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Think this is the average times his bike packs up per lap per meeting

Under Ged you just knew he’d take full advantage of being 3 points under the limit and strengthen before the averages changed. Buster? Could end up eating humble pie, but I highly doubt it’s even being looked in to.

Another trip up to Glasgow, a regular now!! A few other Comets fans there also.

Yeah, I know exactly what you mean! Thing is, it wasn't just the size; it seemed so open compared to the confines of the basically enclosed Plough Lane. Of course, I could say the same about most tracks, other than Wembley! Back to Hackney, and one of the things I will always remember was getting a stick of rock at the end-of-season Bonanza Best Pairs! Like E I Addio said though, while we had our allegiances, and obviously our opinions of other tracks, I would give anything to have those tracks back now. Not just that, I would love to have them back just as they were back then... Steve

That's the one , and he would have been this year too , but for the nonsense at Peterborough . He will be again before too much longer no doubt

There has to be a delay in implementing new averages to allow for teams to be declared for meetings, guests booked, programmes printed etc. A new team line-up needs to be at the BSPA for approval 72 hours before becoming valid.

The same criticism was being aimed at Cook on here during his last season at Armadale . The response from your end of the M8 was a bit different then .

Would be expecting Sedgmen to pushing for the 3rd heat leader role in the side but with the start to the season he’s had he’s not really cutting at 2nd string at the moment, hopefully his form picks up soon. wells still doesn’t seem his normal self but does seem to be improving as each meeting goes by, Joel has been steady and doing the job expected of him tbh along with Luke. Heeps and Josh have been a joy to watch so far this season and long may that continue. Willie either needs to buy new machinery or move on it’s really as simple as that imo, on a 4 point average in this league this season against some of the guys that are in the league this year he really should be cleaning up.

Would like to put a couple of things into perspective for people on here. When turning up at the track at 8 in the morning when aloud to get in the stadium, bends 1/2 and the back straight going into bend 3 where completely underneath water, which took 3 hours to clear with a pump. Then on track prep when actually being able to get a tractor on track, we had a wonder wheel which snapped while trying to air the track out so that was one of the many issues we had to deal with in the day. Next issue was one tractor while on track the hydraulics went so was unable to fit any proper grader on the back of it. Just another one of many issues we had to deal with. But the biggest of once actually being able to dry the track out and getting it level and being lucky to even have a meeting on, the water boweser broke so we was unable to fill it with water as water was coming out faster than we could fill it. But considering we didn’t get any dust till about heat 12 and there as only 14/15 in the meeting I don’t think it was to bad. Also on the grading part if you keep grading all the time and pulling the dirt over the slick it drys it out move and without a water bowser we could only do so much so hopefully that puts and end to alll this slating with all the hard work we put into getting a meeting on for you yesterday. Come next week the issues will all be sorted and you will see a great race track. Thank you all and see you next week thanks a member of track staff!

You sound like a farmer

We should have emptied Lawson before his GSA plummeted from 4 to 3 as now, the likes of the Aussie 4 pt free agents, List & MacDonald cannot be signed as direct replacements. It was apparent from the opening matches that Oor Wullie is quite happy to turn out on crap equipment and after seeing the same thing in his late 2018 comeback, the Monarchs management still seem paralysed from making a change. Re Sedgmen, given his poor performances in the UK in 2018 and his indifferent performances in Oz during the Winter, I was surprised he was Monarchs first confirmed signing for 2019 on a starting GSA that he was/is unlikely to reach, and thereby made it difficult to track two 7+ heat leaders as most other ambitious teams have done. If it's the same team on Friday, expect Berwick to brush us aside without too much resistance.

We were rather rubbish, need sedgy to find a bit of form don’t know how much longer I can put up watching Lawson. On a slightly different note watching cook today win his races with rather ease other than it doing good to his bank balance how is beating all these guys in a watered down league helping him with his aspirations to become a GP rider once again

While fans are happy enough to pay to watch an understrength team Chapman will be quite happy to sit back and take your money. I know he's not getting any of mine.

Fair to say that by anybody’s standards he has acted somewhat unprofessional & childish in a number of instances. That said, this year his riding had been very good and his demeanour appears to be that of a fast maturing young man. With a caring manager keeping him in check and focussed on learning his trade Josh could really step up this season. Good luck to the lad. Hope he stays fit and goes from strength to strength.

Will depend which matches drop out of the rolling calculation It may be the 2019 starting average included 2017 and 2018 matches upto the 20 sample size but at first review all the 2017 become obselete even if the new rolling average isnt using the full 20 matches Only a theory - hopefully someone can clarify

Because they didn’t take enough cash?

Belle Vue had two meetings over Easter, both 12pm starts. It was hot and breezy on both days yet with the exception of one race on Monday there was very little dust. Same at Scunthorpe on Good Friday. If they can do it, so can Sheffield.

Another pointless post.... The day and time have absolutely nothing to do with Sheffield’s track at the minute as you have no clue about what’s going on i’ll inform you. Sheffield are having issues at the minute with machinery such as they managed to get water down before the meeting which was substantial enough for a few heats but obviously they couldn’t get anymore down due to equipment failures. So bare with them they are trying to fix the problem so the racing will be up to your standard.

Thorssell to Panthers maybe he did sign a couple of years ago after all and then had it pulled

Next weekend we have Friday and Sunday Polish action because sandwiched in between is the SON event 1 from Landshut Germany on Saturday evening.- all UK times Friday May 3rd Grudziadz v Wroclaw Eleven Sport 1 programme starts 4.30pm 1st race 5pm Friday May 3rd Lublin v Leszno Eleven Sport 1 programme starts 7.15pm 1st race 7.30pm Sunday May 5th Gdansk v Ostrow Polsat Sport start time 1.45pm Sunday May 5th Torun v Czestochowa NSport programme starts 3pm 1st race 3.30pm Sunday May 5th Gorzow v Zielona Gora N Sport programme starts 5.30pm 1st race 6pm

Kemp is one of 3-4 who could really develop in to top class riders but for that reason I can't see any single one of them dominating like Lambert has between 18-21 age range when they get there. As much as Kemp gets the column inches the likes of Brennan and Flint are on his coat tails and then we have Thomas who has a bit more experience that Kemp and Brennan and the likes of Edwards and Atkins developing well too. All good for UK speedway. What these boys need to do now is what Lambert did, get European experience, we only had 1 Under 19 Finalist in Europe last year (Brennan) and progress would be to have 2-3 this year and every year from now on then try to push them in to U21 where they will face the Polish masses and learn more quickly.

Maybe it's a new tactic we are trying,, having 3 riders in a race.

I fully expect Heeps to score well, so it will be good to see how he goes against our American wonderkid.

May aswell call it off now then. Forecasts are final.

Apart from belle Vue,,, I think fans of nearly all other clubs would like a track the same as the showground as their home track. Don't think I've ever seen a poor meeting there