IainB

There's a lot of blue out there tonight, maybe Lynn should be riding in green and gold race suits!

Ah yes, thanks for reminding me... I knew I could count on my stalker . I'll give it a miss . The hook-a-duck will probably be busy while you're waiting for medical cover. Have a nice time

I think it's a triple header with the 2022 Jubilee Trophy Final and the 4's isn't it?

Do you not like a hook-a-duck and bouncy castle? I'm at a loose end tomorrow and the hook-a-duck may just have enticed me to go

It's the Jubilee Trophy by another name... which was the Summer Trophy

Can we not get last year's competition finished before starting this years?

What about the hook-a-duck and bouncy castle?

Fair enough we'll have to agree to disagree I think... what I will say though is that it's only a quarter final because of the severely depleted numbers in the top league, soon they'll be starting with semi finals! Also the KO Cup has been so devalued over the last 10 years or so it's little more than a fixture filler these days, in fact it's only been run in the top league twice in the last 10 years... and after the fiasco of last season you can't be guaranteed that the final will even be run! One thing we can agree on is that Leicester have lost out on a good crowd for their opening fixture... hopefully folk will turn out in numbers for the new opening fixture... there's a lot of bridges that need rebuilding after the end to last season.

I'm not looking for an argument but 8 old men going round the track on some Triumph motorbikes is not going to get the kids to come through the turnstiles... making the riders available for photo's with their bikes in full clobber etc pre-meeting would maybe help

If Sedgeman, Harris and Fricke's form last night at the PCMT was anything to go by I'd say this tie should be over after this 1st leg... but with the 2nd leg being held at such a "specialist" track this may not be the case.

A highly entertaining night of Speedway entertainment, meeting run really slick, I didn't care much for the faffing around before the final, OK if you're in the main stand not much doing on the back straight in the cheap seats though. 5 and 6 rider races around the NSS is truly a sight to behold! If I had to have a minor gripe (and of course I do ) I found it difficult to identify the Aces in the final with 4 of them racing around in pretty much identical race suits, but that is minor. Overall a brilliant nights racing in a meeting that is fast becoming probably the 2nd most prestigious individual meeting to win in the UK and the winner seemed pretty happy to win also, which tells you something. Hopefully Harris was using this meeting as a test session if not with the form of Sedgeman and Fricke it looks like it may be a long season for Leicester! Glad I made the decision to travel home across the pennines and not down the M6! Why the British road system shuts down at 10pm these days is a right pain in the arse for the travelling sports fan.

It's no higher profile than any other meeting other than being the first match of the season, back in the top league, some would just describe it as just a cup match. And I wouldn't say the end of March is early, tracks have started much earlier in the past, you've got to start at some point.

Who would have predicted MPT last year?

Had to go old school in the end and use the telephone!

Anybody else having issues buying a ticket online? It keeps telling me required information is missing... and it's not

I don't doubt it, all that work literally down the drain. It seems to me that rained off meetings are more of an issue these days than they used to be (and that's not to say that they hadn't used to be an issue). But it seems that the window in which the Speedway machines of today can operate is becoming smaller and smaller. Maybe the sport needs to look at some sort of wet weather setup for the bikes because we've all seen meetings being cancelled/abandoned in recent times where we've said I've seen them ride in worse than that, only the worse than that is becoming less and less with each passing year it seems. Ultimately this will effect crowds, especially on opening night, sometimes I get it, the weather will win and there is nothing you can do about it but I think as a sport we really need to get to a position that if the weather is fine at the scheduled start time then there really should be Speedway. I don't have all the answers and I appreciate that cost is a factor as we didn't repair the roof while the sun was shining in our sport but surely it can't be beyond the wit of man to come up with some solution. Maybe Phil Morris will put it on his long list of things to look at.

And you came back for more!

What is probably more damaging to the club, rather than a comment on an obscure forum, is there being no Speedway on the opening night of the season when the weather is fine after all the build up, returning to the top league, a spot on local TV and radio and the visit of a former World Champion and the returning Russian. Instead the season opens with a junior match. Still, you can't do much about the weather without some kind of track cover system.

One day you'll come up with something positive and develop a can do attitude instead of constantly coming up with reasons why things can't be done... be sure to tag me in when you do

9th of April 1993 King's Lynn v Ippo Ippo v King's Lynn Arena v Cradley Peterborough v Oxford Other matches washed out that day: Oxford v Peterborough Belle Vue v Wolverhampton Glasgow v Rye House Sheffield v Middlesborough Poole v Swindon Swindon v Poole The only match that started was Edinburgh v Middlesbrough and that was abandoned after heat 8. I wonder if this was the most weather affected day in Speedway history? And why didn't they call them off a couple of days before based on the weather forecast These were the days of course that you had to stop and find a phone box to phone the track if you wanted to know if it was still on or not, maybe give clubcall a ring if you were rockerfeller... no websites or weather apps to check and no BSF!

it's like a drug isn't it... my most recent one was travelling up to Glasgow for the play off final in 2019, left home around 10:30 had a nice drive up north in nice weather, stopped at Gretna Green for a coffee, decided to look on Twitter only to discover it had been cancelled about half an hour after I left home, another 400+ mile trip and a horrendous journey back in the rain through the Friday rush

Late 80's or early 90's can't remember exactly when... it was Good Friday though, travelled over from Leicester for the 11am King's Lynn meeting, was rained off when we got there so decided to head off to Ippo for their 4 o'clocker, rolled into the car park, the heavens opened and it was cancelled... off to Arena for their 6 o'clock (?) kick off, arrived, rained off... back home up the A1 in the hope of pulling in the 7:30 Peterborough fixture only for it to be called off just before we got there, so back home, a round trip of around 400 miles, over 8 hours in the car and not 1 lap of Speedway seen... madness

I don't know, once the season is underway and injuries start occurring and rider replacement starts his season the impetus is lost. All of the promotional activities saying come to the first match etc. all the work getting press involved and it's all gone because a 10-15 minute shower might hit.

Unless the damage was done from previous days rain, which I don't know, you can't call meetings off on the forecast of showers for me, showers by their very nature are isolated, especially in late March/ early April, you can have a downpour in one area and it be bone dry a mile up the road. This for me is where some kind of (Briggo?) track cover system could be effectively used. I get why clubs postpone based on forecasts of prolonged heavy rain sweeping across the country but not showers. Here in Leicester it was a perfect evening for Speedway but this was also called off yesterday, again I reiterate the damage to the track may already have been done. It's a real shame because it's early in the season, excitement is high and if Peterborough on Monday evening was anything to go by the fans want to get out and see the returning stars ( not the Kings Lynn variety ) and many clubs could have been expecting one of their largest crowds of the season.

Like at Scunthorpe last summer?