cityrebel

With a chance of some of the wet stuff heading hoddesdon way, I'm surprised Len ain't called this off already!

A very good meeting last night, probably the best of the season at arena. The stars were half a lap away from going into the last race level, but ended up losing by eleven!

With poor form and hardly any home meetings, I'm not surprised that there are no comments from hammers fans.

There was a far better punch up in the pits during the kent v rye house match on Monday, which has hardly got a mention on the forum!

i fear that the PL is in a similar state to the EL, but without the SKY money. Falling crowds coupled with spiralling riders wages, just add to problems facing the whole sport in this country.

After tonight's events at belle vue, I thought it might be appropriate to refresh this topic!!!

with one drawn!

thanks for the character reference!

has It been wet enough over your way for an early call off shads. I'm only 20 miles south of you, where it's been bone dry all day. In fact it's been warm with sunny spells this afternoon.

you owed me that one dave!

Tomorrow sees the eagles visit the launch pad for what should be a close match. I'm sitting on the fence and going for a draw!

You only have to look at the progress of the rye house rookies compared to their kent counterparts. Sure they still fall off a lot, but they are starting to win races. Tonight danno verge was the only lower order king who looked likely to score any points.

i totally agree with you, at times yesterday the riders visibility must have been poor. What's needed at eastie is a proper water tanker, as well as the crop sprayer that they already use.

make sure you pack your sunglasses!!!

I remember many moons ago watching alan guest for Wimbledon at perry Barr. He was very hard on andy, who was riding for the brummies at the time. No brotherly love on that occasion!

I'd have to say john, he really stood out in those tiger leathers!

they should be monitored like they are in football.

so do I!

the annoying thing is Eddie, at the time of the call off, the rain had stopped and the track was improving with every heat. The riders were at the tapes, ready to race.

My last three meetings were lakeside v belle vue, rye house v Berwick and kent v Birmingham. Three different levels of racing, but three excellent matches.

Despite all the mayhem last night, I really enjoyed the meeting. Far more entertaining than the farce on sky.

I totally agree with you. The huge costs involved in staging EL racing, coupled with the riders overseas commitments could mean financial suicide for some clubs if they suffered several rain offs. On the flip side you can't charge fans for fifteen races and only give them ten. Some form of discounted readmission must be put in place by the promoters.

i totally agree with you, it was an excellent meeting tonight. I went there expecting very little, and it ended up being a cracker!

Excellent meeting at the launch pad tonight, and as for Palm toft, that was one of the finest performances I've ever seen from a visiting rider at rye.

he's talking about rye house later this afternoon, where I will now be going if it's on!