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Tact and decency actually. Things happened which you do not know about, and some Newcastle fans do.

Thanks boz, much appreciated.

Where's macca these days. ?

Very mixed forecasts on the weather at Redcar today. Most saying heavy rain from 2.00 and continuing for about 3 hours. Can someone keep us up to date with the weather, and viability of the meeting going ahead.

Perhaps it was Davey, as usual you jump to conclusions.

German riders would be putting towels on their gate.

Not at Newcastle.

And the meeting will be followed by a NJL meeting between Redcar Cubs and the Newcastle Gems. Why not stay behind and watch Britain's youth riders progress.

Certainly is Steve Luke Harrison, Jordan Jenkins, Tom Brennan, Jack Parkinson, Archie Freeman, Woodhull twins Ben and Luke, Kean Dicken, James Hitchens, Carl Basford, Henry Atkins, are all looking good to join or have already joined the riders you named.

Agree with the first part, but not the second. The cost of foreigners, and the youth system in place now should 'feed' teams for sometime to come.

Thank you for replying tb279. I wasn't aware of the financial arrangement.

Never rated Proctor actually, and always flatters to deceive. His form was very poor prior to his original Visa problem.

Can you explain this comment Please.

Doesn't matter at Newcastle.

But do they not use them as ear trumpets.

Where was that, behind the toilets ?

Whilst I also would like to see less time wasted during the meeting by excess grading and intervals, I think the delay for heat 15 is something else. It is for norminated riders who are top 3 by averages or top 3 scorers on the night for programmed rides. Whilst a TM might know who he wants in it, there are other considerations such as who has never had a heat 15 and has had a good night. A rider decides that he doesn't want heat 15 for either engine or injury probs and the result of heat 14 being good for his team will allow someone else to ride without chucking away a good result. Once decided , there are gates to be decided and a pair of the best tyres identified and changed to give themselves an advantage. The track deserves to be graded for what should be the biggest race of the night, and this grading means that a second half has a semi-decent track surface for the juniors to ride on without anymore grading. Given something like a delay of 5 minutes for it, it can build up the tension for a race which can only have the better riders in it. Is that not worth planning for the fans and waiting to see what could be the best race of the night. Who or why would anybody bugger off after heat 14 and deliberately miss heat 15.

I went after James in about 2003 for my then Gems, but was told Charles was the better rider and to go for him. Unfortunately my joint request to them was wasted, as Jan Staechman tool over the lease of Buxton and the Wright's never got the chance to ride for us.

There was. At the Newcastle SCB seminar in February it was said that there was only 70 old tyres left, so they would be used up by I would think.

Yes, and for a very good reason. Too many call offs for Sheffield and Exeter due to sudden illnesses.

And there's the rub with your opinions. I didn't say the new BV was. CrIticising the shape of Brough and you don't even know what it looks like. 'Bit like Loomer Road', give your head a shake. There's an Article in the Speedway Star with Nicki Pedersen this week, and he is saying that top riders should spend some time in the UK to get them accustomed to the differences in tracks, and that after he left Newcastle he chose to go to Wolverhampton, due to it being small and tight for more small track experience.. Blows your views off the page, but then again whatever did Nicki win in his career, compared to yours.

So you would still propose to close tracks that couldn't expand, and tight tracks like Brough, Lakeside, Old BV, etc would have the straights widened to your new norm and the corners would be like points. Brilliant plan to close the clubs quicker mind. Remind me why Leicester is deemed to be a bad track, and has had to have some modifications. That's right tight bends and long straights which you would have other tracks follow their shape. Year, Excellent and stupid plan from you again. BTW Racing at Brough, and many other tracks, will never get to the wide open spaces like BV. They of course started with a blank canvas so rather easier to design what they wanted. In saying that, there are cracking meetings at all tracks given good track preparation and riders going to ride.

It's just a pet thing that he is obsessed with. He thinks all tracks should be the same and, as you have said, the likes of tracks with no room for expansion would be closed. That is his way forward, and then some wonder why promoters ignore most stuff on here.

It's actually about 285 miles, FF.

Did you used to watch Blue Peter.