Teromaafan

What red blooded male doesn’t ! Oops..just checked the Japanese spelling…move on.

Poole will secure a top two position. They will not lose at home again and looking at their remaining away fixtures I think that a point in any of those meetings would be considered a disappointment. This all assumes that Danny King continues to deliver sub standard scores. The Pirates will be able to deal with this scenario. The crunch will be the play offs when a team built top heavy will need to have its top three delivering their averages home and away against the better teams in the league.

That’s cheered me up no end. A life spent fighting the brown stuff only to be buried in it!

Wish I could be so optimistic. I’ll be nice and cosy in the ground by then. I will request to be buried under the centre green area of BP. By 2071 though, I will be most likely be under a housing estate. By then, people will not only hit Google to find out about Leicester Lions but may also be researching a defunct sport. If the sport is still going, I bet the Great Great Grandson of Chris Harris is guesting for every team around!

The number of guests used in the Championship is becoming a farce. They are supposed to be used to cover genuine (yeah, I know not really a word associated with the sport) injuries/absences. The likes of Newcastle and Brum continue to use guests for riders they signed that will never be seen again and almost every guest used makes them stronger due replaced riders on inflated averages that would only fall if they raced. These two teams are therefore stronger than they would be, which means they are not quite as crap as they would otherwise be. Whilst we all want these teams in the sport, this approach is unsustainable and the governing body should intervene. In contrast, Plymouth are milking the system a treat. They have three decent standard heat leaders but are still able to use guests for a number one (on the way down) who is as likely to show up again as Lord Lucan. Don’t know if this has been suggested before, but is it not reasonable to restrict a rider to a certain number of guest appearances per season? A maximum of 5 maybe?

Sitting here with a glass of wine having followed my team for what was surely their biggest ever way win, I should be delighted, but feel saddened by the state of Newcastle Speedway and the state of the sport. Hats off to the enthusiasm of desperate promoters and supporters, but at what point does the saying ‘well at least we are running and have a team to support’ finally take its toll? How many Newcastle fans are now making plans for their next meeting? Next Sunday is Fathers Day. Don’t know what I’d think of my son if an afternoon at Brough Park was my present!

10 teams? Even that might be optimistic!

When I started watching the sport in the Seventies riders would only double up if someone kicked them in the b*lls!

(My) press release: Newcastle v Leicester (today) The Diamonds will take on the top of the table Leicester Lions at 4.00pm, don’t miss this one, get there early to avoid the disappointment of being turned away. News of both teams to be announced prior to heat 1. ……well it’s better than anything I’ve seen on the club’s website or twitter page!

Great match tonight, Plymouth pushed the Lions all the way and to be honest, nobody would have begrudged them of the point they narrowly missed out on. Plymouth are easily play off semi finalists in my opinion but the Kennett guest facility that is still in place continues to make the Gladiators stronger than they would otherwise be. I can’t remember Kennett ever having a decent meeting at Leicester and he would never have scored what Nicholls did tonight. Rider averages are only based on league matches and Kennett hasn’t ridden in one this season! (Yes I know, it’s rolling averages that count). Can’t blame their management for playing the system, but there surely has to be a timeframe for milking a facility for a riders absence whose average is in decline. Is he actually even injured or did he just have a one meeting agreement? Hopefully not the latter as that would make the sport look (even more, if that’s possible) amateurish.

Yes, most strange (don’t suppose any of the moderators are called Ford or Middleditch are they?).

It’s been cold and dull today but hardly any rain in Leicester. So much for the weather forecasters. When the met office get it so wrong, we just shrug our shoulders and smile because we’re British. Just wish folk would respond the same to me when I get my job totally wrong!

With my team manager’s hat on I thought the Lions would have put one of the Cubs in to replace Rowe……….. I’ll get my coat! Dickson’s choice of guest has wildly exceeded all expectations. Hats off to the gaffer and take a bow Jason Edwards!

Weather forecast looks grim for Sunday.

Think you are about right there although I can’t see Oxford finishing in the top six.

Connor Coles has to be worth a punt. His NL average is actually higher than Joe Thompson's (although averages don't tell you everything of course).

The season after I got into the sport, Olsen went to Coventry and took them to another level whilst The Lions were in decline and as a school kid I used to detest our local rivals upturn. Home defeats to the bees seemed the norm for a while. I’ve now grown up and the Bees are no more. It’s healthy to have rivalry in sport (without hatred) and I think that people on this forum will try and wind Pirates fans up with some banter. Some of them take it too seriously (taking the bait) judging by responses to posts.

Thanks SF!

When I went to this fixture last year there were major road works between the stadium and the One Stop retail park. Is this work completed or should I avoid it and approach it from another route? Thanks in advance to anyone who can offer advice.

All of those 5 year olds looking for a night out without an adult will be thinking twice with this price structure.

Like a few of the Scunny riders I simply could not be bothered to show up for this meeting, but pleased to read the positive forum comments on the racing. Chose to stay at home and watch the GP instead and the quality of racing was poor to be honest with next to no passing. I would like to know what people that were present thought about Anders Rowe. No disrespect to Scunny, but if you can only score one point at home against this team, questions will be asked. With all of the negative rumours about Anders, it makes me wonder if Mr Dickson will tolerate him much longer.

I may be cynical but I suspect that they did not want to advertise that a team that is likely to get a good spanking will be even weaker without their top man and poor R/R options. It will be hard enough trying to drag people in when the CL final and GP are both on TV.

Unless they could get Riss or Palm Toft there wouldn’t appear anyone else worth having. My money is on R/R unfortunately which could end up as a battering and the return fixture then becoming meaningless.

Does that make him any worse than a former Glasgow rider was was accused of knocking another rider’s wife off?

It would be a shame if the Champions League Final was abandoned because the trainer had lost his magic sponge and nobody had a spare one!