cityrebel

I thought I'd better start a thread for this meeting tomorrow. I think the Hammers will need at least a 20 point lead to defend at Worky on sunday. I expect it will be a bit closer than that. Hopefully the afternoon showers that are forecast miss Hoddesdon on Saturday.

With Eastbourne v Mildenhall biting the dust today, it seems like an incomplete NL table looks a certainty.

It's not possible to open the gates and charge fans £13 to watch that line up. If it was free entry, they might get away with it.

They certainly seemed sour last night, and there was no mention of not sending a team to Eastie tonight. A disgraceful, unprofessional attitude by the fen tigers. The sport just lurches from one farce to another.

A very big crowd for a thursday night. The queue never seemed to go down until the end of the meeting.

A very professional job by Eastbourne tonight. They never gave Mildenhall a sniff at getting back in the tie. My only disappoinment was missing out on the fish and chips. The queue was far too long for my liking!

Knock out cup.

I've been to all of the Hammers 'home' meetings at Rye, and apart from the first double header, the crowds have been generally poor. Last friday should be a good barometer. A national final against different opposition, on the traditional race night in good weather, and they still didn't come. I'm sure a lot of fans didn't want to tackle the M25 on a friday evening, who can blame them. So that leaves Saturdays for next season, going up against Kent and Eastbourne most weeks. Some of us attend all three venues, so choices will have to be made.

Can you blame them.

Dreadful.

Yes, she's his wife.

This non event is now up to 37 pages, because of a blown light bulb. How i wish we'd got to ten heats on sunday.

Woof woof!

If you add the cost of sundays farce to tonights admission and travel, it all adds up to a fair few quid for people to find. I'm expecting a poor turn out. The fans goodwill only goes so far.

There was a hint of sarcasm in my post.

I'm just glad the season is nearly over. I need a few months off from the sport. No doubt my enthusiasm will return, when the old boys club release their blueprint for next year.

I remember going to Rye House v Peterborough in the cup final, staged at Arena Essex many moons ago. So all this is nothing new.

Eastbourne offered them the use of Arlington.

If they wanted to get it over with, why not concede the tie. This way it's costing everybody money. The promoters are going to be out of pocket, and so are the fans.

Especially with reduced admission.

Synics like you Dave, do the sport no good. Personally, i can't wait to sit in a filthy stand surrounded by rubbish. Watching fantastic racing on a superbly prepared track. Keeping my fingers crossed that the lights don't fail.

Looks a worse team on paper than on sunday. I was expecting the panthers to strengthen up a bit, not the opposite.

Apparently Eastbourne offered the use of Arlington. I would have snatched their hands off. Any more meetings at Rye, are a recipe for disaster.

So people should hand over good money for an awful product to save Rye House stadium and Lakeside as a club. With Kent and Eastbourne both looking to run on saturdays next year, there will be even more choice for south east speedway fans to get their weekend fix.

Very good, that illustrates the average age of the Speedway fan in this country!