Daniel Smith

I think the referee isn't using the 15m rule correctly. I was under the impression that this ruling was only to be used if a rider was intentionally not clearing the track

Although living just round the corner I'm giving this a wide berth due to weather

Regardless of the weather I'm giving this thread and meeting a wide birth, absolutely pointless.

Are we back on to rolling averages or are the 4h 4a for the greensheets? Currently if 4h 4a Poole could fit Holder for Shanes with 0.01 remaining on the team average.

With the weather forecast I'm not handing over money. The forecast varies greatly from sprinkling showers to thunders storms depending where you look.

The difference: After a standard parade rider's trundle round and more than not use this time to do standing starts, checking out clutches, timing and sprockets etc. With these 'hot laps' it's rolling starts with 1 out lap and 2 full throttle laps. No standing starts allowed or like Craig Cook, you get excluded by red flag. It's all about pure speed, gives no advantage to the meeting set-up as Belle Vue found out.

Madness to underestimate the Pirates. A little bit of average manipulation early season will see the Pirates end up with super strong side with a few changes. They could possibly bring in Holder for Shanes in June with about 0.75 knocked off everyone's average.

That's 2 abysmal pairs meetings so far

What could have been for the Stars but a point away is an excellent result

There's not many times in the past when you could say Iversen has let us down but tonight is one of those days. Lambert maybe a point or 2 more but no qualms about the rest of the 4. All done their jobs tonight.

The Premiership should have gone Monday - Thursday allowed the Championship clubs to also run those night's but they'd have to forego the priority rights to rider's signed up to Premiership clubs. With the Premiership the flagship league they should always hold the priority regardless of assets etc.

That I agree with regards to Kildermand over Holder. We shouldn't feel the rebound from Poole as they're at Wolverhampton on Monday. In fact, if Wolves can nail 50+ that would have the Pirates on the back foot from the off on Wednesday.

This one should be Holder's return to the Pirates line-up. Will certainly add some interest to the meeting, hopefully plenty of booing too for the +0$$ peice

Absolutely, if that produces better racing long may the slick continue

I thought the 'Hot Laps' were a bit of a flop personally. Rider's (apart from R.Lambert) seemed disinterested to be honest. It won't last long before it's knocked on the head. I prefer a proper parade with all 14 bikes on the track at the same time.

What makes you say that?

Picking up a point would be a good night for the Stars.

Can't add much more to what's already been said. The first 9 races pretty much gate and go, got a lot better after the interval. Robert Lambert different gravy from last season, looking way slimmer and fitter. His gating was brilliant and still had the brilliant passing skills in heat 15. The team looks solid right the way through with the only concern is Kasper. He was miles behind to the same standard as an NL rider. I know some will say give him time but we don't want to go down that road again of 'oh it'll come good next week'. Track was very very slick which brought the track more conductive to racing and less track grading. Fingers crossed that that is how things will be in future. Slick is ideal for the modern bike it seems.

Nothing more needs saying other than

Which has been breed by poor promoting and p!$$ poor meeting management. Up to the promotion to turn things around, nobody else.

The place will be just as empty at 7pm surely? Also can see this being scrapped from the home promotion when (and it is when) they have a rider bang into fence from over trying. Imagine if it's Lambert or Iversen, the team then forced into R/R and we then get into the realm of more farce meetings. Personally, for the benefit of the team these things would be better as an after meeting event.

See all these big names banded about as replacement for Vaculik but it won't happen. They're not interested and won't risk their pay cheque from Poland. Vaculik is certain not to return so it really will be another long season of going through the motions for Leicester.

Thanks for clearing that up. For me the trust in the promotion is very fragile. Hope this meeting is enjoyable for everyone who attends, weather is set to be perfect so no excuses.

So, while I've been being positive and praising the promotion about listening to the fans, is what you're saying above the real reason for the postponements? As proven in Poole's case with Holder a temporary replacement would have been required as no facilities would be granted. But at no point has Proctor's visa been mentioned before. Has the recent weather given the promotion a smoke screen and in fact meetings would have been postponed in sun drenched climates?