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Happy Days Chris Now what sort of downer can you put on the news that Rye House will stage the semi-final of British Speedway Championships. Should be a good smattering of EL riders (Maybe Tai, Eddie, Danny and Robbo) plus some PL heatleaders Leigh Lanham, David Howe and Jordan. I dont think that Robbo has ridden on the track since the new shale was layed which gives better grip and more useable outside line around turn 2 ? Should be a good meeting.

Doh, caught out again )) It was Black and not Fox. Sorry to worry any friends and relatives of Aaron Fox. When I say interval, it was a gap between heat 14 and Final Race. But on the positive side Len said that Dylan Black was concious and talking to paramedics after crash and only went to Hospital as a precaution.

Meeting abandoned, cant say I'm to upset, I was sooooooooooo cold tonight. Ben Morley had engine problem and appeared to lose power on 4th bend. Aaron Fox ploughed into him. Ben walked back to pits nursing a bad back and Fox spent about 30 mins on track being looked at by paramedics. It appears Fox was knocked out and requires to be checked out at Hospital. County ambulance not available for at least 30 mins so track ambulance to take him. Len asked for show of hands to see if spectators wanted to wait for ambulance to return but by 6 hands to 2 hands it was decided by all the spectators to finish meeting and go home to warm up. PS. Steve Boxall out on track during interval doing some practice laps. Anybody got any ideas where he's going to now ???

Cold windy and pretty empty. Hope its good racing :-( Night getting better I caught the 2 pound coin from the toss :-))

Big Dave I agree with you. I was just illustrating that as Rye were so far below the 42.50 limit that Mellgren could come into to the team for virtually anybody.

I think as the original Rye team were declared virtually 2 points below the limit, we could redeclare with Mellgren replacing either Hawkins or Bowen and Gjedde replacing Neath and still be well within the 42.50 limit. In fact although my maths might not be all that, but at a quick tot up Mellgren could even come in place of Bunyan and we would still be inside the limit ???

BREAKING NEWS Carol Kirkwood (BBC weather girl) has just been sacked by the BBC and Len Silver will replace her He will stand in front of a magnetic map of the UK and stick on blue/red/white or yellow motorbike helmets depending on whether its rideable weather or not ? Then he will toss a 2 pound coin to see where the newsreaders sit on the sofa and throw the coin into the studio audience Love him or hate him he appears to have an uncanny knack of knowing if the weather will allow meeting to go ahead.

I agree with Shadders that Mellgren looked good last night, other than Ht 15 against both Nimenen and Karlson, he had one bad moment where he picked up grip, straightened up an almost wiped out the rest of the field on the apex of bends 1-2. Gjedde looked ok, but needs to show quicker gating and maybe a bit more determination in the first couple of bends. Jordan still to recapture his peak form, maybe still nursing the scaphoid injury a little. Richie looked to be 100% effort and made on superb pass on a one racing line track. Needs better machinery ?? Luke had a good meeting and when he got out of the gates did well to hold off Karlson. Bunyan was there and there abouts all night in the points every race including a heat 2 win. Garrity looked to struggle away from the gate and then did not have power or skill to get back on terms with other riders. Points dropped I'm afraid not 1 point gained

I have just noticed on the BSPA site, what has been a fairly well kept secret that Rye House Stadium is now the home track of the MK Dons, MDL spedway team. I presume the matches will be run after Rockets or Raiders matches as was the case last week at the Peterborough Challenge match ? It came to me as a bit of a suprise that Hoddesdon is in the midlands now I know that it used to be a Greyhound track, maybe that will be reinstated with Whippet racing as well ?

Because the 'Len Bashers, Doom mongers, and general misery guts' want it to be )) So they can come on this forum and generally say 'I told you so'.

