Sir Jasper Posted July 15, 2007 Report Share Posted July 15, 2007 Quick question, who is doing the Coventry track tomorrow? Will it be the usual people (who know how to produce a decent track) or will it be a Meredith / Olsen slick borefest? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Buzzing Bee Posted July 15, 2007 Report Share Posted July 15, 2007 Quick question, who is doing the Coventry track tomorrow? Will it be the usual people (who know how to produce a decent track) or will it be a Meredith / Olsen slick borefest? <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Lance Sealey is no longer doing the track at Coventry, and since the beginning of July Colin Meredith is back preparing it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Great Central Posted July 15, 2007 Report Share Posted July 15, 2007 Joy oh joy. Look at the job he did at Cardiff!!! The atmoshere was great the result was brilliant but the track?? The graders never went near the holes on the second bend until the semi's and the watering "can" never got near the inside either. At least he won't have to bother about watering tomorrow after the rain of today. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sir Jasper Posted July 15, 2007 Author Report Share Posted July 15, 2007 Lance Sealey is no longer doing the track at Coventry, and since the beginning of July Colin Meredith is back preparing it. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Thanks for that, Any particular reason why, and will the track preperation remain the same as it is a surface which suits most of our riders? I desperately do not want the track to go back to previous years of slickness.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bobbin' Along Posted July 15, 2007 Report Share Posted July 15, 2007 Strange isn't it - Colin Meredith usually does a great job preparing tracks, but let Olsen get in there and..... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dekker Posted July 15, 2007 Report Share Posted July 15, 2007 Strange isn't it - Colin Meredith usually does a great job preparing tracksAye right, he the geezer that bollocked up swindon in 2001. Remember his british final tracks from about same period? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Trees Posted July 15, 2007 Report Share Posted July 15, 2007 Get Huggy in!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gemini Posted July 15, 2007 Report Share Posted July 15, 2007 Not Colin Meredith. Heaven help the Brandon track, especially if Ole is going to be involved tomorrow as well. I thought the guy from Wolverhampton always prepared our track and it has certainly been really good for the past couple of years. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shazzybird Posted July 16, 2007 Report Share Posted July 16, 2007 Dear oh dear what defeatists a lot of the Brits are .... Firstly we have a thread running damning Middlo before the engines are warmed up now we have a thread damning Colin Meredith for the track. What are you all doing preparing yourselves for a lose, oh well you'll have to people to blame at least then rather than the ones that are actually riding the damn bikes! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Trees Posted July 16, 2007 Report Share Posted July 16, 2007 No Shaz I think most people posting here just want to see a fantastic meeting on a good track ............... unlike Vojens! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sir Jasper Posted July 16, 2007 Author Report Share Posted July 16, 2007 (edited) Exactly that Trees, Being a Coventry fan I have seen the track become one of the best in the league over the past few seasons. I do not want it to become a slick borefest that Meredith used to prepare for us which led to Coventry being known as a gaters paradise. I for one enjoy exciting speedway and wish it to remain so at Brandon. As for the WTC, I am fully expecting a win thank you...... Edited July 16, 2007 by Sir Jasper Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
clunsey Posted July 16, 2007 Report Share Posted July 16, 2007 Strange isn't it - Colin Meredith usually does a great job preparing tracks, but let Olsen get in there and..... <{POST_SNAPBACK}> I can just see Ole and Colin arguing about how much dust to put on it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bobbin' Along Posted July 16, 2007 Report Share Posted July 16, 2007 I can just see Ole and Colin arguing about how much dust to put on it. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Would be funny if it wasn't quite so true! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
clunsey Posted July 16, 2007 Report Share Posted July 16, 2007 I'm going to be watching this one live with a can or ten of strongbow so as long as the brits win I'll probably be happy.Hic Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paulr Posted July 16, 2007 Report Share Posted July 16, 2007 I can understand that a track may be prepared in a certain way for a 'neutral' event like tonight But surely a track is prepared each week as how the home club/riders want/prefer it ?? - would a promotion allow itself to have its play-off ambitions jeapordised just because a new track prep guy comes along and prepares the track his way, and his way only ?? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sir Jasper Posted July 16, 2007 Author Report Share Posted July 16, 2007 Well as I said, as long as he has instructions on what to do it will be fine. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
philfromcov Posted July 16, 2007 Report Share Posted July 16, 2007 i think colins been doing it all season we still have a good track. obviosly when he gets next to olsen who knows! the only defence on this is that you have to make a track to last 25 races rather than 15, which might mean different preperation? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sir Jasper Posted July 16, 2007 Author Report Share Posted July 16, 2007 well fingers crossed. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
21st century heathen Posted July 16, 2007 Report Share Posted July 16, 2007 I'll reserve judgment until I've seen it, but I sincerely hope it's the same as usual. Fingers crossed indeed. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gemini Posted July 16, 2007 Report Share Posted July 16, 2007 (edited) Exactly that Trees, Being a Coventry fan I have seen the track become one of the best in the league over the past few seasons. I do not want it to become a slick borefest that Meredith used to prepare for us which led to Coventry being known as a gaters paradise. Worth repeating this quote because it sums up what most of the Coventry fans think and we should know because we've had Colin prepare the track in the past. Might be worth getting the opinion of the Swindon fans as well as he was track curator there too. Perhaps we are all worrying over nothing, but here's hoping for the normal preparation tonight and some good racing to make up for the boring stuff we had to endure on Saturday. Edited July 16, 2007 by Gemini Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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