Shadders

I'll take that as a compliment, thanks. I've been called worse

You're correct, Luke's a top bloke. All I can say it's a personal family issue. This is just me putting two & two together, I've heard nothing concrete. Hope he finds a team place somewhere. On his average there will be no shortage of takers. He's not known as a big track rider, so options could be limited. I can think of one or two places where Luke could do a job, but would involve a fair bit of travel. I'm not sure if he'd want that on a weekly basis

Great stuff... Catch of the day.. That's my work done

It goes a lot deeper than that

Bandits fans I know can't stand the comics either, mainly due to morons like you

Loving it Cliff, but I've gotta admit I'm missing my speedway fix. Blame the missus for getting preggers in February last year, a few weeks after we'd booked this holiday for November. We had to rebook for May.

Sounds a decent idea in theory, but I think Andrew still runs a Sunday training school on Sundays. I agree with you that you won't get many attending both meetings.

Most of what Big Eddie says I can't comment on as I'm not a local, so can't judge the overall feeling. The one thing in can agree with him though is his comment on the speed of the bikes. They are way to quick, which doesn't make for great racing a lot of the time. Some people say the new exhausts make them more difficult to control, especially on smaller tighter circuits.

Berwick were the Liverpool of speedway last year. Exceeded expectations, but faded in the last month

The way I see it is that they're on a hiding to nothing. If they grade and water too often the meeting would drag on for over 4 hours, people will complain. Do nothing to run the meetings through quickly and people will still complain. The only way I can see this resolved is to scrap the double header idea and run them as two separate meetings, say at 2pm & 6pm, giving Andrew a couple of hours to prepare the track for the Raiders. There are downsides to this... I can see most unwilling to hang around for two hours between meetings and then there's the issue of the referee having to do the same and a very long day for track staff etc.. There aren't enough free Saturdays to run separate Rockets & Raiders meetings, so I can't see another way round this in the present situation.

Some of the things Len Silver comes out with are embarrassing. I had a lot of respect for him, but he's slowly losing the plot unfortunately. I'm thousands of miles away sunning it up, so can't dig around and find out what's really going on, have to put up with Facebook & Twitter, but it looks to me very similar to the Peterborough/Stoke Easter Monday meeting where the track wasn't watered or graded during the entire first half, leaving Andrew to try and prepare what remnants of track there was left for the second half. I'm led to believe the track for the Kent meeting last Saturday was pretty decent. The Rye House track simply can't handle double headers, that's the bottom line unfortunately

Here's the link to the Herts Mercury article: http://m.hertfordshiremercury.co.uk/Farcical-scenes-Rye-House-Raiders-meeting/story-26439651-detail/story.html

You can guarantee that if the Bandits don't run next year the promotion will blame the Supporters Club

What's up with Anders? Nothing in the local news here in Egypt

My poor attempt at sarcasm

I'm gutted I couldn't make it, but probably would've still been fuming that we threw a lead away and just managed to scrape a point.

I'm sure I read that Roynon was to replace Palm Toft when he returned?

Can anyone confirm that Dan Greenwood had 6 rides and Kasper 4. Seems to be some confusion on Speedway Updates

I'd usually be pleased with a point at Redcar, but not tonight. Two points dropped.

Decided not to travel, too close to our holiday. Always enjoy the company and the award wining pie n peas. Hope for an away win, but you never know how it'll be on the night

For variety of opponents it beats the EL hands down. I'm sure a few will miss the GP stars such as Holder, Harris etc, but the EL format with some of the reserves half a lap behind the front two can be tiresome to watch.

You can do that and still post negative comments. I doubt it'll make any difference to your results

The only feasible option would be letting Robin go as he's not an asset. That'd leave 6.93 for his replacement

Time to ditch your "friends" and make some new ones. Keep the other half though, handy for cooking, cleaning, ironing etc...

It'll be in the next newsletter I presume