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Will hopefully be a good meeting - Redcar have picked up points in 2 out of 4 of their away meetings to date, so they could potentially push us right to the end, expect to win but also expect it to be a more difficult meeting than Redcar fixtures of the past few years

As if on cue, it is now chucking it down...

Damned if you do, damned if you don't... crap forecast, don't call it off and abandon the meeting after 2 heats the promotion pay out god knows how much, lose money and get crucified as they should never have tried to put it on. crap forecast, do call it off, enough rain during the day to make it look like a good call and then the heavy expected rain doesn't arrive as predicted and the promotion get crucified... Either way the promotion lose money, I might be wrong, but I would guess that they wouldn't do that on purpose

can't see anything to suggest he isn't riding in the under 21 final tonight, so would presume he is fit to ride for us tomorrow

Too close for comfort for most of the meeting! BWD gets better every time I see him. Nice to see baby Bjerre in heat 15 showing why you should never give up and pulling back second on the line Anybody know why Marc Bates was manager tonight instead of Steady?

Bates score paid 8 for Leicester last night, so would presume he will be riding for us

I don't believe that the bikes can deal with the amount of dirt we used to have, it makes them dangerous to ride

Did not see that happening! King didn't look his usual self prior to his crash and not sure that Sclein enjoyed his first ride and just didn't seem to get stuck in after that. Riss for the Tigers was brilliant and Howarth is fast becoming a top rider. Good luck to Master Bates and the baby!!

I'm sure at the Q&A night pre season they mentioned wrangling over who has priority of his services... why on earth are we still having the argument? Surely this should have been sorted pre-season if it was known to be an issue - maybe a stupid rhetorical question, but how hard can it be to say to the BSPA x club owns him, therefore under your rules the team in that league gets priority, fo you agree? Or am I missing something? Also, if we had priority on Saturday night, why would Thursday be any different?

Sheffield's win last week was fairly emphatic... but think Ipswich will be a different proposition. The Tigers should edge it, but will be close, maybe 48-42. Will be interesting to see how Josh G goes against a proper no.1 on his home circuit

One of Berwicks issues will be that Bridger won't have ridden half the tracks he goes to that a year, I didn't think he looked as bad as his score suggested and reckon he will do ok most places he goes - he has never be known for being a big track specialist

I imagine that the stadium was close to capacity, great to see and a few decent races as well. Branford impressed as did Kurtz. Lasse will be better, JPB didn't disgrace himself and the 2 Josh's did alright for the first night. Considering it's a new home track for 5 of the 7 I think there should be definite cause for positivity.

Weather forecast looks like it should be on, so let's hope for some good racing to attract some newbies!!

[quote name="Charlieboy" post="2932262" timestamp="1490463583 A nybody know why Josh g didn't ride last night at Poole ? Good luck to the Tigers and hope theres no injuries this season. think I saw somewhere that he was stuck on a motorway which got closed for 12 hours

Weather appears to be set fair for the P&P thankfully, gives time for a spot of practice before the Ipswich trip

I see Machin has been appointed as a co-promoter at Leicester... for a man that had enough of promoting when he left Sheffield, he seems to have done a lot of it since he left!! Glad to see it to be honest, the man has a lot of experience to offer to other people that have the energy to put it to practice

I got the impression that the 'Glasgow' blueprint was in relation to the timing of races. It sounded like he was saying that they have heat 1 at 7.30, 2 at 7.35, 3 at 7.40 etc to ensure (baring accidents) that the meeting runs smoothly with sufficient time I imagine for bog breaks between races, but without the meeting being allowed to drag on. A bit like the dogs with timetabled races. I may well have got this completely wrong as I couldn't hear all that was said!!

I don't think you'd get very good odds against it

He's invested in the club in terms of the track (additional shale), riders, improved the presentation, spent time/money putting the team together.

I see your point 😀

Crump's tweet says riding at Sheffield 'this' year

Steady retirement meeting in March by the sounds of it... looks like Jason Crump has agreed to ride

And all this is based on perception from the terraces without any actual knowledge of whether riders were under performing on purpose, or whether they were underperforming due to inferior equipment due to cash flow problems or if they just had a bad season and were (heaven forbid) actually just trying their best and falling short of the mark.

With a 5 point average, not many teams will fit BWD in at reserve I would imagine

Good point, well made