Shadders

My son has attempted to purchase tickets online for this meeting, but he tells me the website is down. Does anyone know what's going on?

Or Rye House Saturday

Waste of time should Glasgow or Edinburgh be the opponents. They'll not want to move up and lose lucrative local derbies.

Hmmm... not far off, but even so that's a shocker

4 points for Swindon. 10-12 point away win

I'm one of those HT. When Rye closed at the end of the 1993 season I gave up watching speedway altogether. In truth I'd lost interest by then anyway after recently marrying and becoming a father for the first time. I didn't watch another meeting (live or TV) until I returned to Rye House in 2000. Now I'm living in Berwick I'll pop along to the odd meeting, but nothing beats watching your own team... nothing

In a nutshell!! I didn't miss a Rockets Northern tour between 2004 and 2016, either on the supporters coach or car. Last year I flew up. Those early ones with a coach load of Rockets fans were some of my best memories

Mate, I know exactly how you feel. When Rye were in the PL I travelled to see them there three times in one season. We scored 28, 26 & 22 points, but d'ya know what? If we'd have had another fixture there that season I'd have gone again

Missing the point entirely with a geography lesson.

Why travel all the way to Somerset only to pull out of a meeting? Surely Tungate must've known he'd struggle. I'll give him the benefit of the doubt and speculate that he was asked to as a suitable replacement couldn't be found. If he made the decision to travel off his own back, then he's a fool

Even the most one-eyed optimist (there's a few at Rye House) couldn't argue against that

As far as I'm concerned both riders can sod off back to Australia. British speedway made them, but they've got too big for their boots and surprised they've lost their team places, bitching like spoilt children on social media.... Good riddance.

I find it unbelievable that a professional sport can be run this way. Whoever is to blame 4 weeks without a home fixture is just asking for trouble. If I was running the sport I'd try to cram in as many fixtures as possible between April and August, then use the next two months for cup and play off matches.

It's obvious this isn't the Chris Holder of old. It's pointless to speculate why, only he knows. My guess is it's mental rather then mechanical. Something has clearly changed since Darcy Wards unfortunate accident. If you're not giving 100% it's really time to be thinking about chucking it all in. You're cheating your employers, you're cheating your fans and more importantly you're cheating yourself. Most speedway supporters can forgive a trier, but not many will tolerate one who's clearly going through the motions. He seems to put more effort into his social media posts then he does on the track. A tragic waste of talent.

They have been all season up until now

My bad. Dunno what I was on yesterday. I thought this was an away meeting. I'm changing my prediction to a 10-12 point home win

I worked with two in my last place. Various managers couldn't do a thing as they knew fine well they'd go straight down the "harassment" road and they just couldn't be bothered with the hassle. One of them cited "ladies problems", when some of us knew fine well she'd been out all weekend on the lash and couldn't be bothered to come in. The other guy had so much time off on compassionate grounds we worked out over the eleven years I worked with him he'd buried his grandmother five times.

Not 100% sure what went on that night at KL, but it's the promoters prerogative to sack a rider. The timing is the real issue, obviously made out of spite and malice, leaving both riders absolutely no options. I have some sympathy for Holder, but the real villain of the piece is Batchelor for faking the injury, then accepting a guest booking the following night. That's idiotic

If the forecast is correct (90% chance of heavy rain from late afternoon onwards) you won't be travelling

You reckon? I'm not so sure. Leicester look stronger overall. I think we'll do well to grab a point

Which begs the question, if he's only interested in riding for Edinburgh why he's appeared to have mugged off every side he's signed for since? No wonder he's been released so often

I'm not sure it is. I'm hearing a few have dropped out. Some due to being totally p*ssed off with the BSPA, but the majority due to hearing the rumoured Bandits line up of Doolan, Howe, Gappmaier, Etheridge

Well I did say most 😂

The responsibility lies solely on his shoulders. I wouldn't take any notice of the negative comments. Most supporters would love to have him at reserve. Whether he cuts the mustard we'll just have to wait and see

Bandits were murdered out of the starts early doors and on that track there's not many chances to pass. NBJ looked like he'll need a few meetings to get dialled in. Went out wide in his first ride and there was nothing to hold him up. Gapp very poor. What's happened to him? Sheffield look very solid and it was no surprise when they took control after the interval. Sorry Eddie, but I saw no contact on Etheridge. Looked like he was unsettled when Graverson went hard under