IainB

Just having a bit of fun with young @chunky but 6 out of 11 in one country is not fair

Woofy! Woofy! Woofy!

BREAKING NEWS: Bartek Zmarzlik sent shockwaves through the Speedway world earlier this evening by winning a third consecutive GP, all coincidentally in his home country despite 2 mediocre performances at the start of the season in Prague. It now shoots the current World Champion back to the top of the standings. When asked to comment on tonight's proceedings @chunky fumed "This is unbelievable! Zmarzlik winning again in his home country it makes a farce of the whole competition! And Dominik Kubera 2nd this just goes to prove that @iainb was right all along." @iainb was approached but declined to comment.

If you'd read my original comments you'd see that I said as much as I dislike forecasted postponements I'll have to accept that they are now part of modern day speedway. I don't think any match should be called off until the day of the event though

What you (and others) don't seem to be able to get is that you can't run 2 leagues of teams in this country when they're allowed to call meetings off 3 days in advance based on a weather forecast without penalty. Whether the decision was right or wrong is irrelevant really

To be fair we had biblical rain last Friday yet we had the race of the century the next day on the Saturday... preceeded by a load of crap admittedly

I refer you to my previous answers

I remember Les Collins donning his overalls at Blackbird Road and breaking the track record in heat 1

Manchester does have a reputation for a reason

Funnily enough... been there done that when I used to follow Cov, turned round at Gatwick, not ideal but something I accept as a Speedway fan with actual real rain... you know the wet stuff that falls from the skies Year before last... turned around at Carlisle when the Glasgow v Leicester final was called off due to wet rain, had the journey back in the Friday rush... then went again on the Tuesday! Once did a Good Friday a number of years back... KL in the morning, Cancelled, Ippo in the afternoon, heavens opened in the car park, off to Arena for an evening kick off, cancelled, went for Peterborough on the way home, rained off!! I'll never forget that day!

We've already established that @bigcatdiary doesn't know what a good speedway race looks like.

Tell me I'm wrong

And yet the match before last where we had to wait for the tractors to do their stuff produced some cracking racing... and the meeting after on a beautiful summer's evening didn't produce one good race worthy of the name... Go figure

It's on until it's off LEICESTER: Hans Andersen, Dan Thompson, Kyle Howarth, Nick Morris, Ryan Douglas, Joe Thompson, Zaine Kennedy. EDINBURGH: Sam Masters, William Lawson, Kye Thomson, Josh Pickering, Richie Worrall, Luke Crang, Nathan Greaves.

Bloody hell Lenny you sound like me! Where's your glass half full mentality?

They are, but there are only so many left between now and the end of the season and with clubs calling matches off on a whim (forecast) the fixtures soon start to pile up. You then only need a rainy October and you're left in this situation Below is what was cancelled in October 2019 due to actual real rain. Premiership P/O SF National League PO SF British Youth Championship Round 7 National League Riders' Championship Premiership P/O SF Premiership Supporters Cup Championship KO Cup Final Premiership Grand Final.1 National League Grand Final.1 Championship Grand Final.1 Championship KO Cup Final British Youth Championship National League Grand Final.2 National League KOC Final These should all have been plum events attracting big crowds yet were probably re-arranged on off race nights on wet tracks in front of inferior crowds

Like I said it's far easier for Poland to rearrange fixtures with them having first dibs on all riders, fixed race days and no doubling up. Take a look at the latest met office forecast for Eastbourne on Saturday night So now we're running a sport for the ease of the promoters?

They're rebranding to the Eastbourne Groundhogs... I'll post weather updates tomorrow, I only live a mile and a half away from the stadium

I understand both exception and norm. At the moment as I see it there is no rule, so a club can cancel a meeting at the drop of a hat, it might work for them but what about the away team? Look at Eastbourne vs Birmingham, what if this cancelled fixture is the deciding factor in whether Birmingham make the play-offs and survive as a club? What if other clubs take a leaf out of Eastbourne's book and don't want to host Birmingham? So without some kind of forfeiture this could well become the norm and not an exception.

But has Meg done a forecast for Lublin on Saturday night?

There's a woman in Eastbourne with a groundhog apparently

The way out is for the cancelling club to forfeit the match 0-75, 4 league points to the opposition if called off more than a specified time before the event.

I often hear the bikes going around Leicester during the daytime

It's not "rained" off though is it... it's "forecasted" off... anyway forecast off back to your Peterborough thread Sorry, couldn't resist that.