Star Lady

Just wondering if we would have had a press release this early if Racers and Royals hadn't posted about 6 Danish meetings

And the whole time some will be singing "Always look on the bright side of life" meanwhile in the the real world

The problem with that is history tends to make folk believe the second sentence will happen. As with much in speedway nowadays it's all about perception. Quite honestly the perception is the promoters are not always on the side of the fans.

Wonder why this is not being ridden today. Wednesday is one of the FRNs, the weather is good, neither team has another fixture in the calendar Maybe next year all matches cancelled on Mondays must be ridden on the following Wednesday. Matches cancelled on Wednesdays must be ridden on the following Monday. Just need to compile the fixtures so each club rides Monday one week and Wednesday the next. Can't be more difficult to work out than the current mess of a fixture list.

Quite frankly if the promoters can't fit in the pathetic number of home fixtures into a whole summer they have no right organising the sport. A cut off date is a cut off date.

If you were clever you would have posted the tweet on here. It's not difficult even I can do it. Of course to do it, the tweet has to be there in the first place

Thanks Steve

Anyone reliable like to give a weather report please.

So deference is proved to be unreliable

It's the word DEFER that got my goat. I defer to no one I try very hard not to predict if meetings will be on or off, just report what I can see, if that helps peple make a decision that's up to them. 2 miles from track and its persistently precipitating again and has been for 10 minutes or so. Stopped since I started typing. There are glimpses of what looks like sunshine over Wills Mothers.

That would explain it being black over Wills Mothers again

Easing off here too now but plenty of puddles.

Careful waytogo28 you will incur the wrath of the club. This is what was put on twitter after Stars Update tweeted it was raining For the record, having posted weather updates from Lynn for many years, it's no longer raining stair-rods but it is raining steadily tho brigtening up over Wills mothers.

It is but much as I love watching Nicki, fairness must come into it and if any of them fail to qualify they should be out. I do agree the series would be much more boring in Nicki's absence.

The way I see it is that Hancock for several years now has preferred to ride safe rather than take a chance (not knocking him for it), he rarely overtakes on the outside and his gating has seen him thro. In the last couple of seasons the newbies have shown no respect for his reputation ( why should they) so his points haul has gradually lowered. Woffinden now seems to have a similar mindset, safety first as he has a significant points advantage. Pedersen on the other hand still has the points scoring hunger and is prepared to put himself on the line to get points which means we are entertained. i personally wouldn't give Hancock, Holder or even Pedersen a pick. The series needs new blood not oldies prepared to go thro the motions.

Agreed, especially if as reported elsewhere the refusal was at a track before he intended to ride in a meeting.

Well said.

Wouldn't put anything past some Poole fans They be a funny lot down in Dorset

I think they have to be given a bit of time. They only took over mid-season so have done well IMO to get this far. What concerns me far more it the Poles attitude towards the sport. They seem to think they can dictate who rides where and when and it will take all national governing bodies to stick together and find a solution to them. So far we have one meeting were Polish rules/likes have necessitated 2 rider changes.

Get your facts right Steve, only one rider commented on the quality of the track, that was NKI. Lambert's comments were concerning an environmental/ unfair to rider cost issue. As I recall Lambert said nothing about the track good, bad or indifferent. For the record I'm no longer a KL fan

Agreed twice as many posts on this thread than on the Lakeside threatened thread.

As Poole have now issued a statement that it has been cleaned and sorted according to guidelines FFS can we put this to bed.

FFS Dock points - unbelievable for something that happened after a meeting. Fine them - well yes in this environmentally sensitive age I'd go along with that but only if the money went to the Ben Fund.

and at NO POINT did I or more importantly Robert Lambert say there was. I can only assume people speed read his tweet, which I don't recommend

Lynn got stuffed - expected There was oil on the track - not expected Shovlar is gloating - expected Situation normal. If only speedway racing was this exciting BTW best wishes to all riders injured last night.