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Can’t recall it’s name but that dog at the show ground was quite well known and often referenced on this forum. I used to see dogs at Arena Essex, there was one on the home straight who used to get very excited wagging its tail seemingly when the Hammers done well.

You can’t take a greyhound into a greyhound stadium, I know it’s not funny but I can’t help but laugh at the irony of that.

If this is now standard fair from Leicester, more meetings from this track please

Chalk and cheese from the Leicester track that first was seen at that location to the one they have now, not seen a meeting from here for ages maybe a few seasons, this meeting is very good.

The tweet said rained off, that’s a lie, the track was fine when they made the decision. The meeting was cancelled because the promoter took it upon himself to pull the plug rather than wait and see. Either way its cost him money and a certain amount of credibility, not that he has much anyway, at least with fans of other tracks.

You can have the best information system there is but you still need people to want to access it. You can bet the people who turned up for this meeting, left home in the dry and drove in the dry, why would they need to check? The only person who should be able to call a meeting off is the booked ref or a local ref who would turn up and declare the track unfit based on its condition at that point i time, not what it might look like later.

People will only check when they perceive a need to, if it’s a dry day you can’t blame people for assuming a meeting will be on. If every track postponed a meeting because it might rain in the evening, we might as well not bother.

Sport making a rock for its back as usual, the more they keep calling meetings off because of a "what if" means when it really is raining and they are wanting to get the meeting on, no one turns up because they will not believe it. Its like the boy who cried Wolf

So will this be over a number of meetings and then all of that rendered pointless by a flip of the coin in the final round so a pair dominating the competition by a country mile still loses.

I had Oxford down at top four contenders but from what I have seen so far they are nowhere near that. Feel so sorry for Dan Gilles and Plymouth, the boy was flying and would have meant Bowtell probably dropping to reserve at some point. As an ex Arena fan, I love (Southends finest) Ben Morley and whilst he will do well at Plymouth, he won’t be able to match what Dan would have scored on the road.

Blimey that is a really narrow track, bet it’s a nightmare to try and team ride on well.

I just want to say how wonderful it is to have this track back. Best of luck to both teams

Feel sorry for any Hammers fans who went. Staved of speedway for 4 years and you get a long drawn out meeting with six riders and rider replacement. All the things that we used to detest about the sport.

Plymouth fully deserved that point Good track Crap ref

borderline on corrupt this ref, no excuse for decisions this bad

This ref is a joke

I think it the guy with Ollie that drew my attention to it, it was under the stream screen listed as resources I believe. It then has a pdf download of the program score chart, and not just a generic one, but a copy of the one you would have found in yesterdays Berwick vs Birmingham match day program.

I enjoyed the coverage, more down to earth than the over production hype you get with Sky/BT and no constant interruptions with ad breaks. Meeting kept flowing and I imagine unlike “TV meetings” when there is a threat of rain, they WILL get on with it without some director or other person in charge, insisting they need to pan it out over two hours. Another touch I really like is being able to download the match day score chart as would be printed in a program, it’s a nice touch and maintains that interaction that you would get from being there in person. Some minor things that will need polishing, but that will come naturally with time. Looking forward to seeing how the season unfolds, as a neutral staved of speedway since Lakeside folded.

I can see Berwick battering most teams at home bit like how Exeter used to. The old aggregate system would have suited Berwick well as they would likely earned so many of them through big home wins.

I have signed up for this service and really looking forward to it, it will be the first live speedway I have seen in a couple of years as first Lakeside closed down and I got fed up with paying silly amounts for sky tv for a product that was awful, And that was not always in reference to the racing!

Leicester Glasgow Poole Oxford Redcar Birmingham Berwick Scunthorpe Plymouth Edinburgh Newcastle

Sheffield Peterborough Ipswich Belle Vue Wolves Kings Lynn (could be a bad year with their football team getting relegated too)

Just another made for TV gimmick Why does speedway constantly want to undermine what is a marathon and turn it into a toss of a coin right at the end, just to make it “more exciting” keep doing what you always did, and you will continue to get what you always got

Last I heard Arena Essex was being used as a covid test centre so I still don’t know if any building work has even started yet, I bet the track is still there though, such a waste, the sport could have carried on there for at least a couple of seasons. If it ever comes back to Essex and I doubt it now, most former fans would have been lost to the sport because once something is gone, it takes a lot to get it back. I hope Oxford does ok because it’s been a long time since they last rode and people would have moved on.

It would be interesting to see the average distanced travelled by each clubs home fan base. My old team Arena Essex/Lakeside probably had quite a big spread of support over Essex/Kent border and pretty much the only way to get their was to drive, it would have certainly affected them.