marko

This comes up every season and every season I say the same thing, the rules are the rules but there is nothing, NOTHING to say that the fans of any particular club can't club together and present their club with a custom made trophy honouring the achievement of finishing the season top of qualification process, thus far NOT one clubs set of fans have met this challenge, of course it won't be recognised by the bspa or scb as a legitimate title but like I say, if fans want to honour their side there is nothing to stop you, it's not that much different to those patrons who invest their own money into awarding rider of the month awards at various tracks, and you can do it now, you don't have to wait until the outcome of the play offs, if fact if you did wait it and lost the play offs it will look like sour grapes.

The way this is looking to go down i would be surprised if Sky do not show the Lakeside vs Swindon meeting live as a play off decider which would mean a change of date probably before the 16th.

No Lambert? Yeah this should be a very comfortable home win, just hope the Stars can gate to make it a little interesting, NKI should at least ensure some good action, he seems to love the place, his maximum for the Oxford Silver Machine back in 2006 I think it was still lives in my memory.

Was not there but a good result for Lakeside, funny though that it was Richard who had the worst night as normally he is mr consistent away from Arena and used to be a large track specialist.

I think it was poor form by the Stars to drop Rory knowing it was too late for him to get a place elsewhere, I would have like him at Lakeside, for who you ask? Probably Bridger

I am guessing Hammers will have R/R for Edward who should be riding for Rye House @Sheffield as will Ben Morley so a guest reserve needed for him also?

Poole for me regardless of individuals form are still the strongest team in the league imo but if there was an option for replacing a slightly off form rider for another asset that has been riding well elswhere you would be daft not to take advantage of that, I would have expected them to win at Leicester even with the injuries so its understandable Matt might want to take a step back and look at the situation.

Not just bad away but bad in particular at tracks such as Lynn, also with Rye House at Sheffield that night I guess we will have R/R for Edward which won't help.

its only our home track advantage which has saved us from being in another battle for bottom spot like in 2015

Lakeside to get a point..................in most heats, Wolves to hit the 60 mark.

I know it rained there a bit but they were lucky to get that meeting through, there was some big storms around yesterday evening but thankfully Lakeside avoided the worst of them, Met office said it wasn't going to rain, they got that well and truly wrong again.

Can't post a picture of the weather radar but the weather could yet save Bees blushes

I think Lakesides main focus is on wins and scraping into the play offs so they can get some extra TV money etc, Swindons four pointer last night would not have gone down well.

I didn't miss there not being a meeting, I also didn't miss the same old people complaining about how poor the racing is and asking why when the telly is in there is hardly anyone there to watch it

It's about time we ditched the Friday race night and raced Saturday instead, we don't race Grand Prix weeks anyway so what difference would it make? Our next home meeting is ironically on a Saturday!

M25 this afternoon in all kinds of mess, could affect riders trying to get to the meeting never mind the fans be warned!

We have and have had riders who can ride bigger tracks just that when they come to us they forget how to ride them but the main issue is just poor team building using riders with very limited potential to improve if at all. I like Kelvin but one of the reasons he was brought in was to help with the bikes yet we are over halfway through the season and some of the boys are still struggling for power or something, Robert has been racing a lawnmower engine for much of the campaign, it's something that surely should have been sorted?

Except Fricke earlier in the season scored just two points where as Morris with Swindon a couple of weeks ago got paid 12 from 6 rides, it is very much Aces to lose.

We can cover for Eddy at home? we didnt have Eddy against Poole, how did that one work out for us? I can only see crowds dropping off further than they have been already this season, I hate getting drawn into such negativity but this scenario does have air of familiarity about and its a shame as I thought we had a decent team this season if everyone lived up to expectations but nearly half the team were coming back from retirement or injury and in truth you look at the stats and it was a gamble that did not pay off, I think fans of other clubs were probably more wise to that than ourselves who were going on blind faith it would work out.

One big league? No thanks, I would rather Lakeside dropped down a level which would make more sense as they could blood some youngsters from their youth ranks. I would miss having AJ in the team but most of the rest could still ride for us in some capacity.

I have always loved the look of the bikes and the smell and noise that they produce, the spectacle of four riders throwing their bikes around and making it look easy and nothing quite beats the sight of when a rider overtakes another through a gap that never appeared to exist.

Just as well it did not rain, it would have turned that place into an ice rink such was the lack of dirt on it, i am sure the riders probably didnt mind it as it looked smooth enough so probably a doddle to ride on but not normally the best receipe for good racing. Not been to Rye House for a long while, what is actually being built, place looked like a building site in that clip?

I wonder if Rye could fit Lewis Bridger in their team if its a desire of his to double down? I can only see it being a positive for the lad who frankly does not race enough just riding for the Hammers and from a Rye perspective having him, Edward and Robbo in the same team would be entertainment for the effort they are know to put in on track.

Sick of hearing about how great this place is supposed to be, every meeting I have seen from here has been rubbish, far far better has been witnessed at Lakeside, a track many are only to happy to take a swing at for the same supposed lack of racing.

Forget the so called farce of Lakeisde vs Poole, that last heat was utter fn BS