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Well, blow me down!!! The above post I made was meant to be a sarcastic one!!!!! The weather is improving this afternoon, chance of thundery showers, but risk recedes after 4pm, even less chance of any rain this evening after 5pm... Another meeting called off prematurely.. As a fan, i would stop planning any speedway meetings into my diary now completely, and just go if the meeting is definately on, and I hadn't planned anything else. If any other events that crop up on the same evening as a speedway meeting, I'd plan that in instead, knowing that planning a speedway meeting into my diary, is just to iffy.... British Speedway meetings are now less likely to go ahead in dodgy weather than cricket!!!!!

Why doesn't the management do a periscope production of their own, say pits highlights just pre meeting, warming up, rider thoughts, coin toss, track walk, then highlights of 3 maybe 4 races, crowd views, race end fans view (camera views of crowd) interview riders/fans on result, package it up as a 10/15 min weekly promo video, firstly give it to the local tv news sports desk, then onto you tube..?? Win, win?

Rain will be a problem, if you fully believe the weather forecast yesterday..... That's a forecast produced over 55 hours before tapes up....

Chance of heavy, thundery showers, possibly getting organised into longer spells of rain early afternoon.. So, call it off now, save people leaving their houses at 6.30pm and wasting 1 hour of their lives..

Lions riders (other than the reserves) should, and probably do feel embarrassed at their recent performances, and you're right, the track should suit their styles better. If the 1-5 can get 35 between them, that's only an ave score of 7, and Starke and Auty can get 7 or 8 each, we win!!!! I predict a close match, but Lions pip the Aces by 48 points to 42 points....!!!! Ok, ok, i've got me coat!!

I was just using your post as the foundations for illustrating how strong Poole are, and who Kyle has to do better than to get into their 1-5, that's all, not a dig at your post SCB...

Thanks; Did you get any further rain after that or just before or during the meeting? Thanks

Doesn't this sort of statement of who Kyle Newman has to beat to get into the Poole 1-5, just highlights the total inequalities of the teams in the Elite League?

Can some who was there tell us why the heat times were up to 2 seconds slower than normal please? Thanks...

There are some heavy, thundery showers heading Pooles way, quite heavy, convective showers with gusty winds, hail and the odd rumble or two of thunder rolled in for good measure. However, they are fast moving, and therefore, if you do cop one, they blow through pretty sharpish... You should be ok....

Ridiculous!!!!!!!!!!!!!! This is a recent phenomenon... Early call-offs due to weather forecasts, unless it's same day, with prolonged rain forecast from noon until midnight, a meeting should not be called off!! Especially for showers!! When you see rain on a forecast map, not a nowcast map, it is just that, a forecast, except the placing of the rain on these forecast maps are educated guesses and NOT a guarantee. Wolverhampton were very unlucky on Monday, 10 miles west or 10 miles east and they would probably have been all right.. Meetings are called off far to easily now.. Never used to happen, fans don't turn up now for fear of a rain-off, even if the forecast is for "a chance of a shower" Jason Doyle is wrong in this instance, the forecast was on a very difficult day, and not set in stone..

It's actually £106.45, to go speedway, I like to get a taxi there and back, that's £30, have a large kebab on the way, few pints at the track bar when I get there, a burger and chips trackside, I buy £20 worth of 50/50 tickets, a programme, a souvenir from track shop, and a couple more beers in the bar after, whilst I wait for my taxi!!! Come on, speedway costs £17/£18 to watch, any of the other costs are mostly optional!!!!

Weather forecast for Saturday is OK at the moment, A cold front moves through our region during late Friday afternoon/evening, with rain on it, it exits into the north sea over Friday night, leaving Saturday to be cool, mainly dry with odd showers during Saturday day, dry for the evening, temps for Saturday range 8c to 13c, gusty winds during the daytime showers, calming down for the evening hours.. Next Wednesdays weather, I will have a look at the T144+ charts tomorrow to be able to give a broad forecast for that day..

One rider, one team. My take on this is simple.... If a rider rode for only one team, in a small league like the UK Elite League, he more than likely wouldn't be able to make a living, from that job alone, especially in today's economic climate. Apart from the competing costs, keeping a minimum of 2 decent bikes, + the ancillary spend that that carries. Just 1 or 2 meetings a week is not going cut the mustard. So, they need another job, a normal day job does not fit nowadays with a speedway racing schedule, so do what you do for another employer.. Like having 2 20hr pub jobs, to get the equivalent of a 40hr+ full time job. This unfortunately means there are the inevitable clashes, neither club is happy with the clashes. Either pay riders twice as much, that would mean extortionate admission costs with today's attendance levels, or put up with missed meetings. I don't know what the answer is at the moment, especially at EPL level and above..

Can anyone start the BV v Leicester thread for this Friday?

It was announced that that sponsorship had come to its natural end.

Will it matter? They could probably leave half their team out and run Colts instead and still beat us at the moment!!!!

It's easy for to get conformation from the educational institute involved, a conformation by return fax/email is easily achieved. Had a similar problem myself, easily sorted..

Elite League Admission = £17 Premier League Admission is £?? If its only £1 more for EL, then what's everyone moaning about admission to the EL??? Another 7p or 8p per race to watch Chris Harris, Holder, Zagar, Doyle.. Come on folks, get real.!!!!

Don't you just hate it when it's fine and the speedway has been postponed due to an inclement forecast that's at least 48 hours out of date!!!

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What's the weather doing in Kings Lynn at the moment?

The rainfall is quite a narrow band of thundery rain, but looks like it should blow through by 6.30pmish.

That was just it, I didn't fancy being shot at in real life, if I couldn't shoot back!!

Right, I'm in me helicopter, and ascending, hold on, Mayday, Mayday, forgot to get a pilot.. crash!!! On a more serious note, from above, team strengths is a huge issue, but is this also due to there only being 8 clubs in the league?? If the league had 16 teams, the lesser teams would be competing for the 4th play off place, with 12 teams, not just 3 other teams, the difference between a very good season and an atrocious season is just to damn close together...