IainB

Well, that was worth the wait... (to get in ) Although it was a healthy crowd I think the queues to get in were more to do with there only being 3 people on the turnstiles. Some calm and measured words from Bluster over the pa was good to hear. He should come on here and vent his spleen as he seems about as powerless as the rest of us to change the sport! After Kingy shot away to win heat 1 in a time close to the track record I thought we were going to be in for another night of gate and go "racing" with the kind of fast times that only Edwin Overland seems to enjoy. Thankfully things livened up and we were served up with a classic, close scores throughout and some cracking close racing with 2 evenly matched teams. Just something I noticed last night was Jordan Palin appearing to make what looked like the sign of the cross before each of his races, is he a religious lad? Quite unusual to see, I've seen another rider do this recently can't remember who, a young Polish lad I think. And just to bring my pet hate up again, the lack of fixtures this summer... as I was walking back to the car I overheard a kid (of whom there were many last night) talking to his parents asking when the next match was and could they go, only to be told that he was going to be back at school then... so maybe not.

Ah, that old chestnut, the only way that can happen is for @waytogo28 to buy every club, or at least enough clubs to have the deciding vote at conference to pull the sport out of the mire it's in. And although he/she could probably pick all those clubs up for a tenner they'd be taking on a mountain of debt. Unfortunately we're stuck with what we've got unless a Kerry Packer type comes along. We had our chance with Sky TV coverage and blew it.

Why is that then?

... watch this space

They've got to decide whether they're running a sport or 20 or so individual businesses... not just on this but a whole heap of topics

Check the Exchange & Mart

The last time I can remember Schlein at Peterborough he was trying to get the match abandoned because he couldn't ride the track... he succeeded! I'd prefer R/R again I think

Why shouldn't I compare to a sport that has completely reinvented itself from something that even the late great Bob Willis described as being attended by social misfits, to something that is playing to big crowds with the type of Attendance demographic that Polish speedway attracts? It's a sport that is affected by the weather in just the same way that Speedway is and they have covers, they don't faff about trying to rearrange fixtures, everybody just accepts it and moves on. They even have a formula to deal with rain affected matches... I'm sure those with a nose for stats could work something out the Watson Racers & Royals rule

Cricket does manage it though

As indeed is foresight

Sounds like they're being strung along just like whenever magnificent Mick Horton was asked about the search for a new stadium for Coventry!

I always watch a match that I've attended and has been televised the next day anyway

Josh Auty has been at Scunny for 10 years and is holding a testimonial next year even though it should have been last year and even though he has been binned off by Scunny this year!

Made me laugh

I'm guessing it's part of the Eurosport package otherwise there's no earthly way you'd hold it on a Monday night surely

Only of course there's no Eurosport match on tomorrow

Or somebody making a joke?

So you think it was the right decision to cancel it even though it was clearly the wrong decision... this is the mess the sport has gotten itself into on this particular topic. It may well have been the correct business decision, I don't know, the club may have just been postponing their loss. It was certainly an incorrect sporting decision. Is Speedway the only sport that gets itself into such a mess with fixtures? I can think of no other. It's worse than it's ever been with rider availability, for whatever reason, and now we're postponing meetings because it might rain.

That match was postponed based on the weather forecast according to the Glasgow website though

What's the point of calling off meetings on a clear Saturday night in the summer and then having to run loss making double headers to cram the fixtures in to qualify for play offs and a show piece final that will most likely be held on a wet track in the last week of October? Fixtures very rarely used to be called off before 6pm on race day after a track inspection. If this is the new world we are living in these meetings that are cancelled should not be restaged, just like in cricket, another fairweather sport

My weapon was never up fnarr fnarr

Darcy Ward would be approaching his prime around now then... now wouldn't that have been a treat to watch in the GP's with Bartek! It was 6 years ago tomorrow since his crash

There's many comments on this topic on other threads, mainly the upcoming fixture chaos thread. If clubs are going to abandon the fixture list and call matches off based on forecasts it's time to award 1 point each and forget the re-staging.

She's probably telling them to keep buying lottery tickets!

I was looking at the NDL from 10 years ago the other day to see what the development rate actually was for riders to make a career from competing in the NDL, it was about 20%. Which I think is woefully low. That's not to criticise anything that goes on in the NDL but the middle league has elected to take riders from the top league to make their teams up rather than the lower league and while that continues the development rate will stay at around 20%