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If Leicester have already announced that, then fair enough.

Doesn’t matter how long a meeting goes for, BSN always fills the time, there is dead air at all, always something going on, and is very informative. In all the years SKY/BTsport etc have been around, they never once in my memory have interviewed a ref, BSN ticked that box first season. The track walks are so much better than Kelvin sticking a screw driver into the track (nothing against Kelvin I should add)

It being Plymouth is irreverent, I would same the same if it was any other club that is announcing a rider or riders that had still meetings left with their current clubs. As good a signing as it is, there is a time and a place.

Doesn’t seem very classy naming a rider for next year before he has finished his commitments with his current club.

I recall a similar instance way back in the early 90s at Peterborough in the fours final, Arena Essex wanted to use Moggo in a nominated heat but as the number 5 reserve he wasn’t allowed so they declared Jan Pedersen instead and then when the two minutes came on they were all sat there having a laugh until the clock ran down, I was right next to the pits, it was funny to see it play out.

Well done to Poole, Glasgow got what they deserved, same as Plymouth, beaten up over both legs

Run three more heats then call it, no point in risking rider injuries

Didn’t see this meeting but it’s fairly clear over the last few weeks, team and riders who “don’t want it” are getting hit pretty hard by those that do. Batchelor would be a great fit at Plymouth, he don’t it, they don’t want it, match made in heaven.

Track could be dry as a bone, your owners have no intention of trying to run, and I can’t blame them, you lot seem to be anti speedway, never known a fan base so delighted every time they are denied the chance to watch their team, must be that sea air.

This fixture will never get played out as Plymouth have worked out it costs less to keep calling matches off 24 hours in advance than actually running them.

A division of 9 or 10 teams should not have six in the play offs, it should have been top four. And in the higher division with six clubs, it should have been 2nd and 3rd play off to meet the team who came 1st

What a farce, they made a dogs diner of that, should forfeit the leg, when will promoters learn?

In the time they have wasted they could have got to heat ten, didn’t even start on time because they wanted to run the parade.

Clearly no hurry to get this meeting through, hope it doesn’t come back to bite them

Not saying it’s right but Middlo isn’t the first promoter of a Southern based track who gets a nosebleed every time they go North of the Watford Gap and neither will he be the last. The difference between now and the past though is so many meetings can be streamed, it’s possible for a promoter/manager to watch somewhere else and make the changes by phone, Neil can easily call Havvy and suggest he does X, Y or Z and then Gary as the designated voice can inform the clerk of the course/Ref.

This is so much better than the crap this track served up when it first opened. When this side are on it, they can beat anyone.

Never saw that coming, Lasse and Kye looked different riders to last week against Redcar. MOM must be Conner Mountain

Fords son, probably older but looks 16 sort of had a Ratner moment last night by saying everyone hates Poole but they don’t care or they love it, I could tell by how he said it, that it really plays on his mind and is not comfortable with it, maybe his father has taught him that?

It did but I have never seen so many fans of one track before so delighted every time they are deprived of seeing their team race.

Would not surprise me if Plymouth doesn’t stage another meeting this season, and come the end it will be announced that the sport is no longer viable at the current location and the promotion will move lock, stock and barrel to Eastbourne for 2023

Batchelor is an embarrassment to speedway, no idea why he does it, I can’t see what he can get out of it, he clearly doesn’t enjoy it. Maybe he is on a very nice downside agreement regardless of what points he scores.

It’s the same thing every season and no one ever learns from it. Lakeside went under because they were forced to race meetings at Rye House instead of their home and against the same clubs many weeks running, sure losing their home track didn’t help, but had they not lost so much money there could have been a chance that promotion may have tried to use Rye House as a base the following season, to keep the club going, instead it was bankruptcy. Promoters trying to pick and choose when they race during the drier months, leading to having to fit meetings in during the wettest, and no effort whatsoever in trying to come up with ideas that could protect tracks in the days and hours leading up to a meeting. It’s always been build it and hope they come, and we will get by with the elements on a wing and a prayer.

Doesn’t matter what side Plymouth field, when your home track has the properties of a large sponge, and the owners not prepared to do a darn thing about it, your on a hiding to nothing anyway.

Seven Tuesdays left and counting. Sooner or later, these meetings have to be run. Maybe buy some bulk tarp before it’s too late? the track has no feelings, it won’t take offence if you cover it up in the hope you can keep the rain off it in the days/hours before a meeting.

I think the point is, hindsight is all very well but when you make a call 24 hours in advance your doing so on a prediction, not on a fact.