Bagpuss

It is but it could happen with any league, Premiership riders could get injured riding in Poland, Denmark, Sweden or wherever. Scunny is one of the safest tracks around so just have to put it down to sheer bad luck. Get well soon Steve Worrall.

Troy has always been the same, will never change. As you say Buster has to take a large part of the blame for last year but we all know what Batchelor is like, these comments still come as no surprise to anybody and he is entitled to his say.

I feel a ban coming up.

Man City will create their own history and the club has class in abundance, anybody who is bitter towards them because of their money and doesn't appreciate the football they play needs to get a life. They aren't the only club with a rich owner. I don't think their supporters will be attacking the Liverpool bus next week either.

Exactly. Speedway has changed, to a large extent it has itself to blame for the small crowds and its no longer a sport where riders can just battle through wet conditions to get a meeting on and people have continued on to that. Too many times we have stood around watching the track being sorted after a downpour and then seem the riders either go through the motions or refuse to ride, meetings trying to be run in those conditions don't do anybody any good whatsoever. I believe it's treating today's speedway customer best by giving them as much notice as possible that a meeting won't be on, and as screamer says the riders will appreciate it too.

Lakeside are going to have some hefty home wins this year and this is likely to be the first.

This forum seems to be hitting new lows

Very wet evening in the Fakenham area, same in Lynn?

I appreciate and understand what you are saying GRW but I just think clubs nowadays can ill afford to risk incurring the cost of a rain off or a low crowd through dodgy weather. As improved as the weather has been over the last couple of days there is still an awful lot of water and saturation around and with heavy possibly thundery showers forecast for this afternoon it would only take one of those to knock things on the head even if the track could have been sorted for tonight. Factor into that the reluctance of modern day riders and machinery to get stuck in on a wet track and Liverpool v Man City on telly I think it was the only sensible decision really, as frustrating as it is.

Exactly, I don't think too many people are particularly fussed with how their riders do in Poland or anywhere else for that matter.

Unfortunately I'm not quite old enough to remember Michael Lee in his initial spell at Lynn, I was three when he became World Champion and would have been going regularly then but can't really recollect much before 1983 and those memories are mainly of Richard Hellsen. Of course I can remember his two ill fated comebacks but by then he was a shadow of his former self. My first proper hero was Henka in the early nineties, he was unbelievable at times round Lynn particularly in 1993 when he had some seriously fast kit. I've never seen anybody overtake quite like him since and probably won't again.

He's on a wind up, don't feed the troll.

Don't bite on the sh¡te!

Who made you boss? Discussions develop where they develop, so tough breast.

Completely irrelevant, what that shows is that Buster and anybody else involved in decision making shouldn't be if they are letting riders come back to the UK several years later on out of date averages when a blind man can see that they have improved considerably in that time. Above board in British speedway doesn't mean fair or right, particularly when those averages almost certainly would have been different had another club been doing the asking.

It's about the playing field being level and everyone getting treated fairly rather than riders making teams stronger or not. Without integrity the competition is a complete waste of time. Not saying that's the case here but it would be interesting to know where the 'GP rider 8 point rule' idea came from.

Unfortunately when a sport is corrupt and therefore clubs are treated differently questions like that are irrelevant.

Comfortable away win, Sarj to run riot and the catering situation to be unrecognisably better.

Indeed, it seems that this 'rule' doesn't actually exist despite more than one promoter and rider believing that it did. Not at all in keeping with the open, honest, transparent and uncomplicated way that British speedway is run

Common sense, everyone knows where they stand and we can all try again on a better evening.

Not really sure what you are getting at as the night in question wasn't wet?

I thought the whole fall out with Tai was the lack of professionalism and preparation which this should sort out.

http://speedwaygb.co/news.php?extend.34086 Not before time and hopefully will mean our best rider being involved again.

The stock cars scheduled for today have been postponed which is a good thing for Wednesday's prospects. The forecast is for later rain tomorrow and Wednesday as well as all day today so I can't see it going ahead personally, and if there is rain around Wednesday evening and its still on I won't be taking the chance, been stung by that far too often in the past. I'd suggest if the forecast is still the same in 36 hours time it would be entirely sensible to call off early and wait for a much nicer spring evening.

It will probably change again anyway!