But not since the new shale with the dust dampener went down ?? Much better outside lines and very little dust now (fingers crossed for a bank holiday double header)

So you haven't visited Rye House recently

As challenges go, this is pretty good. I am looking forward to seeing Tai, Eddie and Linus on the Rye track again, but a great pity that Chris and a fully fit Jordan will not be matching themselves against them (( I see that Chris is back at home now and seems fairly upbeat on his twitter account. Hope to see him at Rye in the not to distant and maybe when he gets the 100% clear from the doctors, we will see him back on his bike

Very suprised to hear last night that Jordan (Frampton) is aiming to be back racing for next weeks challenge against Peterborough. Maybe prudent for his and the teams overall season for him to have another weeks recovery and comeback when we have a more meaningful match ???

Charlie Gjedde Tyron Proctor Dennis Andersen I do not know if they are available or if their averages exactly fit in, but they could all do the job as a number 1 at Rye House. It states in the local paper that Len has almost finalised the new look Rockets and it will be announced tomorrow (friday) I hope he can bring an ace out from his sleeve and get our season back on track, and I hope Chris can just concentrate on getting better ready for next season.

Leigh Lanham has signed for the Witches ? So where do we go now ???

It says on the Rye website that Len is negotiating with a replacement for Chris Neath. My bet is that he will be signing our old favourite. But maybe he is checking the the signing will not claim a testimonial for his 10 years unbroken service with the club. Welcome back Rider Replacement. On a more serious note. I wouldn't be suprised to see Rob Mear back at Rye

Rumour has it that Steve Boxall has been dropped from Plymouth team. We will most probably sign him again and buy new bikes

Hey Shadders are Kebabs back on the menu now ?

Okay, throwing a few names into the hat for discussion )) Travis Magowan Cory Gathercole Tyrone Proctor Rob Mear Kim Nillson I dont know if the numbers fit or if the £££ fit but we need to strengthen up. Again I send all my wishes to Chris and his family for a speedy recovery.

Horrible crashes last night (( Rumour has it that Neathy maybe out for sometime ?? Short term plans need to be sorted. I dont know if it works numerically but how about extend Lanhams contract as required and draft in Gathercole for temp replacement of Nelson. Rest of team on last nights performance ; Jordan, looked good but needs to push that final bit to be in top grade of PL riders Hawkins, made at least one start and looked really good. When start not made looked very average. Bunyan, okay. but not GP material Hope they have a wide lens at the NZ GP or we wont see him after the tapes go up. Garrity , an unguided missile )) Another Nelson ? And hey he hasn't turned out too bad )) Luke ????? I like the guy, but he certainly needed something last night. Trailed round at the back most of the time (( Best of luck to all the injured riders last night. But it may seem callous but speedway moves on so we have to plan for sometime without Chris if it turns out that way.

Further to my many assurances that come rain or shine I will still attend Rye House every Saturday despite the team or the opposition. I have now heard of the earth shattering news which might change my whole life NO DRAUGHT BEER AT THE STADIUM, CANS ONLY Will have to think long and hard now about if I can spend my night out drinking tinnies (((

Cannot think of many reasons not to go. Rain or shine you will find me with a beer in my hand standing on the start line stand front row ))) 1. Beer available 2. Live motorsport 3. Not being nagged and moaned at (unless Dave is there ) 4. Would only have to shell out for a takeaway or bottle of wine if at home 5. Bit of banter with all around me (sometimes at NL meetings I have to shout for anybody to hear me as they are few and far between ) Turn up watch the meeting and then moan at what you have witnessed, don't moan in advance, not attend and then moan about 2nd hand reports. Get off your ar*es and do it I doubt very much if Len reads this forum, but he is normally in the chip bar after the meeting and has never ignored me when I have asked a civil question. Sitting on here and slagging everybody off don't work.

Promoter Len Silver said: “We looked at the available pool of riders available in the market to plug Lee’s sudden absence, but they just did not tie in with our objectives with the Raiders, so we are aiming to turn to one of our own.” Putting this Lenspeak into plain English means, we were offering peanuts and nobody wanted to ride so we will use a freebie from the training school I will be there every satuday, but I would prefer to see a competitive team.

Well the bookies appear to like the changes. Rockets have come into 16/1 from 28/1 today ))