any after that it's cos I've been sent to sleep lol

8 heats and still no overtaking. At least we saw a "Nicki" in that one

Don't they have to sign contracts for the whole series?

I'm pleased you weren't bored. Socialising is great if you are a regular. My comments were more towards the perennial question of how to increase crowd numbers, both newbies and no longer attends. My family were on the 3rd bend and like you were chatting and joking but had anyone been a first night attender last night what do you think their impression would have been? The days of just providing 15 heats should be long gone. Buster has got so much right but sadly he's let down badly on this issue IMHO. Read the comments from Jacques and Gemini above, it's not rocket science. Interview riders/managers during any delays, fans then have the option to listen to them or socialise. I'm no great fan of Peter York or Mike Bennett but neither of them would ever leave such a long break with no interviews etc.

Sad when the actions of one out of control rider can influence the result of a match. Doesn't seem like justice has been done to be honest.

Delighted Darren Mallett is not as badly injured as first feared, I had a horrible feeling watching the medics treat him last night. Not sure that the stream should have kept their cameras focused on that really. Hopefully Seargeant will be OK, he looked terribly wobbly and out of it as he walked to the golf buggy. Best wishes to them both. As for the delays - necessary of course and I hope no one would expect riders health to be put at risk for the sake of "getting on with it". What did come over on the stream last night was the total ineptness of the centre green announcer. When a crash like that occurs the last thing anyone wants to hear is "rider safety comes first" repeated ad nauseum. We all KNOW that. His job should be to occupy the crowd and (impossible I know) try to take their minds off the crash, I was bored stupid and I was watching Springwatch, Twitter, Updates and BSF as well as phoning my daughter. I can only imagine what it was like on the terraces. Surely it's not beyond the bounds of possibility to have a plan in place for just such an eventuality. Mike Bennett always managed to cover such delays well. Someone put on here very early on about having rider interviews but it took over 30 minutes for that to be done - not good enough IMO. As for the tractors, at least it means the riders in the following heats have a smooth and consistent track to ride on. I hope I never hear anyone complain about the catch fencing again. That's twice in exactly the same place I've seen bikes go over the safety fence and twice the catch fencing has prevented a very nasty incident.

Was the provocation a fellow forum member or certain Cov riders not performing Only joking I fully expected a very close match tonight.

Apologies Lioness. I lost my rag but I won't have anyone dissing my ex colleagues.

The ambulance that is at the track didn't leave. The riders were transferred to 2 separate county ambulances. I hope sincerely you are never in need of the services of a very overworked Ambulance Service. Self praise is no recommendation by the way.

The County ambulance was at the track within minutes. It takes care, time and patience when transferring a potentially seriously injured person from one ambulance to another. The patient would possibly also be eceiving treatmen before being transferred to hospital. I doubt that would concern you tho. Had you listened carefully you would have heard the two tones of an ambulances leaving the track during the rerun,

They were there within minutes,. They cant just pick someone up and dump them in another vehicle. The medi cs concern is for the patient not you.

Weather update. Had 2 short insignificant showers this morning, but the breeze has picked up and it's not feeling so damp. It's now an even lighter shade of grey.

As GB says it's very damp in Lynn. drizzle has stopped and it's now a lighter shade of grey but nothing to dry the ground up. I'm 2 miles from track . If speedball doesn't update later, I'll update on weather for any travellers.

As he is the promoter (i.e. boss) 100% correct. Well sort of sums SS up really doesn't it. Someone states a fact, it doesn't put Matt Ford/Poole in a good light so he throws his toys out. He's not here so you now do it for him. So lets get this straight. Are you saying Matt Ford is not the boss? I've had SS on ignore for quite a while but this Poole thread before the meeting had a far different ambience than previous Poole threads, so maybe his absence is the difference. As for the meeting. I thought the racing for the most part was follow my leader FTG stuff after the 2nd bend so was surprised to read on Twitter that some thought it exciting. The best TEAM won. Poole couldn't cover for their underperforming members whereas Lynn's youngsters stepped it up at the right time to cover for theirs.

As I said earlier. I wonder which one Shovlar would have preferred tonight

Oh ye of little faith lol

Just to join the Darcy/NKI debate. If I wanted a rider to help win a match it would be NKI. If I wanted a rider purely for excitement/entertainment it would be Darcy. Both excellent in their own way.

Debacles like last nights are part of the reason so many of the paying public no longer pay to go to meetings if the weather is iffy. There is much debate on here about falling attendances, I'd suggest events like last night are part of the problem. Spot on, especially the bit in bold. Bit in bold again spot on. The only difference from the end of heat 10 to the end of heat 12, was the cracking race where if memory serves me none of the riders actually racing (as opposed to pootling) actually had any problem controlling the bike. Maybe if we have to have meeting stewards at Sky meetings, they should be ex riders, who actually have knowledge of what it's like to control a bike in wet conditions. They should then advise the referee, who IMHO should be in sole charge of the meeting.

Ah but that's the EL rule book. Tonight they used the Sky rule book . Pearson had been talking up a postponement from the start of heat1. More to the point did anyone spot a pair of purple chinos, with or without brown shoes?

I pay for it so I'll watch it, albeit I have to mute it at times. I don't have that much of a problem with him. He has clearly done his homework. I've learnt riders ages, birtthdays, where they live, even the names of their partners in some cases. I do take issue with his constant references to the start tarts tho, to even it up a bit he should occasionally say that NKI or Hampel has a cute butt Jack asides when there is no action are amusing, I loved his comments about the young kiddies last night. My problem is with Zammy Emoliniki. His constant mispronounciation, mistaken identifying of riders and complete disregard for answering the questions that Jack has asked bugs me in the extreme. His technical knowledge might well be good, it's not something I personally am interested in but there are far better commentators out there. The radio broaccasts from BBCwm and Radio Norfolk were both excellent. Other riders have been used in the past and were far better and they haven't had the experience of Erleminko. If I'm paying for something, which I am via my Sky subs, I expect a professional product of reasonable quality. If I just wanted to watch pictures I'd use a stream with foreign commentary.

According to Sam Ermolenko it's Jesper Jensen