Shale Searcher

How old is your fence now? The air fence that's not an air fence, it's full of polystyrene balls or some other exotic material... I know they are given use by dates, so to speak, but I think the Lynn fence is looking really tired, old, and tatty looking these days, especially on the tellybox....Anyone else agree that it makes the track area look amateur and uncared for.....?

Anyone know the total from the Ben Fund collection on Saturday night...? A very reasonable crowd considering the only thing at stake is who gets the wooden spoon, and that's pretty much ours to lose now!!!

Finn Jensen was very frustrating, world beater, superb from the gate, as fast as anyone else on the planet one minute... The next meeting he'd ride like a poor MDL rider!!!! 3003 or 3313 3033 then it would be 0020 or 010EF or EF00R or F0T0! Crazy! Super fast kit, obvious quality, but enigmatic...

Ok, so say he replaced KK 3 times in the season.... What does he do the rest of the time? Unless he's an EL 5 pointer, he'd be rarely able to replace other team riders.... and a 5 point EL rider isn't KK like for like..

As promised, thread title changed!

Modern day riders, management and the supporters are getting further apart than ever. The speedway family is no longer a close knit group, and club togetherness is at an all time low.. Meetings are now just another payday for riders... Team race suits are just real estate for riders sponsors, no longer worn with pride...

A double header then!! Whichever it is, I will change the threads title to.....!! 😃

According to the EPG there is a televised meeting from the BEL? But I can't find a corresponding meeting thread?

Just having a browse through the PL results this week. The admission to this meeting was reduced to £10 in for adults and £1 for children... Yes? I don't seem to have found any real comments to the size of the crowd.. I gather from some chatter that conditions weren't ideal with the on/off rain, but what was the rough size of the crowd compared to a normal race night admission?

What's wrong with Tuesdays in the UK, can't remember the last top flight club to race on a Tuesday?? Inless it was us at Blackbird Rd in the old days? Why is it not used these days?

Guests for injured no 1's, 3's and 5's only, or R/R. R/R only for 2's and 4's, No 6 and 7 should bring in a kid from clubs national league team, or nominated national league team if club does not have one... No facility except R/R if 1, 3, 5 riding in any other meeting except FIM competition.... That would make teams think about signings, and meeting planning.... On to tonight, a Lions win by 12 points, weather set fair, NO rain, drizzle, hail, sleet, snow, graupal, heavy fog, light fog anywhere near Beaumont Park!!!! A pleasant 18c to 20c by 7.30pm no real breeze so it will feel warm..

Personally, I don't want Watrose Speedway turning into Lidl Speedway.. Personally, I don't want Watrose Speedway turning into Lidl Speedway..

Well, any scoreline guesses? No KK for the Bees, a fully fit and present Lions Team? Weather? Will do a forecast later today....

It's rooted in the Elite League though, isn't it...... When a rider rides as the Tac Sub, if his team mate is ahead of him, he will slow to allow the Tac Sub rider to pass and therefore get more points.. That needs binning first....

Re: Jason Doyle's comments.... I've never liked the bloke since he deliberately covered me in wet shale at Leicester [riding for Somerset] (That's another story) and since he lost his rag over the lines left by rakers at Leicester, riding for Leicester, [they put him off!] (That's another, nother story!) But that statement was a bit mardy arsed if you ask me......

What did JD say? Didn't get in until 18:45 so missed what he said?

Had swimming caps like helmet colours you mean?? That's a cracking idea BWitcher......!!

Was that Sapphire Engineering? Please, who is the UK promoter, I genuinely didn't know this...

Colin Cook (Blackbird Rd) and Mike Lanham (Blackbird Rd) both on the start/finish straight, both caused by breakdowns in front of them (far to close to do anything) both pretty badly smashed up, especially Mike Lanham, if I remember correctly, Mike Lanham had 27 seperate fractures, I think reported in the Leicester Mercury at the time.... Both crashes horrendous, both pretty unavoidable.. and aifences wouldn't of helped, but having floodlights lamp standards away from the track, would have helped considerably....

It will get to the point that team speedway will be a thing of the past. The bikes will be so finely tuned that most meetings, on most tracks will get postponed because they won't be safe to ride the rocket ships on... After stock cars "Off" to grippy, after any rain "off" to slippy or grippy, in late August and September "off" dew makes it to slippy, in March, April, May "off" due to rain, and dew, to slippy or grippy, so this leaves June and July, when the UK is on holiday, and the UK is prone to thunderstorms....... When will they race?

Will it boot speedway onto SKY Sports 3, BT Sport 2 and off Eurosport for good?

So, what's going/gone on at Leicester? Apart the BSPA V DH saga...?

I was working on the track that night, I was taking 4th Bend... It was horrible, he didn't die at the track, but later on at the hospital. Don't want to ever witness that sort of incident trackside again.. The impact he had with the first bend fence at Lynn, split his helmet open.

So, a quick end to this thread then........!!

Should have stopped pi**ing it down now, the storms should have moved off up north by now, and the sun should have made an appearance albeit - hazily dazily.....😃😃😃😆