Belle Vue V Swindon 11 May, 2016.

[ColinMills]

Don't think I've ever come away from a defeat so happy. What a joy to watch at the NSS. The Aces will get dialed in and the track will produce more racing lines in time.

Swindon, as a few weeks ago gave the race rusty Aces a gating lesson and throughly deserved their win.

I look forward to another play off contest with you guys at seasons end.

Happy times.

only seen snippets on phone/you tube, but yes, it looks an amazing modern day speedway track, with many passing line, unlike your old track

[Aces51]

A deserved win for the Robins. Tungate at reserve was the main difference but the Robins were fairly solid throughout. Good to see Nielsen scoring well.

 

For the Aces nobody was consistent. Zagar had one of his off nights but was trying different lines later on but just couldn't get enough drive out wide. Jacobs showed he is capable of scoring points and did well to hold off the two Robins for a heat 9, 5-1.

 

There were some decent races but the track needs time to bed in and for the dirt to be built up before we shall see it at its best.

 

I still had to pinch myself to believe we've actually got such a brilliant stadium with excellent viewing facilities that allow you to be so close to the racing.

[Reviresco]

Rohan Tungate - you little beauty!

[speedwaysliders]

What are the pits like and is there good viewing for the fans to look at whats going on?

[FAST GATER]

Great that the first EL match is over and I am sure that things will get better and better looking forward to many years of speedway in a first class setting .

[Halifaxtiger]

Perhaps I was expecting too much after looking forward to this meeting. It was very disappointing indeed.

 

I arrived at about 615 and found that you could purchase a specific seat in the grandstand, rather than just a seat. This meant that people were taking 5 minutes to do so which might not seem a long time but when there are a 1,000 or more doing so..........it didn't surprise me the start was delayed.

 

I wanted to stand on the first bend and was given a ticket for the south terrace. I was then assured I could go on the first bend, only to be told by security staff that I could not. I was then told that I could gain access to the first bend from the south terrace, which you can if you are prepared to walk on the track. First night maybe, but that's a shambles.

 

I hadn't been impressed with the presentation on Friday but last night it was worse. The announcer constantly made mistakes, while the presenter is a graduate with honours from the Mike 'I am the star of the show' Bennett academy. As I said on Friday, bring back Natalie Quirk & Ken Wrench.

 

Of course none of that would have mattered much if the racing had been good and after Jon Armstrong's fantastic ride on Friday I was certain we would get a lot more. We didn't.

 

It was a gaters paradise in which if you jumped from the start and sat on the kerb you would win. Any passing that there was came from riders drifting wide and it was painful to watch the likes of Zagar, Cook & Nielsen hammering round the outside only to lose yards. I don't know who prepared that track, but I'd be surprised if it was Colin Meredith and one fan on the mic even wanted to go back to Kirky Lane. I'd go as far as to say that the track played a substantial part in Belle Vue losing.

 

The way I saw it, and for anything but the first time, British Speedway had a superb opportunity to promote itself and blew it.

[Sidney the robin]

A great win for the Robins i must say this side keeps surprising me but along way to go yet.Fingers crossed with this track hope it beds down and produces the racing the home fan deserve.

[Reviresco]

A great win for the Robins i must say this side keeps surprising me but along way to go yet.Fingers crossed with this track hope it beds down and produces the racing the home fan deserve.

 

Apart from Steve Brum, I think we were all surprised Sidney, And nice sentiments fella,

[Sidney the robin]

It will be interesting to see how they do once Tungate moves back into the top 5 on Monday.

Good win tonight though

Think Rohan can push on now i think away he really can make a difference mega quick when in front.At home is where he needs to improve he will I believe.I think i was one of a few that was not bothered when Rohan replaced Dakota i personally rate him higher.I think Tungate/Wright/Sedgy are the riders that could make/break Swindons season the worry for me is Poole will make another change at some stage.?

[A ORLOV]

So who will be changing places with Rohan at the next green sheet issue, will Charles return or will Justin take a turn?.

 

It is great to see last 4 scores, 4 wins 51 - 40, 50 - 42, 50 - 40, 50 - 40.

Just need to keep getting to 50 against Kings Lynn away and at home next week and especially those pesky pirates.

Edited May 12, 2016 by A ORLOV

[thecoombdog]

Think Rohan can push on now i think away he really can make a difference mega quick when in front.At home is where he needs to improve he will I believe.I think i was one of a few that was not bothered when Rohan replaced Dakota i personally rate him higher.I think Tungate/Wright/Sedgy are the riders that could make/break Swindons season the worry for me is Poole will make another change at some stage.?

Morris is the key to our team for me. We are always going to have a decent reserve down there and Josh G is steady eddy in the middle of the pack doing his job every week. If Morris can score 8/9/10 every week as back up to Doyley then we will be alright. Its a big IF though! He definitely has it in him to do it but can he maintain the consistency? After the first few meetings i'm genuiely shocked how the last 4 meetings have gone. Didn't see it coming at all. Long way to go though but the league is very unpredictable due to these stupid FTR average rules.

[BritPete]

Why all this nonsense about the importance of reserves? There have been many examples of this over the years. Remember the Rio rocket at Poole a few years ago? He scored mega points at reserve, as many others have.

