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With less than 3 weeks to go before the cut-off date,   it is apparent  some teams are not going to fulfil all their fixtures.   With the teams so close in the league , any unplayed match will have significant bearing on the final PO positions.   Surely a weeks extension would be more acceptable recipe than teams winning by default.   An extra week would offer  2 extra dates for those teams struggling to complete their schedule.

Would adding another week create much of a problem ??    Probably, it wouldn't fit with the TV schedule,  but adding an extra week to the contract could benefit everybody.  The league could fit in the PO semi's  and Final in a 2 week windows, still leaving ample time before the season finishes..

We at Lynn have waited 50 odd years to win the coveted crown. This year we are again in contention for those play-off places.  It would be a shame if we lose out because of foul weather cancellations,  poor fixture planning and them dreaded FRNs....    

Be interesting to hear other posters views....   

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Totally and utterly agree, those in charge wl be cutting off their noses to spite their faces if they don't do this, speedway is a sport governed by the weather (and 100 other anomalies, one of the largest being lack of fans, people who WILL turn out for these big, exciting meetings at this sharp end of the season), BTSport know this so will have to understand! 

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7 minutes ago, Steve Shovlar said:

We have had a long dry summer. No reason to extend at all. Clubs could have planned better to fit fixtures in gefore panicking as time ran out. Think back to all those weeks when no fixtures were run. 

The playoff dates should not be moved imo. Clubs should simply plan their fixtures better.

would you be saying the same thing if it affected our club i doubt it :nono:

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15 minutes ago, Steve Shovlar said:

We have had a long dry summer. No reason to extend at all. Clubs could have planned better to fit fixtures in gefore panicking as time ran out. Think back to all those weeks when no fixtures were run. 

The playoff dates should not be moved imo. Clubs should simply plan their fixtures better.

Absolutely spot on - a 7 team league there is no reason what so ever no excuses that clubs couldn’t complete fixtures on time a cut off extension shouldn’t be allowed - as you say hot dry summer and weeks with no fixtures . 

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13 minutes ago, Haza said:

Absolutely spot on - a 7 team league there is no reason what so ever no excuses that clubs couldn’t complete fixtures on time a cut off extension shouldn’t be allowed - as you say hot dry summer and weeks with no fixtures . 

Exactly what happened to all those dates that were pencilled in for Rye House meetings. The only meeting affected seems to be one that was postponed in mid july. How long do you need to arrange one meeting. 

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no, we shouldn't move the dates, with the best summers in a long time there is no excuse not to get your fixtures in in a timely manner... 

it all boils down to poor fixture planning, the Football World Cup is in the calendar every 4 years, the dates have been known long before the BSPA generated their fixtures for 2018 so to cancel matches just because the football would affect the gates is poor planning. 

 

Get on with it.

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43 minutes ago, ray c said:

would you be saying the same thing if it affected our club i doubt it :nono:

I would say the club should have planned better. No excuse this year to not have completed the fixtures on time. The weathers been fine. We are not overloaded with fixtures. There’s not been enough for gods sake!

For those that fail to complete, tough!

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1 minute ago, Steve Shovlar said:

No points are awarded to either club.

May be that needs addressing?

Shame for the 'away' team to miss out on a play off spot through no fault of their own?

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41 minutes ago, foreverblue said:

Exactly what happened to all those dates that were pencilled in for Rye House meetings. The only meeting affected seems to be one that was postponed in mid july. How long do you need to arrange one meeting. 

 Those Rye House dates hasn't  altered the schedule at all,  Where once  all  8 teams could play each other on a said day,  now we have  6 team competing and 1 team spare.   In actual fact   since RH withdrawal it has made more of a  problem.    All RH withdrawal high lighted was the wasted race days some teams had used up.  

Whose responsible for fixture planning ??     Whose responsible for the  calender schedule ??        We all know who were responsible for those FRN...   

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Let's just get the top four teams at cut off time in the play offs, and all then conveniently forget all the Mickey Mouse nonsense that has taken place to reach the play offs, and turn up in numbers to collude with the Promoters and BT in pretending that it is actually a serious competition worth winning...

(Like we do every year)...:D

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