BluPanther Posted June 4, 2014 Report Share Posted June 4, 2014 Do you think it will be raining on Springwatch as well? It's a lovely evening in this part of the country brum.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
capone Posted June 4, 2014 Report Share Posted June 4, 2014 Healine News in this weeks Poole Bugle..... Shovvy Tells Forum to Shove it... A week of Mourning is declared.anything to get his name (or part of it ) in print Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dorset delight Posted June 4, 2014 Report Share Posted June 4, 2014 What a shambles. There was a 0% chance of this meeting being completed. The Poole management only had to look at the BBC Weather Forecast. The forecast was for heavy rain during the day,we didn't get any heavy rain.The forecast is not always right 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stevebrum Posted June 4, 2014 Report Share Posted June 4, 2014 It's a lovely evening in this part of the country brum.. You must be in the luckiest of areas! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
broadsider 55 Posted June 4, 2014 Report Share Posted June 4, 2014 And rain tonight but yes I agree that the forecast is not always right.I made the right call to watch it on bet 365 , if all the stupid rules don't kill speedway the weather will ,o to be a speedway promoter Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BluPanther Posted June 4, 2014 Report Share Posted June 4, 2014 You must be in the luckiest of areas! Just down the road from the Springwatch cameras... 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
clambo71 Posted June 4, 2014 Report Share Posted June 4, 2014 I made the right call to watch it on bet 365 , if all the stupid rules don't kill speedway the weather will ,o to be a speedway promoter Its not just the rules killing speedway its people like you watching on Bet365 instead of going to watch your team. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SCB Posted June 4, 2014 Report Share Posted June 4, 2014 Its not just the rules killing speedway its people like you watching on Bet365 instead of going to watch your team. Call meetings off and people will watch it online in stead. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cityrebel Posted June 4, 2014 Report Share Posted June 4, 2014 Its not just the rules killing speedway its people like you watching on Bet365 instead of going to watch your team. more fool the promoters for letting bet365 stream their meetings. There is already enough reasons for fans to stop going to speedway, without giving them another one. 6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
foreverblue Posted June 4, 2014 Report Share Posted June 4, 2014 Call meetings off and people will watch it online in stead.The problem is getting people in when it is obvious the meeting will not be concluded because of the forecast, in my opinion ridiculous decision to start a meeting when the forecast is so bad 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
clambo71 Posted June 4, 2014 Report Share Posted June 4, 2014 more fool the promoters for letting bet365 stream their meetings. There is already enough reasons for fans to stop going to speedway, without giving them another one. That's another argument.My post was about a fan quoting about what is killing speedway and didn't understand the irony about him/her not attending his own teams meeting. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
packerman Posted June 4, 2014 Report Share Posted June 4, 2014 (edited) I decided at 6 that I wasn't going tonight even tho at the time it was brilliant sunshine. The forecast was awful weather all day but only had a few showers, yesterday was saying the best of the weather was going to be tonight! Edited June 4, 2014 by Packerman Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
broadsider 55 Posted June 4, 2014 Report Share Posted June 4, 2014 Its not just the rules killing speedway its people like you watching on Bet365 instead of going to watch your team. Hang on a minute mate I checked out the weather forecast , which any one who is able to read can do, the meeting should never have started , so I suggest you wind your neck in and get your facts right 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wolfsbane Posted June 4, 2014 Report Share Posted June 4, 2014 Not at all. We're applying the Swindon rain formula, we're losing so it should be called off If you were doing that it would have been called off a week last Tuesday Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shale Searcher Posted June 4, 2014 Report Share Posted June 4, 2014 The Rainfall Radar is quite difficult to understand accurately, and is quite often misread, the dark blue used on most rainfall radar applications and programmes signifies the lowest/least amount of rain, but actually it's not actually measuring rainfall, it's moisture content, it's a bit more complicated than that, but quite frequently it mistakes low cloud/mist and really light rain/drizzle that evaporates before it gets to ground level, so if you've got dark blue on rainfall radar above you, it's not always raining!! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Agrotron Posted June 4, 2014 Report Share Posted June 4, 2014 I wasn't stupid enough to make the journey tonight Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
