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Lakeside to win by 2, track to have a huge blue groove on both bends by heat 3, any passing will go unseen due to the large plumes of dust.

British Speedway is the proverbial sinking ship and those that run it have no idea how to do damage control, yet alone save it. You only have to look at a random fixture and see how many guests and rider replacements are in use for riders who are not even injured to know the sport in this country has lost all CREDABILITY it is a JOKE! Forget about where we are on the world stage, it's pointless, the sport in this county needs to back to being amateur/part time like non league football, model it on the old National League of the late 80s, good number of clubs, variety of fixtures and nearly all of the riders were your own and only rode for your team and when they were not riding they had part time jobs to supplement their income. Ok that won't work for every club, but we need something like that for a few seasons as a solid base to build from. Further to that I would even consider breaking away from the FIM in order to bring some sort of standardised equipment in, not to make it fairer but to reduce costs, reduce that and the riders will earn more, the promoters will have less overheads and could then make the product cheaper or better still reinvest in it, something that has never been done.

Well I've never been to Poole for many years so I can't claim to witness this BUT there are Lakeside fans who have told me in recent seasons that they experienced some of this type of Poole behaviour and they also claimed they saw some Poole fans openly smoking illegal substances on the premises, no idea if that was true, I am merely quoting here.

Jason Edwards I think will be good but he is one for 2018 I expect. Any team who can unearth a Dan Bewley type will always be onto a winner at this level, it's about finding these gems that might not always be too obvisous.

Heat 15 is on YouTube, Aryes looked pretty uncomfortable and got passed by the Hammers pair quite easily. Sounds like it was a good meeting though, I thought Eastbourne might have been more of a threat given their form but DA scored more than I think Baseby would of as I recall someone telling me a couple of seasons back it's not a track he likes much. The Eagles certainly have a good mix of riders though as Jake Knight won't have many poor meetings like that an Brennan and Bates seem to be making great strides. Hammers have Bowtell coming on leaps too, they just need one reserve to light the place up.

Oh my goodness, yeah you think back to a time when the old National League has 16-18 teams, you would at least one koc match, one round of a fours qualifier, a spring or Autumn triangle involving local teams but normally Hackney and Rye House, a pairs meeting, the huge supernational marathon (before promoters butchered individuals) if you had less than 22/23 home meetings in a season, you felt hard done by.

"We fell on our sword and decided this was for the best" Same sword that was fallen upon last season in the play off against Belle Vue.

Now your being silly, everyone knows which Kennet he was on about, clearly it was Barney

With respect maybe you should tell the promotion or whoever it is you are on the inside with that they need to look after what fans they have left (not the likes of myself but the people who go every week) or else by the time they get a new stadium (if that happens) they won't have any fans left. As for future exciting news I feel too many have now come under the boy who cried wolf scenario, you get lied to time after time and nothing washes anymore, why should we believe that all of a sudden that the boy is telling the truth?

This meeting trumps anything i have seen via Sky or BT showing the top flight of British speedway, amazing stuff, gobsmacked on more than one occasion.

its the modern bikes! Far too erratic and prone to wild actions even the most skilled of riders cannot control. Please correct me if I am wrong and maybe my memory isn't that good but I can't recall the old uprights lifting violently or shooting off in the corners like the current ones do.

I know one thing, which is the owners of the Arena Essex site are sitting on a fortune, the land alone must be worth millions and to a property company you could almost name any price. I wonder if they want to sell in order to move somewhere else or whether they just want to get out of motorsport full stop? Does anyone know if the site has got any covenants on it, pertaining to its use?

I used to stand with a group of around ten people, all full paying adults, and that has gone down to just one or two, and most of those were not johnnie come lately's, they were once died in the wool fans, and that is a fact!

Doesn't matter whether I go now or not, I've probably spent more time and money going to meetings at Arena Essex in my lifetime than you ever will, I've paid my dues many times over, I'm entitled to an opinion whether you like it or not.

Lakeside have always made sure that there fans are at least second to know what's going on, who are the first? Everybody else! As for Jon Cook driving a tractor, can't they afford a proper track curator now?

Yeah what has the Hammers won since the Terry Russel era? Only the EL Koc in 2009

Almost begs the question, what will happen if Lakeside suffer further rain offs and make the play offs?

Same old Lakeside Liam, half hour gone and only run three heats.

Sorry Waco but that's the risk of running a top heavy team where a guest is only permitted for your top heat leader, said at the start of the season where I initially predicted Hammers as being around 8th was their vulnerability in keeping Ben and Zach fit and available for the duration.

Latest projections are for 80-90% chance of heavy rain between 7 and 9pm Sorry to hear about Zach, was always going to be a risk with him riding so much for different teams.

The club has been falling apart ever since Stuart Douglas left, I assume he has left? you never see or hear from him and i very much doubt that he would stand silent in the background and let things get to where they are now. The club is probably in a worse state than it has ever been in its entire history and there is only one person to blame for that.

If early weather forcast is anything to go by, 90% chance of heavy rain in the afternoon going into the evening then this won't be going ahead anyway.

Shock horror - a televised meeting actually finishes before the programs booked end time.

Apart from Masters, Wolves look pretty slow in comparison, its a good track but you really have to be on top of the setups.

Craig Cook once again being found out tonight, its one thing to win races in the 2nd division and a very watered down 1st but against proper competition he is average at best and that's pushing it.