WembleyLion

No disrespect intended and he may well get better but from what I saw of Rafal Konopka last season he would have struggled at NL level. I have noticed an improvement this year but many British youngsters would have been delighted to have had the number of PL rides Rafal has had over the past two seasons. Something is very wrong here!

I'm not sure who I would nominate as the worst. In recent times Dave Robinson, Tony Steele, Jim Lawrence and Barbara Horley have often left me far from impressed but there are a few other candidates as well.

Looks like Ward is trying to get banned again judging by his twitter comments!

So with the Coventry B fixture now scheduled in for 27 July it looks like there will only be one more 2015 meeting at Lakeside after the end of next month (31 July).

Quite agree - Lambert actually did all he possibly could to avoid riding at Peterborough and at the end of the day it was only the FIM 24 hour ruling that got him off the hook. The Panthers should get rid of him but only when it suits them to do so!

I really enjoyed the closely fought meeting last night which could have gone either way. I wish Sheffield wasn't a 300 mile round trip for me so I could visit more often!

Having followed them very closely and both were my favourite rider for most of the time they rode I would say John but not by much.

If they were Babs would certainly be out of a job!

I thought Davey Watt 'called off' the meeting off at Lakeside and then everyone followed his lead!

Given the awful weather forecasts the meeting should have been called off by lunchtime. Ordinarily I believe that would have happened so I can only assume the Sky factor results in different decisions being taken.

I couldn't really tell from where I was but Babs is not renowned for good eyesight!

I think Rob Branford was nearly back in the pits in heat 1 before the timekeeper stopped the watch! I was surprised they bothered announcing what was clearly an inaccurate time. Anyway a very enjoyable meeting and the result could have gone either way but well done to Coventry Storm.

I think that rut has been there for a good few years!

Fairly common place now Tony especially when a weak referee is involved and we can't even blame Watt, Schlein or Batchelor this time. From what has been said last night I think some riders need to re-consider their career options!

The racing at Prague is not usually that good and favours certain gate positions quite significantly. When I was last there it rutted up quite badly around turn four as well! It's a great city to visit though!

I wonder if he had to be asked!

I remember Belle Vue walking out at Hull in 1974 I think. It was 15 - 9 after 4 heats and ended up 60 - 9! Also Reading walked out of the last three heats at Hackney once - result 45 - 30! A cock up to come to mind was Berwick sending the wrong two riders out for a race at Rye House a few years ago. They were both excluded after the end of the race! More recently Barbara Horley changed the race result of heat 2 at Rye House but only after a few more races had been run - made a right mess of the programme!

Also us diehards who generally put up with these situations are dwindling in numbers. Who will be left when we hang up our Programme Boards cityrebel?

I struggle to understand why this was not called off several hours ago but Ipswich have form with late call offs.

Initially I had planned to take this in and stay over in Ipswich and then travel to Peterborough on Friday where Glasgow were also due to ride. Following the Peterborough postponement I was still hoping to do Ipswich as a one off but a round trip of 240 miles and the poor weather forecast made me abandon plans yesterday. I was also caught out by a very late call off at Ipswich a few years ago and vowed not to go there again unless the weather conditions were forecast to be dry throughout the day of the meeting.

Strange that you should act dumb and pretend there was no confirmation of the meeting being off then!

Yes take a look!

Just in case anyone was thinking of going on Friday this meeting has been called off. It was announced at the meeting this evening and is confirmed on the Peterborough website. Feel sorry for any Glasgow fans who were planning taking in Ipswich on Thursday and then Peterborough.

Yes that's right and a few other things to talk about as well, Also the End of Season Dinner Dance (or whatever it is) was mentioned (not by Jon Cook though), Seemed a bit early to be promoting this but given the circumstances perhaps not!

Unfortunately Scott is another rider who turned his back on his country!