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Sadly, due to Peterborough beating Lakeside tonight, the Comets have been denied the chance of topping the league table ! It would have been brilliant...but heyho.

Sadly, due to Peterborough beating Lakeside tonight, the Comets have been denied the chance of topping the league table ! It would have been brilliant...but heyho.

Aaron Summers Guesting for us Another rider (dont know who), confirmed as guesting for us. Another Guest trying to be sourced. Rasmus hopes to be riding for us.

Josh Pickering not available...picked to ride in Poland tomorrow !!

Weather forecast now MUCH IMPROVED ! Nothing like as much rain fell this morning, as had been forecast ! Latest Met Office forecast at 1pm shows no more rain all afternoon (Sun is out now). BUT....an hour of VERY heavy rain between 6pm and 7pm only..then dry all night after that. Fingers Crossed !

Ben Barker was in the Derwent Lounge after the meeting last week, and he was asked directly if he was guesting FOR US in the Peterborough Meeting ? His answer was a definite YES. So what the hell is going on here ? This smacks of something underhand !

Terio Aarnio guests for Dan. And Peterborough have Coty Garcia for Tom Bacon, Jordan Stewart for Simon Lambert, and...wait for it.................................................... BEN BARKER for Scott Nicholls ! Aaaaaargh.....NO....this cant be true ??? But it is ! http://www.peterboroughpanthers.co/news.php?extend.3472.2

We are definetly entitled to a GUEST for the meeting at Newcastle in place of Nicolai. So no need to worry...we defo wont be getting a NL rider to take his place. !!

All safety helmets to the ready !!

Seems that Lakeside Management made a boo boo....Steve Worrall had been asked to guest for Richard Lawson, and he had agreed to do so. (It was even confirmed on the Lakeside Meeting Preview on their Website !). He actually got here to the stadium and Jacko swiftly pointed out that he is ineligble to ride tonight due to the 8 day rule ! Lakeside seemed to have forgotten about this when they asked Steve to guest !! He was spotted driving out of the stadium in his van shortly before the meeting started. ...Oh Dear !

The Lakeside 1-7 as advertised on their site here : http://www.lakesidehammers.co/workington-v-hammers-preview/ ...IS INCORRECT !! Not sure in what way it is wrong as yet. Awaiting word !

Can anyone confirm the Lakeside 1-7 for tonight please ? Its not published ANYWHERE !! Amazing ! Thanks

From what I understand from management, (Admittedly via a third person !), we should have a full complement of riders at Redcar on Thurs. We should also have a full complement of riders at home to Lakeside on Sat night. I believe that either NIcolai or Rene could be missing at home to Redcar on Sunday, but the other will be here for the Comets. (Something to do with one of their clubs in Poland no longer in the play offs, so they shouldn't need whichever of the two they normally call for) Hope this helps, but it maybe just confuses the situation ! Lol

They have probably changed 15 times since THAT far back !

Maybe he used to suck on a piece of damp cloth ?

Yawn......and I bet you worked "down't pit when yer were only 14 too !

Hey....less of the "posh people on Corporation Rd" comments !! At least people in that area actually do the decent thing, and get OUT of their bath for a pee..(unlike some people in a neighbouring town 8 miles south of Workington.)

I think we will ALL be extremely shocked the day that YOU have nothing to post on here Jenga !

I totally agree Jenga. Tony Jackson has always been totally and utterly devoted to his work for the Comets, over many many years. He should be given an award for all his work, much of which is done in his OWN TIME ! I cant help but think though, that with all the shenanigans that the poor bloke and the other club management have had to constantly battle against this season, he and they must be at the end of their tethers.

I know Tony Jackson personally, quite well, and I can assure you that he could not attend the AGM because of personal family commitments (and believe me you would not wish to have those commitments yourself !). His place would have been taken by other management members, but I also know for a fact that they had untimely personal family commitments too !! I appreciate you werent inferring it, but please....no-one should think that our management just simply "couldnt be bothered" to attend the AGM. If you knew just how MUCH of his personal time Tony Jackson puts in week in and week out to sort team issues out, you would find it almost impossible to believe ! And he has a full time job to go to, plus he has long term family commitments to battle with on a daily basis too...so lets give him some credit !

I am also seriously concerned that we may only be allowed two NL GUESTS to cover for Rene and Nicolai who will most likely be riding in Poland ! I think this is more likely than less likely.

Wow ! What a fantastic night of racing last night ! It is a LONG time since I saw two absolutely committed teams compete like they did. It is incredulous to see such a low attendance though. Those that chose not to attend, have missed one of the most exciting meetings for a long time. This was one meeting that contained the sort of racing that the "Premiership" would LOVE to see each week I am sure. Not to mention our league ! Dan Bewley was HEART STOPPING in some of his moves..not to mention Ty. Thanks lads, for putting on such a fantastic heart pumping meeting. Here's to a few more !

Sadly Cess couldnt make it to the Derwent Lounge last night. But he had arranged a deputy, that was going to give absolute HELL to Mr Godfrey ! But perhaps wisely, Mr Godfrey chose not to appear in the lounge after the meeting . Good job...as there are no security staff there !

I think we all have a pretty good idea as to why our league fixtures are being "held back" or delayed as much as possible by "outside sources". But I am not prepared to put that in print (!!),

Some new dates in case you haven't seen them on the official Comets website... Saturday 11th August : Comets v Sheffield Saturday 18th August : Comets v Ipswich and a reminder :- Sunday 5th August : Comets v Scunthorpe The fixture on Saturday coming, v Newcastle will remain as a KOC meeting and NOT changed to a league meeting. This is totally outside the control of the management of Workington Speedway. Cheers