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If today is called off the play offs should be listed as Uncontested, no winner, every club is complicit (some more than others) of failing to run meetings or refusing to run/continue meetings during the season where they could have, that has led to this stage of events. I once heard someone say “f**k around, f**k around, soon you won’t be around”

I don’t believe that Leicester are playing around here, they are the victims of certain other club dragging their heals all season which has led to this final having to take place at a time which should be reserved for end of season bashes.

I would say keep the play offs but have a cut off date of 31st August, the top four (regardless of how many teams in the league) then play off over two semis and a final. Caveat to that, any team that fails to complete 100% of their HOME fixtures by said date are excluded from the competition.

Should the weather intervene again and the final cannot be contested, the title should default to the team who finished top of the regular season table. Just an opinion

That’s a shame to hear, I know he rode for Arena Essex, I think it must have been 1996? doesn’t seem that long ago at all though.

As a Lakeside fan, I would like to comment on Ben Morley, no, he will never be a solid 2nd division second string, he’s a good reserve and on his day can score quite well, the Hammers did have success with him as a number two at home, but that was with a big home advantage, away from home it was always a struggle, but you know what you will get. Alfie Bowtell on the other hand, who knows how far he can go, he’s a swashbuckling rider that never gives up, I imagine he is just as popular at Plymouth if not more so as he was at Lakeside.

If Leicester have already announced that, then fair enough.

Doesn’t matter how long a meeting goes for, BSN always fills the time, there is dead air at all, always something going on, and is very informative. In all the years SKY/BTsport etc have been around, they never once in my memory have interviewed a ref, BSN ticked that box first season. The track walks are so much better than Kelvin sticking a screw driver into the track (nothing against Kelvin I should add)

It being Plymouth is irreverent, I would same the same if it was any other club that is announcing a rider or riders that had still meetings left with their current clubs. As good a signing as it is, there is a time and a place.

Doesn’t seem very classy naming a rider for next year before he has finished his commitments with his current club.

I recall a similar instance way back in the early 90s at Peterborough in the fours final, Arena Essex wanted to use Moggo in a nominated heat but as the number 5 reserve he wasn’t allowed so they declared Jan Pedersen instead and then when the two minutes came on they were all sat there having a laugh until the clock ran down, I was right next to the pits, it was funny to see it play out.

Well done to Poole, Glasgow got what they deserved, same as Plymouth, beaten up over both legs

Run three more heats then call it, no point in risking rider injuries

Didn’t see this meeting but it’s fairly clear over the last few weeks, team and riders who “don’t want it” are getting hit pretty hard by those that do. Batchelor would be a great fit at Plymouth, he don’t it, they don’t want it, match made in heaven.

Track could be dry as a bone, your owners have no intention of trying to run, and I can’t blame them, you lot seem to be anti speedway, never known a fan base so delighted every time they are denied the chance to watch their team, must be that sea air.

This fixture will never get played out as Plymouth have worked out it costs less to keep calling matches off 24 hours in advance than actually running them.

A division of 9 or 10 teams should not have six in the play offs, it should have been top four. And in the higher division with six clubs, it should have been 2nd and 3rd play off to meet the team who came 1st

What a farce, they made a dogs diner of that, should forfeit the leg, when will promoters learn?

In the time they have wasted they could have got to heat ten, didn’t even start on time because they wanted to run the parade.

Clearly no hurry to get this meeting through, hope it doesn’t come back to bite them

Not saying it’s right but Middlo isn’t the first promoter of a Southern based track who gets a nosebleed every time they go North of the Watford Gap and neither will he be the last. The difference between now and the past though is so many meetings can be streamed, it’s possible for a promoter/manager to watch somewhere else and make the changes by phone, Neil can easily call Havvy and suggest he does X, Y or Z and then Gary as the designated voice can inform the clerk of the course/Ref.

This is so much better than the crap this track served up when it first opened. When this side are on it, they can beat anyone.

Never saw that coming, Lasse and Kye looked different riders to last week against Redcar. MOM must be Conner Mountain

Fords son, probably older but looks 16 sort of had a Ratner moment last night by saying everyone hates Poole but they don’t care or they love it, I could tell by how he said it, that it really plays on his mind and is not comfortable with it, maybe his father has taught him that?

It did but I have never seen so many fans of one track before so delighted every time they are deprived of seeing their team race.