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Updates have got the teams....if it's not too late Silver Cheetah Snr. At least one website is not being petty. http://speedwayupdates.proboards.com/thread/13269/coventry-kent-nl-14-30pm

If we are on the subject of Lewis Bridger's depression which I presume that's what we are still talking about - I am anyway because that is what the thread is headed. I have every sympathy for those with a real reason to be depressed (including some posters on here) but if a speedway rider is 'depressed' then it's in his hands to change things and make his life better. Give up speedway and get a job in a supermarket, care home or something similar where there will be less stress and there isn't the importance to perform to a high level. And yes Star Lady I have been close to people with depression, including my mother who had a 'nervous breakdown' and I took time off work to look after her and she eventually got back to her normal self. So someone has already said. Next time I'm at a meeting and a rider is popping wheelies whilst in last place and the other 3 are racing like they're paid to do I'll try to be more sympathetic.

I've never been warned either, but I'm not a squeaky clean do-gooder because I'm getting into trouble on the Bridger thread. How can I stop? Someone come over and damage my internet connection please.

Me too. I'm not interested in buying a programme that I will throw away afterwards. If the teams aren't shown so I can print my own then I won't bother.

Why? It's true about both of my grandmothers anyway. They had a pretty grim life compared to how it is today. Pregnant every other year and coping with a family of 9 and 12 children respectively in a two bedroom terraced house. Washing by hand and using a mangle to wring the clothes out etc. Stacks of ironing afterwards and cooking for a big family while the old boy went off down the pub for the evening. Things are so much easier now and we have seemingly everything we want but still get depressed.

That's why I was asking. It just seemed an odd thing to keep doing in the circumstances but now you've explained I understand.

If Bridger is genuinely depressed why would he be popping wheelies in his races at Wolverhampton whilst at the back? I'd have thought that was the last thing he would want to do.

Don't know they are born some of them. Back in my Grandma's day there were no washing machines, computers, T.V., inside toilet, bathroom, living in a two up, two down terraced house and having a baby every other year. That's reason to be depressed.

Can't say I've ever noticed or seen any riders without kevlars on....but I don't mind missing out on that anyway.

Whilst wishing Lewis all the best sorting out his depression I wouldn't think any of the above riders are on or have ever been on a 'special diet', except perhaps Tai as he looks the fittest of the lot? (At least he did do until he decided to keep changing the way he looks.) That's perhaps half the problem with English riders and why the likes of Nielsen, Mauger, Pedersen, Hancock etc. reach the top of their profession and stay there for years whereas they don't. I would also think Polish riders are under a lot more pressure to perform as they get dropped pretty quickly if they're not scoring well. Just my opinion.

Which just returns us once again to the question of why the promoters of Coventry Speedway are not allowed to use their own track curator and prepare the track how they would like it for the team?

Oh dear. I perhaps shouldn't have said that because now everyone knows the previously secret dogging place in Coventry.

Well, you're obviously not a lady so the stand up version is okay for you. You want to try to get toilet seating access at Coventry with a dog in tow who doesn't want to co-operate so I can get access to the seat. Therefore I nominate Coventry.

I've always found anti-perspirant deodorant helpful in cases like this. (Sorry - that was a good post really.)

Dry because rain was forecast, but luckily it didn't last for long. Brilliant match with loads of passing, which just makes me all the more disappointed that my local track doesn't produce racing like this. Well done to all the lads. The only downside was seeing Martin Knuckey struggle again. Can't see him wanting to make the journey up from Cornwall for much longer.

Weather is fine but I'm sure it's going to turn very cold tonight so wrap up warm everyone.

What? ....

Way too much information.

Yes, you could very well be right TWK. I was forgetting all the bikes riders seem to have nowadays.

Blimey! Hope the Belle Vue meeting runs smoothly and there are no hold ups on the M6. A.A. reckon over 4 hours to make that journey.

Fisher is a Coventry asset so presumably that's where he will ride.

I think we're all pretty much agreed on that....except the lad himself.

Those were the days, also riders travelling around with a bike strapped to the back of a car. Nowadays it seems as if young riders want everything right from the start and must have 'International Speedway Rider' emblazoned on the sides of their latest model van.

Starman have you been speed reading again? I think the clue might be in the previous posts. No he's not serious.

That was pretty scary. I'm sure he's been advised now that it was rather unwise.