Jonny the spud

Us IOW fans are hoping for a lot of that this season

Sort of "If you don't like it we'll take our ball away " Get over it. You won, sheesh

oops! Well done the Islanders, great team effort. Let's hope there's lots more to come.

Michael Neale, 16 is replacing Byron Bekker for today's match. Bringing the average age of the team down to 19. Is this a record ?

I wasn't doing the "dad" bit. Just pointing out maybe what the previous poster may have meant. I won't post any more just bow to your superior knowledge. Maybe you could offer him your expert advice on where it went wrong then ?

Maybe he meant he's a 17 year old kid with only half a dozen premier league meetings under his belt and has never even seen the track before ? I see the doom merchants are starting already

I was hoping the updates sight would give us an idea of the meeting other than the score but the comments are about as useful as a cock flavoured lollipop Edit..... coke flavoured

Why. What were they supposed to do ? Slow down and wait for you guys to catch up ???

Doh!! Empty post. Adams were built and are maintained by Matt Read. He and his wife Claire have been an awesome help from the end of last year.

£100.......... don't tell him that !

Heh, that'll teach Adam to knock it off on the exit of the last bend !

Would you like custard with that ?

Most people will

Read my post about racers not being able to see. If the meeting had gone ahead and a rider had ended up in a wheelchair ( or worse) who's fault would it have been then ? Until you've been in that position you can't really comment. It all looks so easy from the other side of the fence.

I can only add one comment from a riders point of view as I actually raced sidecars all over europe in the 90's,Tracks may look rideable, and if you're in first place without spray / mud / shale / sand etc ... to a certain extent they are, however Imagine going into a corner at full speed, you bang it sideways , you can hear a bike in front of you, you can hear a bike next to you, in fact all you can do is hear other bikes but because of the crap flying off the bike in front clogging your goggles, you cant see any of them, you also can't see the inside of the track, the outside of the track or indeed anything at all. Phil morris had that at La Reole longtrack in the 90's. He said to me, "i didn't know exactly where i was, i thought i'd turned enough in the corner, maybe even a bit too much, so i gassed it"........ that was about half a second before he slammed into the outside fence breaking quite a few bones. Still think riders bottle it ?

I was told that too, if the ref says no, then it's no.

will do, ( although we're 1,200kms apart ) !

yup, won one heat , one last bend crash whilst fighting for the lead, and two offs on a track that the home side refused to do their P&P day on as they deemed it too dangerous. The meeting should never have gone ahead.

Two meetings into the season with no pre season training and the knives are already out. Nothing like getting behind your team eh ? I saw jari on Tuesday. He was in quite a bit of pain but keen to prove himself. I wonder why he bothers with that kind of support.

I've also put this on today's match thread. Is there and indoor/under cover area at the stadium as I'm thinking of taking an elderly aunt to the meeting today and its a bit cold for her to spend a few hours outside ?

Thinking of taking my 86 year old aunt to her first meeting in nearly 50urs today. Is there an indoor area at rye house stadium for her to watch as its a bit cold to be standing outside ?

It's all irrelevant as Ward has just tweeted that he's got his passport and visa

Let's face it, Ward is well known for being as thick as a plank and Middlo cocked up. It doesn't matter how much money Sky tv or Matt Ford put into the sport, none of it seems to filter through to PR. Unfortunately Ward is a big fish in an ever diminishing pond and wouldn't really be missed if he couldn't race in th UK next year, it wouldn't have that much effect in general terms to the sport. Let's just all move on and worry over the next minor drama. It just paints a whole picture of mishandled amateur dicking around, we can all shout in faux indignation but in the grand scheme of things it won't change diddly squat. Neil's time to publicly refute the accusations has passed and Darcy's too damn stupid to realise the rubbish he's caused . Same old, same old . .

makes you wonder how long drugs stay in the bloodstream and what kind of drugs testing (if any) takes place. I mean did he ride last year under the influence ?