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Is your average low enough?

Good news. Love watching the youngsters.

Not blinking Poole?! Spoil everything they do.

Gawd! Is this still going on? I've seen it time after time that an incident on the first bend is called an 'unsatisfactory start'. Sounds a bit daft but that's the way it has always been described. I'm no fan of Holder but the referee made the best decision in having a re-run of the race with all four riders.

Yep agree with that. I'm just glad all four were back in the re-run as it would have been the biggest disappointing anti-climax ever if Holder had been excluded. Best decision by the referee to let the battle be fought out on the track.

Thanks very much.

1) Kauko Nieminen 2) Linus Eklof 3) Lasse Bjerre 4) Jan Graversen 5) Magnus Karlsson 6) Jari Makinen 7) Lewis Blackbird

Blimey! Radio - what's that? Don't think I've even got one in the house now so I'll have to rely on the forum to find out what he said. Agree it should be interesting.

I agree. If only riders would realise this as well instead of sodding off back to the pits after winning a race.

Nothing on the website yet. Sorry.

Easy to multi task if you are a woman. Men just don't have the necessary brain power.

Does Ronnie Allen cover meetings in the Midlands and South or is he mostly a Northern ref? Serious question because I wonder if referees are given meetings fairly near to where they live, hence Tony Steele being in charge of Leicester last night (allegedly.) I really don't see how the same person can be in charge of the track and be a team manager as well, especially when Glyn, by all accounts, seems to spend most of his time grading the track. Has this scenario happened anywhere else?

Why does speedway continually shoot itself in the foot? The biggest gripe from fans is endlessly waiting around for races to start and riders being allowed to return to the pits after a false start. When will promoters, referees, clerk of the course, the bloke that keeps driving the tractor round lap after lap get the message?! I went to Coventry as usual on Friday and got back to Leicester at about the same time my husband returned from Beaumont Park last night - 10.50pm - but meetings don't start at Brandon until 8 o'clock and I also watched all of the second half Mercia Vikings match, plus demonstration rides by 14 year old Nathan Grieves, whereas Leicester's scheduled start time was 7.30pm and there were just 15 races. Diabolical to keep fans hanging around for so long in the cold. No wonder so many walked out before the end.

Well, we certainly get our moneys worth at Coventry then as meetings normally take forever to get through. I don't think I was really just referring to 15 minutes of racing when I posted (could have done though - I'm a woman so who knows?) I've been a supporter for long enough to remember when we did get value for money - a league meeting followed by a second half, probably 20 or more races in all, whereas now at most tracks it's just the league match and that's it. I don't class all the preparation, digging and gardening at the tapes an entertaining part of the event . Add to that the fact that some riders can't even be bothered to come round after winning a race so the fans can show their appreciation makes me think speedway is quite an expensive night out, so yes on second thoughts I probably was referring to just 15 minutes of racing. Oh....and don't get me started on them all returning to the pits for 5 minutes after a false start. That's not entertaining either. Well, you're lucky then because I've only seen him once this season way back at the beginning of April.

Actually Leicester charge £15 for adults and Coventry's went up to £17 this season but concessions are the same price - £13. Agree with you though speedway is too expensive for the amount of racing we see.

Thanks for clearing that little matter up. So the diabolical track for the Bees match against Lakeside was all Ron's fault and not the Coventry track staff.

Hey I can probably provide that as I've got nearly a year to train her. Free entrance, a programme and a Bonio for Lucy is all I will ask for.

But that match happened nearly a week ago so there isn't much else to say about it. As there doesn't seem to be a Leicester 2012 thread then I suppose it's natural that people will carry on discussions on the last Leicester thread, which is this one. Perhaps on Sunday we can all transfer to the Pride of the Midlands.

Is this the attitude you want that Michael Lee was referring to at Mildenhall last Sunday? "Offensive and pathetic behaviour." "Quite a few were drunk when they arrived at the track and they quickly got a lot worse." "It wasn't banter, it was nasty horrible stuff. The language was appalling and a lot of Mildenhall fans had to move to take their children away from it." Think I'd prefer the Leicester fans to stay as they are thanks as they are regularly classed as being nice and friendly.

Thank you.

Damn! Will have to miss that as we're on holiday.

I've sussed out what he is but not who he is.

Lovely friendly bunch of fans on here.

Mind the Crocodiles in the swamp next time.

Simon struggled at Leicester but wasn't he in the 1-5 there? At reserve he should do a lot better.