ouch

Like taking candy from a baby.

Would a full scale work out with 14 plus riders over a few hours have highlighted any problems with the track and thus made the abandonment unnecessary?

By who?

Yes.

It makes you wonder why Alan "Doc" Bridgett and Colin Meredith and SCB referee Graham Flint and David Gordon and Chris Morton and (immediately after the track walk/inspection) Tia Woffinden and Nicki Pedersen and the other 16 riders including Richie Worrall and Max Fricke who has ridden the track at length the day before and Breedon aggregated (shale supplier) and Mark Lemon and everybody else I've missed out didn't say the meeting should definitely be off before we all got let in. It's almost as if (I'm going to go out on a limb here folks) they ALL thought there was a more than good chance of the meeting going ahead.

Why??

1. Why take responsibly when its been made clear it wasn't their fault? 2. Pointless. I think they would have given all the credit to the contractors, but like you I'm guessing and making things up, so its pointless. 3. Factually incorrect. 4. They have only blamed the people at fault. Is that not the correct thing to do? They have not blamed the riders, fans, caterers, security etc so they have not blamed everyone at all and you are again incorrect.

No, it was awful, as was Kings Lynn.

FTG

I'm guessing it will be 11 tomorrow being Sunday and all. In all seriousness you should have it this week and if not I'd chase it up.

Currently the only days we don't have fixtures planned is Tuesday's and Thursday's. There was restrictions mention early on but they seem to have been relaxed a bit. There were also limits on the amount of track time (practise or match) per week and I'm guessing they are still in pace to some degree. Fitting all the fixtures in isn't a concern yet if we take to the track in the next week or two. I can't though, see season ticket holders getting all the extra six meetings they were promised so something will have to be looked at there.

I think it's the fact they want to see him doing well in the British final.

I think Phil was referring to mrscambelt saying the contractors were off site. It's incredible that this could happen. I thought The Aces would have more luck moving to a new track but it still seems to follow us. The management must be going spare.

FFS! That's the weirdest post I've ever read.

Going off last year at least 6. 20/6/15 we rode our 9th away match having only run 3 home meetings.

Nobody got hurt when the ceiling fell in as the room was empty.

As it stand the Colts are due to race next Friday with the Aces taking to track the following Monday. If this happens we will be ok fitting in all the fixtures. There is a hope to stage practice next week and a meeting of some kind on Wednesday. I'm not banking on that but admire The Aces promotion for continually setting targets for the contractors. It's incredibly frustrating for fans but I'd imagine work would move at an (even) slower pace if announcements of fixture dates then postponements where not continually in the public domain. All I do is remain hopeful for the next deadline but to keep suffering the disappointment of a call off is hard to take.

It became pointless the more tracks and machines became gate and go unfortunately.

Fact alert! Belle Vue have taken extra staff on to sort the refunds and only the refunds. Imagine you lived in a bungalow called Bell View and you had a plasterer called Colin sort out your ceiling in readiness for a big house warming you were planning. Unfortunately due to the weather the ceiling falls in revealing a defect in the roof left there by ISG roofing. Who do you have a go at? A. Colin B. The nice people living at Bell View C. ISG Roofing If the forum is consistent I know which on I'd put my money on.

Not sure if this is true but we could have done with quality inside information like this over the last few years. Having only joined last week we can look forward to more of your knowledgeable posts.

So every time folk say a track has problems it means the match is defiantly off? What about Cardiff and all the other instances where the meeting went ahead despite rumours beforehand? Was there coach loads of riders etc hanging around the track in March, of course not, the speculation was sparked following the SCBs refusal at that time to issue the track cert, and Chinese wishers spread from there. I’ve spoken to the management and they thought the problem was with the shale, the top bit of the track – their bit. They didn’t think the construction company would have made the base and sub base in a different manner to the rest of the circuit and this only came out when the surface was removed. Anyway, every cloud has a silver lining. People now are mentioning Belle Vue to me and are looking forward to giving it a visit in the summer so as they say there is no bad publicity. Yes there has been a good few Craven refunds but the penalty clause cash will return that in spades. With the problems over the years and these initial cock ups from the construction company Belle Vue are well placed in offering expert advice on sorting a new track if anyone should need it.

The beginning did it for us, after that we pretty much matched them and considering we had to use EDR's to cover a rider currently third in our averages, I'll take that. I don't know if we just picked the wrong gates to begin with as that was unfortunately where the match was decided. As a sport we need to work on this to entice the newbies in who have no allegiance to a team and just want to be entertained.

22nd of June last season we rode our fifth home fixture. If we ride our first home EL fixture against Kings Lynn on May 2nd then we are due to ride our fifth fixture on the 17th of June - amazingly ahead of last year.

Yes your right actually. I'm just naturally assigning one of Joe's rides to Steve from the off. Joe will have to take all his rides so in a way it robbing Peter to pay Paul.

I think their must be. Don't forget even on opening night the stadium wasn't ready as the back straight terracing is temporary, there were porta loos instead of finished loos and the South stand car park was full of construction equipment. Trouble is it will take time to sort the penalty clauses and it will have to come via the council. Gutted for the promotion.