Fourentee

The big question! Shame there's no film; a slo-mo sequence might, just might be the smoking gun for the ref!

Am I looking in the wrong places? Can't see those posts on either source. Edit: Forget it, through now as new posts.

Lindgren, of course, qualified for this year's series through the Challenge rounds.

Some biographical details here. http://www.cradleyspeedway.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/riders/markrobinson.htm Edit: No less a luminary than Jan O Pedersen was asking after his performance today!

Hope you enjoyed that, Kev, and have dried out now.

Not raining at the moment (in city centre). But very grey. One of those where you're damned if you do, damned if you don't! Track held up very well last night and as a rule of thumb if Doc and Co can get on it early enough during the day (as today) then it should be OK. But I'm not promising... Edit: Put it this way, Kev. You'd feel bad if you made the journey and it was off. But you'd feel even worse if you didn't and it was on...

Match definitely on, according to text just received from club chairman.

Looked utterly innocuous, didn't it? Simple error, out of shape, gentle slide. Salutary reminder to us terrace experts about just how dangerous a sport it can be. It wasn't lost on me that Luke Priest, who knows all there is to know about major injury from a smash, was one of the first riders on the scene.

Broken bone in his back. But got his voice back! http://www.dudleyheathens.co/news.php?extend.411

That's correct.

Dudley +4, surely? Five dropped at home (a loss and a brace of two-point wins), nine gained away (two three-point wins, a draw and a narrow defeat). http://www.speedwaygb.co/nltable11.html

From my viewpoint Blackbird may have just clipped the kerb, straightening him up and into the Dudley rider. Just one of those things. I think the booing may have had more to do with the contrast in speed displayed by Blackbird when getting up after falls, depending on where his partner was in the race at the time.

Hugely impressive from Heeps but on a tiny point of order he has ridden the circuit before, having done a few post-match laps last season. Very different from competitive team racing, of course. Tipped by Ty Proctor last year as one to watch. A very good performance by Mildenhall last night, well done to them.

As mentioned by other posters, let's not get on the lad's back and expect too much, too soon. He's clearly a talent (Ty Proctor was raving about him last season when he came over for second-half rides) and is also very pleasant (as is his dad, who I spoke to last year and at Lynn the other week). But easy does it. Give him time.

Actually I was referring to Ipswich...

Ipswich v Dudley? Getting above themselves a bit?

Curiously, all the wheel moving by the starting marshall at Buxton yesterday (and my word, was there plenty of it) was to get riders further away from the tapes.

I blame Tom Perry (if he'd stopped on in heat 14, no last-heat decider and no stress!).

I wasn't at Belle Vue. There were two home falls at Buxton today, the first of which was Luke Priest's very nasty looking crash after clipping Jon Armstrong's back wheel. That was greeted with silence (it was clearly a heavy one) and a few shocked exclamations of "Oh!" followed by applause when Priest eventually got up. He was also applauded on the walk back to the pits, which took him past the Dudley fans who were gathered largely by or near the starting gate. The second fall, that of Jason Garrity in heat 15, was certainly cheered loudly. By way of explanation, though not of excuse, it didn't look initially anything like as dangerous as the Priest fall (although in the event Garrity was a long time getting up and clearly felt the impact), it confirmed the result of the meeting and tensions were by that time running very high. Garrity was also applauded on his way back to the pits. But, no, they should not have cheered it. I am merely attempting from a speedway fan's perspective to set the context. With regard to other posts alleging Ashley Morris hitting out at the starting marshall, I certainly saw nothing remotely resembling a blow or even an arm being raised. I watched the meeting one pace back from the fence (which many will know is very close to the track itself), perhaps a yard in advance of the starting gate. Morris was on gate four.

Four.

I like the way Ritchings has progressed this season, almost 'under the radar' with the exploits of Roynon, Morris, Armstrong and now Newman proving so eye-catching. He's a very tidy stylist who's surprising a few riders and even his fourth places seem on the pace. I take greyhoundp's comment about Hazelden, but at least Garrity goes to five for the Colts tomorrow!

Riding at number eight, Benedict Arnold...

That'll be twice on each bend, yes?

Good point. NL line-ups can be quite volatile; makes it a hard league to predict.

Ah, but doubtless Messrs Perry and Morris will be passing on their experience from last month's British U21 final.