IainB

I'm just having a bit of banter with my old mate @chunky as there's no GP on tonight we'll have to argue about this. Look at those tracks that have closed in the last 5 years! That's a lot of people not going to Speedway anymore. We as fans are completely powerless to do anything to improve the sport other than withholding our attendance to show our disapproval, as many have done over the years. Our sport is not going to somehow magic itself back into the big time, somebody, somewhere needs to do something... and quickly!

So, some guy walks into the track shop at Leicester with dust in his eyes and all is well with the sport in the UK? Cluck Cluck (that's an ostrich burying it's head in the sand btw )

In the last 5 years the people at: Somerset Stoke Lakeside Rye House Workington (Champions) Coventry Also probably had tears in their eyes And maybe next year: Birmingham Eastbourne Newcastle Peterborough Kings Lynn Swindon (Champions) Fans may have tears in their eyes

Can you say what the right sort of day is? And how many days notice they'd need to arrange this fixture at short notice. And how many fans would have turned up anyway as this fixture received ZERO promotion... couldn't even be bothered to preview it on the website. We had this at the beginning of the 2019 season if my memory serves me. An early season fixture called off based on an incorrect forecast and all of the apologists for the Leicester "promotion" were on here saying that it was too cold for speedway anyway... consequently we were scratching around at the end of the season for a day to race on when it wasn't actually raining... and the fans STILL haven't seen the trophy! Come on! Wake up to what's actually going on, you'll realise one day and it'll probably be too late!

... from a different country!

I'm sat at home looking out of my window wondering why I'm not at the Speedway tonight with both Leicester/Glasgow matches cancelled this weekend based on incorrect weather forecasts. I'm watching The Hundred final... they didn't cancel their event based on a weather forecast. They've got 30,000 people in attendance...

Took 91 years to not arrive.

It's 7pm, I'm a mile and a half from the stadium and this 100% could and should have gone ahead. We've not had anywhere near enough rain to waterlog the track, the ground is almost dry and the sun was trying to come through. Ah well, I shall settle in and watch The Hundred final as they didn't call their event off based on a weather forecast... consequently there's 30 odd thousand that have turned up to watch. Does anybody know what the forecast is saying for next Saturday? But the GP is on from Russia, may give Leicester a miss and watch the GP instead... losing a bit of interest in Leicester now.

You sound like George Bush and Tony Blair with their WMD's

It's the home promoter that calls the fixture off though until the ref gets there

The ULTIMATE forecast!

Do you get to see any of the Speedway?

Then we need to find a way of declaring it a wet meeting, with a wet setup, whatever that may be. Can't just keep calling them off based on forecasts

I do, and that's why the sooner we move to awarding these matches and not trying to put them on in perfect conditions the sooner the riders will realise they're missing out on a pay packet

To be fair there is rain about, I'm a mile and a half from the track and we've just had a shower, nothing that would have come anywhere near to canceling a meeting... but they're not even giving themselves a chance of putting a match on.

Are you Sam Ermolenko in disguise Yeah, I get the count back but where is the consistency?

Why was there a run of for 1st? When nobody cares who wins this meeting. Surely the run off that was needed was for 4th and 5th in case Fricke qualifies in the top 6 in the GP's.

Not a clue, had never heard of him until the GP's and never heard of him after the GP's. Edit: 2 according to Wikipedia

You'd think Holder would be used to it after all his years at Poole

Oink Oink

Kolodziej is another Wiesław Jaguś

GP's aren't all ridden in Poland though... oh, hang on a minute...

I'd rather see Smolly in it than Anus Kolodziej!

It is tremendously difficult, the forecast for the next few hours seems to be changing on the hour... which is why you just can't rely on a weather forecast in this country. Personally I don't like to see matches called off unless there's actual real rain, but like you say I don't own a club. But what ever happened to preparing a track for forecasted rain, having sawdust ready in case... and dare I say it, track covers... all this 2nd guessing with what the weather is going to do is doing the sport no favours at all. It's getting on for September and here at Leicester we've got to rearrange Kent on a day when Nicholls isn't with Buzby, Edinburgh, again and now Glasgow... and the KO Cup

Another match to fit in before the play-offs... and we seem to have completely forgotten about the KoC