Eastbourne V Leicester 31/5

[stevebrum 6,824]

Blackbird is doing well, but Kerr is the stand out reserve so far this season for me, could be something special if he keeps up that rate of progress.

 

 

I am surprised anyone would even question that Kerr isnt the stand out draft rider this year...................................................... unless of course its a multi aliased troll.

[Shale Searcher 1,264]

Entertaining Night thanks to the efforts of the Lions heat leaders just as expected. Interesting piece of trivia, only 6 sub 57.00 secs times all season but last night 7 times in one match which shows how they pushed the home boys. Well done Uncle Bob on a good fast track. Grading every race kept the times down and the track smooth, cannot understand why everybody doesn't do it or is it more negative influence from Sky? Back in the 50's & 60's every track I went to did it as a matter of course and they didn't waste time because they had a concrete starting gate amarbleznd no endless gardening at the start.

Yep! The old Blackbird Rd, raked and graded between each race... Apparently the riders don't want the dirt raking back, especially over the slick as its like riding on "marbles" and that's from the horses mouth...

[Big Al 708]

Yep. he kept on disappearing before the first corner.

So it wasn't really Alex Edberg at Rye House last year, it was Marc Owen

[jackson2 17]

The lions need a settled team all this swapping and changing cannot be good

[sussex bulldog 41]

Marc's engine seized in his first race and he was on borrowed machinery after that which obviously did not suit him.

[Big Al 708]

Sarjeant said after his crash on Thursday that he felt he should be ok for Saturday but when he woke up on Saturday he was still feeling worse for wear so let Leicester know at 10am he wasn't fit. Trying to find someone to travel down to the other end of the country at such short notice for poor money is very hard.

 

As for Leicester booting Blackbird out this was not the case Lewis asked to leave the club because he felt that he needed to be riding on a faster circuit to help him learn & progress his career which is why he went to Scunthorpe

Wasn't there also the "job-share" with Branford thing, which he didn't like the idea of (who could blame him), or was that a convenient smoke-screen to cover the real reason as per you have stated?

[weatherwatcher 664]

It is quite obvious that some of these draft riders are well above the positions they are riding in. They are not in the same league as the other riders and should have been given a place in the teams instead of riding at reserve. The likes are Max Glegg etc are just up and coming youngsters with very little experiance other than riding in the NL, when you have other riders that are riding in the PL or even in the EL so it all seem very unfair. It was never thought out very well at the start of the season. I hope if they carry it on next year that a bit more thought is put into it.

No 6 slot should go to PL riders and 7 to NL riders of a good riding ability.

Teams are losing matches because of bad reserve pairing as with last night.

And last night GP was terrible with a constant string of riders playing dick follow the leader.

[robert72 845]

Sarjeant said after his crash on Thursday that he felt he should be ok for Saturday but when he woke up on Saturday he was still feeling worse for wear so let Leicester know at 10am he wasn't fit. Trying to find someone to travel down to the other end of the country at such short notice for poor money is very hard.

 

As for Leicester booting Blackbird out this was not the case Lewis asked to leave the club because he felt that he needed to be riding on a faster circuit to help him learn & progress his career which is why he went to Scunthorpe

So was Leicesters long straights not fast enough for him ?

[proud panther 1,505]

Lionking what you posted reference Blackbird is tripe. He was dropped for Branford & asked to cover for him when he was riding abroad. Bad management as usual by Helmsley.