tocha Posted August 25, 2017 Report Share Posted August 25, 2017 No thread yet. Preview taken from Lakeside website: http://www.lakesidehammers.co/hammers-v-fen-tigers-preview/ This is a vital match for the Hammers and could define their season. Anything but a win then it is curtains for the play-offs I feel. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
teaboy279 Posted August 25, 2017 Report Share Posted August 25, 2017 I think Mildenhall could go there and get a 4 league point victory this evening. When you are so top heavy you need your number 1 and 5 to be dominant. Boxall and Bacon are great guests but lack that little bit of home side advantage. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Speedwaycrazy Posted August 25, 2017 Report Share Posted August 25, 2017 I think Mildenhall could go there and get a 4 league point victory this evening. When you are so top heavy you need your number 1 and 5 to be dominant. Boxall and Bacon are great guests but lack that little bit of home side advantage. Going to be close tonight, Alfie needs to pick up almost double figures to give us a chance! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
waco Posted August 25, 2017 Report Share Posted August 25, 2017 I do not see Bacon as any where near good enough to cover for Morley,s potential points ..I hope I'm wrong but I think the Hammers will struggle to get a result,Play offs. ,?????. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
marko Posted August 25, 2017 Report Share Posted August 25, 2017 Firstly the positives = its a lovely day with zero chance of rain, On paper the Fen Tigers should give the Hammers a very close match. Negatives = The track could be on the dry and dusty side, its bank holiday so the traffic is expected to be heavy with the M25 in full on disruption mode, Hammers are decimated and guests are not going to attract fans. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Voice Of Reason Posted August 25, 2017 Report Share Posted August 25, 2017 its bank holiday so the traffic is expected to be heavy with the M25 in full on disruption modeBut hang on, didn't Jon Cook use the excuse of Friday night traffic being one of the reasons to drop to semi-pro Speedway? Yet, on what night are Lakeside continuing to race in 2017 (more often than not)? And to just think.......there's probably still some people that believe him! At least it will be another of the 14 promised meetings delivered. I am sure Season Ticket holders are waiting with baited breath to find out how the remaining gaps are going to be filled. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
marko Posted August 25, 2017 Report Share Posted August 25, 2017 Still plenty of time before tapes up but the early signs do not look good, M25 is doing what it does best on a Friday, standing room only. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
waco Posted August 25, 2017 Report Share Posted August 25, 2017 Why would anyone in there right mind run with 3 guests and. RR on a bank holiday Friday next to the Dartford tunnel ?...? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Voice Of Reason Posted August 25, 2017 Report Share Posted August 25, 2017 (edited) According to Speedway Updates, Heat 1 is scheduled for 8.45pm! Is this Lakeside's new intro? https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=8LQftYK2n8o What a Promotion. Edited August 25, 2017 by The Voice Of Reason Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
marko Posted August 25, 2017 Report Share Posted August 25, 2017 Be a late finish tonight then, providing those from Kent made it, they won't have to pay the toll on the way home. After all these years, you would have thought a lesson would have been learnt? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
marko Posted August 25, 2017 Report Share Posted August 25, 2017 Sounds like the ref is a vegaterian, no Bacon rolls tonight! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Islander15 Posted August 25, 2017 Report Share Posted August 25, 2017 Now Lakeside are at it with the R/R. Bowtell's 3 points is more than an out of form Laurence would've got. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
waco Posted August 25, 2017 Report Share Posted August 25, 2017 Bacon doing better than I expected he must be on a roll, Now looking positive for Lakeside,keep it going lads.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
E I Addio Posted August 25, 2017 Report Share Posted August 25, 2017 Bacon doing better than I expected he must be on a roll, Now looking positive for Lakeside,keep it going lads.. Bacon was, for me, the best rider on show. He looks absolutely professional in his general set up. Was gating superbly, looked very stylish on the bike and paid 11 for only the second time he has ridden the track was an excellent performance. For the first time, I quite enjoyed an NL match. Well done to both teams. , Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cityrebel Posted August 25, 2017 Report Share Posted August 25, 2017 A poor meeting tonight,that was put out of its misery by the nasty looking heat 14 crash. With the surrounding areas gridlocked three hours before the start, the match was never going to begin on time. At one stage I thought it might be called off. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Voice Of Reason Posted August 25, 2017 Report Share Posted August 25, 2017 So a speedway meeting starts 45 mins late and finishes after 14 races. What a fkin JOKE! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
adz_mft Posted August 25, 2017 Report Share Posted August 25, 2017 Good job aswell. I'd had enough. We decided to come down early and do some shopping. Took me 30 mins longer to get from the shopping centre to the track than what it did for me to get from home to the shopping centre. Hour and 45 mins. Was a poor meeting tbh. Majority of the races were done and dusted by bend 2.Thought we may have snuck a point but it wasn't meant to be. Too sharp away from the gates unfortunately for us.Well done on the win Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Voice Of Reason Posted August 26, 2017 Report Share Posted August 26, 2017 Sorry, to amend my earlier post. The meeting actually finished after Heat 13! Jon Cook - do Speedway a favour.......and go get yourself a job stacking baked bean tins in Lidl. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Halifaxtiger Posted August 26, 2017 Report Share Posted August 26, 2017 Sorry, to amend my earlier post. The meeting actually finished after Heat 13! Jon Cook - do Speedway a favour.......and go get yourself a job stacking baked bean tins in Lidl. I am wondering precisely what you want or expect. According to traffic reports, there was a multi car pile up on the QE2 bridge yesterday afternoon that caused traffic chaos in the area. Jon Cook can be blamed for some things, but surely not that. In the circumstances, a delayed start seems entirely sensible in that it gave everyone a chance to actually see the meeting. Not ideal, but better than starting on time or abandoning the match altogether (I can just imagine how I would have felt spending hours locked up in a car to arrive and find that the meeting had been postponed). Given that the start was at 8.45, I would presume that it was pushing 10pm by the time that they ran heat 14. There was, by all accounts, a bad crash and extensive damage to the air fence. I suppose we could have had everyone standing around for however long it would have taken to fix it but it seems that there was a mutual agreement between both teams to end it there. Again, inherently sensible, particularly taking into account Adz comments above (and I doubt very much if he was the only one who thought that). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bryce Posted August 26, 2017 Report Share Posted August 26, 2017 Indeed, though I am no fan of Mr Cook on many issues, there was no way he could be held accountable for the events last night. It took my son and I almost 90 minutes to complete the last mile of our journey to the track, including 45 minutes stationary on the roundabout that goes under the M25 at the junction before the Dartford Crossing. We eventually got to the stadium just before 8 to find the place almost deserted. Even the ambulance and medics hadn't managed to get there at that stage. By delaying 45 minutes they allowed in the end a pretty decent crowd to arrive. Obviously that meant it was getting quite late by the time the heat 14 crash occured. Given that the safety fence was severely damaged including the actual support fencing as well as the air bags, and would have taken a long time to fix, and that the match points were by then settled; nobody I spoke to was at all put out that the meeting was abandoned at that point. It was just one of those nights. It wasn't ideal, but the problems were definitely not caused by anything Jon Cook did or didn't do. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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