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  1. Posted

    27 minutes ago, Teromaafan said:

    Joe apparently had a nasty crash last night. If he isn’t fit for the Lions at Brum on Monday, what are the options to cover for an absent RS?

    A guest from the rs list, his ma must be the same or lower than the rs he is replacing. 

    He can not be attached to another prem club.

  2. Posted

    2 hours ago, bigcatdiary said:

    Utter drivel

    Seems you seem to know differently? If so could please let the referee know. I was warned 2 seasons ago while grading, I accidentally dropped some material over gate 3, I had to go back out and remove it, it was pure accident,  had gathered some material from turn4 then my grader bounced over the start line which left the dirt there.  I was also asked not to drive continuously over the same gate each time I went around the track.

  3. Posted

    3 hours ago, bigcatdiary said:

    They were all shocking decisions by someone who has been a referee for years, basic errors that shouldn’t happen.

    And yet as someone mentioned we had two grading breaks when no grading was done, gate 4 was a shocking advantage whilst gate 2 was dreadful, this matter needed sorting out early doors, they did nothing which unfortunately made racing in the first half generally from the gate and very predictable.

    You can not touch the gates after the meeting has started, if you could then you could really doctor them for your own teams  benefit,

  6. Posted

    17 hours ago, iainb said:

    What is probably more damaging to the club, rather than a comment on an obscure forum,  is there being no Speedway on the opening night of the season when the weather is fine after all the build up, returning to the top league,  a spot on local TV and radio and the visit of a former World Champion and the returning Russian.

    Instead the season opens with a junior match. 

    Still, you can't do much about the weather without some kind of track cover system. 

    To be honest there is no one more disappointed than myself and all the others who have been working so hard at our track for months.

     

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    1 hour ago, FishersGate said:

    If it's regarding my post about the drainage? I just got told by someone that there was an issue with the draining that's all. Hence why I wanted to clear it up on the forum and see if anyone can confirm that everything is fine track wise. I had around 11 new potential fans coming to the speedway on Thursday and are very disappointed why the meeting was postponed considering how good the weather was on that day. So I just wanted clear an rumour up.

    Well I can confirm it was not the drainage that caused Thursday call off, the damage had already been done, I am not sure if people realise how much rain we have had, we have emptied the drains 3 times since last weekend,  each drain hold approximately 5 thousand ltrs,  we have 8 main drains, they were full each time.

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  10. Posted

    6 hours ago, Happy Hunter said:

    I don't think anything at Beaumont Park is owned by Leicester Speedway. It's owned by Leicester City Council and leased to David Helmsley who sub leases parts to Leicester Speedway.

    I'm sure Mr Helmsley wouldn't object to holes in his car park being filled in by Leicester Speedway!

    You are correct in what you say, but the car park is not included,  also it is used 7 days a week by 2 other companies, I would imagine they pay for the privilege of use, so my question to you would be why should it fall on the speedway to repair it or pay for it?

    I have filled in many pot holes in the car park In the past, all free of charge and all in my spare time.

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  11. Posted · Edited by BTFC LION
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    On 11/6/2022 at 11:22 AM, FishersGate said:

    Just heard a strange one here..from what I've been told the picture that Leicester put up of busters amazing track work was a photo taken months prior and when buster turned up he saw it and said no chance and left it . So the king's Lynn track use was agreed a while before hand. Don't know how it is though

    Wonderful theory,  I was there on the day of the photo, the tyre packing marks are my handy work , when a photo is taken on a phone it is date and time stamped, so I think you are very wrong!

    Just checked  Oct 31st at 16.29. Does that clear it up for you?

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  12. Posted

    26 minutes ago, Steve Shovlar said:

    So Flagrag was wrong and posted misleading information? 

    I have always found Flagrag posts spot on and accurate but clearly not this time.
    Perhaps you should have picked up Flagrag on his post as most on here believe what he posts as correct.

    As you are the trackman at Leicester there is no reason not to believe you.  But I am sure Flagrag didn’t post his information to mislead everyone.

    My only problem was that you said it was information from a trackman at Leicester,  

    People can post what they like and what they think is right , 

    I work all day, then straight to the track after work most nights, so don't have time to read everything, I was alerted to you post by phone call today, that's why I reacted to it. In fact I have had to read about 9 pages just to catch up with it all. Please be more careful with who you credit your information from.

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  13. Posted · Edited by BTFC LION
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    17 minutes ago, Steve Shovlar said:

    It was said on here the track was going to be bladed back to base and then a light dressing added so that the meeting would go ahead and any rain would be swept off.

    If you go back several pages the post can be found. Might have been Flagrag who posted it, who is very reliable.

    Yes I have seen this post, but unless you know differently Flagrag is not a track curator at Leicester,  so your post is miss leading. 

    Yes several of his comments are incorrect. 

