Team manager Stewart Dickson was candid in his assessment after the meeting: “I cannot fault the effort from the boys but we are just not strong enough to challenge the top teams in the league at the moment. “We now need to dust ourselves down and prepare for a must-win meeting on Saturday.”

Maybe Leicester and Lynn get third and fourth in the league because of it.  

It does for me... I'm expected to pay the same price this week and the opposing team are turning up without their top rider who wasn't injured enough to even pull out of the meeting he sustained the injury in. This coming the match after Sheffield turned up without their number 1 rider because he decided to go to a qualifier for a competition he currently already qualifies for next year!

There's a rumour going around, that Hawkins has been given his own parking space at the AFA..        

I'd be surprised if Kurtz rode in the UK in 2026, Already started to bail out of meetings this year.

No Pickering & this heatwave will absolutely hamper track prep, could swing this King's Lynn's way I'm feeling.