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Can't be there tonight as i am in Marmande for the Longtrack, gutted to miss this one as the last couple of nights performances could just be what is needed to give us an unlikely win, reserves berths seem to be the key and i have been impressed with Ben Morley at Kent, get him on better equipment and he may soon be ready for another go at PL. Fingers crossed that we can get a lead and finally hold it til the end

I was a longtime paramedic for the London Ambulance Service and you statement re multi casualties coveyed in one vehicle is incorrect. Had you been right then both would have travelled in the county vehicle last night, indeed many vehicles nowadays are incapable of conveying two ambulatory patients Equally two ambulances would still require a paramedic for each vehicle and the expense is simply too much.

Steve is doing well and so he should in reality he is a top end PL heat leader as long as he is 1 right in the head and not distracted and 2 Has two decent bikes which in the past he hasn't managed to keep. I have watched Steve since he was fifteen at Rye House and he is very talented but sadly lost his way. If he is serious then a good season at Kent should see him back in the PL where he belongs. As far as track records go at Lakeside i understand you point but it's all about the shape at Lakeside and it simply doesn't allow full throttle racing as it is far too tight in the bends, it's really not surprising Kent has a quicker time even in the N L. Track conditions etc don't really come ino the argument and i'm sure Steve would be the first to admit will everything going for him he would be lucky to get within a couple of seconds of Andreas

Stoke are a saturday track Simon couldn't ride for both teams anyway

Well although for once not supportive of the Promotion in this fiasco of a season i find i have less to agree with fellow fans. Kling, Klindt, RR Guests all being supported on here. Kling? I would have thought we had seen enough, Klindt just because he has EL experience,lets not forget his form was awful and just because we are in the PL doesn't mean he will come and bang in the high scores. RR touted as being acceptable because as it is for mear all riders can have a ride, well against Newcastle it got Four points Guest well slow starting Josh tried against Newcastle but guests rarely work unless we can have Doyle every week. Too much dithering and apathy. To be honest i didn't care about having points to spare at the start of the season as it looked a decent team as long as we didn't get injuries but if we did then we had to be decisive and bring in adequate replacements for the long term. That hasn't happened and unless Jason comes back quick it really will be oneman and his dog on the terraces

Rye House v Newcastle 22/6/13 Kent v Rye House Raiders Kent v Buxton Kent v Isle of Wight

Beaten by a better team who were lucky not to be penalised more harshly for their antics at the gate. No nightmare from Lambert, a bad fall that many would have retired from the meeting after, a very good ride that saw his overtake in race two in exactly the same place and situation as his big crash where he broke his ankle. Found himself replaced by another reserve who had great reluctance to move off the white line. Match was lost by very poor return by Jason Bunyan and a Josh Autey that was never going to score heavily against fast starting opponents. Demoralising programme notes from Len re the injuries. His reluctance to replace even temporarily Allen and Garrity will be rewarded at the turnstyles. All in all a decent meeting but with the season half gone i have done only seven meetings and despite the thin racing calender this season we have started to resort to double headers. Only saving grace this season could be make some changes now and get ourselves in a place to challeng Redcar in the Cup Semi.

That was a very different rider to ipswich at Lakeside tonight. I will give him the benefit of the doubt as he lost his first bike before the meeting, but the over riding going nowhere rider from Foxhall became a very decent rider at Lakeside. I hope Nelson does this tonight if its on however its more than likely that he is doing what most riders do when doubling up, more effort and better preperation for the Elite. After all his prep work couldn't have been worse at Foxhall and may have caused us to come away with a 20 point defeat rather than nicking a point.

As a Rye fan i have little interest in what the Presenter has to say i assume it is indeed the bloke in the white coat and if so....since first watching speedway around 1962 as a nipper i have have spent tousands and thousands of pounds watching the sport. I have been to an awful lot of abandonments, rain offs where the promotions let fans in knowing racing wasn't going to be on but still took our money and of course at my dear Rye House several meetings that should have been on but were called off early. All i ever want from the Promotion is honesty. As they say rubbish happens and if it means i turn up at Foxhall and the meeting is lost because of the wether then so be it. However to use the forum to have a pop at paying fans when they complain about the relevent speedway promotion is bang out of order especially from those who don't actually pay to watch speedway on thursdays and sundays. I hope the meeting is on for both sets of fans who have a lot to endure following their sport, that said i hope it pisses down near the end you get soaked for the idiotic comments you make on here

Thought the bloke was pretty awful, nearly as annoying as Rossiter.

Have been watching racing at Rye since 76 and if there is a better, safer fence in speedway then i have yet to see it. Since Silver took over the stadium and binned the dog racing all potential horrors outside the track have been removed, like starting stalls electrical control boxes etc. i took some photos at Rye when Simon Lambert and Rohan Tungate locked together and Simon finish up ten or more yards into the sterile area. Had that happened at certain tracks that have airfences he would probably been seriously injured. Without digging clubs out there are several that have heavy metal equipment within a few yards of the outside of the fence covered by an inch thick piece of foam, ridiculously dangerous. I do agree that the majority of seating areas at Rye will become obsolete as you simply wont see over the fence. I also saw Piotr Swiderski hit the air fence head on at Ipswich and was catapulted into the air landing a long way out from the fence, didn't do its job, lucky it didnt happen at Kings Lynn or Mildenhall otherwise he would have hit something solid. Ok so Ipswich have an airfence but that didnt help Mark Loram much as he missed it. False sense of security as other more serious dangers are forgotten as airfences are the flavour of the month of course the riders safety is the most important thing but are they the best judges. How many complain about the closeness of the lamp-standards at places like Somerset, or the solid concrete wall at Kings Lynn that would be hit if they silde under the fence or the metal stock car fence at Kings Lynn or the Electrical control boxes a couple of feet from the airfence at Mildenhall. Airfences are an easy bandwagon to jump on and forget things that are potentially far more dangerous

5 pts per meeting for how many meetings ? 3 assuming you are talking mear. RR rides taken by guests who are rarely reliable and JB who has only just come back from injury himself and runs out of steam before the end of a meeting supported by an extra ride for Nelson who looked far from classy at somerset and rye last week. No RR comes off once maybe but could you go to Ipswich with any confidence using it? For me no.

