A ORLOV Posted January 14, 2018 Report Share Posted January 14, 2018 1 minute ago, Midland Red said: Won't the Monday night clubs be the opposition on Wednesdays? Only if the teams are equally split between mon and wed as their main night, bearing in mind some of Swindon's home meetings will be on a thursday. If there is an imbalance then there will be riders not riding that night. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve Shovlar Posted January 14, 2018 Report Share Posted January 14, 2018 Mondays. Belle Vue, Wolves, Leicester?, Rye House? Wednesday. Poole, Kings Lynn, Somerset, Swindon, (with a few Thursdays) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A ORLOV Posted January 14, 2018 Report Share Posted January 14, 2018 (edited) Not sure if Swindon will ride on a wed as there is dog racing most wednesday evenings starting at 6.30, also some fans go to more than one of Swindon, Somerset and Poole. On mondays the dogs run at lunch time so i can see mon being our main night, with the odd thursday meeting when Lakeside are not racing. Edited January 14, 2018 by A ORLOV Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PHILIPRISING Posted January 14, 2018 Report Share Posted January 14, 2018 10 minutes ago, Steve Shovlar said: Mondays. Belle Vue, Wolves, Leicester?, Rye House? Wednesday. Poole, Kings Lynn, Somerset, Swindon, (with a few Thursdays) 1 minute ago, A ORLOV said: Not sure if Swindon will ride on a wed as there is dog racing most wednesday evenings starting at 6.30, also some fans go to more than one of Swindon, Somerset and Poole. On mondays the dogs run at lunch time so i can see mon and thurs being our main night. HEARING that Premiership tracks will have Good Friday ... CL Easter Monday 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dontforgetthefueltapsbruv Posted January 14, 2018 Report Share Posted January 14, 2018 4 minutes ago, PHILIPRISING said: HEARING that Premiership tracks will have Good Friday ... CL Easter Monday So swap and share before the season has even started.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SteveLyric2 Posted January 14, 2018 Report Share Posted January 14, 2018 Yep. Poole v Somerset home and away Good Friday. Currently SGBP but could be KO Cup?! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve Shovlar Posted January 14, 2018 Report Share Posted January 14, 2018 I will put that in my diary! Guess Poole at 11 am with Somerset 7.30. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Najjer Posted January 14, 2018 Report Share Posted January 14, 2018 2 hours ago, Steve Shovlar said: I will put that in my diary! Guess Poole at 11 am with Somerset 7.30. Let's hope so! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Najjer Posted January 14, 2018 Report Share Posted January 14, 2018 3 hours ago, oldtimer said: It will limit the number of choices clubs have for a guest to cover an absentee due to injury or foreign commitments, Wednesday night clubs will only be able to use Monday night clubs riders and visa versa. If the fixture list is compiled properly (after all these years of watching speedway it hasn't happened yet!) then not every team will be racing every Monday and every Wednesday, which will free up riders for guesting for other sides aswell as Chanpionship riders too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Catalan Posted January 14, 2018 Report Share Posted January 14, 2018 Rye House is Wednesday I believe. Swindon Mondays and Thursdays. Be interesting to see how many Thursdays they get away with. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A ORLOV Posted January 14, 2018 Report Share Posted January 14, 2018 (edited) 20 minutes ago, sugarray said: Rye House is Wednesday I believe. Swindon Mondays and Thursdays. Be interesting to see how many Thursdays they get away with. As many thurs as possible as I go to synchronized knitting on some mondays Edited January 14, 2018 by A ORLOV 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SteveLyric2 Posted January 15, 2018 Report Share Posted January 15, 2018 (edited) I fail to see what is difficult for some to understand about fixed race nights. Whichever night is selected as the 'preferred' night, all clubs will have some home meetings on either night during the season (with Swindon also on some Thursdays). Some weeks it may be a Monday, other weeks a Wednesday!! Crikey, its not rocket science!! (Unless you're at Rye House of course - you see what I did there?!) Edited January 15, 2018 by Skidder1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
INCOGNITO Posted January 15, 2018 Report Share Posted January 15, 2018 If a track has to go to Swindon on a Thursday and they have riders that also have a Championship meeting that night, surely the Premiership clubs have to get priority otherwise this is a big advantage for Swindon facing depleted teams 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A ORLOV Posted January 15, 2018 Report Share Posted January 15, 2018 4 minutes ago, INCOGNITO said: If a track has to go to Swindon on a Thursday and they have riders that also have a Championship meeting that night, surely the Premiership clubs have to get priority otherwise this is a big advantage for Swindon facing depleted teams Have not yet seen anywhere how the priority works in this case. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fromafar Posted January 15, 2018 Report Share Posted January 15, 2018 15 minutes ago, INCOGNITO said: If a track has to go to Swindon on a Thursday and they have riders that also have a Championship meeting that night, surely the Premiership clubs have to get priority otherwise this is a big advantage for Swindon facing depleted teams Don't know what will happen,but Championship clubs should not be affected by Premiership deciding to let Swindon do as they please. 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
INCOGNITO Posted January 15, 2018 Report Share Posted January 15, 2018 5 minutes ago, Fromafar said: Don't know what will happen,but Championship clubs should not be affected by Premiership deciding to let Swindon do as they please. So Premiership clubs would have to suffer because Swindon can't fit in with the rules the Premiership have set.. They should only be allowed to run Thursday's against teams that are not affected by clashes of dates with Championship meetings. 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Najjer Posted January 15, 2018 Report Share Posted January 15, 2018 34 minutes ago, Skidder1 said: I fail to see what is difficult for some to understand about fixed race nights. Whichever night is selected as the 'preferred' night, all clubs will have some home meetings on either night during the season (with Swindon also on some Thursdays). Some weeks it may be a Monday, other weeks a Wednesday!! Crikey, its not rocket science!! (Unless you're at Rye House of course - you see what I did there?!) Why? It makes much more sense for every team to stick to their required race night. For example if Somerset's race night will be Wednesday as expected, they should ride all home meetings on that day. When they meet other Wednesday night tracks, for example Poole, then in that week Poole will not ride a home meeting. It will be a nightmare following a team chopping and changing from mondays to Wednesday every week. It's not rocket science! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A ORLOV Posted January 15, 2018 Report Share Posted January 15, 2018 8 minutes ago, Najjer said: Why? It makes much more sense for every team to stick to their required race night. For example if Somerset's race night will be Wednesday as expected, they should ride all home meetings on that day. When they meet other Wednesday night tracks, for example Poole, then in that week Poole will not ride a home meeting. It will be a nightmare following a team chopping and changing from mondays to Wednesday every week. It's not rocket science! That would be ideal providing the teams are equally split between mon and wed, but if 6 teams ride on the same day then there probably is not enough weeks in the season for them all to ride on the designated night. As well as this if we have another bad year of scheduling and lots of rain offs then the alternatives will need to be used. It will be a bit difficult for some fans to chop and change home race nights. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RobMcCaffery Posted January 15, 2018 Report Share Posted January 15, 2018 When it was announced that Swindon would be allowed to race on certain Thursdays the phrase "protected Thursdays" was used, suggesting that these would be nights when only they could run to avoid clashes with SGBC meetings. There's so few fixtures in the SGBC this year that it would seem an easy job to have frequent missing Thursdays such is the wretched state of the Championship schedule this year. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PHILIPRISING Posted January 15, 2018 Report Share Posted January 15, 2018 THE original nights, as the BSPA informed the FIM, were Mondays and Thursdays but that was changed because a number of CL tracks objected. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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