Bagpuss

Met Office app the best in my experience, and certainly much more accurate than the BBC one. It was always said that Buster used RAF Marham weather station for his forecasts, I assume that's still the case. Forecast this morning looks a fair bit worse than it did last night so perhaps the club ha e got it spot on.

This is a good point, I suspect the risk of paying to fly riders in for a second rain off in eight days was too great to take.

Where has the meeting thread gone?

It wouldn't, but years ago bikes could be ridden in any conditions, riders were prepared to ride in any conditions and the public turned up in any conditions. It's frustrating but I'd much rather an early call than pay to get in and see Buster going round and round with the blade while fourteen riders who have no intention of riding anyway stand about with arms folded looking miserably at the track and the sky. Been there, done that too many times.

Why would next week be off 8 days in advance?

Not really, it's a numbers game and you can't have everyone back from a title winning team.

Fair play and respect to you.

Genuine question, does your venting on this thread and the other one make you feel any better?

They need PP to come in and start scoring number one points. Three of the top five were riding in positions tonight that they shouldn't be/weren't signed for although I accept you'd expect Milik, Cook, Worrall and Lampart to score more than eleven between them! I think Brum's issue this season is going to be inconsistency, they are never all going to have a good meeting on the same night and as such are going to find wins hard to come by.

Emil obviously not feeling himself tonight after those Foxhole crashes on Thursday.

Indeed, time will tell. Their luck with injuries will be crucial too as they haven't had much of it in recent seasons.

Under 24 and senior teams in Poland. On the Round The Boards podcast last week he explained that nobody from the Championship contacted him until well after Christmas and by then he was already sorted with three clubs.

A sign of where the priorities of Bewley & Holder lie perhaps.

Personally I don't think Knudsen for Jorgensen changes an awful lot in terms of Redcar's chances. Berwick just don't convince me, too many riders who won't improve and could go missing, plus they always seem susceptible to home defeats. They are arguably the best of the rest but I'd be astonished if they get anywhere near the top four.

I would absolutely agree with that bottom four, I think that looks quite clear cut on paper personally. Just a question of who misses out on the Play Offs out of that top five.

I have been (I enjoyed my visits), and I appreciate things have been widened and it's FIM standard. My point is that as with most tracks around a pitch the start/end of the straights will be a lot tighter than riders new to the UK are used to and its tricky. Even compared to places like BV, Worky, Scunny, Redcar, Glasgow etc. It's no criticism of the track, just the reality of the confines of the stadium. I'm sure those three riders will be much better on their second visit.

Agree with this, just because a track isn't small and tight doesn't mean its not difficult for a first time visitor. The narrow straights make it very tricky if you're not familiar with it.

And he's not alone there, plenty of riders do.

Unfortunately as a general rule British speedway provides awful customer service. Those who pay the expensive entrance fee get taken for granted quite often. If you want to attract new customers and keep them coming back it goes without saying that things need to change. Not sure those currently running things have got that in them though unfortunately.

Indeed, but it's one meeting against a, for whatever reason, woefully underprepared opposition. Masters and Boughen in particular are much better riders than that, really odd that they scored so badly. As always Poole are going to be there or there abouts. Although I think they are going to find it harder away from home this year.

If Redcar finish 8th then I'm a Monkey's Uncle!

Brummies look like they are going to be a match for anyone this year, next Thursday at Lynn will be hard work for the Stars with the respective track time each side has had.

Seems Museilak and Tarasenko were late for some reason.