Workington Comets v Scunthorpe Scorpions 19/07/25 6pm.

[SteelShoe]

In light of the close match in the BSN Trophy I admit to being a little uneasy before the meeting today and felt we would miss Antti . The uneasiness proved unfounded as both Fraser and Batch produced their best performances of the season to see us home with relative ease. 7 points from R/R was a decent return while the team produced a solid performance throughout with 11 heat winners and only 3 last places.  Scunny proved not to be the same force as they were in that BSN  meeting with only Steve Worrall and Connor Mountain winning races.

Hard to gauge how good this win was when Jake Allen , Declan Kennedy and Simon Lambert score only 2 points between them . Declan was particularly impressive on his last visit scoring an impressive 10 points on his own. The Scorps today were probably as bad as we were on our BSN visit to the EWR so would have been hard watch for any  of their fans that made the journey. 

Thanks to the Plymouth Fans who made a visit following the cancellation of their meeting at Berwick 👍. Thanks also to any other fans making the journey to take in the meeting. I believe we were lucky with the weather today as the north east has apparently been deluged.

Tough match coming up at Poole midweek followed by an attractive home fixture next Saturday against the Redcar Bears. They have had the better of us recently and I'm sure the boys will be looking to reverse that trend. Should be a cracker so get down, bring someone if they're willing, make some noise and create some atmosphere. UTC !👊

Edited Saturday at 10:34 PM by SteelShoe

[SteelShoe]

2 hours ago, szkocjasid said:

Workington certainly looking good at home. Can they do enough away to pick up the deducted points they lost?

This is the big question, I'm hoping we will be more competitive than our early season displays at Scunthorpe, Redcar and Edinburgh. Hopefully we can attack these and the remaining tracks with more self belief. 

[StevePark]

2 hours ago, Albert said:

Is it not the clerk of the courses job to tell the referee?

Don't know if the ruling has changed, but certainly upto and including 2022 the Pits Marshal could do it as well.

[Robinh88]

Great set up, will be back!

[Catalan]

7 hours ago, StevePark said:

Don't know if the ruling has changed, but certainly upto and including 2022 the Pits Marshal could do it as well.

Only if they are informed before riders go out on track

[Bandit59]

Another entertaining match,great watch on BSN,so glad you guys are back on track that track provides great racing don't know how the sun was shining 😂

[SteelShoe]

39 minutes ago, Bandit59 said:

Another entertaining match,great watch on BSN,so glad you guys are back on track that track provides great racing don't know how the sun was shining 😂

Thank you. I haven't seen any of our home streamed meetings so i'm pleased they are providing worthwhile entertainment. The weather during the meeting was lovely, but you could see the dark clouds to the east were not far away.

[StevePark]

2 hours ago, Catalan said:

Only if they are informed before riders go out on track

Obviously. 

We at Newcastle tried to predict if a change was likely to happen and be near the team managers before the riders were sent out so they could tell us. Also we would look at the riders going out to make sure no changes had been made without our knowledge.

[Bandit59]

41 minutes ago, SteelShoe said:

Thank you. I haven't seen any of our home streamed meetings so i'm pleased they are providing worthwhile entertainment. The weather during the meeting was lovely, but you could see the dark clouds to the east were not far away.

Streamed last week as well , and will be streaming more in the future well worth it for the racing it provides.

[scaramanga]

14 hours ago, Hilly said:

Both Scunthorpe riders in white in heat 15, how is this not spotted? I know some of the yellow looks very pale and sometimes looks white but was that just my eyesight?

White helmet but yellow helmet cover was same all night for harrison helmet cover was back half of helmet 

Jim McGregor would pull some riders up for that 

[Catalan]

2 hours ago, StevePark said:

Obviously. 

We at Newcastle tried to predict if a change was likely to happen and be near the team managers before the riders were sent out so they could tell us. Also we would look at the riders going out to make sure no changes had been made without our knowledge.

We try and do the same but some teams are so chaotic they get missed.

In my opinion if the team manager doesn't tell you then the ref should exclude the rider after the race.

They will only do it once.

[scaramanga]

Some refs put red lights on if the have not been notified

[paul84]

So good to see the Comets riding so well yesterday I can say a lot of good things about everyone in the team however more importantly for me the biggest positives I seen yesterday were the atmosphere in the team and sprite among all the riders, from Troy at 1 down to Vinnie so nice to see. The last 2 weeks have been great for the club after such a worrying time.

Have to comment on how good the track was too, I think somebody have already mentioned this but for such a one sided affair it was very an entertaining meeting. 
 

Well done all involved!