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... and it'll probably be called off again! Heavy rain again tomorrow night, then clear until tapes up. Will be interesting to see how the riders get on as no doubt they'll start the meeting. I'm no track expert but I've been around long enough to know that you can't lay a track on the day of the meeting and expect to run a double header on it. Cardiff is laid days in advance and look at what a mess that is.

When was that taken though? It's probably under water again after today!

I was wondering how to word that sentiment myself and you've nailed it! In their email to me it says they've manually got to process all of the refunds! We'll probably be paying a premium next year to cover the fact that BSN are dealing with a bunch of amateurs in the BSPL

They really only have themselves to blame then... Did the BSPA & Eurosport also not want the Jubilee Trophy final to be held on these dates also I wonder?

Just like last year! And probably next year if Poole are involved

Yes mentioned this many pages ago, was the bleedin' obvious thing to do but not in speedway! Ps. It's raining again!

Having just posted that... I've now received an email from BSN telling me it won't be staged and I'm getting a refund. You would have thought BSPL would have been first with the news!

It says on the Ippo website that a new date for the postponed round at Leicester will be confirmed... although there seems to be a media blackout at BSPL towers with no news of any note coming out about this or the Jubilee Trophy finals

Seemingly not much It's tucked away in the Championship section, not the main news section, not on Twitter. They're throwing their full promotional might behind this final lol

This new Friday date has not even been mentioned on the BSP website or socials... seems like they've lost interest too!

I'm not so sure he has, if you read flagrag's post and he doesn't normally post stuff that is wrong it reads as if they're putting the track down on the day of the event, so it doesn't matter how much rain we have between now and then, currently it's hammering it down. Question is how good a track can you lay on the day of an event to run a double header?

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I think track covers would have worked on this occasion(s)... numerous times we had overnight/morning rain clearing by 10 am, time to remove the covers and prep a track (at this time of year) I would have thought... but the damage had already been done. The man (person) power in putting them down and taking them up may have been an issue though

Can you (they) lay a track in a day, ready for racing (30 races) in the evening? I always thought it had to "bed in", I'm no expert though

Perhaps Kasabian will be cancelled... you never know

Looking at this weeks forecast, I can't see it myself, not unless they can dig out those mystery track covers from wherever they ended up

I think that's wishful thinking on your part

Can you imagine if this was a proper sport and it was all over Sky Sports News 24/7? Fortunately we're the best kept sporting secret in the UK and long may it stay that way until we get our collective houses in order!

It ain't great from the Leicester promotion is it... If you say "Details of a re-staging date for this week will follow later today.", yesterday and then just put nothing else out, not even change it to Details of a re-staging date for this week will follow in due course, it just makes an already bad situation worse imo

I've just looked at the met office rainfall forecast for the next 5 days... they can forget about doing any meaningful work on the track this week I think https://www.metoffice.gov.uk/weather/maps-and-charts/rainfall-radar-forecast-map

Overnight forecast looks horrendous!

I really should pay more attention to him next time then, could be a match winner if he reproduces that form

Blimey! So he did, from reserve though, with a lot of 3rd places and a couple of wins against riders you'd probably expect him to beat... fair play to the lad though, he's got time on his side

Not Drew Kemp... I've never seen him have a good meeting, anywhere! I was watching him closely last time I saw him and I don't know why as he seems quite a tidy rider, he seemed quite reluctant to ride any wider than mid track though

How about awarding it to Leicester? We had our home league programme completed by the 24th of July it took Poole until the 18th of August. We had our pay off semi done by the 24th of September, Poole the 2nd of October... everybody has spent all season waiting for Poole, now they have to wait a while for us they don't like it!