Shadders

Thankfully we waited in the car park until I saw people leaving. Unfortunately the £1 car park charge is non refundable. Long way to come for a Harvester Sat in the car park since about 6.45 and there was no way this was going ahead. The rain wasn't heavy, but it was steady. Wasted petrol and car park charge, but managed to place some bets on the way up which more than paid for tonight's fuel and the weekend jaunt to Cardiff too!!And to think we moan at Silver for calling meetings off too early!!

In the car park where it's raining steadily. Can't see this meeting going the full 15 Lots of cars leaving. Is it off?

Still in the Harvester car park waiting for news

Suddenly become quite dark overhead

Must be very localised, cos we're in the Harvester next to the EOES where there's no rain at all (yet!!)

Just left Hoddesdon where it's hammering down!!

Thanks both. I'll give it a go That's funny. We were going to get there early and eat at the Harvester, but we'll check that pub out first. Cheers!

That's a great shout, thanks. Does that work when leaving the EOES to head south on the A1?

Does anyone really think he'd put any real effort in if he'd had been riding tonight a few days away from Cardiff?Better off handing the rides around to those who want to race for us.

Is that the same excuse he used to try and get out of Rye House press & practice? Part of me hope we don't.... Riders swanning off to race on grass every other weekend, big time Charlie's not bothered about riding for us, wasted talents with crap machinery, promoters not listening to the wishes of the team and taking long time supporters and paying customers for granted. I'm rapidly losing patience with my speedway club. If the season finished tomorrow I wouldn't be bothered. Some may say our season finished weeks ago.

I'm not!!

Very soon the GP's and tarted up NL racing are all we'll have left

If Coventry were riding tonight....

Top post my good man

Absolutely. My offspring are now 21 & 16 respectively, and they used to kip in the car on the way home too. They were still often asleep when we carried them up from the car to bed. What's the problem?

It's the same for a number of clubs, just about hanging on in there. Give it a couple of years and 2 or 3, maybe more would've gone to the wall.

Don't get this talk of crowds being low because kids have to be up for school and adults up for work. For any locals, kids could still be tucked up in bed by 11pm at the very latest, so that's still around 7-8 hours sleep, that's plenty for a once a week meeting. Adults, get a grip. I manage to get to loads of away meetings, back sometimes at 1-2am and STILL up for work at 5. They don't go because they don't WANT to go. Rubbish. Live speedway over TV anytime. There's always the Sky+ facility. You can whizz through the chat and delays and watch the racing in around 20-30 minutes AFTER you've put the kids to bed and still be in bed yourself by midnight.

Easy to say when still basking in the glow of a massive away win. If the situations were reversed I'm sure the Workington threads would be full of irate Comets supporters demanding changes.

I presume you're a regular at Kent AJ. How are the crowds holding up and what's the general feeling around the place?

It's a crying shame that the successes of the mid to late 2000's weren't built on and the club and stadium has been left to rot. Kent supporters are getting fed up too. After a promising debut season the wheels have come off somewhat. Two heavy home defeats and a draw in the last three home meetings and some spankings away from home have left them languishing in mid table. With initial crowds the envy of most Premier League sides it looks like he's well on the way to ruining a speedway revival in Kent

Antonio Lindback

Edinburgh, Newcastle & Somerset are comparable to us in some ways with a similar size crowd base, but one thing they have that we don't is an ambitious promotion. They've managed to put together trophy challenging sides for a good few years now, whereas we've been on the slide since the heady days of the mid 2000's. All three of those clubs are professionally run, whereas you get the feeling that Rye House is run as a hobby. I'll use Somerset as an example as I've paid a couple of visits there in recent weeks. The race programme is full of adverts which must bring in decent revenue. The impressive club house has a proper bar and the food outlets are decent and always busy. All this in what was just a farmers field less than 15 years ago. Any delays in proceedings are filled with rider interviews. Rye House has the feel of a club that's winding down and the promoter seems not to be bothered, not even listening to his own riders as to how they'd like the track to be prepared. Utter shambles

Next to impossible to compare sides from year to year, let alone different eras. These topics usually appear during the winter when people are bored.

When it's deserved. Will you be there Mr Bolly?

Ben, you're beginning to make sense. That holiday has done you the world of good!!