Haza 1,774 Posted April 27, 2018 (edited) 4 hours ago, Star Lady said: Sorry this is nothing but a total farce. I predict a Press Release on Tuesday calling Wednesday's meeting off because of previous heavy rain coupled with poor forecast. Anyone want to bet against it? I agree a dead cert it will be called off Edited April 27, 2018 by Haza Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
tellboy 3,660 Posted April 27, 2018 4 hours ago, Star Lady said: Sorry this is nothing but a total farce. I predict a Press Release on Tuesday calling Wednesday's meeting off because of previous heavy rain coupled with poor forecast. Anyone want to bet against it? No because that is looking very likely at this stage anyway. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
tellboy 3,660 Posted April 27, 2018 3 hours ago, 5 FURROW said: Absolute rubbish what about the idiot that planned the premiership fixtures are they not to blame more so as we don’t have a fixture on the 9th 9th is the premiership riders championship. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Trees 2,814 Posted April 28, 2018 13 hours ago, Bagpuss said: Why? He scored 15 last time at Lynn on bikes that are almost certainly sitting in Norfolk. There seem to be a lot of comments on Premiership match threads about Polish meetings this year, not sure scores over there are particularly relevant to our league. Not rubbish at all. If all clubs had worked together for the good of British speedway as a whole there would have been no clashes as Premiership fixtures would have been on Mondays and Thursdays. Spot on, as always Baggy! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
lynnboy 254 Posted April 28, 2018 (edited) Well another good reason to call it off. KingsLynn Football Club will have the play off semi final at home now on Wednesday evening since they won 3-1 today. so a lot of people will be attending this instead of the speedway. So fingers crossed they will call the speedway off aa the weather is looking about as crap as the team assembled for Wednesday. it’s stupid having the two major teams in Lynn playing at home on the same evening Edited April 28, 2018 by lynnboy 3 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
tellboy 3,660 Posted April 28, 2018 2 hours ago, lynnboy said: Well another good reason to call it off. KingsLynn Football Club will have the play off semi final at home now on Wednesday evening since they won 3-1 today. so a lot of people will be attending this instead of the speedway. So fingers crossed they will call the speedway off aa the weather is looking about as crap as the team assembled for Wednesday. it’s stupid having the two major teams in Lynn playing at home on the same evening It is stupid having two major sporting teams in Lynn at home on the same night,but the speedway fixture was sorted first obviously.So the speedway has to play 2nd fiddle to Poland,Sweden,Denmark and now King's Lynn FC. Personally i think the team assembled for Wednesday night is about on par with what our normal 1-7 would be on current form. Anyway the weather most definitely looks the winner here,so c'mon the Linnets. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
lynnboy 254 Posted April 28, 2018 54 minutes ago, tellboy said: It is stupid having two major sporting teams in Lynn at home on the same night,but the speedway fixture was sorted first obviously.So the speedway has to play 2nd fiddle to Poland,Sweden,Denmark and now King's Lynn FC. Personally i think the team assembled for Wednesday night is about on par with what our normal 1-7 would be on current form. Anyway the weather most definitely looks the winner here,so c'mon the Linnets. I know what your saying but the football club get told by the FA when the fixtures take place as if they win Wednesday they have the final at home on bank holiday Monday Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
YerRopes 3,009 Posted April 28, 2018 I would like the Robins to race against a full strength Stars team.. Rearrange it for that time and when the football has packed up for the summer. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Bald Bloke 3,284 Posted April 28, 2018 40 minutes ago, YerRopes said: I would like the Robins to race against a full strength Stars team.. Rearrange it for that time and when the football has packed up for the summer. So would we. The guests were ok, but there's nothing like a full team. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
dontforgetthefueltapsbruv 10,706 Posted April 28, 2018 On 27/04/2018 at 6:51 PM, g13webb said: What a joke !! The fact that Lynn agreed to this meeting tells me all that we need to be know. We cancel meetings because of the effect the weather would have on the crowd and then arrange to run a meeting when half a team is missing . You couldn't make this up...... Why not switch this fixture to Thursday when all the riders could've rode, or just give Swindon the points without bothering to race, it would save the embarrassment, it cuts-out the financial outlay, it would save hours of work and let the sport be left to die quicker...... You can add me to the list of those not bothering to go ....... . All the riders couldnt ride on Thursday Lakeside at Ipswich so Swindon would be missing 3 instead.... Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
g13webb 4,254 Posted April 29, 2018 For the life of me, I don't understand how the BSPA could contradict the directives from the FIM on our allotted preference race nights. Once the governing body had made a ruling, surely we as a affiliated body take that on board. There should be no discussion or vote on it, these directives were made for the good of the sport, giving control of meeting priority. The BSPA should have excepted ruling as law. The Clubs should have been informed of this ruling and told this league will be running the PL on Mondays and Thursdays, and Championship will run on Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday and Saturday. The only discussion and decision the clubs should have been given was which league and what day they wanted to partake in. If Ipswich, Sheffield or Redcar insisted on running on Thursdays, then fair enough, they should be competing in the PL. If they wanted to stay in the Championship then they would have to change racenights. Its not Rocket science. There is not much difference between the two divisions, illustrated by the number of riders that ride in them both. By giving individual clubs the opportunity to contradict a FIM directives , highlights what a self-righteous shambles the BSPA are. How can other countries take us serious when we make decisions like that . If the BSPA are saying the individual clubs are more important than the FIM , then that would illustrate why our speedway has dropped from being the best in the world to now also rans...... 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
tellboy 3,660 Posted April 29, 2018 On 4/27/2018 at 5:12 PM, Star Lady said: Sorry this is nothing but a total farce. I predict a Press Release on Tuesday calling Wednesday's meeting off because of previous heavy rain coupled with poor forecast. Anyone want to bet against it? Could even be Monday looking at the predicted rain expected to fall.Why is it Thursdays always seem to have a better forecasts. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
dontforgetthefueltapsbruv 10,706 Posted April 29, 2018 4 minutes ago, tellboy said: Could even be Monday looking at the predicted rain expected to fall.Why is it Thursdays always seem to have a better forecasts. The sun shines on the righteous Up the Withes 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
tellboy 3,660 Posted April 29, 2018 1 minute ago, dontforgetthefueltapsbruv said: The sun shines on the righteous Up the Withes Who are yer,who are yer 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Bagpuss 10,779 Posted April 29, 2018 The guests have been well chosen and one could argue make us a little stronger but that's not the point, people want to see a full team of their own riders. 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
