Paul Johnson

being a rearranged match i would of guessed many fans may of made prior plans, coupled with 2 meetings in a week and losing at home again last time, and scunny being a steel town i bet some were on shift work, myself and a friend included, i am guessing the crowd was at its "die hard" fan level?, also reading on here about seeing teams turn up with 2 guests( and one saying not howarth again) may have help decide whether to go or not, rob said on the mic to former promoter ted hornsby that he hates stocks but they make a hell of a lot of money to help run the speedway, ps, 6.30 on a sunday for me due to reason above and you may lose some of those who travel furthur a field trying to get here after finishing work

cheers guys, not really heard of IRR until yesterday

how does IRR work? Kerr was withdrawn from scunnys match after a crash and was told IRR didnt apply so only had 3 riders

Not too sure where rob lives, im guessing around or in sheffield so makes sense being close to scunny and on short notice to guest?

i believe its rob branford "We visit Scunthorpe today with guests Kyle Howarth, Robert Branford and Layne Culppit kindly helping the team out in what is a very tough time for the Bandits." from facebook

What a fantastic meeting that was,, well done Scunny,hard luck to sheffield,, no idea how Auty got the nod for Ht 15, think most had Kerr with Ryan or Tofty, but credit to who made the call,,

Im guessing most if not all these riders MISSED meetings. ie, decided to ride for another team abroad, went grasstracking instead, missed a flight home, where as josh decided to stop riding altogether,,, im also guessing 28 day bans are for the first type and 14 days for joshs case?

The riders agreed to look at the track after some work had been done, surely they could or would of said dont bother rob..you cant blame him for the rain lasting longer than predicted, you could argue the fact if boro were 8 in front would they so keen on a rain off? but as it turned out both teams didnt fancy it.

And im sure rob said he hopes little josh may change his mind too

If scunny did want to ride and panthers didn,t. does it then go to the ref to decide?. not certain but if we thought it was ok couldnt we have sent a rider out to show it was?

there was heavy rain on friday night and the track was flooded, rob did say that after the 8 hr amatuer meeting they were working on the track upto midnight, maybe why the track today was sludgy underneath? just one downpour too many?

Didnt seem to be much whooping and cheering when he was announced, apparently a deal was nearly done for berge was was being to greedy

next week 11th against sheffield

the clue was in the first bit... LOOKED ok

The track at the end looked ok, if people were just turning up and saw it they wouldnt have had a clue it was drenched, as we went out the blade machine took off the top dressing and was sludge underneath.just a shame after all the hard work put in for a call off

Chase me was duncan norvelle

looks like a no go for fritz, his posts on facebook says scunny dont have a place for him,,,

if i remember that team was built very late on,just before the start of the season, the pick of the riders had got rides elsewhere, so we picked riders from our amateur meets,, i am sure other promoters were complaining about the team as too weak

he reckons he will be back on his bike on saturday for a practice

xc weather has us down as overcast

has nico covatti got over his injury yet, hes good to watch around the ewr? good result at rough park, well done lads

well done lads.... i dont think newcastle is one of his fav tracks so i didnt expect him to do well

yea best not eh?

tungate rides for lodz hougaard rides for krakow bellego rides for krosno kurtz on his facebook page says he rides for plonia pila kennett sounds a good shout but doubt we could afford him with our crowds, but if the team starts winning the crowd will return helping to pay,and depends what his average would be as hes done 7 matches i suppose it depends on how often they ride in poland, kurtz is not in todays team so do they get told if not needed that week? Scott nicholls for rzesow but not in team team today

Not 100% sure but i think you have to keep a no7 unless he is injured or packs in racing