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Grachan

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  1. Coverage was decent. Not much of a match though. Kent not really at the races despite Nicholls and Starke providing the highlights in terms of passing.
  2. Surely this means Sheffield are riding without a "rising star" in the team. Is that within the rules?
  3. Watching the stream. Sounds like Rosco as a co-commentator. Looks like a decent enough production. Would possibly be better with a pit of a pit view from time to time.
  4. Could it be because a KO Cup match is over 2 legs so therefore needs to be raced evenly over both legs?
  5. What I am saying is that if they can't even get enough people through the gate that the Covid restrictions allow for, then the Covid restrictions can't be the reason for the cancellation.
  6. Disappointing for me, though. It would have been my first time to Kent and probably the only meeting I was going to go to this year.
  7. I see that the reason given is because England are playing football on those nights which, alongside the Covid restrictions, will mean a low attendance. That makes no sense. If they can't even meet the restricted figure because the football is on then Covid restrictions can't have anything to do with it.
  8. That's annoying. I was going to go to the Poole match.
  9. Watched from heat 12 on Eurosport player, which I already subscribe to. It was feed only with no commentary. Not sure what happened with Lambert as he was unbeaten when I started watching. Very impressed withBewley. He was unlucky as looked set to win the final before the race was stopped. Impressed with Mikkelsen. He has something of an aura about him.
  10. Whoever it was it can't have been difficult to recognise him considering he had no helmet on.
  11. Dave Steen was an electrician by trade. Every time there was an electrical problem at Reading (which seemed to happen quite often) he used to have to go up to the box and fix it.
  12. Just seen that next week's meeting is postponed due to continued Covid restrictions.
  13. I made a couple of trips to Exeter in the 1970s. Leaning over the fence on the home straight as Ivan Mauger came straight towards me is probably the best thing I ever experienced at Speedway.
  14. Indeed. I remember the excitement at the end of season speeches if a rider said he would be back next year.
  15. It's a shame they can't replicate the exact dimensions of the current track somewhere as a "training facility" that's ready to move into should the current place close. The thing is, I guess, that as long as they are being told that the current track is still a going concern, who will take the bull by the horns and do that? This has been going on for 13 years, so I don't understand why GI, if they really do want to close it down, couldn't have said so years ago and given Swindon plenty of opportunity to get a new place to race for when this one closes. What would they have to gain by not doing that? In fact, it would probably be to their benefit as, if Swindon did get a new place, it would free them up to get rid of this one. Because of that, I suspect that the "sports only" clause on the current site must be pretty strong. My guess is we'll be back racing next year in exactly the same state as before and the "new stadium" saga will continue.
  16. Good suggestion seeing as they are on restricted numbers and aren't allowed to let anyone else in and can't even afford to run with the team they've got at the moment.
  17. The restrictions was given as the main reason. Without those, I'm pretty sure the season would have gone ahead at Swindon just as it has since 2008 when it was all supposed to be getting built. I think they know as well as anyone that it's a long shot that there will be any stadium work this year.
  18. If Swindon don't run in 2022 it will be presumably be stadium related, not because of their decision not to run this year because of Covid restrictions.
  19. “The economics of the sport which relies so much on the paying spectator are not robust enough to take any downturn in revenue particularly after the cancelation of the 2020 season. Our government is not able to provide any indication of the timing or the steps of lifting the restrictions, which is not a criticism, just a fact. With this in front of us, it is impossible to plan and commit for racing at the Abbey in 2021." Swindon Robins Speedway Official Website: NO SPEEDWAY RACING AT SWINDON THIS YEAR (swindon-speedway.com)
  20. Haven't Somerset closed down completely, so hardly looking ahead to 2022. If any team made the right call it could turn out to be Swindon - providing, of course, that they do run in 2022 as they say they will.
  21. It's Eurosport. It was always going to be an inferior production to Sky or BT. To be fair, considering it IS Eurosport, they're not doing too bad - although they do need to ensure they get the score right as it is a pretty key part of the meeting.
  22. They need to focus on getting the score right. First we had 7-61 when it was 7-5. Now we have 14-14 when it is 14-10.
  23. Another great Second Division rider was Martin Yeates, who did pretty well in a British Final, which was unheard of for a second tier rider at the time.
  24. That, presumably, would depend how it was done and who decided to do it. For example, if, say, Tommy Robinson decided to run a "Straight Pride" event, it would quite obviously be seen as provocative because it would be. If it was fully inclusive - as Gay Pride is - then it wouldn't be seen that way. I wouldn't mind betting, though, that if a "Straight Pride" event did take place it would be some form of far-right thing. Because nobody else really gives a toss.
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