TheScotsman

And now it's Schramm the bampot instead of Bates. I predict carnage!!

Good site that!! Looks like the rain's nearly on a track from me to Ippo. So the fact that it's stopped here now can't be bad. Plenty of puddles around though.

I assume they don't have any track covers?

Hoping to make it LW. Raining in Braintree at the moment though.

Never gonna get the meeting finished then since there's only a 1 hour slot when it won't be raining!

Starts about 3pm according to the beeb!!

Thought it was only Cookie that rolled - according to the BSF Must be ok now that Bach and Klindt are riding.

But Barker is riding for Brum tonight.................. ..... you expecting him to come off again?

Not sure it's any more of a programme filler than the last half a dozen home league matches but hey ho. Can't squeeze in another visit unfortunately - too late getting home.

Don't think so. Too many Monarchs have gone off the boil and are very inconsistent Cookie's form has masked this for a while. Think Ippo are massive favourites for the group. But expect Somerzet to triumph overall.

But he was replacing the higher scoring reserve. If it had been replacing the lower scoring one it would have had to be a NL guest. I'm not sure what point you are making?

Doubt anyone expected Schramm to score 24+2 or whatever from 2 meetings though

Don't think so. Ippo would have hammered Worky tonight!!

Yep well done Somerzet. Our boys took a helluva beating!

A bit like Cookie then!

But he has spent over 25 years on track trying to perfect it!

Did Bech team ride at all?

Good plug!!

With the organisation in speedway at the moment I think it's more a case of lucky if they are all completed in time. Given that we have had the best summer for weather in years, what would the fixture state be if it had rained like the past couple of years?

I've lost the plot here. Edinburgh will not race Worky until after the cutoff date.

It'll have to be a helluva good new rule given that Edinburgh aren't even riding tonight.

You'll have to ask him that. Probably because he was half a lap ahead and wanted to save his engine!

Too many saddles in the Edinburgh team at the moment then.

Is there not a rule about saddle position? (Only joking!!)

You may not have said that but plenty others on the thread have said it. Yes I was surprised that Joe got the TR instead of Theo but in their previous outing in heat 7, Joe passed Theo early on and made a better fist of it than Theo. Obviously the Team Manager is the best one to answer why else Joe was chosen ahead of Theo. As it turned out it was a good decision because Joe took 2nd instead of Theo's 4th but there again Theo after a decent first ride only mustered 2 thirds from his next 3 rides so was hardly on top of his game. Since it seems some Ippo fans are crying out for praise, I am happy to accommodate - Ipswich were comfortably the better team on the night so well done - no quibble. Just as Cookie was comfortably the best rider on the night so well done - and there should be no quibble about gates, team riding or any of that crap. Monarchs were well beaten even with 5 joker points and Cookie was never going to change that. I'm old enough to remember Ivan Mauger dominating the PL in the early sixties. He got the same kind of stick that Cookie is getting now. I bet Cookie is well chuffed about it all. (And before anyone starts jumping up and down - you know who you are! - I am not saying Cookie is or ever will be in Mauger's class!! )