Bagpuss

It is, but that's last year. This year both meetings have been done in 100 minutes or less have they not?

You are a very cynical fellow. How did he do it then, slip the pilot a tenner to delay the flight

Delayed flights happen, that's life. Nobody's fault, just circumstances. But why should the paying public suffer?

As I've said before I'm not sure 15 mins makes a huge amount of difference. Does it really matter if your child goes to bed at 10pm or 10:15 for example? It's going to be a late night either way. The key is to make sure it's not 11pm through dragging meetings on to over two hours. And that they have a great time while they are there.

Fantastic to see Bewley doing so well, he is making the NSS his own. Would like to see him make the step up un the Championship now, he needs to be banging in big scores everywhere in that league and should be Workington number one by the end of the season. Great to see he has been nominated for the GP qualifiers.

It's the KO cup. Stranger things have happened, nothing in sport is certain so I wouldn't rule us out keeping it close. The thing that gets me about the rules is the paying public having to watch Connor Mountain replacing Robert Lambert, takes the shine off the meeting regardless of what the score is or would have been.

Scores in Poland mean very little in terms of what happens over here.

What's wrong in that? If we have to have guests then at least this one isn't attached to another CL club and is a different rider for people to watch.

Apparently once it started ( I'm sure people can understand starting 15 mins late with the afternoon rain) it was all done inside 100 minutes....not too bad I would suggest with R/R.

Is there not another Friday that P'Boro could have ridden at Edinburgh when their Danes weren't in Denmark? If I had a pound for every time teams have been scheduled at Armadale with riders committed elsewhere.....

Spannerman reeks of a rider on guaranteed money putting in minimal effort to me.

At times?

That'll do nicely, only four points from our guests (hope Cook is ok) but still comfortably beat the league's in form side. Robert quite brilliant again and very pleased to be proved wrong by Proctor in every meeting so far (when he was announced I deemed him an awful signing ) Chuck in some good racing and you have to say things are very much going in the right direction. The Linnets won too

Seeing as this meeting doesn't count towards the averages and can't be used for fiddling, it's official - Poole are officially the worst 'best side on paper' ever.

I wonder if there'll be a pretend injury tonight?

Really? That's asking for average manipulation is it not? Might explain Poole's slow start.

I'm confused. I thought the one over eight rule was very much present but the reassessment of GP riders was the phantom rule which was only talked about but not confirmed?

I'd say its a fine line between the two. It's very easy for people to be negative and sometimes quite nasty on Twitter, best to not read the comments if I was him.

Or perhaps floodlights?

The general feeling on the Berwick thread that Lakeside were pulling a fast one with a stronger guest didn't help matters either.

Another competitive away showing which is pleasing. Just need to get Neils up to speed which is a matter of when and not if. Robert looks like he means business this year. Hats off to Rory.

Splitting hairs really as Andersen would have fit in Sundstroms place, so foreverblue's point remains.

Same in Fakenham, dry roads here although five miles up the road towards Norwich it's a bit wetter. BBC still predicting heavier rain later today, we shall see.

Delighted to be proved wrong they've not got today right either so far, just bits and pieces of rain rather than the predicted deluge. If they get Wednesday wrong too we might even see some speedway

Sorry to hear that. Hope to see him back refreshed and fully fit in due course. Michael Palm Toft is a decent replacement.