[hyderd]

It's not always one can say they enjoyed getting beat at home, last night for me was one of those occasions, Swindon riders were obviously more happier with their bike set ups and it showed on the track. Some good races, even the some FTG races were good to watch with riders trying different lines.

 

Heat 9 for us B V fans was the best race as young J J held on for a 5-1 with R W against the 2 Robins snapping at his back wheel, JJ certainly brought the house down in that race.

 

I have no doubt that after a couple more home meeting the Aces will get their set ups right, their gateing boots on and hopefully start making the NSS a fortress.

 

A big well done to the Robins on 4 well deserved points, if JD had of been there I recon we would of been on the end of a 56-34 tonking.

[Phil The Ace]

First off. Well done swindon. Better team on the night. I don't buy all this neutral track rubbish. We have practiced and done more laps than the swindon boys. Swindon were just the better team on the night.

 

Yes there was some boring races but we're some very decent races and close races. It's only the end match on track. What do people expect. The track needs 5/6 meetings to bed in before we will start building up the dirt. All though I did think a watering would have helped. Not once did the water truck make an appearance.

 

Colin meredith is on holiday so Tony swales did track. Maybe that was something to do with it. As he ain't as good as colin. Colin will be back soon thank God.

 

Regarding the ticket office fiasco, belle vue have been advertising printing your tickets at home all week to try and make it easier for the ticket office. Unfortunately probably over a thousand people decided to buy tickets on the day. I got mine through printing of at home so I just got straight in. No ques. That is Deffo the way to do it.

 

Tungate was on fire. Looked real good. Albeit at reserve. All though he was beating our 1-5 also.

[Dornier]

What are the pits like and is there good viewing for the fans to look at whats going on?

Might be wrong but don`t think theres any viewing area of the pits. I did look down over the grandstand wall you may catch a glimpse of a rider but that's all. Not much passing last night but Bombers pass on Nicholls was superb I bet he had a grin on his face when he went back to the pits.and then he bet him again which must have made his day Bomber would have had more but for Zagar taking him high upto the fence. Wasn`t impressed with Zagar his tactics seems to be to wait till the last bend before having a go. Once your in the grandstand you can`t roam around your pretty much there in the grandstand in your seat or in the food toilet area at the back. there were big queues at the toilets at half time. despite the racing starting late at 7-50 and a ten minute break we were on the road home all done and dusted at 9-50 so not a bad turn around. Swindon deserved there win, on last nights performance the ACES are going to lose a few at home. didn`t see a single person from another track apart from Wayne Scroggins, from what I saw the crowd were nearly all Aces fans...At a full capacity meeting I don't think there will be enough turnstiles. entry was slow with having to hand your ticket to security and then they were looking inside ladys handbags so not surprised it was a delayed start. Otherwise a superb facility and lets hope the Aces can keep it going..

[Sidney the robin]

Morris is the key to our team for me. We are always going to have a decent reserve down there and Josh G is steady eddy in the middle of the pack doing his job every week. If Morris can score 8/9/10 every week as back up to Doyley then we will be alright. Its a big IF though! He definitely has it in him to do it but can he maintain the consistency? After the first few meetings i'm genuiely shocked how the last 4 meetings have gone. Didn't see it coming at all. Long way to go though but the league is very unpredictable due to these stupid FTR average rules.

Hope you are right Coombdog"if Nick can get his 10s at home which he is well capable of because at his best he can get beat anyone at the Abbey.Then get his 6s plus away we could be in business fair play to Rosco was very confident in this team his faith never wavered.The next week is huge with Troy just coming back the double over the Stars is well gettable.Then the next week my big hope is that we get a 1800/2000 crowd against the best Poole and can get a another home win be great if the club got a bumper crowd for that one.

[keepturningleft]

Best stadium, best track (will be), best viewing - up close to the action, best facilities - quite simply the now best speedway venue in this

country.

 

Everyone involved in bring this venture to fruition deserves huge credit.

 

Surprised the crowd wasn't bigger given the significance of the occasion and it could have done with some 'razzmatazz'.

 

Being 'trapped' in whatever section your in is not great, but I guess you can't move around at footballstadia either, so what the heck.

 

Minor niggles considering the overall impressiveness of this venue.

[Grachan]

It looks unbalanced, seeing Tungate getting 15 at reserve, but is it that influential on the win?

 

While Tungate is scoring big down there, Wrighty is struggling for points in the top 5.

 

Excluding the nominated heat (which is an extra heat and he would probably stlll have been in it), Tungate scored 13. Wright scored just 2. That's 15.

 

On the form he was on Tungate would probably have scored at least 9 in the top 5 from his programmed rides, and Wright could have probably scored more than 6 at reserve to make more than 15 points.

 

It's unbalanced the sides, but I'm not sure it had a major influence on the final result. In fact we might have won by more with Wright at reserve.

[A ORLOV]

I think with the 1 - 6 that we have that the point grachan is making is correct, the main advantage will be that if one of the 1 - 5 has an off night or touches the tapes the good number 6 can replace them for a ride.

 

I can see out number 6 changing all season.

[Sidney the robin]

It's interesting when you look at the three big reserve totals lately Wright 15, Worrall 17 (in a 39 total )Tungate 15.I still think you need the second tier reserve to chip in which Stefan did to guarantee a win away from home.