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  15. Posted

    8 hours ago, Steve Shovlar said:

    Well seeing as my info came from one of the Leicester trackman who actually posted this info on here, perhaps you should catch up with the thread. That’s exactly what they intend to do.

    Which one? As I as one of the track curators, I have never met you, have never spoken to you, have never msg you, so would be very interested how you get your information? 

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  16. Posted

    Good evening,  am posting this with the blessing of the gaffer, 

    The reason for the back straight and turn two get churned up with tractor tyres is as follows, we have take 80 to 100 thousand ltrs of water off the track and from the drains over the past week or so, the only way of doing this is by tractor and water bowser, which only holds 4 thousand ltrs at a time, so you can work out how many trips that takes, the only place we can put this water is outside of the stadium,  our only exit from the track is along the back straight and turn 2 through the pits, we have no choice, can't leave water on the track, can't get it off without causing some damage to the track.

    We will do our best to get this meeting on.

    I have worked on that track for nearly 6 years now, have worked with the best track curators there are ,

    So I find it disgusting by someone on here claiming I did something to the track which caused SD to end up in hospital. 

    That 1 post has upset me big time.

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  18. Posted

    10 hours ago, Lenny Lion said:

    I took a walk past the Beaumont Park this evening & the gates were open.

    Someone was there driving a tractor with the bowser on sucking the water out the drains & off the track. The track was very very wet with big puddles & like a sludge bath . With more rain forecast till around 9pm tomorrow & a dry but cloudy day Saturday there is not much to help the track dry , I think the damage may already be done for Leicester’s track & Saturday will get called off due to an unfit track.

    The gates were all closed!! I emptied the drains , which is a regular thing, 2 main puddles on the track which we always get, all water was off the track by 5.30,  

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  20. Posted

    2 hours ago, Petecc said:

    As a summer sport complaining about the sun & wind . What else did they expect?

    Track curators always give out the similar story and work very hard with what they are given. The Leicester track needs to be completely ripped up and relaid & that isn't going to happen mid season.

     

    You are welcome to come and spend the day with me. 

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  21. Posted

    8 hours ago, Petecc said:

    Predictions aside, Birmingham weren't very good but, does that much base show through every week and where do I post this fine red dust back to. The track was bald in bends 1 & 2 by Heat 3,  3&4 not much better. You can spin your tractor round and round as much as you like but you are only hiding a problem  , not fixing it.

    It's been very difficult on track these past few weeks, wind and sun are our biggest nightmare. 

    The problem is , riders do not want a lot of dirt going into the bends, that makes it so they can go in hard and fast with a degree of safety.   That in its self causes us a problem with watering, as you need material to hold water,  also the first few races most riders are on the inside line so it gets a battering. 

    The tractors spin the dirt back down, not to hide anything, but to try and protect the base of the

    track and also bring the dirt back down so there is not a big build up mid to outside.

    We are not the only track having problems at the moment,  I have spoken to a number of track curators it's a similar story.

    Hope that explains a few things?

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  23. Posted

    24 minutes ago, iainb said:

    I seem to remember him putting us out of the Cup in our Championship winning season by winning heat 15 against Nicholls.

    I've just done a rough and ready analysis based on the 1-7's (sometimes 1-6) declared on clubs website's and there are 78.5% of PL riders doubling "down" to CL and 20% of NL riders doubling up to CL... quite frankly, that's ridiculous, in an ideal world there wouldn't be any doubling down, but we don't live in that world but those numbers should be a lot nearer 50% for NL riders in my opinion. In that 20% of NL riders doubling up are riders such as Dan & Joe Thompson and Alfie Bowtell who you would class as established CL riders, maybe there should be 1 space in an NL team available for a senior rider to act as a kind of mentor but no more than that.

    Cub Connor Coles has yet again been passed by for this afternoons match at Newcastle to ride in the reserve berth in favour of Jason Edwards, performance wise, probably makes sense if you want to maximise every points paying position in the team, for your own clubs rider development makes no sense at all.

    which unfortunately for you counts for nothing :lol:

    Connor is riding for scunthorpe at Glasgow today.

  25. Posted

    48 minutes ago, iainb said:

    Well... i gave it until heat 7 then had to go home due to tractor sickness. 

    Much as I suspected, NDL is a terrible spectacle around BP and what the Thompson twins are still doing wasting their time in that league for I'll never know. 

    Don't get me wrong, if that's your thing fair enough and I'm sure the kids are putting great effort in,  but it needs to be run in its own right. 

    Why we're being asked to subsidise it by having it forced on us as part of the senior team ticket I also don't know as when they've had the opportunity to promote from the cubs they've neglected to do so both times.

    Senior match was pretty good though, close scores, good racing but the track was a little too dusty. (Very dusty)

    I am sorry for the dust, we had been watering from this morning, but due to the strong wind it was drying as fast as we could get it on the track, we pretty much ran out of water, if you noticed I was even trying to get water out of 2 of the drains between meetings.

    Apologies!! 

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