ZakkMetal

Morning all. First ever post on here and it won't be a common occurrence. Just a tad fed up of reading nonsense about the weather and the Leicester track. To be clear, I'm a fan of the sport, not any particular club these days. I live in the area and the rain we had at the back end of last week was beyond ridiculous. Given the daytime temperatures and lack of sunlight there was never going to be any Speedway before this coming weekend . Yesterday was sporadically sunny with some wind which is great, except it's rained overnight and is still raining as I type, so it's back to square one. The local forecast is for rain every day for several days, including Saturday and Sunday. I would suggest we will be extremely lucky to see any Speedway this weekend. I actually chatted with one of the track guys at Leicester a few weeks back about drainage etc, after they managed to get a NL match on after some dreadful weather on a Friday, but that was when the temperatures were a lot higher and the Saturday was sunny all day, and even then the riders found it hard work. I walked the track the following morning and it was sticky to put it mildly. Those guys do a fantastic job on that track and regularly work miracles, so criticism from Charlatans on here is really not warranted. The first and second turns in particular can be under water in the morning, and they'll get a meeting on in the evening, but not at this time of year when the sun doesn't come out to help the process. Just one final thing. I used to pop on here to browse the comments about ten/twelve years ago and found all the nastiness and bickering sapped my enthusiasm for the sport. I recently had a look for the first time in over a decade,only to find the same names having the same arguments. It's a bit sad really. Be nice to each other people. It's only sport, and a very minority one at that... By the time this gets ok'd by the mods it'll be in the wrong place on the timeline, but you get my points.