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  2. Posted

    27 minutes ago, Garry1603 said:

    It's been lightly raining in South Manchester since about 4-00 today. Never thought I'd want a rain off (and the forecasts don't expect the rain to continue to be honest), but wouldn't it be better all around if the Aces could put out a full team in another week and let's see who wins with full(ish) teams?

    For what it’s worth there’s no rain forecast for tomorrow in Sheffield. Some light rain this evening though but no more than that.

    I honestly don’t think you’ve much to worry about tomorrow night. Assuming Robert Lambert gets 15, which he should, you obviously only need 25 from the rest. 8 each from Zagar and Kurtz, plus 4 from Brennan is 20. Blodorn will pick up a few and Simon Lambert is an upgrade on Etheridge round Owlerton. 

    I see it being close but those last few heat advantages on Monday night have probably edged it in your favour.

    Its a shame it’s not both of our usual teams lining up against each other but at this stage of the year we know that’s highly unlikely! 

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  3. Posted

    7 hours ago, mikebv said:

    Maybe not starting the flagship competition until June didnt help?

    And they havent finished the other one yet have they? 

    The one that meant the flagship competion started so late...

    Not to mention the pairs havent been completed yet either...

    Maybe given it is only 6 meetings they should have done the pairs during October and tried to fit them in Mon/Thu for 3 weeks..? 

    Would have kept interest too, unlike now where it has dragged on...

    And meant the league took priority as well as was finished by the end of September...

     

    I don't know about any other team but Sheffield's league campaign started in May.

    However I think the TV coverage and their requirements may well dictate when the league starts and, especially, when it finishes.

    Given that in reality every club currently has circa 13-14 home meetings, not counting Playoffs, to schedule over a 20-25 week season, had they run everything on a week by week basis the season could have been done and dusted by the end of July. Had that happened I'm pretty sure the usual suspects on here would have been complaining about not spreading the meetings out over the whole season.

    I completely get the frustration though, however we are where we are and complaining after the fact doesn't help.

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  4. Posted

    On 9/12/2022 at 7:05 PM, 4thbender said:

    With the cut-off date having been set as the conclusion of fixtures on Thursday September 22 and the meeting with Ipswich next Monday having been cancelled, I'm guessing that the match with Ipswich won't now take place at all. The ridiculous prospect of having to organise a last-minute 'double header' (or determine final league positions on the toss of a coin!) just adds further hilarity to the laughing stock that is premiership speedway.

    Between April and September there have been 26 Thursdays and 26 Mondays, yet the league management and Owlerton hierarchy have conspired to make a cock-up of fitting in ten home league matches. Considering the vast length of week-after-week inactivity that have dogged us throughout the summer, it is yet another shameful spectacle that we should encounter such a backlog of fixtures at this late stage. But the season's not over yet.... as well as the Ipswich fixture, we have home matches with Kings Lynn and Belle Vue also to fit in, and just nine days to do it! What's the weather forecast for this Autumn period?

    Sheffield’s “inactivity” on Thursdays through the summer:

    9th June - home v Wolves

    16th June - Pairs at Ipswich 

    23rd June - away v Kings Lynn 

    30th June - no meeting 

    7th July - Pairs at Kings Lynn

    14th July - home v Peterborough 

    21st July - away v Ipswich 

    28th July - SoN

    4th Aug - home v Wolves - called off due to work on the dog track

    11th Aug - no meeting

    18th Aug - home Pairs - rained off

    25th Aug - home v Belle Vue - rained off

    1st Sept - home v Wolves 

    8th Sept - away v Kings Lynn 

    15th Sept - home v Kings Lynn

     

    So there were two Thursdays when it might have been possible to run a meeting if an opposing team was available.

     

    Hindsight is a wonderful thing when you’re sat behind the anonymity of a keyboard and a made up Username, but the reality is without the unfortunate and unforeseen issues with the stadium and some terrible bad luck with weather we wouldn’t be in the position we are in.

