Shadders

It's one of the sports undying qualities that armchair fans feel they know better than those who were actually there

It's a South London hospital, so I expect that most of the patients are very nasty.

Not the heavy defeat I was expecting, or the forecast rain, but pretty hard to take that defeat nonetheless. Rider replacement scoring 4, when Garrity would've scored many more, and another Lambert horror show done us in tonight, pulling some weird shapes to keep us amused. An off night for Jason B compounded the misery. A full strength Rockets side would've taken 3 points, no problem. Hard to fault the choice of guest. Auty at least tried, but gating again cost us dearly. The Diamonds, even taking away the rolling starts, were too sharp away from the tapes too often. Another sparse crowd as well to add to the misery. Silvers programme notes added to the general malaise around the place with reports that Olly Allen will be out for another 6 or 7 weeks and Jason G's leg break not healing as well as expected. Another 2 weeks at least until we see him back. At least Kasper showed some improvement, but still pi$$ poor from the gate. A rare foray away from the white line had him pass someone on the outside for once. Always a treat to watch Robbo and Lewis Kerr banged in some vital points. Somerset visit next week. Oh joy!.

Ours will be at a Turkish restaurant in Finchley

A a lot more to come if you believe the BBC weather forecast, which is usually reliable... Plan B is ready to be implemented

Been raining all night in North London. Loads of standing water. My money is on an early postponement.

Pretty lame effort there...Is that all the Sheffield born personalities you could think of?

Joy of joys, we have a PL double header on the 20th July, Glasgow and Sheffield... Starts at 6pm.

I shouldn't think Saturday night TV is the agenda. It's more than likely the terrible form we're in at the moment and where the next win is coming from. Take a look at our next few fixtures. Home to Newcastle and Somerset, away to Newcastle, then a trip to rejuvinated Plymouth before facing Redcar away in the KOC... Bloody hell!!!

Almost a carbon copy of the Rockets performance at Ipswich last night. Good from the top 3, but one second string and the reserves a huge let down.

I suspect they'll not be a desperate effort to get this meeting on

I kinda get the feeling he was too

Aspegren obviously taking the pi$$. Nice low average for his new team next year

There are enough idiots on that thread without adding another

Luke's had the rod out of his leg I was told and will be building up the muscles. Expect to see him doing a few laps soon.

Totally agree.

I thought the racing was pretty decent. Most of the heats were closely contested. Bunyans pass of both home riders in heat 4 was my personal highlight. I really fail to see how some people could moan about the level of entertainment served up last night.

Never seen stocks at Ipswich, but I'll hazard a guess the crowds are much larger that for speedway. I've attended Arena Essex for bangers/stocks in the past and the crowds are huge.

Here we go again... http://www.bbc.co.uk/weather/2646807

That should've been done pre season Keith, especially with over 2 points to play with.

edited, cos I'm an idiot

Oh crap, I'm gonna miss this as I'll be watching the Rockets at Berwick... Marvellous!!

Oh dear!

Pretty obvious where the problems lie at Rye House. Two duff reserves is not gonna win you anything. One of them has to go. I know where my vote is going! Nelson seriously needs to sort the mechanical side out. He was going backwards all night, not through lack of effort. You simply cannot be your own mechanic in professional speedway, no way. Can't blame recent performances on injuries alone.

Where do I start with this?... About to claw it back to 4 points down, when Grajczonek's bike went bang. It was all downhill from there. If you put your hand over the riders scores from 4-7 in the programme and showed it to someone who didn't know the score they'd think it was an away win, or at worst a point, but 7 points from 13 rides from the bottom 3 ain't gonna win you diddly squat. Clearly Nelson has problems with his set up. He was giving it the full beans, but going backwards. Going on Facebook looking for a mechanic hours before a meeting and ending up spannering for yourself is pretty poor. Even Anders Mellgren was looking around for a mechanic for most of the day. He can be pleased with his nights efforts, apart from the last place off the graveyard that is gate 4 in heat 12. Grajczonek did as good a job as you could want from a guest away from home. I heard that Lewis Bridger was approached, but was asking for more than Silver was willing to pay. Wouldn't have made much difference with 3 of the riders misfiring. Boy do we miss Jason Garrity, he can't come back quickly enough! You can get away with carrying a reserve for so long, but two? Impossible. Simon Lambert is clearly not the answer. He looked like a dead man walking in the pits before the meeting, the face said it all. I'm all for being loyal to riders, but for fu*ks sake, enough is enough! Yet again another carrot crunching moron cheering when an away rider falls, this time I avoided a confrontation. Couldn't be arsed. Next two meetings are Newcastle and Somerset at home... Gawd 'elp us!