Shale Searcher

Blimey! It's not just Leicester where this sort of fiasco has happened this year, didn't the same happen in the return? And a televised match an Kings Lynn this season, and Belle Vue last night!! No wonder theres hardly any away support now.. (anywhere)

The same happened at the Leicester v Kings Lynn match, big rain shower (over an hour) we swept all the surface water off, did a bit of grading, and I thought and so did a few others Inc Leicester trackman, that it was ok, after 3 or 4 races, the track would have developed.. but Kings Lynn wanted it blading, and once a blade is used, it usually only goes one way in the UK, and that's off!! And it was off!! UK track material is just not like the stuff they use abroad, and usually UK tracks don't have enough dry material, additional plant to resurface a bladed track quick enough....

Perhaps swap it with someone who is going? I'm not condoning trying to get your money back, but if a friend is going, it's a lot easier, and less hassle... Just saying..

If Harris has a broken rib/s, they take ages to heal, they restrict movement, breathing and hurt like hell, worse pain in world.. I fell off at Scunthorpe, broke 3 ribs and tore the pluritic lining (that's between lungs and ribs) it didn't finish me that afternoon (adrenaline) but from the next day, I couldn't breath, cough, laugh, blow my nose, eat and swallow properly for 3 weeks, before the pain even slightly improved.. Awful place to get a broken bone/s & the tablets I was put on for the pain, and to stop lung infection made me feel even worse!!!

I live 2 minutes from The King Power, we had no rain, but could see small rainbow over ground, smallest shower area ever!!!

Like I said, sorry, I based the thread on meetings registered on the BSF (Didn't include the National League) so perhaps I should have said in the top 2 divisions (missed the Lakeside v Cov because it was rolled into the Cov v Lakeside thread) There is not a GP tonight, are there any other International meetings on? (SEC or?)

No, I think the EL is about right, maybe it could be rounded down to £15, but that would make it cheaper than the 2nd Division!!!! So maybe it's the Premier League that's over priced!! Perhaps that is the £10 version, and the NL should be £5 in........ If the average pay per point in the Elite League was £200, you would need gate receipts to be over £18,000 just to cover the nights basic wages, so you would need minimum 1,000 fully paying adults @ £18 admission How many EL tracks have 1,000 adults paying £18 admission? Not many every week, and we've seen posts on here when crowds have been estimated as small as 700/800 and that wouldn't be made up solely of fully paying adults would it....? How is Speedway surviving?

Thank you very much Neil, that's all I wanted to know, jolly decent of you to clarify this situation.... Shale Searcher..

Sorry Guys, I was looking on the Elite League and Premier League threads on this forum, missed the Lakeside v Cov one, because of the way it was started (lumped in with the reverse fixture) And I could find no fixtures from the Premier League thread!! Shows lack of interest though, doesn't it (especially on here) Are the other ones from the NL?

Hi, I'm involved with track prep at another EL circuit, with the forecast for yesterday (Friday) being quite precise on the rainband exiting the Midlands, and NW saying the track had been prepped for rain (stated this at around 10:00) and then calling it off less than 3 hours later, I was surprised....... I was interested in what changed, because the forecast didn't.... That's all....

With Leicester v Poole postponed due to the weather....... Does anyone think this is not only depressing, but really says where speedway is in 2016, late summer, warm evenings, but not another single speedway meeting fixtured for tonight? Can anyone find out what speedway fixtures were inked in for the same Saturday date (nearest Saturday) for seasons in 2015 2010 2000 1990 1980 Just wondered, if I had fancied going to see some speedway on a Saturday night in previous years, this time of year, what were my options???? SCB, can you help??

Ashley who? Court? Less than what? Please expand?

Trouble is, the sport now is professionally disproportionate... Professional riders. Well paid, not to other sports levels, but we'll paid.. But, everyone else involved, bar the referee, and possibly the promotor/s who can make a little money, or not a loss, are about the only people who get paid!! (Some track curators get paid as well) but everyone else just about is a volunteer!!!!! Spectators expect it to be run professionally.. And it's not.. Perhaps the trackman, didn't get to the track until 7pm? He may well have a full-time job, as most other volunteers who make speedway happen.. And there is one of the problems... The top football/cricket/rugby/F1/etc at least have fully paid, full-time groundsman, and key staff, speedway does not, because there's not enough money, because not enough spectators, because it's a shambles most of the time, because there's not enough paid key staff, because there's not enough money....... .......... ....... .... .. . Do you see where I'm coming from??

If, the top boys, you know, the likes of Doyle, Holder, Zagar, Woffinden, etc cost so blooming much, if we lose them from the Elite (top) League, would that mean the Elite (top) League could knock off £4 to £5 off its admission?? Or, do the Premier League rip fans off by only charging the same as, or £1 to £2 less to get in than the top league???

I have mentioned this before, but never really had a serious reply... But here goes. Is there not something that could be sprayed onto a prepared and rolled/tyre packed track that would waterproof most of the racing surface? Even if it was a "pepper pot" finish, if it could prevent only 30% to 40% of the rain penetrating the surface, that would probably be enough protection....? Gordon Bennett, we can put people into space, transplant hearts... Surely we must be able to invent this???

I wasn't there, but they knew the rain would stop when it did... So, why did they not blade it then?? They could have bladed off the wet top, and then scarified what was below it, and then left it, so that would be then around 7pm (2.5hrs) to blade top off and remove most of it.. That would have given the surface that was left 45-60 mins of low Sun and a bit of wind... What they did do was possibly the worst thing they could have done... Why? They are supposed to be the Diamond of British Speedway, but behaved worse than the "John O Gaunt" Flyers!!!! (a few of us that raced pedal bikes on the corner of Parker Drive/Somerset Avenue) entrance to the old Leicester Speedway, it was 70% shale and 30% tarmac track in front of the turnstyles, but we organised it very well, Inc track prep when it rained!!!!!

Who were not there?

But the trackman would be there on raceday, and the owners, so that's 3 or 4 people, or are the owners exempt from a bit of hard work.... I reckon 4 people, 2 hours to put down, 6 to 8 people to take it up in less than 2 hours... Speedway at all levels relies to much on volunteers, can you imagine a bloke running a business, and making money, and not paying its staff! Oh...........

Who was driving the blade? Surely it would have been Chapman in that case??

Perhaps they thought the vintage? Bikes would clear a line or two.... Who's the trackman now? If it not CM...?

A blade should be nowhere near a track at that time... (Unless you've had a downpour after 6.30pm) Should have been on the track as soon as the rain stopped...

There's defo been posts on BSF saying they were measured up, and just nneded finishing off and delivering to the NSS....

How bad? injury wise?

Of course!! 😁

Seen "ofc" a lot, what's it stand for..?