     

    But you knew that before you posted.

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  8. Posted

    5 minutes ago, dontforgetthefueltapsbruv said:

    I don't slag them off at all - quite the opposite!

    Your view that I am doing so is a great example of the blinkered depend your position regardless point that I make :P

    The indefensible is that Sheffield speedway has an airfence with unique fittings and didn't have a suitable replacement section/fittings to enable a speedy switch

    That can be regarded as slagging the promotion but in no way is a sleight on the track staff

    You must be pretty special to have literally everything covered in your life.

    Has nothing ever happened to you that you didn’t have spare parts for or a contingency plan or whatever?

    I take it you’ve not watched much speedway either. Throughout my entire life of watching the sport there have always been problems and delays that the tracks have had to overcome, if possible. Sudden downpours, no ambulance, sun in the riders eyes (not a problem we often have up here), crashes demolishing parts of the fence / air fence, tapes not working properly or at all. These things happen. Our sport is run on a shoestring and doesn’t have the money that high profile sports to cover every eventuality, as frustrating as this seems to be to some fans.

    And I assume you’ve read the explanations online? And listened to the No Brakes podcast? In all the years that riders have crashed into the air fence coming out of bend 2, the impact of those crashes has never resulted in the freak set of events that caused the damage in the way it did.

    Also, I think you’ll probably find that any track with a gate covered by part of the air fence will have the arrangement that Sheffield has. So it’s probably something that could have happened anywhere but hasn’t until Monday.

  9. Posted

    4 minutes ago, dontforgetthefueltapsbruv said:

    And whilst the paying public is continually taken for mugs the cashflow will dwindle further and further as more and more walk away week after week year after year......

    And you know that everyone is taken for a mug? Or is that just the way you feel about the sport?

    Also, I’m awaiting your explanation for why you think Sheffield fans are defending the indefensible - you found it funny but for some reason you’ve not explained yourself.

  10. Posted

    4 hours ago, Roger Jacobs said:

    No, but that doesn't mean a progressive promotion (or even whole organisation) trying to improve the standing of the sport shouldn't consider doing it ...

    You’re aware that most if not all clubs are hanging in their financially and won’t have the cashflow to do such a thing, as admirable as it is?

  11. Posted

    25 minutes ago, iainb said:

    There's just been a 50 minute delay with Rafa's match on Centre Court while they put the lid on... does anybody have the address for the British Tennis Forum? I'm absolutely livid:lol:

    All the money available to Wimbledon and they can’t close a roof in 10 minutes?!

    We can close roofs up here in 5 minutes.

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  12. Posted

    1 hour ago, dontforgetthefueltapsbruv said:

    Total guff - no one has slagged the track staff. It wasn't their fault in any way

    They could only work with what they had available

    Had they have had the correct spare sections and connections no doubt it would've been done far more speedily

    If it had been at Ipswich then the criticism would've been the same from the Witches fans on here. In general those posting on here from Ipswich are the least forgiving of their own promotion and if anything more critical where things are not quite right on their doorstep

    Rarely will you see the Witches posters trying to defend the indefensible just because its their team/promotion


    No one? I take it you’ve not ventured onto social media and seen the number of fans slagging off the track staff?

    Pretty much as you go onto do in this very post…..

    Given everything you know about what actually happened on Monday night, and the unforeseen and challenging outcome of Danny’s crash, can you please explain why you think Sheffield fans are trying to defend the indefensible?

    Thank you

     

     

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  13. Posted

    4 hours ago, Roger Jacobs said:

    It's the "as usual" but that's key here - paying customers are expected to accept whatever is dished-up.

    How about something like: "Sorry we weren't prepared for what happened, and that the match had to be abandoned - you can have £3 off your next visit to Sheffield."

     


    I’ll gladly stand corrected, but has any speedway promoter ever offered a refund for a meeting that ran 13 of the programmed 15 heats?

