Happy Hunter

Considering that the play offs are supposed to be on Monday & Wednesday next week the silence from both teams and the BSPA is deafening!

It would be far easier for the relegation spot to be decided by the bottom two teams in the top league having a home/away play off.

Newman did not ride for Ipswich last night - out injured. Anyone know if he will be fit for BV tonight or tomorrow/

Newman did not ride for Ipswich last night - out injured. Anyone know if he will be fit for tonight & tomorrow?

According to the SGB web site Howarth and Kurtz are guesting for the Lions tonight.

I thought that the attendance looked o.k. It was certainly not less than the attendance for the previous time the Lions rode at the OTA which I had the misfortune to attend!

I am a BT customer so get BT Sport for £5 a month. All the speedway plus football and, this winter, the Ashes. Cheap I reckon.

Did the 6 riders who actually rode for the Lions also have to pay an extra £50 each to cover for the one who wasn't there? Sort of rider replacement fine!

Suspect it will be on. Weather beginning to clear up and a fine evening forecast.

Been some heavy thundery rain three miles from the track in the last hour. Having looked at the line ups I should think the Lion's promotion will be desperate to get the match on!

Some rain forecast for tomorrow but the evening looks like being fine.

More injury worries for Lions. Bjerre & Newman withdrawn tonight through injuries.

I thought I had read somewhere that it would be a guest for Kim whilst he is injured and R/R for the injured Pole.

He will do well to recover from a break in less than three weeks.

I think it would be good to get Glyn back on the tractor!

Birstall. Admittedly is was only drizzle. Its much brighter now.

And I thought the Lions had problems! Had a lot of rain in Leicester the last few days and its still raining. Forecast is for a better afternoon/evening so expect a long sun delay if the meeting is on!

Don't we have to have a Brit at reserve? In which case it will be Riss & Newman.

I expect that the Bees team will be Rye House in disguise plus Rory Schlein. I won't be there!

What a silly price to charge! Why not just a tenner! I would have thought that the least they could do would be to give all season ticket holders a free programme, especially as there have been reports on here about the poor quality of the food on offer at BP.!

Looking at the Lions fixtures Garrity might well be fit before they ride again!

I thought Nilsson won heat 11. Perhaps I was wrong but I don't think so.

That's what happened on Saturday in the Lions v Rebels meeting.

I think there were some mitigating reasons why there was a poor crowd last night. To start with the Lions performances have, to put it mildly, been poor, the weather was poor with rain expected any minute, the opposition were not particularly attractive, and there was live football, rugby and the GP on TV. Did anyone else think the referee had a poor meeting? The chaos over the gate positions for the last heat was unbelievable. I could not understand why the referee, track officials and riders did not know the rules! Also was I the only one who saw Kurtz move whilst the green light was on in heats 4 and 9? Why were they not rerun when several other races were because a rider moved whilst the green light was on.

Garrity has broken bone in hand according to SGB website. Nothing on the Lions website - there's a surprise!