Bagpuss Posted July 15 Report Share Posted July 15 Watch out, ianb will be along shortly. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gjcone44 Posted July 15 Report Share Posted July 15 beautiful sunshine in Manchester. this morning. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TINYS Posted July 15 Report Share Posted July 15 23 minutes ago, gjcone44 said: beautiful sunshine in Manchester. this morning. 24 minutes ago, gjcone44 said: beautiful sunshine in Manchester. this morning. Same here in Kings Lynn 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mikebv Posted July 15 Report Share Posted July 15 13 hours ago, Rob B said: I’m sure was listed on Eurosport earlier in week. Now showing only on Discovery+ but Eurosport 2 are showing British Speedway and Speedway GP highlights for 2 hours! A new age of TV coverage for UK Speedway... When that was announced, I presume most of us thought it was going to be a good thing... Kabaddi gets more coverage on Eurosport... 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TINYS Posted July 15 Report Share Posted July 15 2 minutes ago, mikebv said: A new age of TV coverage for UK Speedway... When that was announced, I presume most of us thought it was going to be a good thing... Kabaddi gets more coverage on Eurosport... I think Tiddly Winks, and the Conker championship are higher on their agenda. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mikebv Posted July 15 Report Share Posted July 15 Just now, TINYS said: I think Tiddly Winks, and the Conker championship are higher on their agenda. Not weather impacted... And they dont have guest players replacing those listed, so are both bona fide competitions... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IainB Posted July 15 Report Share Posted July 15 1 hour ago, Arch Stanton said: Postponed. 1 hour ago, cowboy cookie returns? said: Tonight’s fixture has just been postponed due to the heavy rain forecasted for this afternoon & evening. absolutely the correct call... and you've not even had to blame the opposition in doing it! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BluTiger Posted July 15 Report Share Posted July 15 Presuming this is not re-arranged for the next couple of weeks, this postponement does give Chris a little more breathing room to bring in a replacement for Jason... 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ShanoXtra Posted July 15 Report Share Posted July 15 Surprised it’s been called! Looking at Met weather it’s changed to zero rain until 21:30. I live in Ipswich so it’ll be interesting to see what the weather turns out to be! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BluTiger Posted July 15 Report Share Posted July 15 2 minutes ago, Shano101 said: Surprised it’s been called! Looking at Met weather it’s changed to zero rain until 21:30. I live in Ipswich so it’ll be interesting to see what the weather turns out to be! That's not what it's showing... https://www.metoffice.gov.uk/weather/forecast/u12b4ht3f#?date=2024-07-15 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tocha Posted July 15 Report Share Posted July 15 11 minutes ago, BluTiger said: That's not what it's showing... https://www.metoffice.gov.uk/weather/forecast/u12b4ht3f#?date=2024-07-15 If you check the weather map rather then the summary it shows no rain at all until 21.30. Too late now though. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arch Stanton Posted July 15 Report Share Posted July 15 12 minutes ago, tocha said: If you check the weather map rather then the summary it shows no rain at all until 21.30. Too late now though. They’re changing the forecast frequently. It seems they’re not entirely sure, to the surprise of nobody. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ShanoXtra Posted July 15 Report Share Posted July 15 36 minutes ago, BluTiger said: That's not what it's showing... https://www.metoffice.gov.uk/weather/forecast/u12b4ht3f#?date=2024-07-15 You need to scroll down to the weather map and use the quarterly time increments to scroll and follow the flight path of the weather. That hourly weather forecast is just a generally weather assumption. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rob B Posted July 15 Report Share Posted July 15 32 minutes ago, Arch Stanton said: They’re changing the forecast frequently. It seems they’re not entirely sure, to the surprise of nobody. This is what happened with Belle Vue last week, different forecasts constantly changing, I thought they were suppose to be able to accurately predict now. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bagpuss Posted July 15 Report Share Posted July 15 2 hours ago, iainb said: absolutely the correct call... and you've not even had to blame the opposition in doing it! Why do you make things up? Nobody is blaming anybody for Lynn tonight, as with the other week when it was called off an hour before, all three parties are in agreement. It's the only way Buster and co are allowed to postpone nowadays. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rob B Posted July 15 Report Share Posted July 15 Looks like there was some rain this afternoon but it’s dry now till at least 9pm? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BluTiger Posted July 15 Report Share Posted July 15 3 minutes ago, Rob B said: Looks like there was some rain this afternoon but it’s dry now till at least 9pm? Been no rain at my golf course, which is about 4 miles from the track. Grey skies, but bone dry at the moment... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rob B Posted July 15 Report Share Posted July 15 Presume Phil Morris must have called it with it being on TV. With both teams missing 2 riders suited them. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hawk127 Posted July 15 Report Share Posted July 15 Looking at a few weather sites most are showing virtually no rain until around 21.00. Shame really but it is what it is. I am not sure what the answer is but given what was witnessed at the NSS, who is really calling the shots, the riders or the promoters? As a general point it cannot do any favours to the stadium owners either. What would you rather have as an owner, weekly stocks/bangers when you not only get rent but food/drink and parking or speedway with sixteen dates unless you make it all the way in cup and league with just income from food and drink over possibly seven months. If I were an owner I know what I would opt for and make the facility work for itself. From a supporters point of view, the stop start fixture list (not talking about postponements) cannot help with punters finding other things to do and simply no longer bothering. The tribal followers of a team have probably long gone together with the previous weekly fix that use to be the norm. All very sad. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aries Posted July 15 Report Share Posted July 15 9 minutes ago, Rob B said: Presume Phil Morris must have called it with it being on TV. With both teams missing 2 riders suited them. Ipswich have been missing at least one rider and up to four riders in meetings pretty much all season and not called it off. It would be purely on this mornings forecast which to be fair, was awful first thing this morning at the time of the call off. Yes it’s changed several times throughout the day but what do you? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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