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Do we know who the ref was? He had a shocker... a bit like the announcer

Do Leicester allow Wolves in to the Stadium?

it's off innit, according to Bomber on twitter

What are his injuries, do we know?

his arse from his elbow

Actually I thought it was quite healthy considering the weather and it was a nothing match with made up teams... just think what it could be if it was run properly

So that's what the interval is for... I'm glad at least your dog enjoys it So... I'm walking up the hill in the rain approaching the stadium and I can already hear the announcer banging on about the bloody interval, there's a 15 minute delay to let the rain clear, fair enough. Quite a long delay after heat 9 for Leicester to blade all the dirt off the track, that didn't really need it as it had been alright up until that point, I wonder if the fact that they were 8 points down at the time had anything to do with it... then a bloody interval as well after heat 11. All the shale dumped on the outside of the track seemed to cause 2 accidents involving Hall and Lawson, how the ref allowed it is beyond me?!? The ref didn't have a great night at all getting the exclusion wrong in Heat 12, there was also another incident that the ref missed, I can't remember the heat number (6?) when the rider in red definitely left the track after an unsatisfactory start yet wasn't excluded... At least there wasn't a sun delay

blah blah blah blah... perhaps Norrie was expecting to see the teams as they were declared on the website?

My point exactly! As a floating fan if I was going by the website, I wouldn't be going tonight... but I've had to put on my Sherlock Holmes deer stalker and get my Mystic Meg crystal ball out to find out who's actually riding ... and they wonder why they can't get a crowd!

Taken from their website Teams Leicester: 1. Jason Doyle, 2. Thomas Jorgensen, 3. Grzegorz Walasek, 4. Szymon Wozniak, 5. Piotr Swiderski, 6. James Sarjeant and 7. Dan Greenwood Lakeside: 1. Hans Andersen, 2. Mikkel Bech, 3. Edward Kennett, 4. Richard Lawson, 5. Rider Replacement for Kim Nilsson, 6. Richard Hall and 7. Adam Ellis Who do you believe?

What surprised me was that 3 riders weren't excluded from heat 13 for leaving the track after an unsatisfactory start, the ref called them back immediately and put the 2 mins on and only Nicholls stayed out on the track. It would have been farcical but rules is rules

Anybody interested?

Don't think cov will choose Lynn, Bees record ain't exactly brilliant round saddlebag road

Next year!

Doesn't seem to be the case at Cardiff though, the crowd mix always seems a lot younger there to me, I wonder where they're all coming from

I've only just become a semi-regular at Belle Vue (would help if they didn't keep getting rained off!) as I'm working away from home in the area for a while and I must say one thing that has struck me about the place is the average age of the punter... and it doesn't bode well for the future of the club! I'm no spring chicken myself but I'm shocked at the lack of younger people attending. I wonder why the sport attracts young participants but not a young crowd?

I think they could be a bit more innovative with some of their angles, the coverage hasn't really come on in the last 15 years

is it R/R for Morris tonight?

fair enough

21?

If Leicester's usual practices are anything to go by, nobody will find out until about 7:40 when the teams are read out on the parade and the money is safely in the bank

Even Chris Holder's form has picked up with the promise of Darcy coming back, doubt he'll be at Leicester on Saturday though... could be wrong

I think it could mix things up from the starts a bit, maybe introduce an F1 style random tape release between 1 and 5 seconds after the green light goes on. Or, and this is radical, do away with tapes all together, green light and go! As a cov attendee I regularly have to put up with Garrity, Sarj and Robbo guessing the starts and being pulled back for restarts

The amount of re-starts these days due to starting infringements is getting ridiculous.is it time to let riders push the tapes again so as to stop the constant restarts

Because surely it'd be in direct contradiction of the 5 year plan (if this exists), the plan also that the England captain said needed to be implemented or he'd retire from international speedway, I wonder if Tai is happy to see Ward back at the expense of the British Under 21 Champ