kenny bee firefly Posted October 17, 2014 Report Share Posted October 17, 2014 Bees really needed to win the reserve match ups tonight but fair play to kyle newman who has once again been poole s trump card ! Shocked that Barker rode tonight a decision which could prove very costly ! What about your other 10 names ? Closer to 30 than 10 now orion by my reckoning ! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wolfsbane Posted October 17, 2014 Report Share Posted October 17, 2014 If you were a barmy conspiracy theory junkie who tries to see things in situations that aren't there, you may feel that Sky's perceived infatuation with a particular team would encourage them to delay the start of a random meeting when it was known that precipitation was due to arrive at a specified time in order to disadvantage the opposition. You'd need to be a right nutter to believe that though 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ytsejam Posted October 17, 2014 Report Share Posted October 17, 2014 SKY are a complete and utter joke!!...ALL DAY its been forecast that rain is coming yet they buggered about and never attempted to get on with the meeting once. There was absolutely no excuse for all 15 heats not to have been over by a little after 8.30 yet all we got was the usual bull and crap from "Shouty and Screamer" and the tedious and unnecessary (under the circumstances) interviews and endless tedious replays!. Utter pathetic and sadly sums up the whole of this Elite league seasons coverage really. Such a shame that Elite league British speedway would really struggle to survive without those SKY fools, so looks like we're stuck with them 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
markyb Posted October 17, 2014 Report Share Posted October 17, 2014 An absolute blessing to Coventry that meeting called off when it did. What an absolute let down from too many riders - Anderson, what a shocker - has he a pre contract arrangement for Poole in 2015, cus there was no effort from the guy tonight. Ben tried, but wrong time to come back. Hansen got points, but mainly gifted to him. can't understand why so much faith put in him by the coventry management - he has struggled for far too long. Garrity played second fiddle to Newman yet again. However Bomber riding like we know he can and as for Kyle Howarth, good on the lad. These two wanted it badly - don't reckon the rest did though. Looking on the bright side, I now gonna save time and money on Monday having decided not to go down to Dorset. I will still watch on Sky though. Hope I have to eat my words by 9.30 on Monday night though. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bluejigger Posted October 17, 2014 Report Share Posted October 17, 2014 (edited) It was stated that both captains agreed that the meeting should not continue after heat 12 and the meeting steward agreed and called a closure. As usual Havelock did'n't know who made the decision and said nobody on the Coventry side wanted to stop. Completely different story to the Chris Harris interview on camera who said it wss the right decision. (He knew that Poole would go further ahead if there were more heats.) Edited October 17, 2014 by bluejigger 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fromafar Posted October 17, 2014 Report Share Posted October 17, 2014 Heavy is a great team manager. Stands with his hands in his pockets his shoulders hunched and claims he does not know what is going on very Professional approach .Thats speedway nowadays ,Harris seemed quite happy it was off. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mouncers monkeymask Posted October 17, 2014 Report Share Posted October 17, 2014 stupid comment that ! he has one hand in his pocket because he has no movement in one arm 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fromafar Posted October 17, 2014 Report Share Posted October 17, 2014 (edited) stupid comment that ! he has one hand in his pocket because he has no movement in one armI said hands .What about his comments more to the point Imo Edited October 17, 2014 by Fromafar Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bee 26 Posted October 17, 2014 Report Share Posted October 17, 2014 So Ronnie Russell called it off, good job as I think we would have lost by more than 3! Couldn't ride on that but they should have got on with it from the start, but then again meetings never run at a decent pace at Brandon! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mouncers monkeymask Posted October 17, 2014 Report Share Posted October 17, 2014 yeah and i said he puts one in his pocket because he has no movement in one arm Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fromafar Posted October 17, 2014 Report Share Posted October 17, 2014 yeah and i said he puts one in his pocket because he has no movement in one armYeah and what about his lack of knowledge regarding what was happening on the night or is it convenient not to mention that part of the Post Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jacques Posted October 17, 2014 Report Share Posted October 17, 2014 So Ronnie Russell called it off, good job as I think we would have lost by more than 3! Couldn't ride on that but they should have got on with it from the start, but then again meetings never run at a decent pace at Brandon! Was Ronnie Russell the meeting steward? Really? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pirateandi Posted October 17, 2014 Report Share Posted October 17, 2014 Maybe Michael fish was the weatherman updating Coventry speedway 😆 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
packerman Posted October 17, 2014 Report Share Posted October 17, 2014 Not seeing much of last nights fixture can only think the reason it got to a conclusion was because it started on a wetter track. Coventry's track was dry which meant it was extremely slippery on the inside when the rain came.Have to agree that the meeting took ages to get going, now if they had a tape delay of lets say 15 mins for the benefit of interviews and the meeting had started at 19:30 all would of been ok I think. Obviously if no idiot posted live updates on the thread Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Doctor... Posted October 17, 2014 Report Share Posted October 17, 2014 Was Ronnie Russell the meeting steward? Really? Generally is the steward for Sky meetings, so yep. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gemini Posted October 17, 2014 Report Share Posted October 17, 2014 (edited) Never -Cov win tonight by at least 8! I think I was nearer than you. Coventry might have reached 42 if it had carried on. I expect they will water the track well, this afternoon and make it nice and deep Actually the track looked a sight lot dryer than the car park and when the racing started we were getting covered in dust......until the rain came of course. Think it will be after 9.00, so as long as they get on with it, should be ok With all the warnings of rain arriving around 9pm you'd think they would have got on with it, but no this is speedway so carry on as normal and don't bother to start the meeting until 7.50pm either. No rush. Shouldn't they have started bang on half past with the rain threatThat's just too sensible. They have , have the rules changed?Apparently a riders bike has to touch the tapes before he can be excluded so any part of his body or peak of the helmet doesn't count.....so we were told by the announcer tonight anyway. Edited October 17, 2014 by Gemini Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
packerman Posted October 17, 2014 Report Share Posted October 17, 2014 Apparently a riders bike has to touch the tapes before he can be excluded so any part of his body or peak of the helmet doesn't count.....so we were told by the announcer tonight anyway. According to Shoutty & Nicey they claimed that the referee said it was only the bikes that mattered tonight. That might of been due to the wind billowing the tapes? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SCB Posted October 17, 2014 Report Share Posted October 17, 2014 It's taken me ages to become even semi regular at speedway again. Then rubbish like tonight happens. We knew the rain was coming, it actually turned up late, so how did they handle it? Well they just ignored it. They got though 15 heats in 70 minutes at Poole last night and should have aimed for similar tonight. Then, after racing half a meeting in the rain last night at Poole someone decided that we should only have two heats in the rain tonight before calling it off. Either rush to avoid the forecast rain OR ride in the rain. I don't care which, just don't rob me of 3 heats. 1 man gained from 3 less heats being run tonight. One of the few people not interviewed after the meeting. Nobody else seemed to want it off and seemed to be confused about why the last 3 heats were off. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gemini Posted October 17, 2014 Report Share Posted October 17, 2014 According to Shoutty & Nicey they claimed that the referee said it was only the bikes that mattered tonight. That might of been due to the wind billowing the tapes? A new rule just for one night then? Can't wait for the next time it happens and the rider gets excluded. Should be interesting. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SCB Posted October 17, 2014 Report Share Posted October 17, 2014 A new rule just for one night then? Can't wait for the next time it happens and the rider gets excluded. Should be interesting. League racing has been bike touching the tapes only since as far as I can remember (mid 90s) while FIM is bike or rider. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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