Barrow Boy 2 172 Posted March 31, 2019 13 hours ago, Elmo said: Can we have some decent grading equipment please? Some better track lighting is also required. 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
iainb 4,962 Posted March 31, 2019 2 minutes ago, Barrow Boy 2 said: Some better track lighting is also required. Yes, I was thinking the same, last week and this... Has it been changed at all since last season or is my eyesight just failing as I get older and grumpier? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
cityrebel 2,960 Posted March 31, 2019 32 minutes ago, Barrow Boy 2 said: Some better track lighting is also required. Absolutely. At last weeks meeting it was awful. Leicester are not the only track in need of an lighting upgrade. At Rye House last season, the riders needed miners helmets to negotiate the bends! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Gemini 4,894 Posted March 31, 2019 (edited) Quote ......ianb....... crowd looked substantially down on last week too. It didn't look down by a great deal. Understandable though as the previous week was the first match of the season and against Ipswich who are in the higher league.....also Chris Harris riding seems to pull a few extra fans in. (Fliss loves him so she was there) But to be serious I'm pretty sure there will be even less each week if the racing doesn't improve so hopefully it will. Agree about the lighting as it's always been awful and it's now worse by the stupid change to Yellow helmet colours which are difficult to tell apart from White. I don't know what colour Scott was wearing either because it certainly wasn't Blue. Edited March 31, 2019 by Gemini 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
cityrebel 2,960 Posted March 31, 2019 City were also at home yesterday, which is bound to have an impact. 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
iainb 4,962 Posted March 31, 2019 50 minutes ago, Gemini said: It didn't look down by a great deal. Understandable though as the previous week was the first match of the season and against Ipswich who are in the higher league.....also Chris Harris riding seems to pull a few extra fans in. (Fliss loves him so she was there) But to be serious I'm pretty sure there will be even less each week if the racing doesn't improve so hopefully it will. Agree about the lighting as it's always been awful and it's now worse by the stupid change to Yellow helmet colours which are difficult to tell apart from White. I don't know what colour Scott was wearing either because it certainly wasn't Blue. It used to be the case that fans stayed away for challenges and then turned up for the real competitions, there were certainly a lot less where I was standing than last week. Agree, I really struggled with the yellow helmet colour... I thought they recently went back to yellow and black? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
SPEEDY69 1,239 Posted March 31, 2019 9 hours ago, Gemini said: It didn't look down by a great deal. Understandable though as the previous week was the first match of the season and against Ipswich who are in the higher league.....also Chris Harris riding seems to pull a few extra fans in. (Fliss loves him so she was there) But to be serious I'm pretty sure there will be even less each week if the racing doesn't improve so hopefully it will. Agree about the lighting as it's always been awful and it's now worse by the stupid change to Yellow helmet colours which are difficult to tell apart from White. I don't know what colour Scott was wearing either because it certainly wasn't Blue. It was the same at Foxhall on Thursday, white and yellow both looked the same to me. 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
adonis 1,454 Posted April 1, 2019 10 hours ago, SPEEDY69 said: It was the same at Foxhall on Thursday, white and yellow both looked the same to me. My moiney is on Vardy to be the first ref to make the same mistake Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Batman123 5 Posted April 1, 2019 Did any of those of you commenting on the racing actually go? And if you did were you watching?? Obviously not I’d say by your comments on the racing, there was plenty of passing.... Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
iainb 4,962 Posted April 1, 2019 (edited) 58 minutes ago, peckover said: Did any of those of you commenting on the racing actually go? And if you did were you watching?? Obviously not I’d say by your comments on the racing, there was plenty of passing.... yep, I was there, the only 2 moments of comment were Bates beating Stewart on the line and a cracking ride by Connor Mountain. Everything else was a total procession with riders strung out with 30 yards between each of them. Oh and seemingly hours of tractor racing. What did you see? Edited April 1, 2019 by iainb 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
mac101 1,187 Posted April 1, 2019 53 minutes ago, adonis said: My moiney is on Vardy to be the first ref to make the same mistake She is no more gone and not coming back Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
adonis 1,454 Posted April 1, 2019 (edited) 3 minutes ago, mac101 said: She is no more gone and not coming back Good news for speedway that good job I'm not a gambler Edited April 1, 2019 by adonis Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Barrow Boy 2 172 Posted April 1, 2019 1 hour ago, iainb said: yep, I was there, the only 2 moments of comment were Bates beating Stewart on the line and a cracking ride by Connor Mountain. Everything else was a total procession with riders strung out with 30 yards between each of them. Oh and seemingly hours of tractor racing. What did you see? I agree that too many times races are too strung out but there does not have to be passing to have an interesting race. Close racing is what is require which we won't often get until teams have riders of similar qualities and abilities. I've been to many meetings up and down the country where the fare has been just the same. Passing is good but you can still see a good race when the riders keep closer together and seem to be making an effort to get or keep better race positions. 4 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Gambo 1,337 Posted April 1, 2019 40 minutes ago, Barrow Boy 2 said: I agree that too many times races are too strung out but there does not have to be passing to have an interesting race. Close racing is what is require which we won't often get until teams have riders of similar qualities and abilities. I've been to many meetings up and down the country where the fare has been just the same. Passing is good but you can still see a good race when the riders keep closer together and seem to be making an effort to get or keep better race positions. It also doesn't help when visiting Heat Leaders are un-competitive, for whatever reason, scoring just 7 points from 8 rides. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Fortythirtyeight 838 Posted April 1, 2019 As a first time visitor to Leicester I will say it was one of the worst presented meetings I have been too in many a year. The ' Racing ' was none existent, who ever came out of the second turn infront won except for the Bates ' overtake' on the line. Track preparation was awful hence the tractor spending more time on the track than the riders, ( a rider did post a video of the track condition before the meeting showing the problem hours before the meeting) and led to two riders crashing. Control of the starts was terrible, why did the ref call the riders back from the start line when they were ready to race to do a twenty minute track grade? One overtake all night, speakers on back straight were poor ( terrible echo) and the centre green needs cutting. No second half racing? Yes, the opposition were poor but that was not a good advert for speedway on a cold night and there were many comments from home supporters on the way out who were not impressed. 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
