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  3. Posted

    2 hours ago, Fromafar said:

    They misjudged it the last time though.The race night is probably their biggest worry.Good luck to them though.

    Last time it wasn't "they", it was "he" (sorry - haven't been trained in woke-speak!), and he did it too soon, was generally shafted by the other clubs, made too many enemies, and made outrageously bogus claims about the "product". All rounded-off by a verbal assault on a referee. Hopefully this time those mistakes and pitfalls will be avoided. Buying better track equipment and sorting out the drains and lights sounds like a good start, as does signing a top rider to start.

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  4. Posted

    8 hours ago, HGould said:

    The problem at Leicester isn't so much the lights but the height the Poles are at. They are too low and you get a dark area by the Air Fence.

    If they are that height due to Planning the obvious solution would be to put some on the Centre Green aimed at the base of the Air bags. 

    Get a few taller Poles in. The bloke who delivered my DPD parcel today will do for starters - well over 6 foot

  6. Posted

    1 hour ago, Happy Hunter said:

    Perhaps they can use the motorway blade from Swindon to fill in the pot holes in the car park for starters!

    The revised planning requirements included the car park being tarmacked over with parking places marked out. This is the landlord's responsibility (Mr Hemsley). So if anyone incurs an injury, you know who to threaten legal action with. 

    I wonder if the Swindon equipment had been acquired sooner, would the second leg of the final have been run at Leicester?

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  8. Posted

    6 hours ago, FishersGate said:

    I think if we have mountain and Dan Thomson at reserve that may soften the blow a little! Think the crowds will big hit and miss. Fans are split on moving up

    Mountain's a bit of a puzzle for me. Didn't seem to impose/improve much in the CL over 2021 but always looked very useful riding for Sheffield and not just in heats 2 & 8. Maybe he will stay at Sheffield?

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    1 hour ago, Steve Shovlar said:

    Well I should be shocked. Not at the obvious decision to use a different venue when the track couldn’t be fixed, but to use Kings Lynn? It’s a 5 hour 30 minute drive from Poole with one stop. Put it on a Friday with extra heavy traffic and it’s up to a 7 hour trip up. I have driven it many times in the past. Add in the price of fuel and that’s £150, plus £20 entry. Plus food.

    £180 for a trip up from Poole for the day. Rob is now not going and I would be surprised if there is no more than 30 Poole fans in attendance. Compared to the 300+ who would have been at the original running if it hadn’t been for the weather.

    But why on earth Kings Lynn? Poole fans have an easier trip to Belle Vue Manchester, at the other end of the country, then KL. We can get to BV in 4.30 mins, albeit slower on a Friday.

    Why wasn’t Oxford asked? Two hours from Poole, and less than that from Leicester. Oxford is closer to Leicester than Kings Lynn.

    Be lucky if there is 500 in attendance.

     

    Possibly because Buster is doing it at "preferential rates" and there's more than 50/50 chance it will go ahead?

  16. Posted · Edited by Big Al
    Clarity

    Sadly this news is no surprise, especially judging by the change in condition of the ground (I've been digging only a mile from Beaumont Park) since last week and actually since Monday, and with a shedload of rain forecast in the next 24 hours. Friday would probably have been much too dangerous to attempt a match - riders either unable to turn the bike or on a skating rink with no grip. Can't recall exact circumstances but I remember the second leg of an NL final Cradley v Mildenhall was staged at KL several years ago after one of those clubs was unable to run it. I think the focus needs to be on why this final wasn't staged on 12 & 15 October.

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  17. Posted

    54 minutes ago, Steve Shovlar said:

    It seems I have upset a few on here for posting it was off as soon as I heard. Thought the point of a forum was to inform. Should I have just kept it to myself until the news was posted on official channels? Or should I give out the info so that people can change their,plans for the day?

    October is generally a dry month with cooler conditions. This year is has been exceptionally warmer with a low pressure system stuck to the west of the U.K. due to the position of the jet stream, and this is feeding moist air up over the U.K. and with it setting off heavy rain over the country. This happening is quite unusual but not rare. It still doesn’t look like this weather pattern is breaking down soon.

    Nothing wrong with what you've done, as long as it was accurate (and it looks like it was!).

    The annoyance is that it came from someone in Dorset (and no, I've nothing against Dorset, the people, towns, villages, countryside, beer,....)

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  18. Posted

    I apologise to track staff who were upset by a post I made on Friday. It sounds like they've been struggling "against the odds" and that the equipment they've got to work with, whilst usually sufficient, has only provided limited assistance in combatting the "enemy" since 15th October.

    In mitigation, my posts to this forum about Leicester since the new owners took over have been overall positive and I probably on this occasion got swept along with the general level of feelings about this ridiculous situation which is surely down to lack of foresight and planning by those who run the sport.

    It's also been annoying that a Poole supporter seems to have had "inside knowledge", which he has broadcast on here including about the state of the Leicester circuit (as is his right, I suppose, providing that it is true) before such information has been provided locally. But it's just annoying, nothing more.

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  19. Posted

    32 minutes ago, Pirates Of Poole said:

    Like I have said before. This isn’t a hard fix! Scape off the wet surface and put down fresh dry material. This should have been planned at the weekend knowing what was coming up this weekend and Monday at Leicester. Clearly the material they are using at the moment is too heavy and can’t take a decent amount of rain like other tracks can. 

    Makes you wonder if there was some blunder/s committed since the last meeting on the 15th? Can imagine SD arriving in Leicester on Monday or Tuesday this week and finding things in a right old state. Enough perhaps to stress him out to the extent of having to go into hospital. 

  20. Posted

    2 hours ago, Steve Shovlar said:

    Just watched the latest forecast and it’s a dry afternoon with a fresh breeze at Leicester so a good drying wind with temperature up to 20 degrees C . The issue is rain in the early hours, clearing by 10 am to leave a dry, breezy but warm day tomorrow, so there’s an opportunity. What we don’t know is how the track has responded today and whether they have managed to dry it out. Or simply bladed the slosh off to the inside. 

    Any more photos from this afternoon you can describe to us? 

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  21. Posted

    1 hour ago, iainb said:

    I'm a mile from the track... currently raining

    Depends how much rain we had. With the sun now out and temperature rising, hopefully today they can get machinery onto track and remove the sludge. The problem will then be more rain forecast for overnight again and hope the drains aren't clagged up. Hopefully in the absence of SD somebody suitably experienced is directing things.

  25. Posted

    7 minutes ago, FishersGate said:

    With track looking an absolute mess today and probable rain coming again how is it going to be raceable for Saturday?

    Been a good day, dug and raked 5 veg beds so far and 3 more still to go. The ground's improved massively since when I started. Air temperature's up near 15 and should stay that way for rest of the week. There'll be more rain for sure, just needs to avoid heavy stuff and it'll be ok for Sat I think.

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