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Yes, Sunderland did it for their first match of the season. I’ve also seen it happen quite often at speedway too. A hundred people waiting to get in is a good proportion of the crowd at a speedway meeting. If it was a few stragglers I would agree with you, but sometimes outside issues mean it’s not possible to get there on time.

Hope he gets his health and his confidence back. Best decision for him if he’s not going to be fully fit. Not many riders available - Ty Proctor?

Newcastle could always appeal to the SCB, as they don’t mind arranging re-runs when Redcar are involved.

Well I was right about Howarth, the Bears guests did rather well (26 paid 34 so thanks lads) and the Bears heat leaders scored well. Good 4 points.

Tried to post a cartoon which says : Let me interrupt your expertise my confidence

Not much to choose between Wethers and Howarth around Newcastle and it’s hard finding guests who have low enough averages and ride well around Brough so I’m ok with the guests chosen. Still fancy it will be a home win, not confident our heat leaders enjoy riding the track.

We are very lucky at Redcar to have an excellent promotion and that’s why it’s a shame Jitendra is standing down at the end of the season.

Just one of those nights. Glad it could get through to 10 heats, but even that was a struggle. Hope the injured lads are ok.

Let’s see how they do tonight......oh, hang on!

Might have something to do with the fact he’s been poor getting out of the gate this year and is having to make extra effort to get to the front ?

Hard to predict a score even with the usual Bears 1-7 but with so many guests and a question mark over Charles fitness, it makes it even more difficult. On paper the guests look like good choices,but they did at Birmingham so who knows. Newcastle are pretty hard to predict too, but should go better here than a lot of away tracks.

Cheers. He’s had a few crashes in the last few weeks so might be an accumulation of those. Fingers crossed as we are already down 4 riders and can’t afford to lose him.

How bad did Charles Wright’s fall look last night? I see he is missing tonight for Belle Vue. At this rate we could have 4 guests and R/R on Friday!

Obviously the better team won on the night, given the level of victory, but gutted to go out in the circumstances surrounding this match with only half of our own riders. That’s no disrespect to the guests, who were good choices, but you want to win or lose with your “own” team. Leaves a bitter taste the whole affair but nothing we can do about it now.

So now it’s 3 Bears, 3 guests and R/R for Redcar in a match that shouldn’t be taking place at all. Welcome to British Speedway.

Yes, Dan Thompson and Drew Kemp confirmed (the good old Rising Star system in full effect again) and R/R still for the Bears.

Birmingham with the same 1-7 as the first match (remember that far back?) Redcar missing 2, probably 3, of the team that rode that meeting. Not sure who is guesting for Jordan Jenkins and assume it’s still R/R for Stewart.

Obviously pleased with the 4 points, especially as Charles didn’t score particularly well. Pleased to see Sarjy get some points and big thanks to Drew Kemp again. Kings too reliant on 2 riders again and feel for the fans having to see the same riders struggle every week. Hope things pick up for them, need a few home wins to keep the fans onboard.

Bears using Drew Kemp and Jordan Palin as replacements for Anders Rowe and Jordan Jenkins. In the circumstances probably the best replacements available given that the 2 missing lads both have a lot of experience around Kent. Bears really need to win if they have a chance of the play offs, but no idea how some of the lads will ride the track seeing it for the first time.

I think he is riding. He rode well in the semi final and was unlucky to miss out. Shame that both Bears will be missing, they would have had a good chance.

Not that many though - have to get lucky with availability etc.

Another blow to the Bears, Jordan Jenkins our for a while with a broken wrist. Only able to replace with a 2* rising star and he’s been riding better than that. Missing 3 of your starting 7 is not ideal.

I stand corrected (said the man with the built up shoe). One exclamation mark would have been enough

We have a very good and fair race track here which gives us little home track advantage, but produces very good racing as just about all opposition riders feel comfortable. Harris rides it as well as anybody and enjoyed watching Shanes and a few others really give it a good go.

Heat 14 was a 5-1 to the Brummies and Kemp wasn’t in Heat 13 but apart from that glad you enjoyed the night and the racing.