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You cant beat Clive Fisher "away they drive from the start"

Can we have every Grand Prix from here please

I am loving this track, its certainly not the biggest, but its quick and has a lot of racing lines. Is the league racing from here of similar standard?

I read that Cook made a fool of himself at Poole earlier in the week, if his head is not right, he wont get anywhere.

The London Lions thing was disaster, the view of the track was terrible, the stand on the back straight was meant to be ready for the start of the season, it never did open. Meetings were plagued with problems, I can't remember all of them but the one that does come to mind was a meeting postponed after X amount of heats because of a power cut, the lighting or amount of light was fine but health and safety stated the main stand could not be used by the public in such circumstances, it was constantly stupid things like that.

Yes and it’s a big difference to just having the raiders as opposed to having the Raiders supplement the Rockets in double headers and the odd solo meeting.

They give the football as the reason but what else is happening on Saturday evening that could lure speedway fans away from coming? oh the Swedish Grand Prix is live on BT Sport, that is probably just as big a reason, but if England get through people might want to watch who our opponents might be? You also possible have to factor in that the only way to get to Arena is by car and if someone has been in the pub all afternoon they are not going to want to risk getting in their car and drive.

I wasn't there, just going from the video evidence, not saying the track was crap, I am saying that there is a blue groove going into the first bend and it looked dry and dusty although that gets a pass because of the heat wave. In the interests of being unbiased, my own track hasn't been perfect this season either in that respect.

Just like i commented on the decline of speedway thread, yet another track with hardly any shale, at least on the inside, these tracks where they are bare on the inside and grippy on the outside are more dangerous than tracks that are bare all over. Almost every video shown on youtube now via speedway great Britain shows tracks with massive blue grooves where the track is down to the base and its just rubber from the tyres, and as soon as someone spits on that its turns to an ice rink.

Someone mentioned have the crowds they gained from Lakeside two years ago gone back to Arena now they are in div 2? well simply put absolutely not, Lakeside have had poor crowds this season, I am talking almost as bad as crowds used to be on a Sky night, if it doesn't improve Lakeside could well follow Rye House.

If they done hot laps as some tracks there would be no shale left by the time the main meeting comes around, not mentioning any names (cough kent cough Birmingham)

You only need look at some of the races posted on youtube to see one of the reasons the sport is in decline, even some of the better races featured are not that great and raced on what are dry, dusty and often a racing line almost devoid of shale.

Well done to Peterborough, they also look good for a play off place but I still fancy Hammers chances against any team over two legs if we are fully fit.

yeah and if it was Somerset on the Friday they would be without Richard Lawson which I don't think they would want either.

I think all prem clubs should be allowed to have whatever race day they want for the rest of the season but with the caveat that any clashes with CH clubs result in the CH clubs getting priority over riders, its not ideal but its a compromise to get everyone to the end of 2018, not just Rye but all Prem clubs that maybe suffering. Next season will be a different story but that's a topic for 5 months time.

I thought the meeting was ok, it was run at a decent pace despite both teams using rider replacement, Scunthorpe would have been stronger if they had a full team but still would not have been a threat to us the way we are shaping up. Highlight for me was NBJ team riding Alfie home for a 5-1, That was class from Jakobsen.

Yeah crowd wasn't anything better than it has been this season, its a real worry if a winning side cannot attract even reasonable crowds.

Both sides using rider replacement, I better bring my sleeping bag

Yay Saturday night speedway, I can use the M25 tonight. If we are as suggested above using the same six it will be interesting to see how Jakobsen goes, he was quick last week with Berwick when he got out in front, very good guest for Zach. Alfie really seems to be kicking on now, more rides in the NL has worked a treat.

Dan Bewley showing once again he can't do it on the small tracks? or I am being too harsh on the lad?

Anyone know what has happened to the Lakeside Hammers fans forum? It is no longer available, it’s not an official one so I doubt it could have been shut down because people have been complaining about the lousy presentation.

I don’t have an issue with the type of music being played, although Queens bohemian rapsidy isn’t really a song with a tempo fit for a sport like speedway but I digress, just the fact we hear almost exactly the same songs every meeting, it’s just lazy really.

The injuries to riders account for part of the overrun and no one begrudges the time dedicated to that, its the rest that upsets us, Lakeside never start at the time they promise, they clearly state parade at 19:45 tapes up 20:00, more likely its Parade at 20:00 then another heat or two of the juniors and then finally getting underway. There track grading takes an age because whilst they have two tractors for grading and watering, one man it seems wants to do both so we all have to wait whilst he does a few laps on one before switching tractors and then does a few laps on that, if you had both out at the same time you could get double done in the time, or the same amount done in half the time. After the big delay in heat seven with having to take Kyle away and get him properly checked over, the announcer (can't recall his name) mentioned that we will now try and get on with the meeting, we didn't, it was allowed to continue to drag, with more delays for track grading and not even done when there was a natural gap for when riders had two on the trot, the announcer seemed to think so long as music was playing (the same music we have every week) everyone would just hang around till the end of time.

I heard they were waiting for another ambulance? I thought the rules were you needed two ambulances in attendance at speedway meetings? Also I am not aware of the full rules but how was Berwick allowed to have Jakobsen at five with an average that was 5th overall in their team?

Yes the length of time it took to complete the meeting was very much an exception and some things are out of anyone’s control, but my other points stand.