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Much better from basso but Cook has been the rider of the night for me for the Panthers, looked quick and keen.

Surely everyone had him pencilled in to beat Emil?

Iversen should have done better there given the start he made and Andersen really needs to retire. Good from Cook there, their reserves the stars for them so far

Basso continuing his impressive away form! Jenkins looked good in heat 2.

Not from what I saw when Lynn were here.

That was this afternoon! Crowd down on normal, maybe about 1600 here?

Blue sky on and off, no rain since the earlier thunderstorm, nice and dry in my garden

On the updates site it seems they had Ben Barker lined-up for tonight at Sheffield?

Nicholls beat both the Ipswich top two a couple of weeks ago and his average is only 5. something so you never know!

Not sure which of those could be used but would say only Fricke, Bewley and Kurtz would do better than Jakobsen

Nice blue sky here now so looks all set to me for some fast times tonight.

Now having a heavy thunderstorm where I am (1.5 miles from Foxhall). Who knows, maybe if the sun comes out as forecast later it will dry up.

They're working their marketing well.

Should be ok for tonight - hopefully! Today Thu 11 May BST1 hr3 hr Hour Wind Avg. Gust Temp. Rain 1h Cloud Press. 11:00 NE 1 mph to 2 mph 15 °C 0.8 mm 35 % 1015 mb 12:00 ESE 3 mph to 3 mph 15 °C 0.8 mm 42 % 1015 mb 13:00 SE 5 mph to 5 mph 16 °C 0.8 mm 54 % 1015 mb 14:00 SE 7 mph to 7 mph 15 °C 0.5 mm 50 % 1015 mb 15:00 SE 7 mph to 7 mph 15 °C 0.3 mm 25 % 1015 mb 16:00 ESE 7 mph to 7 mph 15 °C 0.2 mm 13 % 1015 mb 17:00 ESE 8 mph to 8 mph 15 °C 0.1 mm 11 % 1016 mb 18:00 E 8 mph to 8 mph 14 °C 0 mm 2 % 1016 mb 19:00 E 7 mph to 10 mph 13 °C 0 mm 0 % 1016 mb 20:00 ENE 7 mph to 10 mph 11 °C 0 mm 6 % 1017 mb 21:00 ENE 8 mph to 13 mph 10 °C 0 mm 56 % 1018 mb 22:00 NE 8 mph to 15 mph 9 °C 0 mm 100 %

Xc shows 4.9mm of rain between 10am and 7 pm but as its showers they could hit or miss, and that's not a lot of rain either, 1/5th of an inch over 9 hours.

A speedway event at Wembley would be great! The area is not the best, nothing like Cardiff but you can get to it/away from it quite easily. The marketing would be everything though and it could fill the place.

Call it off

It says on my forecast between 2pm and 7pm there'll be 1.1 millimetres of rain in Glasgow, no rain thereafter. However, it's their business and their risk so they have the right to decide. It's a real shame for anyone who might have planned travel though.

Didn't they win the league handsomely in 2021?

That's exactly my point, I don't think they're allowed.

Is it about the Premiership Pairs - announced earlier as a one-off event to be held at Leicester.

I don't see why they can't legitimately call it off if they have a depleted team, on agreement with the opposition & Mr Morris. I'd much rather see a meeting with two full teams.

Indeed. Jeremy Doncaster said in an interview recently that he only ever had three speedway bikes in total at any one time but successfully rode in GB, Poland and Italy/Germany without issue. Of course they'll say they need this and that in the hope it is funded for them.

You always need a bit of luck. I'd also say it makes it a bit boring because apart from the tired old wildcards it's the same faces each time.