40-38

There’s clearly a drainage problem now. The turd of Hemsley’s layout has been polished as much as possible in terms of racing, but at the expense of the only thing he got right, the drainage. Mind you if we were t trying to host finals in late October after it’s done nothing but piss it down for weeks what can anyone expect?

Well hopefully everyone is happy the meeting has been run now, right? Only one rider carted off injured but at least we got a result, yes? Sickening.

Fricke 8.98 Kerr 5.45 Douglas 7.14 Lawson 6.57 Masters 7.13 B Cook 6.00 Total 41.27 Do rising stars count towards the points limit?

Fricke Kerr Masters Douglas A N Other 1 A N Other 2 Kemp Wouldn’t be too disappointed with that as a start.

Agree re Douglas, always goes well around Leicester. I’d like to see Fricke back as well.

What an underwhelming line up.

Poole desperate for the silverware now?!

Adjourned for what? That’s 6 weeks. Talk about dragging things out.

Has it finished for the day now?

They don’t care. I’m alright Jack, etc.

It's rubbish and he has no more evidence than anybody else re figures. Both parties are arguing about theoretical numbers.

I wonder if there’s any use referencing other sports that don’t publish figures for attendance? I still think the fact that nobody will admit to figures even given trying to save Coventry that they’re either terrible, or nobody actually collects them ever.

TV money doesn't filter all the way through? Well that's news to me. Appalling.

Slightly bizarre line of questioning. It's hardly necessary to be living on site to pay the bills after all. Look at football chairmen.

He’s squirming a bit now.

I still think that the lack of reliable figures for speedway in any form will possibly be the death of speedway in Coventry. It might not be the only sport that doesn’t publish them but you’d assume that those fighting for the sport would have gone all out to obtain.

The argument that sports is only relevant in respect of participation is frankly ludicrous. Why is nobody pulling Goatly up on that?

It is, but I did note just before they went for a break that the council's housing targets chap said that there was a need not being met for housing and that there should be weight to that effect in deciding this.

Far too friendly. Edie is making a lot of "small chance" of a bad outcome, but that's irrelevant, a chance is a chance. Goatly would have been all over Speedway about that.

Yes, but it’s plain most of the Aces don’t fancy it. Bewley is surprisingly not getting himself in the mix as much as I’d assume he would.

This is like watching paint dry.

You have to admit that some of this evidence really doesn't paint speedway in a good light. Especially the Belle Vue stuff just now.

It’s poor that he filibustered for so long, drawn out questions and interminable pauses which now means Ford has travelled for nothing.

See them referencing the KKP study for pitches needed, there's no rebuttal because they've done no work. Equally for Speedway nobody seems to have undertaken any figures to support. No wonder he's getting flustered. I hope SCS or someone has some figures or they're going to be royally rogered.

It's all so secretive. We've no TV money or viewing figures, no attendance figures, no reliable model examples. Nobody has done any detailed work comparing Coventry to Oxford, or any other location despite trying to use that as a baseline. I mean what have any of them been doing? If you listen to some of the earlier exchanges re the planning it's not a done deal, but this really isn't helping speedway as a viable cause.