scoobydoo 2,254 Posted October 4, 2021 Looks like the Eurosport secret meeting and decision to pair Sheffield with Belle Vue will result in the NSS being one of the grand final tracks to broadcast from 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Crump99 4,476 Posted October 4, 2021 2 minutes ago, lisa-colette said: Rain has to stop somewhere. Example: it has been raining on my front driveway and at exactly the same time bone dry in the back garden. !! Yes you are right but historically and on balance the nutjob is right. I recall going to the EoES one Sunday and it absolutely hammered it down about a mile from circuit and I thought that's blown it. I arrived at the Showground and it was amazingly bone dry. That's very much the exception to the rule though, and I'll say again, if I've had a load of the wet stuff 8 miles away then so has the Showground. We can all come up with our own examples but I don't recall wasting too much time attending rain offs. 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
orion 7,615 Posted October 4, 2021 10 minutes ago, Hawk127 said: You really do spout a load of bollocks. You neither know my age or preference when it comes to the sport and I would far rather see up and coming youngsters competing in individual meetings without the pressure of team racing than the contrived crap that is put on today as so called entertainment. You seem to have little ability to grasp the point being made but I can live with that. Each to their own. Of course we know your age group and preference ....Your point was that Tv and Du riders somehow dictate the fixture list and only fixture fillers were ran in oct in the old days .. quite clearly none of that is true Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
scoobydoo 2,254 Posted October 4, 2021 50 minutes ago, lisa-colette said: Rain has to stop somewhere. Example: it has been raining on my front driveway and at exactly the same time bone dry in the back garden. !! Is that like when your watching Tv sometimes the main character is getting soaked but in the background the paths still bone dry 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
gazzac 1,015 Posted October 4, 2021 1 hour ago, lisa-colette said: Rain has to stop somewhere. Example: it has been raining on my front driveway and at exactly the same time bone dry in the back garden. !! Sounds like you live in a Sandbanks mansion? 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
bigcatdiary 3,165 Posted October 5, 2021 12 hours ago, iainb said: Don't know why it took them over an hour to decide the track was waterlogged! Wasted trip from Leicester and cancelled just as I got there. Not happy! It’s because the TV were there, if it wasn’t live on TV then it would have likely been called off after the 5pm cloudburst. Of course then we would have likely had complaints from someone we had called it off to early !!!! 3 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
bigcatdiary 3,165 Posted October 5, 2021 12 hours ago, ArthurRudge said: Yeah whatever, even Peter Adams wanted it to go ahead! No doubt, thankfully he wasn’t the one making the decision. 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Flappy 1,605 Posted October 5, 2021 (edited) Interesting night ahead Thursday then. We still have the same MPT will he or won't he ride? Will we go with Kerr again or look elsewhere? Barring Sheffield pulling of a huge surprise it looks like Belle Vue await the winners. Many will say it's Belle Vue's title to lose IF panthers win. If wolves were to win they'd be favourites Edited October 5, 2021 by Flappy Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
SSL84 541 Posted October 5, 2021 12 hours ago, ArthurRudge said: Yeah whatever, even Peter Adams wanted it to go ahead! Where is it been said that Peter Adams that he wanted it On? Being there I did not hear him say anything like that? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
iainb 5,017 Posted October 5, 2021 19 minutes ago, bigcatdiary said: It’s because the TV were there, if it wasn’t live on TV then it would have likely been called off after the 5pm cloudburst. Of course then we would have likely had complaints from someone we had called it off to early !!!! No complaints from me when it's actually rained, I was told sometime back on these forums that the fact that TV are covering a match makes no difference at all. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
iainb 5,017 Posted October 5, 2021 11 hours ago, lisa-colette said: Rain has to stop somewhere. Example: it has been raining on my front driveway and at exactly the same time bone dry in the back garden. !! Another example, it was bone dry about a mile up the A1, Peterborough were quite unlucky copping the rain 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Dornier 795 Posted October 5, 2021 45 minutes ago, Trackerman48 said: Where is it been said that Peter Adams that he wanted it On? Being there I did not hear him say anything like that? Kelvin Tatum said Adams wanted it on in the tv interview. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
chris4gillian 1,832 Posted October 5, 2021 11 hours ago, Crump99 said: Afraid I agree with the nutjob. I'm 8 miles on the other side of Peterborough and if I've got rain and/or puddles then so has the EoES, whatever "it's been dry here all day" message you get from the track. I can't recall getting it wrong too much over the years. That won't always be the case. Have you never been driving on the motorway in rain then all of a sudden you drive out of it? As Lisa says, rain has to end at some point and it can very easily be raining where you are but be dry literally minutes away. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
ArthurRudge 347 Posted October 5, 2021 1 hour ago, Trackerman48 said: Where is it been said that Peter Adams that he wanted it On? Being there I did not hear him say anything like that? On TV Tatum said Adams wanted it to go ahead. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Noelinho 922 Posted October 5, 2021 10 minutes ago, ArthurRudge said: On TV Tatum said Adams wanted it to go ahead. He did, though he did seem to qualify it with “before the walked on the track”. So perhaps he changed his mind once he saw it. Unfortunately they didn’t really go into any details, so it’s hard to know. 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites