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Your eyes are ok? You must have super vision to be able to count the crowds at the NSS from 250 miles away.

A crowd of over 2000 on a Monday night for a meeting that was live on tv was much better than I expected. As for league matches I doubt we have had a crowd of less than 1200 and usually more than that. Recent reports from Poole fans on here are that sadly crowds are significantly down.

Sedgemen knew on Tuesday so all credit to him for doing his best last night. Speaks volumes about his character. I have a lot of sympathy for him, he has done all that he could reasonably have been expected to do but as others have said we couldn't miss the opportunity to sign a NSS track specialist. Our away results show just how good a team we have but we need a rider to strengthen us at home to try to avoid dropping any more points and to give us a better chance of winning on aggregate in the play offs, assuming we qualify. Tungate is riding well in Poland , he should do well at home and that will help him to do better away. Much as it's a shame for Sedgmen I think it was an obvious change to make.

It's not as if they didn't know approximately when all teams would complete their 4 home and away and if it is true that they are having a meeting on Monday to sort it out then that indicates total incompetence. They could and should have decided months ago how the new averages would be determined and implemented.

A fair result and some good racing with a number of genuine passes, including those from Batchelor, Bjerre, Fricke and Bewley and an excellent example of team riding from Cook, who shepherded Smith home for a 5-1 for the whole 4 laps. An enjoyable night that I think sent most fans home happy. It's always difficult to tell when you are sitting in the grandstand but looked like a decent crowd. Hopefully, the media advertising is producing results

So now with Batchelor for Zengota they are actually stronger. Looks like it might be a good meeting.

At Poole it may be more to do with the Darcy Ward meeting farce and having a team which some think needs strengthening. I suspect that the long gaps between meetings and the ever increasing numbers of guests and r/r are at least as significant as the lower standards. I can't speak for anywhere else as you can't tell from attending away meetings but crowds at Belle Vue seem slightly up. I can't say that the absence of Zagar has had any affect.

I am old enough to remember when riders just put boiler suits over their leathers and got on with it so have sympathy with your point. However, the article says that all of the riders wanted the delay.

I wasn't at this meeting but interesting comments in the Speedway Star. Lemon says that he didn't blame the result on the conditions but that all of the riders wanted a sufficient delay to allow the track to be sorted out before heat 9 or 10. He said the referee put the riders at risk. Josh Grajczonek agreed and comments that safety should be the most important thing. There is a photo of Josh racing caked in mud and with no goggles, having had to remove them to be able to see. Josh said he normally goes through no more than 4 tear offs in a meeting but went through more than 40 in this meeting, including 7 in the race where he had to remove his goggles on the third lap.

I can think of one club that might be feeling that there is one rule for them and another for certain others. It seems to me to be just as bad to call off a meeting for a pretend weather forecast as it is to invent a water leak. We were rightly fined, had points deducted and meetings could only be called off by an SCB official. What is very disappointing is that Buster as chairman of the BSPA seems to have done little to improve the sport. The farce over averages, doubling up and fixture planning seems worse and what happened to the promised new rule book?

I agree that Poole are weakened by losing Andersen but Batchelor rode extremely well in his last appearance at the NSS when he a scored 13 and finished second in the Peter Craven Memorial. He should be a more than adequate replacement for Zengota.

You were referring to the two matches this week when making your point that Poole were worse off with Bates. The facts show that is not the case at the NSS. Trying now to pretend you were talking about who is better overall fools nobody.

On his last visit to the NSS Klindt scored 6 from 7 rides, Bates 9 from 7 rides. Facts don't seem to be your strong point.

Congratulations to Somerset. It looks as if I was right, their reserves outscored ours 18-3 although I was wrong about it being close overall. I thought the difference in the reserve scores might have been about 10, not 15.

Our problem is going to be the difference in the scores of the reserves. I think our 1-5 will score more than their opposite numbers but overall could be a close match.

I think you may have forgotten a Fred(erik) closer to home.

Both Lee Payne and Rob Shuttleworth suffered injuries last night riding for their Championship sides. Hopefully, both will be ok for this match and to race at Mildenhall today. Edited to add that both Lee as Rob are not fit enough to ride at Mildenhall but no indication yet as the extent of their injuries.

He was going to go to Belle Vue, Wolves wanted to do a straight swap with Simon Stead but the Aces said no. Perhaps not the best decision ever made. I bet Freddie still regrets it every time he visits the NSS and sees what could have been.😂😂

A good performance from Swindon and they deserved their point. Doyle was in a class of his own and Morris and Bellegoboth showed how they have improved. The grippier track made passing more difficult in the earlier races although it obviously suited Steve Worral. Cook was unhappy with his engine but overall a good solid performance from all of the Aces. Smith may not have scored many points but was in the mix and as others have said his race with Zach showed he is coming out of his recent poor spell. 3 more points in the bag but now another long gap until the next Aces home meeting on the 9th June.

Also, with Matt Williamson guesting at reserve there is every chance that their reserves will outscore ours. An Aces win with Bjerre back in the fold but looking forward to another exciting match.

Reported here. http://www.newcastlediamonds.co/news/article.asp?id=100711 Interesting that the BSPA made their decision for the good of the sport. So far as I know Worrall is a Belle Vue asset, which would mean that Neil Vatcher made his decision in accordance with the rules.If that is correct then what on earth do the BSPA think they were doing. When will they learn that you can't ignore the rules when you think it suits, not if you want the sport to have any credibility and how did they think their decision was in any way in the interests of Belle Vue.

Good to see the new management being proactive and advertising on the Manchester Evening News website home page. http://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk

If there's no cooperation we just use the Matt Ford rules. It would be unfair on the Aces fans to run a meeting with a sub standard team so we cancel the meeting well in advance. Apparently, nothing anyone could do about it. 🤔

Belle Vue show their after meeting press conference live on their Facebook page. It means that fans like me who have a long journey home or, those who don't want to stay for whatever reasons can watch it whenever we choose. It costs nothing to film and is good PR.

The difference at Belle Vue was the absence of Bjerre, an off night for our reserves and most importantly, a superb performance from Tungate. It looks as if that might have been a one off for Tungate and looking at the other factors I can only see a comfortable win for Wolves.