  14. Posted

    1 hour ago, Grachan said:

    The club statement did say: "This is due to inclement weather with more forecast throughout the day in the city" which is why people are talking about the forecast.

    Inclement weather = the rain that had already fallen and that had apparently  caused the back straight to be under water yesterday morning.

    I’ll be honest, I’m not sure what your argument is or what point you’re trying to make.

    It rained heavily in Sheffield on Wednesday, Wednesday night and again on Thursday - what is your issue with this?

  15. Posted

    1 hour ago, lisa-colette said:

    As I've said my post was based on the BBC forecast which seemed to be wrong in the end. So now we know forecasts can be wrong, it is still crazy to think forecasts can still call meetings off day before or early in the morning. Luckily Sheffield listened to the right one. :t:

    But good job not every club does this especially on Weds as 2 meetings would have been off which got ridden. 

    It was nothing to do with any forecast for yesterday.

    The decision was made based on the rain that had ACTUALLY fallen during the preceding 24 hours.

  16. Posted

    11 hours ago, lisa-colette said:

    Exactly, 70% chance of dry weather or more most of the day. But if there is photographic evidence of the track super wet, I'll happily hold my hands up. 

    But you won’t accept the posts from people living in Sheffield explaining how much rain we’ve had over the last 24-36 hours, nor the opinion of the promotion that the track was unfit this morning and that given the forecast of more rain this afternoon - which came - that the chances of it being fit for racing this evening we’re slim to none?

    I’m sure if you ask nicely someone will send you a photo so you know we and they were not lying.

  17. Posted

    11 hours ago, Grachan said:

    Forecast show rain now until about 11. Then dry until 4pm. Then sunshine and showers until about 7. Then a dry evening.

    That would not have been a rain-off a few years back. I think these are financial decisions as they feel the crowd might be down.

     

    It rained heavily in Sheffield most of yesterday, last night and again this morning. Apparently the back straight was under water today.

    Pretty sure this wasn’t a “financial decision”.

  18. Posted

    1 hour ago, OdsalBoy said:

    Maybe the announcement tomorrow could throw in a few surprises?

    Not many if any expected J Wright & Sedgmen to have lined up for the Tigers at the start of last season

    We shall see very soon.

     

    Indeed and I’m looking forward to it.

    I like the idea of the single reveal. Interested to see what the club does tomorrow evening.

    And I don’t think they’ve done a single 1 to 7 reveal before, but I’ll stand corrected.

  19. Posted

    5 hours ago, 4thbender said:

    Common knowledge - like common sense - isn't that common!

    Very true! :lol:

    I’m still waiting for those in the know to post the Sheffield team that was common knowledge weeks ago.

    Which is strange given how vehemently they criticised Sheffield for not announcing it because they already knew it.

  20. Posted

    5 hours ago, szkocjasid said:

    As Musielak signing for the Tigers has been accidentally released, what is the point if Sheffield keeping it a secret anymore?

    Even if their plan was to announce the whole team in one go, what's the harm in announcing Musielak now & the rest of them team as previously scheduled?

    Oh I don’t know, maybe because it’s what they want to do.

    That said, have you made a complaint to the club about not announcing riders earlier than they want to? 

  23. Posted

    23 hours ago, lisa-colette said:

    Not by other fans mainly by a Sheffield fan if you are talking about the debate about Ellis from what I have seen. 

    No, I was talking about the fans (Peterborough fans, I think) who seemed to think that the 2022 Sheffield team was common knowledge and the club should have announced it already.

    Strangely when challenged none of them could actually name the team (despite it being common knowledge) :lol:

  24. Posted

    On 11/23/2021 at 8:20 PM, dontforgetthefueltapsbruv said:

    It's called opinions and people are allowed them about all teams not just their own

    This is a forum not a propaganda leaflet.....

    Exactly that. I’m intrigued by the negative and critical opinions of fans of other teams in response to how my team chooses to announce its new team for 2022.

    However, as opinions are allowed on this forum you won’t have any problem with me expressing mine.

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