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Kings Lynn have asked Leicester to go on Tuesday but they are not happy to do so as will have no Doyle and Polish riders are booked home on flights on Tuesday. I heard the Leicester promotion are also unhappy that Kings Lynn have gone ahead and booked guests in Bomber and Cook before even asking Leicester about the fixture so they are not prepare to go there but seems the BSPA are going to force the fixture through.

I wonder if he had any intention on riding today as its been arranged so quickly it's a shame as I'm sure that he would have got a good welcome after his Gorzow victory. That's good that the weather may hold out for this just trying to decide whether I want to do the M25-M1-M6 motorway battle would have come up on the train apart from stupid engineering works

I presume Zagar is missing today as see that Chris Harris is now riding for Belle Vue instead of grass track. How's the weather up in Manchester today

I think that Leicester should try to arrange a challenge match Rest of the world select vs Australia select with profits after operating costs going to Darcy Ward foundation I am sure they could get some riders to ride for less than usual wage and am confident Midlands speedway fans would support the meeting

I believe that it will be rerun this year it's just trying to find a date that does not clash with Elite,Premier and Polish playoffs and relegation in all leagues so all riders are available to ride. I am expecting this to be early October when most clubs will have been finished a couple of weeks so many get more neutral fans for last Speedway fix of the year.

Leicester is an option for this meeting as others have said logistically is ok with clubs in the final and is a neutral track. It will also get a good support from Leicester fans especially as they are finishing so early and will feature some Leicester favourites. I don't think it will be a Saturday night though more likely to be a Sun afternoon in early Oct

LionKing - As much as Mr Hemsley would like to extend the season unless he calls it off at lunchtime he will still incur all the travelling expenses from the riders and the forecast I have just saw says rain not starting until 19:00 by which time the meeting will be under the referees control so won't be up to the club to call it off

From what I have been told by 3 different people including some very close to Peterborough promotion. Is that Robert Lambert first approached both Peterborough and Kings Lynn for pay rises over a month ago,Even though he has signed and agreed his deals for 2015 he believes that as he was No1 at Panthers then they should pay him quite a bit more now and the same sort of thing at KL he has moved to be a heatleader wants more money. The Panthers have said No like many other riders you will see the benefit of improvement in next years deals but team Lambert were unhappy about this and so the club have replaced him. Also as technically he is not withholding his services he can join another PL club I expect to see that move happen soon. Not sure what KL are doing yet

Well it just goes to show the Panthers management were not going to give into Lamberts demands, it is wrong for a rider to ride for a club all season and then come the business end of the season to start asking for more money and in this case I am well informed that it was quite large increases Robert wanted. Personally I think he is being advised poorly and will be interesting to see if Kings Lynn agree to his requests or if any other PL club are prepared to pay what he wants for the play offs. As long as he is fit I think Barker could be a good signing for Peterborough and will help build good team spirit and I'm sure become popular with the fans.

I think a lot will depend on Leicester's Polish trio of they can get 7+ points each tonight the Lions should have a chance also need Ludvig Lindgren to chip in with a few as well. This could be a close match

1 Valve- You mentioned Leicester being too slow off the mark to book Richard Hall as the guest my understanding is that Lakeside have had him booked for weeks well before Simon Lambert got injured and Josh Auty was ruled out. I don't agree if what went on the background with Lakeside team changes and lack of control by BSPA and SCB however on the day Leicester were beaten by a better team and Swiderski is not the backup to Doyle that is required.

My understanding is that Simon Lambert has actually broken his shoulder which if correct would be a longer lay off than a dislocation

HadrienDog- Nobody will be in the firing line for not broadcasting this match as the reason there is no matches this week is due to the darts. The same production team do Speedway and Darts at Sky so hence can't be in two places at once

The amount of cameras used in coverage this year has dropped by 2 so the director does have a couple less options to use. It also has to be considered that the camera used on the startline and also inside first bend is often setup in SloMo mode so can't be used for live insert maybe we could look at having a fixed position camera in that area. But will pass on the feedback for you all Not sure if any of the more technical minded viewers have noticed we have started using a ultra slo Mo camera to use for inserts

Plans are already in place I believe to run this fixture this Wednesday if it gets rained off and expect an early decision to prevent travelling costs of riders. I agree hopefully Garrity will prove to be a good guest for Leicester and is one of the best available.

Overall a good meeting and Leicester deserved the win I would say the crowd was a bit up on normal also considering it was the start of the school holidays so lots of people have gone away this weekend. Darcy Ward was very good and a lot better than when he came with Poole last year a shame the Saturday night racing put a end to him coming to Leicester this season. It was also very clear what a signing Zengota would have been for the Lions if Swindon had kept Howarth nevermind. Another problem now is as Norrie said on press conference to find guests for Sam Masters or a new signing which is very difficult

Having just seen a picture of Morris injury on Facebook I am not at all surprised he is out of Saturday after he got Fished at Somerset on a Friday looks quite nasty and quite a bit of stitching to happen

As Darcy is now in the country and has been practicing at Swindon tonight all night and then at Somerset on Friday If he does not ride at Leicester on Saturday then surely he must be classed as withholding his services as he is now declared in Swindon 1-7 and has not got any FIM fixtures ?

Robert72- It is fact about the lighting at Leicester and if you watch any of the Clean cut sports DVDs or the footage Sky did at EL riders final you will see the reason why especially bends 2 & 4. I know David Hemsley has looked at upgrading the lighting to the correct Lumen levels but would cost around 10-15k to do which for maybe two more Sky meetings not worth it at the min: With regards to away fixtures it does not help that Leicester have struggled both seasons in the EL but as I said previously there is a good possibility that Sky will be back at Leicester in Aug

Robert72- Sky do not mind filming at Leicester but the matches that can be shown are quite limited due to the lighting not being up to the correct levels. In fact they are made very welcome unlike some places So limited to just showing matches when the evenings are the longest if Leicester had a good season and made the playoffs in September/ October then extra lighting would need to be be hired in for the occasion even last night in the last few heats the engineering team were struggling with the light and had to use some digital image stabilisers to keep pics looking ok. Don't be too surprised though if you see another meeting from Leicester in a few weeks though as another fixture is looking like another good possible TV match

Phil The Ace they had articulated crane up the track on Friday for some reason so whether they was there lifting in a higher fence to block the sun as to me it seems if the fence was 5metres higher then it would be at right level for on track.

Brady Kurtz or Robert Lambert to replace Walasek

I was too very impressed with PKs performance on the engine at Leicester and he said it rode lovely with lots of speed. Like when Bomber used it in the GP Peter Karlsson found it a little bit less performance out of the start but that is probably just a case of changing gearing and jetting slightly

Two more confirmed Sky fixtures 24th June Peterborough vs Glasgow and Mon 29th June Leicester vs Swindon

It was a good meeting and the result was closer than I suspected considering the Leicester team. Janowski was a different class tonight and if Poole do drop him Leicester will do everything possible to convince him to ride for them for the rest of the season. He is a nice guy as well even though he had Doyle off in HT15 straight away he apologised and could tell it was simply a racing accident. I don't disagree with putting Josh in HT 15 as he was faster than Wozniak and had just won his last ride easily and only got stopped by Dak North doing his usual wild moves. Leicester do desperately need to do something though now Lewis has had 2nd thoughts and Walasek is out for another 6weeks the riders are just not out there so looks like we will be having guests for a while