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I was getting weather warnings about thunderstorms just before I left home so I was keeping an eye on the radar all night and the rain that was heading up north was just about running out of steam as it got to Leicester. The dirt did get wide and Magic was pulling some massive lines especially around turns 1 & 2 out of the gate, thought he was quite impressive last night... compared to his last visit to BP.

Trouble is there was rain showing on the radar as approaching, so to water it could have been folly... not that anybody seemed to realise this at the pace the meeting was run!

Hope you're making the racing sound good... 2 heats, 2 passes!

... or worse 💩

Absolutely not... that'll be some kind of after GP party event I'd have thought. 🥳

7 day ban then? Ridiculous!

I'm not so forgiving, he was well enough to take 6 rides in his first meeting back, it's just the same as the rest, this is the new normal now, when riders came back from injury before, they came back everywhere, not just Poland... I'm idioting sick of it!

LEICESTER: Max Fricke, Luke Becker R/R, Ryan Douglas, Kyle Howarth, Sam Masters, Drew Kemp, Joe Thompson. OXFORD: Charles Wright, Erik Riss R/R, Maciej Janowski, Mitch McDiarmid, Rohan Tungate, Peter Kildemand, Luke Killeen. You may not be able to have your photograph taken with Luke Becker, as he aggravated his injury in Poland yesterday (🐂💩), but you can have your photograph taken with the Knockout Cup before the match... I wonder if anybody has bought any red and yellow ribbons for it 🤔

No... he also missed the fixture at Poole last Wednesday

I emailed the SCB, twice, as it was a SCB regulation that was breached, they just don't say which. https://www.scbgb.co.uk/news.php?extend.213

Lol, don't waste your time mate... I emailed them twice asking which regulation Workington breached that got them a 2 league point deduction, as it's normally stated in their press release, never received a reply!

Back for Lions on Monday then, cushty 👍🏻

But if Ben Cook has received a 28 day ban for the breach of SCB Regulation 010.5 j) Then Nicolai Klindt should also receive a 28 day ban for breaching SCB Regulation 010.5 p) 🤷‍♂️

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Only a small percentage of crashes result in any kind of serious injury, like I said there's no need to linger on it if it does appear more serious just stay on it for few seconds until it's clear a rider is in trouble or not, they've missed a few argey bargey incidents over the years for cutting away too soon. It'd also be useful if BSN could show an updated league table after the match, especially last night with 6 teams in action. Thought it was a pretty decent match tonight with some good racing for Armadale, happy to see Simon Lambert get in the points.

Yeah, I get that regarding Nicholls... the Polish tv shows the aftermath of a crash and only cut away if it looks serious. Don't know why TNT also cut away unless it's something to do with ofcom rules in the UK 🤷‍♂️

Why though? When you're at a meeting you don't start looking into the distance in the opposite direction, you want to see if the rider(s) are okay or maybe even watch some handbags unfold. I can understand cutting away if it becomes obvious that a rider is in distress, nobody wants to see that, but BSN instantly cut away every time a rider goes down and there's no need for it, they're quite happy to show Scott Nicholls season ending crash in their opening credits.

You mean the Castagna corridor? 😂

He didn't exclude Jake Allen for doing the same thing when MPT had to avoid, so at least he's consistent. Personally I'd have gone all 4 back.

... as usual, the BSN camera wanders off as soon as there's a crash smh

If you're going to have a rule it should be enforced... it's a tiny thing but the flashing light wasn't flashing on the tractor last night at Ippo, it's in the rulebook, so should be enforced... if not, get it out of the rulebook! Light is not flashing on the Edinburgh tractor tonight 🚜🚨

So VP gets a 7 day ban for genuinely being sick while Nicolai Klindt is allowed to pick and choose his meetings as he sees fit, absolutely absurd!

011.4.2 Guest Rider (G) b) a rider may ride as a guest (in an official meeting) at a track only once in an 8 day period (within that league) excluding Play Offs, unless he is replacing the home teams #1 or is ONLY declared in a British Development League Team. Not sure why guesting for a number 1 is different to everybody else, but 8 day rule does not apply for Klindt.

They had Kye Thomson guesting against Worky, Tobias Thomsen against Oxford, Kyle Howarth against Scunny and Chris Harris against Poole. Even if none of that were true, it is not for Plymouth to decide whether rules have been broken, the tail seems to be wagging the dog 🐕

Was their heat leader holed up in a Polish hotel room on race night and racing around the rest of Europe during the week?