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Rasmus Pedersen caught my eye .

Now is just the time the promotion should be planning for next season . We will be finished end of August barring rain offs which look unlikely at the moment.

Have to disagree with "product on offer isn't what it was". I think the racing has been some of the best we have seen this season. We have something of an issue with underwatering pre meeting often with dust in heat 1. How would you prep the track out of interest ? people have differing opinions that I like to hear while riders also have differing demands that some don't mind expressing. I think Steve knows work is required on turn 1, maybe the close season will see this carried out but I dont know. Big hole is not something I recognise. Without figures not many people will know what the crowds are like in comparison to the last two seasons but i've certainly seen it lower in previous seasons compared to yesterday, Plymouth, Poole (couple of occasions) and Scunny come to mind from 2024 season. You can once again point to the fact that Speedway is caught in a time vortex from a bygone era. The people running it stubbornly refuse to change . Apparently crowds are lower at most tracks, Sheffield issued a warning last week on this very subject which no one wants to see.

Another very entertaining meeting with some great Speedway, well done to both teams for that. The difference today was Monarchs reserve Jordy Loftus who scored more points than the total accumulated by Batch, Vinnie, Niklas and Max for the Comets. Huge thanks to guest Nicolai Klindt who was quite simply different class today, he tried single handedly to get us over the line but as a collective we were not up to the task. If Jonas had been riding today I believe we would have suffered our 4th defeat at home in the league from 6 meetings. There is still time to make team changes and I wouldn't blame the management for going down this avenue. We scrapped well to salvage a point with the 5-1 in heat 15 so well done Nicolai and Drew Kemp for that because it would have been harsh to get nothing from the meeting and was at least some consolation for the home fans.

Aye you got more than a brief mention on BSN last night as well during the Scunny v Redcar meeting . Something to do with having the same name as someone famous. No mention of any royalties though. 😂

dry at the track for last couple of hours and no rain forecast for rest of day on weather channel.

yeah, there probably won't be enough rain to preclude watering so think Steve will need to be busy as usual with regards this.

We definitely need a win right now which will require a collective pulling together to achieve that objective. Getting turned over again at home is not acceptable so it is up to the team to give the fans something to shout about which generally hasn't been the case in the last two home meetings. Come on you Comets lets have some fight . 👊

Me too.

Not quite sure how that could have been missed over here. Shocking if it was.

I wasn't being picky mate, just thought you would want to know bearing in mind the circumstances .👍

Did you have your glasses on when you compiled this Neila . Think an edit is in order marra , it is Jay not Jat and Cartmell has 2 L's .👍

Craig was nominated for a Golden Double ride in heat 18 because his team were more than 6 points behind. It looked like Craig thought he would be starting from the tapes but the rules stated 15 metre handicap. He came off gate 4 and stuck to the outside line getting nowhere on what was a track slicker than usual compounded by challenging weather with sun and strong breeze. Don't think Craig finished the race. He didn't come out for his final race in heat 20 and took no part in the semi finals. Charles Wright also took no part in the semi finals but his team Deadfire Demons won the team event with 30 points. He was impressive being unbeaten in his 4 rides. Of the Scandinavians 21 year old Dane Rasmus Pedersen (9 points) was the pick on the day imo with fellow Dane 18 year old Patrick Kruse (7 points) along Swedish riders 25 year old Anton Karlsson and 22 year old Ludvig Selvin with 6 points each not far behind.

Probably true now JJ has found some form, he fits for Bowes, that new engine must be a good one.

Choice of guest a little surprising. Must have been an acute shortage of available candidates. Bomber admits he is not a gater which is so important at Poole, also usually a critic of track prep at Wimbourne Road ie too slick for him to gain up lost ground. Troy Batch may well have returned more points but that is also not a given. Good to see Berwick keep it tight and I think the momentum could well be with the Bandits now but you never know in Speedway, team circumstances and fine margins come to mind. Should be a good contest on a track where fast gating is also very important, who will have their gating gloves on ? .