E I Addio Posted June 4, 2014 Report Share Posted June 4, 2014 The problem is getting people in when it is obvious the meeting will not be concluded because of the forecast, in my opinion ridiculous decision to start a meeting when the forecast is so bad The trouble is its a situation where promoters are damned if they do and damned if they don't.. Calling they meeting off after 3 heats has probably cost Matt Ford the best part of £10,000 and he still has to find room in the fixture list to re-stage the match. One or two more rain-offs and his problems really start mounting up, as with any other promoter. On the other hand if matches are called off early in the day before people start travelling you get situations where the rain moves away and people start moaning because it was cancelled too early and the promoter is kicking himself because even an early cancellation costs some money with riders flights etc already booked. I remember a couple of years ago Jon Cook cancelled a meeting about two hours before the start based on forecasts of heavy rain moving in but at the last minute the rain passed by then up turns Smolinski with his camera putting pictures on facebook of a lovely summer evening. Its a pity that those who are quick to criticise with hindsight after the call off don't say before the meeting whether they would call it off or go ahead and we can then see how often they get it right over the course of the season.. 8 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shale Searcher Posted June 4, 2014 Report Share Posted June 4, 2014 Because we are an Island, weather forecasting is perilously difficult to get right 80% of the time, the easy 20% is when you are smack bang in the middle of a heatwave, of a really snow bound winter low pressure!! Tonight's meeting at Poole is a classic example, weather forecast for the daytime today was miserable at best, bring on a spring-like day, the odd shower, part sunny, part cloudy, etc..... The evenings forecast was much better, and meeting friendly, however, the overnight forecast was dire, heavy rain, windy, Very meeting unfriendly.. So the daytime forecast was wrong, the evening forecast was wrong, it appears the overnight forecast arrived 3-4 hours early.... Who'd be a Speedway Promoter.. Damned if you do, damnded if you don't!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Starman2006 Posted June 4, 2014 Report Share Posted June 4, 2014 (edited) Because we are an Island, weather forecasting is perilously difficult to get right 80% of the time, the easy 20% is when you are smack bang in the middle of a heatwave, of a really snow bound winter low pressure!! Tonight's meeting at Poole is a classic example, weather forecast for the daytime today was miserable at best, bring on a spring-like day, the odd shower, part sunny, part cloudy, etc..... The evenings forecast was much better, and meeting friendly, however, the overnight forecast was dire, heavy rain, windy, Very meeting unfriendly.. So the daytime forecast was wrong, the evening forecast was wrong, it appears the overnight forecast arrived 3-4 hours early.... Who'd be a Speedway Promoter.. Damned if you do, damnded if you don't!! Your aving a larf mate. Every forcast you looked at last night said it was going to rain pissistantly ALL DAY today And dry up in the evening. We had two very lights showers at the Stadium all day even the sun came out for a time. What hope do you have. Clueless is the word i would use... No, over paid clueless. Edited June 4, 2014 by Starman2006 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SCB Posted June 4, 2014 Report Share Posted June 4, 2014 The issue isn't the if it rains and they didn't call it off. It's why are riders so keen to get a meeting called off if it does rain. How often to GP, SWC and World Championships get called off due to rain? The riders really need to get on with it a little more. The tracks wet and more slippery? Well adjust your riding then! We're constantly told these are highly skilled motorcyclists, so prove it! They too quick to call meetings off these days. I remember 15 years ago it pouring with rain a few times during a meeting, the track being a mess but 2 or 3 heats raced on it and the track was fine. These days it's just, "sod it" or they bring out a tractor and mess it up. Was none of that crap at Newport, they used to just send the riders out. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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