orion Posted April 4, 2014 Report Share Posted April 4, 2014 To be fair i thought track was fit for racing the whole way and i never saw really getting into trouble with the track at any stage ...to me they should got on with heat ten right away rather than having a look at track as it got worst while they were doing so . Let's be honest if Swindon were winning they would have been up to the tapes and wanting to ride just like the Bees were . 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
speedybee Posted April 4, 2014 Report Share Posted April 4, 2014 Watching on Bet365, you might not have known it was raining at all unless you were following updates too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
theblueboy Posted April 4, 2014 Report Share Posted April 4, 2014 Coventry fully deserved their victory but it's not about who won.  Just because I turned up at 7.30 and the track was fit to race on doesn't mean the conditions didn't change or deteriorate. It absolutely p****d down at around heat 8. The fact Coventry were winning is neither here nor there. I was getting saturated and I and many others didn't enjoy paying £17 just to get a meeting 'done and dusted'. Why the rush...still 6 months to fit the meeting in. The fact the referee was compliant in getting a result rather than what was the best for the sport speaks volumes.  The rain was the same from heat 7 to heat 10. So if it is raceable and the visibility was same in those races then it will be the same for heats 11-15. Why not continue? The visibility did not change after heat 10 - it was exactly the same. We all knew what was coming.  Well done Coventry. As the rules stood they won. End of. The issue here is the application of said rules and robbing the public. I would have rather paid £9 and got some money back than nothing at all. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
johnno4 Posted April 4, 2014 Report Share Posted April 4, 2014 Is it me ? Wasn't Gustafsson supposed to let Pedersen win on a tactical ride. Just about sums up our performance last night. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A ORLOV Posted April 4, 2014 Report Share Posted April 4, 2014 Is it me ? Wasn't Gustafsson supposed to let Pedersen win on a tactical ride. Just about sums up our performance last night. Yes, but Fisher was very close to Pedersen and not worth the risk for 1 point where Fish may have also got past Gustafsson if he had eased off. I must admit though that it did seem that Simon was not looking behind for Bjarne much. Â Funny tweet from Batch to Rosco "what happened yesterday? I leave ya alone for a couple of days and the wheels are falling off the wagon". 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Robin Reliant Posted April 4, 2014 Report Share Posted April 4, 2014 |I went,and I felt short changed! The league this season will be won and lost depending on how lucky you were with the draft riders! Absolute garbage!It will be a while before I attend a speedway meeting. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
orion Posted April 4, 2014 Report Share Posted April 4, 2014 |I went,and I felt short changed! The league this season will be won and lost depending on how lucky you were with the draft riders! Absolute garbage!It will be a while before I attend a speedway meeting. See you next week 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A ORLOV Posted April 4, 2014 Report Share Posted April 4, 2014 See you next week Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Robin Reliant Posted April 4, 2014 Report Share Posted April 4, 2014 Don't hold your breath Orion.Though i wish you would for a couple of days 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crazy robin Posted April 4, 2014 Report Share Posted April 4, 2014 Hope Darryl gets back in the saddle & his recovery goes well. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bunce Posted April 4, 2014 Report Share Posted April 4, 2014 What a superb post Speedy Swindon Pete! Â I think you have reflected what many fans feel, but are afraid to say about the shambolic way this sport is often run. Â As an example I set off early from home to get to the meeting between Kings Lynn and Polish Club Zielona Gora on March 19th. Its a 100 mile round trip from Norwich to Kings Lynn for me. There was a big crowd (as expected) and yet the start was delayed for ages as there were still lots of fans trying to get in the stadium by the official start time. The presenter said they didn't want anybody to miss the start, but what about the huge number of fans like me, who took the trouble to get there early, only to have to stand around for ages waiting for the people who probably didn't bother to leave early? Can you imagine Manchester United starting their match 40 minutes late because there was a queue at the turnstiles? I don't think so! I accept that some people may have to work late or such like, but if they had started on time, I bet those people would find a way to get there next time! Â Having said that, I must point out that most Lynn meetings are run with a minimum of delay, but "flexible" starting times should be something that never happens. I would have thought the referee should insist the match should be started at its programmed time? The good news was that it was worth the wait, being a great match. Lets hope its an Annual event, that starts on time next year! Â (Sorry this was not directly about Swindon v Coventry, but I couldn't ignore a superb post like that) 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
