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  1. Posted

    15 minutes ago, TTT said:

    Nothing to do with rustiness if you're going to be honest.

    Well with my eyes from the first bend it was, every rider was inconsistent from the gate and with the lines they were riding, and unfortunately we didn't really have anything to stand up to the BV top two. But Museilak will be better than that as will Wojdylo once properly dialled in.

    BV looked far sharper and deserved their win. 

  6. Posted

    45 minutes ago, Wolfie456 said:

    Oh dear and I was led to believe on here that you never get a boring meeting at Belle Vue.

    That's simply not true, it's been pointed out umpteen times on here that if it's too grippy (eg after rain) then it can be follow the leader stuff.

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    1 hour ago, iainb said:

    Looking at the forecast this morning, were they a bit previous calling this one off?

     

    50 minutes ago, allthegearbutnaeidea said:

    A wind off when wind speeds are 30mph, and gusts are 50mph per met office… That’s a bit of an embarrassing call off, when you had a good crowd in last week. Punters will soon fall back out of habit. 

    I guess wiating until this morning might have been a good idea in hindsight but there is a yellow weather warning associated with a named storm and the track is right on the coast with very little shelter. 

    Nowadays (rightly or wrongly) health and safety of paying customers is paramount and can sometimes go OTT, but it is what it is.

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  11. Posted · Edited by Bagpuss

    I certainly don't defend my club 'to death', I've criticised them plenty in the past for poor teams and poor racing, which weve had plenty of. The main difference is the dirt used at Lynn, its high in clay for the stocks and certainly isn't my cup of tea and with a decent amount of rain on it it soon becomes unridable. And as has been said on that thread I don’t think flying loads of riders in with a dodgy forecast to not ride two weeks running was going to happen, 

    But there we are, it's all about opinions at the end of the day :)

     

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  12. Posted · Edited by Bagpuss

    In the absence of speedway tonight why not listen to the latest episode if the Pride Of The East podcast with special guest Shane Parker 

    https://open.spotify.com/episode/2cO8eF55m82b8IdwjeH8et?si=SlnVRGpETimly2-IIxpzJQ

    https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0CYM4SPJR/ref=sr_1_1?fbclid=IwAR2EWcc1CfRt3hNveh97fIN5rXWWjYsTiE_ex6EIfZmm9dsD6mjWKJL1F0c&ref=d6k_applink_bb_dls&dplnkId=ede25c16-92e1-4c33-af95-b332b0f17e71

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  13. Posted

    1 hour ago, foreverblue said:

    If it was Poole we would be castigated for it especially if we said it would make the track too grippy! 

    I don't think any club should be castigated for making an early call if they genuinely think there's a risk of being rained off, even the unpopular ones :D

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  15. Posted · Edited by Bagpuss

    35 minutes ago, tellboy said:

    I never know which forecast to look at.Very often I've  used the met office and BBc and quite often their forecasts change regularly the closer they get to the day.The times they have both got my hopes up only to be let down by their updated forecasts nearer the time of a meeting.

    Does anyone know or think they know which is the best weather app to use.Currently i am using wetter.com but that's pretty much the same.

    Edit:Been a lot of rain here on the outskirts of Wisbech overnight.Maybe the same over Lynn?

    Met Office app the best in my experience, and certainly much more accurate than the BBC one.

    It was always said that Buster used RAF Marham weather station for his forecasts, I assume that's still the case. 

    Forecast this morning looks a fair bit worse than it did last night so perhaps the club ha e got it spot on.

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    3 hours ago, GiveusaB said:

    Wow....forecast doesn't look that threatening on the met office for tomorrow?

    Guess the foreign riders dictate things these days (travelling etc...,)

    This is a good point, I suspect the risk of paying to fly riders in for a second rain off in eight days was too great to take.

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  18. Posted

    1 hour ago, TINYS said:

    Wouldn't have happened years ago.

    It wouldn't, but years ago bikes could be ridden in any conditions, riders were prepared to ride in any conditions and the public turned up in any conditions. 

    It's frustrating but I'd much rather an early call than pay to get in and see Buster going round and round with the blade while fourteen riders who have no intention of riding anyway stand about with arms folded looking miserably at the track and the sky. Been there, done that too many times.

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  21. Posted

    1 hour ago, j2ohh said:

    and  thats Glasgow all over . they want everything NOW . not willing to watch young riders develop over time and lose out apart from the odd bit of silverware . but that is their choice .

    Not really, it's a numbers game and you can't have everyone back from a title winning team.

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  23. Posted

    15 minutes ago, GiveusaB said:

    Agreed! Fckn useless!

     

    2 minutes ago, GiveusaB said:

    I won't pay to watch bham whilst Rogers I's involved 

     

    Just now, GiveusaB said:

    Any Speedway fan that cudnt see this is blind 

    Genuine question, does your venting on this thread and the other one make you feel any better? :)

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  24. Posted

    12 minutes ago, szkocjasid said:

    Indeed, if they can't win with Nicholls at reserve, how are they gonna beat anyone.

    They need PP to come in and start scoring number one points. Three of the top five were riding in positions tonight that they shouldn't be/weren't signed for although I accept you'd expect Milik, Cook, Worrall and Lampart to score more than eleven between them!

    I think Brum's issue this season is going to be inconsistency, they are never all going to have a good meeting on the same night and as such are going to find wins hard to come by.

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