Parsloes 1928 nearly

Well done to Marc: long overdue a chance to qualify for his first British U-21 Final - am delighted he's done it!!

Last Rye House vs. USA match I saw there might possibly have been another since I missed..) was in April 2010 and the result was Rye House 47 USA 46...!!

And I wonder when you're going to get a life..!

The Dutch riders were a great success riding at Sittingbourne and I think a tour of riders from the Netherlands would be a brilliant idea! Go for it mate!! Remember a sizeable number of the RH 'fans' who post on here are constantly finding reasons NOT to go to NL matches at Rye, so I wouldn't guage too much from it if I were you!!

I agree. And also aren't people just the slightest bit interested in seeing some new names riding... One of the American team is a certain Greg Hancock's nephew for goodness sake...: aren't RH patrons not just a bit curious to see how he goes and then onwards with his career..? Seems some folk just want the same boring old fare week in week out and when something a bit different comes along they don't wanna know...

My, oh my - it was wet at Collier St. Was gonna post results earlier but only just thawed out (thought I was gonna catch my death tbh!) and then had to wait til the sodden pages of the prog dried out!! Solo results as follows: Up to 350cc: 1st. Matthew Etherington; 2nd. Dave Mears; 3rd.Paul Simmons (who was winner of the John Marshall Trophy as best 250cc rider); 4th. Mike Peters 500cc: 1st. Paul Cooper; 2nd. Mark Baseby; 3rd. Danny Warwick; 4th. James Theobald; 5th. Stuart Mears; 6th. Dan Berwick Uprights: 1st. 'The Master of Plough Lane' , Wayne Barrett!!! ; 2nd. Chris Still; 3rd. Lee Oakley

Try reading some of the thread. The IoW is a MASSIVE circuit, couldn't be more alien to the USA lads. And still they were holding their own by end of the meeting (see below). RH is a much more suitable track size-wise for the Americans. A shame after the terrible blow of losing tonight's meeting that so many on here want to try and compromise Saturday's one too by claiming it's not worth attending...

Except that this is NOT the case... As Steve & Laurence have said this is NOT a weak team to the extent being portrayed...

Oh and also the Pope's a Catholic...!

I never made any comment that the meeting should go ahead with the track dangerous... But that doesn't mean it's not highly regretable that this happened. I was once at Birmingham where there was a full stadium, it was dry and yet somehow they messed up track preparation and it was called off... Were the disgruntled fans trudging out of the stadiumI meant to say, ah well that's okay as rider safety comes first..? Of course it does, but it didn't minimise the fact that a mistake had been made. Yes the weather was shocking on Sunday and that's no-one's fault but surely in hindsight it's clear a match two days later was going to be difficult and the fact that the visitors are one's who can't rearrange and have travelled so far should surely have been considered. There were, I'm sure, other options for the tourists if the NA had been ruled out early because of the problems of being so near to the massive Easter Monday Stocks meeting. All very well the usual suspects saying, "ah get over it" - it wasn't them (or indeed me) travelling from across the Atlantic! And this is typical trouble-making... My posting is not in any way an "outrageous attack" and I've made no comment suggesting rider safety should be compromised. If anyone sits behind a typewriter sniping it's you... I actually spend so much time working on actually contributing to the sport I can't get to many meetings... Example tonight, print deadlines to meet so couldn't go to the IoW... What exactly do YOU contribute then from over there in Germany..? Oh, and do you honestly think the US tourists are happy that this has happened..? I very much doubt that..

I disagree. The USA team have come all the way from over the Atlantic to ride Speedway. Of course there's never a guarantee that there may not be rain -offs but this is not that is it.. Surely as there was this big car meeting on Easter Monday there should NEVER have been arranged a fixture for the tourists just 48 hours later...? Because clearly there was always this strong possibility that the track would as a result be unfit. That way the USA team could've arranged an alternative fixture. This way they lose one fixture entirely and I personally think it makes our sport look appallingly unprofessional.

Well let's hope that the weather's okay for a ticket to Ryde tonight (Tuesday).. Certainly plan to be there myself provided it is...

You've lost me... What was the question..?

Am acutely embarrassed on behalf of British Speedway that a car meeting on a track on a Monday can mean the cancellation of a pre-arranged Speedway meeting on a Wednesday involving a visiting side from overseas, who had - obviously - long pre-arranged this.. In fact I can't easily recall a more embarassing or damaging incident.. Truly and deeply, pi$$ poor disgraceful..

So what was all that nonsense posted on here before..? Namely:

Hmm, fascinating to hear that Blazeaway has posted 8k times (actually it says on his profile that's over 9k - does this mean he's made a further 1000 postings since yesterday morning!!?) Personally I have no interest in what he posts. Just a casual observation that when he's not preaching a doctrine of football club hatred (in the name of a football club from a city a couple of hundred miles from where he lives!), he seems (just an observation, mind) only to want to be massively negative about everything to do with the sport of Speedway. Of course if he wants to buck that trend sometime and say something positive or even, dare I say it, helpful or constructive we'd be all ears!!

I understand that apparently if a meeting's covered by Sky not allowed to have a 'second half' AJL (or indeed anything else) fixture... Anyone explain WHY that would be the case..?!

Hmm, IF being the operative word... No rain at all in Essex/north-east London today. How come RH is the ONLY track in the country which makes such early decisions to call off..?!

WHAT..?!! Who the hell has come with THAT as a ruling... That makes zero sense. IF one is to have such a crazy 'system' surely the lower seeded rider should be given the advantage...!

Cheers mate - great stuff!

People have been very mean-spirited about Michael's efforts. For the likes of Blazeaway (who's never posted a positve comment about Speedway in his life) that's par for the course, but I am surprised (and disappointed) at how negative Jack (olddon) has been... We DO really need a place where the AJL team news and results can be shared and found in one place. I hope somewhere and somehow that important thing can be sorted...

Well yes there's a standard 'formula' for a dead-heat where the total pointsavailable for the two placings are added together and, er, halved. Thus a dead heat for first means each riders gets 2 and half points. A dead heat for second each rider gets 1 and a half . A dead heat for third, each rider gets a half. Though a dead heat in a GP race is unlikely, clearly that way of scoring it would apply.

Bloody hell - that's awful news...

How many dead heats have been declared in British league racing over, say, the last ten years..? Not many at all would be the answer.. Maybe more SHOULD be called. Certainly back at Crayford in the '70s it was not an unheard of thing at all...

Have a hot cross bun to take your mind off it!!