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Sorry Waco but that's the risk of running a top heavy team where a guest is only permitted for your top heat leader, said at the start of the season where I initially predicted Hammers as being around 8th was their vulnerability in keeping Ben and Zach fit and available for the duration.

Latest projections are for 80-90% chance of heavy rain between 7 and 9pm Sorry to hear about Zach, was always going to be a risk with him riding so much for different teams.

The club has been falling apart ever since Stuart Douglas left, I assume he has left? you never see or hear from him and i very much doubt that he would stand silent in the background and let things get to where they are now. The club is probably in a worse state than it has ever been in its entire history and there is only one person to blame for that.

If early weather forcast is anything to go by, 90% chance of heavy rain in the afternoon going into the evening then this won't be going ahead anyway.

Shock horror - a televised meeting actually finishes before the programs booked end time.

Apart from Masters, Wolves look pretty slow in comparison, its a good track but you really have to be on top of the setups.

Craig Cook once again being found out tonight, its one thing to win races in the 2nd division and a very watered down 1st but against proper competition he is average at best and that's pushing it.

The problem isn't with the tracks, it's the damn bikes, when oh when will something be done so that the sport can be returned to one where throttle control wins over pure give it everything, hold on and hope. Dont change the tracks to the point we are racing on concrete, change the flipping bikes, upright engines, better silencers etc

Leicester made two huge errors. not naming a number 8 which many years ago you had to when using r/r and secondly young Riss' lack of awareness. But congrats to Swindon, it takes two teams to make a match and whilst it was a car crash it had my attention from start to finish, all 150 mins of it.

Wonder how Lynn fans feel about Troy's commitment to the cause tonight?

Both teams doing there best to lose the meeting

heat 9 could be the slowest in history if both riders try to come second

Absolute dick move by Riss regardless of whether its a team mate or not.

My thoughts, the trophy should either have all the clubs in it or not run at all. It certainly should not have teams in it made up of select sides taking riders from other NL sides like Zach riding for Swindon for example, double up/down if you must, double across is simply mind boggling.

I bet the landlords at Arena still want whatever they have charged in the past for their pitiful stadium.

There is so much doubling up/down that "own" riders no longer exist for the most part. I agree though, that it would attract more fans if teams were made up of riders who only rode for someone else via a rare guest appearance than all and sundry.

Probably not possible but the only way forward is Saturday night racing, the M25 is a no go most week day nights, Friday being often exceptional with people going away for the weekend, even Sunday on some stretches can be a bit dodgy with people coming home from a day or weekend away.

Nah im not sad, just very unhappy, and that unhappyness is not down to some bias towards top riders, the problems are endemic to British Speedway at all levels, not just to Lakeside and not just to the NL. I wish i could have the tolorance displayed by the likes of East End Fan, and many years ago I did, but not anymore. The BSPA have slowly destroyed the buzz I used to get from the sport, its like being addicted to a drug but you cant take it anymore because it makes you sick. but if you don't take it you get withdrawal symptoms, simply walking away after 30 years is not easy to do and I don't want to be rid of speedway, I want it back like how it was when I enjoyed it.

That's like saying please come to our crap restuarant and eat our crap food, otherwise we might have to close and you won't be able to come again next year and enjoy the same poor standards. Well guess what? those people don't come back, they find/do something else. Meanwhile the owners of the restaurant now bankrupted, are forced to stand in line at the employment agency looking for another job and they have no one to blame but themselves.

Certainly an issue of safety with these tracks, if you go down to the base you can no longer put water down because it will make it like riding on ice, no water means you can't control any dust and gawd forbid it should rain. Speedway is about riding on a shale or in the past a cinder track, not concrete or tarmac.

Does anyone else recall the days where two teams would have a rider missing and rather than use guests or R/R they agreed to both promote a number 8 and give another youngster a chance? We don't even see number 8's now when teams use R/R yet alone them getting promoted.

Excellent meeting and whilst of the Brits gave it a go they ended up almost like being the British version of the rolling roadblock Filip Sitera, gating and generally just getting in the way until the riders behind could work there way through. Million miles behind the Poles on every level of the sport, tracks, stadiums, fans, you name it.

Team GB are a million miles behind the Poles and will continue to be whilst our riders double up at home riding against nothing but sub par opponents, to get better you need to ride against the best, not Championship reserves who in turn double down in the 3rd tier. Riders like Worral and Lambert shouldnt be anywhere near events like this, they only are because of the state we have allowed the sport in this country to decend to.

ha ha same old Batch, first to last

I love Karma