Tony why would len silver transfer a licence to Kent when an application to simply join the PL would be welcomed. Len silver pays no rent at Rye so his income comes from the paying customer and food and drink, why would he possibly want to decimate that income by switching to NL racing. No the problem for me is that we have lost regular weekly racing due to his interest in Kent which has clearly affected the crowds at Rye. He has made some bad misjudgements of his Rye fans for a couple of years and that is why he is in trouble, now taking his finger off the pulse to assist at Kent has seen further decline at Rye and yes that does cause concern for Rye House Speedway. In the old days Len would have several clubs on the go at the same time, those days are long gone

We have never been better off with rider replacement and won't be this time either. I simply want to watch a team with seven riders, we always get caught out generally having to commit reserves to six rides each with little scope to cover for injuries, tape exclusions or just general replacement of poorly performing riders.

Robert Mear quits....so what changed between him signing and now? Welcome back RR i fear.

I was thinking the very same thing tonight while watching Somerset v Edinburgh. There seems to be some skill being used in selecting a well matched meeting from the PL while half the problems in the EL matches seem to be the mismatched meetings they chose to show. I was down at Somerset to support Rye House and the meeting was rubbish but they chose to show Edinburgh a much more evenly matched meeting. Similarly the choice of Newcastle at Berwick. I honestly believe that sky may well go down the route of a cheaper show next season from the PL as they have done with other sports, as far as Ipswich and Rye House being slated Leicester is slated far more and generally by the home fans. Lets see how Leicester v Glasgow would fare on the telly

So far this season i have seen twenty odd meetings spread over the three leagues and GP and i would say that this meeting was the most enjoyable by far. the track looked pretty good and the racing decent. charles Wright had a particularly good meeting. Yes the bottom end of the Kent team is weak but that will only improve. Hour and a quarter done and dusted how Other tracks could learn from this. Congratulations on the meeting. The NL at Mildenhall has been my favourite venue over my Team Rye House and my local track Lakeside more meetings like this and Kent will be right up there

While i agree about the presentation etc the bottom line is that two things really matter. The racing and a winning team. With Garrity in the team we have both without him we have neither. By the time he returns we will be an embarrassment in the league and the only thing left will be a shot at the KO Cup, never a great competition for us but a Final would be a decent achievement but to do that we need to ditch one of the reserves who at the moment are just not at the races.

what i would say is that some rye fans have got their wish. Back in the good old days of match bonus points we were thumping most teams by thirty points at rye. There were cries of i'm bored with the big wins. Well for certain the days of big wins are long gone replaced by the big defeats such as the ones at somerset. I had planned on visits to places like berwick, Scunthorpe worky and newcastle but its no fun when we are so crap. Amazing how the interest in our season is hanging on when Garrity will be back. The moment he was injured the interest waned

only one s in busybody

Having taken a while i thought the track had just got back to being a decent race strip, how wrong i was after last nights farce,the dust was back right from heat one and with pretty decent riders unable to get round the second bend it makes you wonder. I know the track at Kent looked a bit thin perhaps some material was packed up and shipped there. Robert Mear no bike to ride in heat fifteen pretty much summed up what i expected to get from him, often happens rider drops a league and misunderstands whats needed for the PL. such promise from Nelson and Lykke seems to have stalled so very little to be positive about. The place is crying out for an experienced ex rider to come in and manage the team affairs. If RR is the chosen path for Olly then i think enough is enough

Broken arm for Olly wonder how long before Adam Roynon gets a call, assuming he is still without a club in the PL

Back to Rye House

Well after years of foolishly supporting Len Silver i think i have seen the light. We left the National Motor Museum at Beaulieu to watch that load of trpie last night at Somerset and wasted a load of money in the process Olly Allen woke up after the meeting was well lost, had an awful start. 5/10 for effort Andres Mellgren dodgy first ride then was excellent. Silly mistake for the tape touching but was that fast that he could have beat Doyle all night 8/10 Jason Bunyan started real fast with plenty of effort but tailed off may still be unfit 6/10 Robert Mear...why bother, not at the races, when he did gate looked like he was riding a dog 1/10 Tyson Nelson track made for him seemed to be trying too hard intitially then just evaporated and rode like novice 2/10 Kasper Lykke seemed fast enough but one race apart he was never on the right part of the track at the right time 3/10 Simon Lambert, no way is the boy fit (that i know) on a track where he should score well he was way too tentative 2/10 John Samford...mr motivator gave the black and white to Allen who looked poor in his first race, no surprise when he trailed in a poor last. I know he comes cheap but why bother with a team manager Len Silver far too much on your plate, too much interest in Kent while he obviously feels Rye will bob along on its own A win against Plymouth on the cards as they will be understrength but never haver have i been so disgusted in an away performance, well not for a long time anyway.