john birch Posted April 4, 2014 Report Share Posted April 4, 2014 Heavy rain at Burford, bone dry at Lechlade and light drizzle before start at Blunsdon. Track ok but began raining during holdup in ht 2 (get well Daryl) and got steadily worse. Bees looked really good against an average Swindon team with Sargent excellent. But for me the match winner might have been Gary Havelock. Woodward was best choice on offer and all seven riders looked motivated and up for it. Minor qualm: I'd swap Fisher and Howarth around. We had the latter and Hansen out against Kildemand and Morris in in ht 5 and would have been 5-1'd but for an engine failure. Forget Hans score - couldn't quite get across from gate 4 in ht 1 and was (rightly IMO) excluded in ht 6 but otherwise it was as good as we could have hoped for. Tougher challenges await though. Ps Can Sargent give Bomber some gating tips, tho. according to my work colleague Harris was pretty good at Leicester also! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gemini Posted April 4, 2014 Report Share Posted April 4, 2014 It wasn't just Coventry fans - I seem to remember it was supporters of all teams - just sayin'....... Blimey! I didn't know there was a restriction on the number of 'likes' you can have. Apparently I've reached my quota for the day. I like your post TesarRacing - just sayin'....... 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mdmc82 Posted April 4, 2014 Report Share Posted April 4, 2014 (edited) Think the way both teams were racing and the fact Swindon had not been ahead once and could use no more tacticals meant Coventry would have most likely won even if gone to the end  Hans has damaged his knee which doesnt sound good  Really feel for Ritchings. Hope he has a speedy recovery and we see him back racing for Swindon in the future |I went,and I felt short changed! The league this season will be won and lost depending on how lucky you were with the draft riders! Absolute garbage!It will be a while before I attend a speedway meeting. Think good reserves help but even better if give a whole team performance. Really cant afford to have weak heatleaders as Birmingham are discovering at present Edited April 4, 2014 by mdmc82 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SCB Posted April 4, 2014 Report Share Posted April 4, 2014 The league this season will be won and lost depending on how lucky you were with the draft riders! TBF, Coventrys top 5 outscored Swindons 23-21. 23-19 if you dont include the TR. So it's not fair to blame the reserves for this one. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flagrag Posted April 4, 2014 Report Share Posted April 4, 2014 (edited) I see from the Internet that poor old Daryls injuries are a little more severe than first thought he is in ICU sedated with bruising on the brain as well as a broken ankle. I did think earlier it was a bit strange that they were moving him from Swindon to Oxford for a broken ankle all becomes more clear now as John Radcliffe is very good hospital especially for head injuries. Get well soon Edited April 4, 2014 by flagrag 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jacques Posted April 4, 2014 Report Share Posted April 4, 2014 I see from the Internet that poor old Daryls injuries are a little more severe than first thought he is in ICU sedated with bruising on the brain as well as a broken ankle. I did think earlier it was a bit strange that they were moving him from Swindon to Oxford for a broken ankle all becomes more clear now as John Radcliffe is very good hospital especially for head injuries. Get well soon  God, that isn't good news. Get well soon Daryl 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A ORLOV Posted April 4, 2014 Report Share Posted April 4, 2014 I see from the Internet that poor old Daryls injuries are a little more severe than first thought he is in ICU sedated with bruising on the brain as well as a broken ankle. I did think earlier it was a bit strange that they were moving him from Swindon to Oxford for a broken ankle all becomes more clear now as John Radcliffe is very good hospital especially for head injuries. Get well soon This is a worse than first reported by the team last night. Hell of a shame for Darryl as this was his home debut as part of the team. Hope he recovers soon and gets back to racing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Speedy swindon pete Posted April 4, 2014 Report Share Posted April 4, 2014 To be fair i thought track was fit for racing the whole way and i never saw really getting into trouble with the track at any stage ...to me they should got on with heat ten right away rather than having a look at track as it got worst while they were doing so . Let's be honest if Swindon were winning they would have been up to the tapes and wanting to ride just like the Bees were . Â Â No doubt about that. I said to my dad before heat 10, i'll be amazed if the Robins riders don't play for time here. And if the Cov riders tried it on withe the scores the other way round, you and I would probably be on here calling them sly, devious gits, amongst other things. But seeing it from a completely neutral point of view, you pay to watch a competition, you should see the rules applied consistently and fairly, so the product is transparent, everyone knows where they stand. There was no difference in visibility between heats 8, 9 or 10, if thats what the ref was saying he called it off for. So for the 2 minutes not to come on straight after the riders had cleared the track from heat 10, then clearly it was just done out of convenience. As soon as the ref says "we'll just get this heat done" knowing that the conditions are far from ideal, just because he wants to home in time for question time and cant be bothered to rearrange the meeting, its no longer a competition that the fans payed for, its just an exhibition. You don't see F1 and MotoGP going "we'll call it a day at the end of this lap, lads". It either stops there and then because its unsuitable for racing, or it carries on. Its a professional sport, not a Christmas day game of monopoly thats dragged on for 5 hours too long. Â To me it just summed up the way the sport is run over here at the moment, every decision in this sport is made with a shrug of the shoulders, without any thought what so ever for the people that are helping to keep the sport shambling along, the paying public. I know its not a new observation, but it just seems extraordinary to me how many years this has been going on for, yet the people who run it haven't cottoned on. Â Sad, but not completely unsurprising to hear about Ritchings, hope he's alright soon. It was one of those moments that the pit of your stomach falls out, as he's sat on the bike still with no control over it, just heading straight for the fence. With it being quite a preventable accident as well, makes it even worse. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
noggin Posted April 4, 2014 Report Share Posted April 4, 2014 Best wishes to Darryl on a speedy recovery. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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