chun

nice to see masters EF after him being so smug and critical of foxhall on his last visit when he got away with jumping the start

it might also depend on ipswich having a realistic chance of progressing on thursdsy

guests needs to be booked in advance. would ipswich want to risk emil pulling out sunday evening and then scrambling around to get a replacement monday morning? i doubt he will ride on thursday, but him not riding tonight tells us little.

farcical

great GP so far. unpredictable, overtaking and a well prepared track

gate 4 is proving successful

track looks good. hopefully it holds together

Users were still experiencing connection issues last night. Too many connections was the message quoted to me when I couldn’t connect. Are the recent problems now behind us?

witches always likely to be up against even before Rew’s fall and mistakes gifted points to the lions. masters moving at the start in heat 7 should have been pulled back and with him on a warning he maybe wouldn’t have made quick starts in subsequent heats. think that fricke had to be excluded in heat 1 as he was the prime cause of the stoppage with ellis taking avoiding action. nicholls and king are past their prime and both were guilty of riding too wide forfeiting further points. no prizes were up for grabs last night but sides rarely recover from their top riders coming back from injury ready to perform at their best so unfortunately it looks as though the witches are destined for disappointment. on another note i can’t understand why leicester are able to bring in kemp for cook. on what grounds is cook unable to ride? a week or two off seems reasonable given his partner is due to give birth but this has been going on forever now. before we know it leicester will be picking horses for courses at reserve in the grand final. they should be forced to track an ndl rider in my opinion.

Oxford had 7 of their first 7 heat wins coming from different riders which i found remarkable. odds on that before the meeting?

didn’t charles wright used to ride for belle vue a couple of seasons ago? you couldn’t tell.

you need decent machinery to pull the dirt back in effectively. however, rakers could help to spot where big piles of dirt were building up. my take on the Emil crash was that he ended up on a bit of the track which is rarely used at Sheffield, the outside on bend 3. you dont see too many people dive bomb the 2nd bend. It wasnt really a place on the track Emil intended to be at, as he hoped to have blocked holders run. you can see why that part of the track might have been neglected as its usually the 4th bend that sees the overtaking.

got to love simon lambert’s attitude. interviewed on BSN. a very humble and grateful guy.

lions too weak at reserve to challenge in the playoffs. made to look good by a makeshift stars misfits

he tends to ride the white line so i thought he would get swallowed up but he seems to generate some speed down low