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Diamonds vs Panthers Sunday 19 th August

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The stop start season starts again. The Diamonds should be well up for this after Thursdays thrashing of the Tigers.Are we at full strength?  Who is Panthers guest? 

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1 minute ago, bri1966 said:

The stop start season starts again. The Diamonds should be well up for this after Thursdays thrashing of the Tigers.Are we at full strength?  Who is Panthers guest? 

Just seen website. Yes we are full strength and Starke takes guest booking 

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The Panthers had a torrid time at Berwick last night scoring just 35 points with Scott Nicholls getting 17 of them, plus a bonus point. Diamonds will be favourites for this, apparently the heavy rain forecast for today looks to have missed us.

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DOES ANYONE HAVE A WEATHER UPDATE AROUND THE TRACK AREA PLEASE ? 

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1 hour ago, diamonds7 said:

DOES ANYONE HAVE A WEATHER UPDATE AROUND THE TRACK AREA PLEASE ? 

It's cool with no rain now or forecast. Should be OK with plenty of rain in the shale already from Friday .

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10 minutes ago, Tsunami said:

It's cool with no rain now or forecast. Should be OK with plenty of rain in the shale already from Friday .

thanks mate tar

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7 minutes ago, Icicle said:

Seems to be no Updates....

"Knight in shining armour is on his way.....thread will be set up soonish." quotes from the updates website!! yippee

Good luck to the Diamonds tonight lets hope we can not undo the good work done on Thursday and get back to winning ways at home after two consecutive defeats.

 

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Enjoyed the meeting this evening and full credit to the Panthers for getting a point after being 10 points down. I think it was the wrong decision in heat 15 as Starkey clearly did not touch Robbo and that would have given us the draw. could be a useful point in the long run. Still a couple of riders not at  the races tonight but we win and lose as a team.

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Very enjoyable meeting raced by two committed sides, a draw would have been a fair result, my first thought was starke passed cleanly, and seemingly robbo admitted he wasn't touched so we got the decision tonight might go against us next time,, 

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lets be fair in heat 15 … even in a rerun ...… kus could well have beaten starke as he did in heat 9 ......…  so the panthers were hardly 'robbed' off a draw

I do agree it looked as though starke got through cleanly, but to be fair the ref had the red light to stop the race as soon as robson fell and he had the yellow light within 2 seconds … so he clearly saw something

cracking meeting …. well done to the diamonds who I think deserved the win ……  nicholls a class act …… just as well it took him 2 rides to get dialled in 

 

 

 

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10 hours ago, mauger65 said:

lets be fair in heat 15 … even in a rerun ...… kus could well have beaten starke as he did in heat 9 ......…  so the panthers were hardly 'robbed' off a draw

I do agree it looked as though starke got through cleanly, but to be fair the ref had the red light to stop the race as soon as robson fell and he had the yellow light within 2 seconds … so he clearly saw something

cracking meeting …. well done to the diamonds who I think deserved the win ……  nicholls a class act …… just as well it took him 2 rides to get dialled in 

 

 

 

So why does Robbo admit that he wasn't touched?

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Thoroughly enjoyed the meeting last night with some good combative races.  Scott still a class act and good leader, who engaged with the fans during the Ben Fund collection during an enforced delay with a torn gate panel and damaged gate. Ludde had a torrid night, but fortunately Matej, and especially Robbo, were back on top form with some stirring races especially from the front. Good steady backup from the 4 'alleged' reserves gave good back up when necessary, saw us across the line in the end despite a good fight back late on by the Panthers especially Scott. After heat 13, a draw looked certain, but a rash dive in on the inside from an 'outside rider' like Starke was desperate, and although he didn't appear to touch Robbo it did cause him to fall. Maybe a draw was going to be a fairer result and nobody would have begrudged them by the efforts of their top 3 plus the galant Bacon, but Starke's exclusion gave us a well needed win again fancied opposition. One of the best meetings of the season, along with the cracker against Ippy with Covatti. Nice to see quite a few Panthers fans on a Northern Tour. Oh to get back to us having a southern tour like in the 00's.

Great meeting and racing in the NJL meeting again against a Peterborough team,  the Motive Thundercats. Late start meant the track seemed sweaty, and a few falls early on which affected the diminutive Perry's scoring, I think on his first visit. Hope he is OK today with what looked like a wrist injury.  Determined riding by especially Josh and Archie, with great backup by Danny, and 'enthusiastic' riding by Stephen, made the result look safe from the early heats. A great night for Newcastle Speedway. Referee gave good assistance and leniency to get both meetings, a large fence repair and full second half in with a lateish finish.

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46 minutes ago, foamfence said:

So why does Robbo admit that he wasn't touched?

It was that or get taken off. Good avoidance reaction. :approve:

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23 minutes ago, Tsunami said:

It was that or get taken off. Good avoidance reaction. :approve:

Robbo's words were "he was nowhere near him."

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