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Tsunami, what's the Newcastle track like at the moment to get on and do any work on it....?

Very Very wet, with a lot of water on the inside bends. The track will have to be complete drained before it is cut on the 28th. It is very difficult to walk on as the top surface is all slop.

Just looked in a mirror have you.

Least i've got something decent to look at. Don't tell lies either. :D:P

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weatherwatcher............Nothing, bar clearing the ditches up, did,t think it was going to happen after all the talk about the weather, there has been at least a good week with no rain of any significance falling. So it could have been done, by now. Not sure when It will get altered now. Next season probablly. As for not having my heart into the speedway this year, this is the worst EL I can remember. You have 2 teams that are worth a note and the rest, the other six are terrible to say the least, we are paying an extra £2 entrance fee, to watch a team that is going to stuggle along again, I can see a couple of them leaving in a few mmonths time and then where does it leave the Lions. It would have been better to have gone back down to the PL at least we would see some decent racing. Not sure what this coming season is going to be like but I think it will be a mediocre season. I can go to Darly and watch 3 times as much racing for half the cost of what will will to get into watch the Lions and it is the same distance from where I live. Will next year be any better and will the Lions still be up and running in the EL or PL or will the stadium be sold on.

You never fail to cheer me up when I look at the forum each day. Such a little ray of sunshine. :lol: I think we've got the message now ~ you're cheesed off with Speedway at Leicester and would prefer to go to Darly instead. Okay fair enough. I'm off now to see if there are any more cheerful posts on this cold rainy day before I fall into a deeper depression.

 

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A simple solution would be long as 1-7 named for a meeting is under the limit using their average from the start of the season then dont see the issue. I did read it would have to be a rider new to Britain, for example Poole wanted to use Kacper Woryna for the role.

As soon as I saw Matt Ford was for it .I knew there would be a plan for Poole to benefit in some way ..

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It must have rained differently in Leicester, to what we have been getting in South Derbyshire, the records from my weather station shows a total of 75mm this year which is around average. The back end of last year was well below what we narmally get. I only have to go into Burton-on-Trent and see the washland there that usually resemble a huge lake when the rain is really bad, it is nothing like that so far this winter.

Just hope that the work will get done one day as it would be such a shame not to ever get the work finished. With not many weeks to go before the season starts up again, is there any fear that the track will be unfit at the start of the coming season. With the next couple of months being some of the wetter ones of the year.

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It must have rained differently in Leicester, to what we have been getting in South Derbyshire, the records from my weather station shows a total of 75mm this year which is around average. The back end of last year was well below what we narmally get. I only have to go into Burton-on-Trent and see the washland there that usually resemble a huge lake when the rain is really bad, it is nothing like that so far this winter.

Just hope that the work will get done one day as it would be such a shame not to ever get the work finished. With not many weeks to go before the season starts up again, is there any fear that the track will be unfit at the start of the coming season. With the next couple of months being some of the wetter ones of the year.

I dont know what weather you actually watch . but I live 12 miles from BP as the crow flies and my back garden has been underwater for most of this winter

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I run my own weather station here in South Derbyshire, it is a semi profetional Davis weather station and is to withing .0.1c and within 0.1mm rainfall. It could be that Leicester had more rain than we have had but I would not of thought it would have been very much more..

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As it's been such a horrible day ~ yes it's raining again here in Leicester weatherwatcher ~ I've been sorting through a cupboard of Speedway things to see what to keep and what I can throw away. Came across this photo of the track when it was being built in 2011. So what happened as it looks massive? Where did it all go wrong?

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I run my own weather station here in South Derbyshire, it is a semi profetional Davis weather station and is to withing .0.1c and within 0.1mm rainfall. It could be that Leicester had more rain than we have had but I would not of thought it would have been very much more..

John Kettley or Michael Fish I wonder

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As it's been such a horrible day ~ yes it's raining again here in Leicester weatherwatcher ~ I've been sorting through a cupboard of Speedway things to see what to keep and what I can throw away. Came across this photo of the track when it was being built in 2011. So what happened as it looks massive? Where did it all go wrong?

Don't know, it all seemed to have got lots of fences build around it and far to close, not sure if that was all the land the council would let them have, but there seems to be far to much waste land around BP, that they could have had at least another 100 feet or more around the track. It is like it was built around a postage stamp, when they had a perfect blank canvas to have built the best stadium in the country. It is a little bit like the EL teams they must have been on the same lines all on a very tight budget.

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With Patrick Hougaard filling the final spot it is hardly going to be a team that are going to do much away from home and possibly very little at home too.

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Leicester have a very well balanced side. Walasek, Wozniak and Auty all go very well at home. Klindt has a home ace over 8. Hougaard has been very good around Leicester on the occasions he has been there, so to say they will struggle at home is crazy. As for away. Walasek looked almost unbeatable at Kings Lynn and Coventry. Wozza was improving all the time and the others have been around long enough to some points. Ulamek has been around long enough to know how to win and he had a fairly good season last year, so who knows. We could be the surprise package this year. Injuries will dictate a lot of teams and by the law of averages we should be in for an injury free season. Let's hope so hey!

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Very underwhelmed by the side . If we win more the 2 matches all season it will be a bigger shock then Leicester City being top of the league.

 

But last night at the darts i was told the brilliant news that Chris "ego" Popple has moved onto the Isle Of Wight so hopefully that means no more of his cock ups & terrible voice at Leicester on a saturday a relief i'm sure we all agree

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The Isle of Wight race night is Thursday isn't it? I think Chris can get the ferry and be back in Leicester by Saturday night. :)

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