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Swindon V Coventry - 13-08-2015


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This is unreal. The forecast has changed from the apocalypse to just good old fashioned rain, why the hell would they not want to make a call at midday or later, considering its now meant to be easing off from the afternoon? Speedway baffles me, it really does

Don't know where you are looking, but the Met Office shows it as raining all day non stop right through to midnight.

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Despite this meeting needing to be run before the playoff deadline when you look at the expected heavy rain between 2 and 5 this is probably a sensible early decision.

 

Just need the new date asap.

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Its always easy to be critical in these situations and I am in favour of early call offs but this one seems a little premature.

 

Met office might be predicting rain but last night they were also predicting a deluge and that just hasnt happened. What's worse XC weather and metcheck are not predicting the same amount of rain.

 

Would it have been so damaging to wait until lunch time when the morning rain could have been assessed and updated predictions viewed ?

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Despite this meeting needing to be run before the playoff deadline when you look at the expected heavy rain between 2 and 5 this is probably a sensible early decision.

 

Just need the new date asap.

Do Swindon only run on a Thursday or are they able to restage fixtures on other days?

Not many weeks left now

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Do Swindon only run on a Thursday or are they able to restage fixtures on other days?

Not many weeks left now

Can run on monday or friday, but fri could have issues with our d/u riders.

 

Have used my high tech weather forecast system and it is going to p down.

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3/9 is currently reserved day before the return at your place so would imagine that is the most obvious date.

Coventry would be without King, Robson & possibly Garrity on the 3rd so would be silly to agree to that date (can still see it happening though)

Swindon would be at full strength

Can run on monday or friday, but fri could have issues with our d/u riders.

 

Have used my high tech weather forecast system and it is going to p down.

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Coventry would be without King, Robson & possibly Garrity on the 3rd so would be silly to agree to that date (can still see it happening though)

Swindon would be at full strength

Sheffield don't have a meeting so we'd be ok that day. Robson will hopefully be gone by then! But you're right, we'd have no Danny King.

 

The thing is, this meeting is not anywhere near as important for us as it is for Swindon. We don't need the points, there no guarantee we'd get points even. So what is in it for us to rush to re-arranging it? Just thinking back to 2010 when Swindon screwed us over calling off a meeting weeks before the play-off cut-off but we unable to re-stage it until after the cut-off. Hopefully a bit of Karma comes into play here!

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Sheffield don't have a meeting so we'd be ok that day. Robson will hopefully be gone by then! But you're right, we'd have no Danny King.

 

The thing is, this meeting is not anywhere near as important for us as it is for Swindon. We don't need the points, there no guarantee we'd get points even. So what is in it for us to rush to re-arranging it? Just thinking back to 2010 when Swindon screwed us over calling off a meeting weeks before the play-off cut-off but we unable to re-stage it until after the cut-off. Hopefully a bit of Karma comes into play here!

You do make a good point. We don't need the points to finish in the play offs.

Could be a bit of a nervy end for Swindon if the meeting does get rearranged for 3rd as if the meetings against Swindon on the 3rd & 4th were to get rained off, there would be no more dates to restage them before cut off date

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