IainB

Oh lord! I can't go through another "illness" saga

Some people need protecting from themselves

There should be ample time, if they pulled their finger out they could be done and dusted by 12:30, there have been many matches this season done in around 90 minutes. Even if it didn't finish until 1pm that still leaves a couple of hours to get to Manchester or the Football with an hour to spare

I'd say the crowd was about 25% down on Saturday's

I think it was due to lack of will on everybody's part, was only a very light drizzle, match should never have started tbh

Absolute shambles of a quarter final from start to eventual finish. Good luck to Poole in the finals

I don't know why they don't make this an 11am kick off... everybody's happy then (except those that aren't)

Re-match!

Well... after the very best of Speedway last night, tonight is after the Lord Mayor's show. There's been a slide off in every heat so far but at least it's getting done!

Track is VERY wet... riders stood around on the first bend Riders now walking the track with, I assume, the ref No, not the ref... just the Scunny riders

Golden coin?

Just letting folk know what the weather's doing less than 1.5 miles from the track...

Stopped near me around 20 mins ago... some big puddles around. Under normal circumstances I suspect this would have been off... they're probably down pets r us buying up bags of sawdust right now

Lashing it down now... in Britain... in October... who would have thunk it

Steadily raining 1.5 miles from track

Looking at the met office rainfall radar and there's a big dollop of rain heading the way of Leicester, forecast is back to 90% chance of heavy rain between 6 and 7pm

It's 2021, it's not a newspaper, they could easily have altered it... They were quick enough to change the website when Godfreygate blew up

Preview was posted before Ans accident last night

Yes, I know all the reasons behind it... but it's the fans who suffer and the sport in the longer term

If you don't get that, there really is no hope for you... smh Take your Leicester glasses off for one moment and put your Speedway glasses on

This is part of the whole problem though, Scunny don't care about Leicester's crowds so send a team without Ellis, Leicester don't care about Kent crowds, so send a team without the Thompson twins, earlier in the season Eastbourne don't care about Leicester's crowds so send a team without Kennett and don't send 2 riders out in heat 15... etc. etc And so it goes on... and the crowds drop etc. etc.

Forecast now looking a lot better... Good job they didn't call it off

Not just a major international meeting but a world final! Although there have been occasions in the past that clubs have run against world championship events, they have usually been hundreds of miles away and you could probably count them on one hand. I assume the BSPL have no involvement in the SoN so are happy to sanction the event at Leicester? If Leicester, and other clubs, hadn't fannyed about calling meetings off for no reason earlier in the season we just wouldn't be in this situation.

Makes no odds to me really, I'll be at Belle Vue watching some world class speedway, you'll be watching a load of 3rd rate crap at Leicester. Leicester, a Saturday night Track... unless the Football is on the TV, or the weather forecast looks a bit dodgy, or there's no ambulance... or it's a Tuesday

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