waco Posted April 18, 2018 Report Share Posted April 18, 2018 Looks a home banker but hey if the racing is good that is the main thing as far as I'm concerned........ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
boz Posted April 18, 2018 Report Share Posted April 18, 2018 Will be no JBA for the Bears as racing in Denmark - I believe Doolan will guest in his place. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SuperBear Posted April 18, 2018 Report Share Posted April 18, 2018 2 hours ago, boz said: Will be no JBA for the Bears as racing in Denmark - I believe Doolan will guest in his place. Huh. Could be worse Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mjolnir Posted April 19, 2018 Report Share Posted April 19, 2018 15 hours ago, boz said: Will be no JBA for the Bears as racing in Denmark - I believe Doolan will guest in his place. Not a bad guest! 15 hours ago, waco said: Looks a home banker but hey if the racing is good that is the main thing as far as I'm concerned........ Agreed Waco - hopefully some entertaining racing and some points on the league table! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
liam Posted April 19, 2018 Report Share Posted April 19, 2018 Morris and Ellis will be taking some good form into the meeting. I would expect a big win. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
waco Posted April 19, 2018 Author Report Share Posted April 19, 2018 (edited) At the beginning of the season I thought we had two second strings at 3 and4 ,,But Ellis has been a revelation an undoubted heat leader making the team a really solid. Outfit,,..Hopefully Bowtell will continue to be more controlled which will help his improvement. ,,Morley is riding well just needs a bit more luck in running to increase his. Points tally..Zac has started very well coming back from injury..Newman s doing his job,,.Morris and Lawson are flying...So it is all looking good for a fabulous season..Up the Hammers Edited April 19, 2018 by waco 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tocha Posted April 19, 2018 Report Share Posted April 19, 2018 (edited) As already mentioned Hammers' riders were in action for their Premiership clubs yesterday. Nick dropped just one point leading Swindon to a convincing victory at Poole whilst Adam scored 7 (a win and two paid wins) and Zach, 3. Meanwhile Richard scored 9 (two wins and a paid win) for Somerset v Leicester for whom Kyle collected 11 + 1 from the reserve berth. Whilst all this was going on, Alfie qualified for the 'under 21' final with 10 points, which could have been 13 had he not fallen when leading his opening heat, and joins prospective Hammer, Jason Edwards, who had already achieved qualification at Eastbourne. Ben leads out Isle of Wight this evening. All very encouraging. Edited April 19, 2018 by tocha 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hawks 1975 Posted April 20, 2018 Report Share Posted April 20, 2018 Lakeside web site mentions road closures around the Raceway - any details anyone? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
marko Posted April 20, 2018 Report Share Posted April 20, 2018 Checked AA site and it appears the road is closed from the Arena roundabout to the next two roundabouts along the arterial road, I can't see why we would not be able to access the stadium in the normal manner as you can still get to the retail park at Lakeside off that same roundabout, its just that if you like me normally come from the A13 direction via the A1012 you will need to stay on the A13 to the next junction effectively going back on yourself. If Police are stopping movement on the Arena roundabout (U turning the traffic prior to the roundabout itself, we are in big trouble, as there is no other way to access the stadium, the back entrance is slap bang in the middle of the closed section. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daytripper Posted April 20, 2018 Report Share Posted April 20, 2018 Apparently there is an ongoing Police investigation. One would think they would want to get the roads open ASAP but as usual the police tell you nothing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jancarz Posted April 20, 2018 Report Share Posted April 20, 2018 Is it the pedestrian entrance that is affected? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daytripper Posted April 20, 2018 Report Share Posted April 20, 2018 I hear it is starting to clear. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
liam Posted April 20, 2018 Report Share Posted April 20, 2018 I saw on Facebook it was because of a murder? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
screm Posted April 20, 2018 Report Share Posted April 20, 2018 More 15.55pm update. We are waiting for confirmation from the police regarding the re-opening of the roads around the Raceway. This is due around 4.30pm. We will update as soon as we hear. This was taken from the Lakeside twitter page, hopefully things will get the all clear very soon. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tocha Posted April 20, 2018 Report Share Posted April 20, 2018 23 minutes ago, screm said: More 15.55pm update. We are waiting for confirmation from the police regarding the re-opening of the roads around the Raceway. This is due around 4.30pm. We will update as soon as we hear. This was taken from the Lakeside twitter page, hopefully things will get the all clear very soon. Lakeside report all clear now: http://www.lakesidehammers.co/4-45-update-all-systems-go/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TonyE Posted April 20, 2018 Report Share Posted April 20, 2018 Not sure about 'all clear' but the stadium can be accessed from both ends! (It is just the bit of road joining those ends that remains closed). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
waco Posted April 20, 2018 Author Report Share Posted April 20, 2018 Thanks for all the invaluable information guys good to know its all clear now/// Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
waco Posted April 21, 2018 Author Report Share Posted April 21, 2018 A convincing win for the Hammers against a poor Redcar performance,, Score 56/34/... with the exception of Ben Barker who was the only one with any fight in him,,Our top five all rode to the highest level..There was still some good racing with our lads having to come from behind on occasions,,Nice gesture from our two maximum boys to let the two second strings Kyle Newman and Ben Morley who were both excellent take heat 15 ,,,decent crowd in,, and the track seemed to ride a bit better than last week....The only down point was poor Alfie Bowtell who failed to score ,,I am still not sure he is ready for this level ;time will tell,,.....Lets hope we can produce another fine performance at Ipswich tonight..... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
marko Posted April 21, 2018 Report Share Posted April 21, 2018 Thoughts, crowd and atmosphere the best we have had so far this season, meeting started late again, two minute siren for heat one was at 20:07, not sure if Jon Cook was there tonight? Glenn from re-run done the rider introductions. Racing was pretty decent to good on account of Redcar often making great starts and our riders having to come from the back, the outside line was certainly working better than it has been but something just isn’t quite right as even the likes of Nick are only just breaking the 60 second barrier and in previous seasons that would be considered slow, the track record is 56 point something. The track became pretty worn as the meeting went on and after heat 12 some careless addition of water by the track man ruined it and the last couple of heats were raced on and ice rink with race time of 63/62 seconds, I think after heat 13 Nick and Richard probably had no intention of wanting to do heat 15. Must also say despite the meeting flow kept well in check by the referee, far too much pandering at the end, by the time the riders came out for the winning lap of honour most had given up and left. The show still needs to be slicker, the track not so much, I would give this a 7/10 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
liam Posted April 21, 2018 Report Share Posted April 21, 2018 Think you summed it up pretty well Marko. Obviously the heat leaders were superb and Newman aswell but Morley has really impressed me so far he gets better all the time, he has always been superb on the white line but he made a great move in heat 8 I think flying round the outside on bends 3 and 4. The top five look superb with Zach aswell but Alfie is really struggling. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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