bigcatdiary

It’s all about flights availability and costs, I mentioned at the start of the season that some leeway was going to be provided because it’s clear that until the flight availability returns to something like normality riders are going to struggle to get from Poland and Denmark etc into the U.K and vice versa. Unfortunately it was always going to be a can of worms and the BSPL have opened it, regulations were changed to allow facilities for riders who hadn’t yet ridden for their respective teams and going forward for those who would miss meetings due to travel problems. We will have to see if things change but at the moment this is what we have and I can see it going on for a while. I just hope that it’s consistent and applied properly to all.

Bright sunshine this morning with possibly light rain forecast to arrive from midday onwards, it depends on how much and when/ if it arrives.

And not all from the gate either.

So with the postponement of Wolves v Belle Vue tomorrow will the Panthers be hosting the TV Match on Eurosport. No team news yet from either side but the weather forecast includes light showers for Monday.

Given my experience of Scunthorpe crowds it would be a miracle

Well let’s be fair Foxhall never has been a track that sees a lot of passes.

Do you actually realise that was nearly 25 years ago

At this present time most of this years injuries have happened whilst riding in Poland and with the state of the pandemic at the moment riders stand more chance of catching Covid whilst in Poland than anywhere else.

Fair enough

Re-staging date is Thursday July 8th

It should be attached to your confirmation email, you have to print it off.

Not exactly something new is it, they have been doing this for years

Thanks for that, shows a chance of light rain showers on BBC, let’s hope they call it early if that’s the case.

Any weather updates would be appreciated as a few of us are travelling up for this match

Quite an entertaining meeting and clearly a few were rusty. Holder was excellent and looked very quick and Etheridge looked fast when he made the gate but not quite as quick when he didn’t. I though gate 4 was awful and a big disadvantage to anyone off it, Quite impressed with Eurosport I think they did a good job.

Sheffield have made no further press releases since the match preview on Sunday.

RS can ride at 6 or 7.

Regulations for 2021 are the 2020 issue plus the recent 2021 supplementary V2

He has ridden in Denmark the last two nights as well, should be race fit next week.

I asked this prior to booking and was told you would be offered an online voucher for rebooking in the event of a rain off

From what I have heard their is some slack being given this year as travelling in and out of the country will undoubtedly cause problems for most teams at some points. I just hope that this slack is applied fairly to everyone and no one is allowed to take advantage.

Still showing tickets available this evening, very strange

Reply says an online voucher for rebooking will be offered should a match be rained off.

I have asked the question re Sheffield as four of us are planning to attend the match on the 20th May I will let you know what’s said.

Bspa news today mentions Wolves opening fixture