Sheffield Tigers Vs Ipswich Witches - Thursday 28th August

[ShanoXtra]

2 minutes ago, IainB said:

I'm afraid if you're charging fans £25 to get into the stadium (not to mention £3 parking & £4 for a prog) and there's no further rain there is no excuse for not running the meeting!

Don’t forget the travel expenses !

[JoeW436]

2 minutes ago, ShanoXtra said:

Anybody got ideas who said safe and who said unsafe? 

Emil it’s for you, says they are calling from Torun.

[ShanoXtra]

Anyone remember 2023 play off final when it was woeful weather and downpour and that meeting was forced through. Sheffield got all those points back and didn’t mind riding that night.

[Cue Ball]

Every track in the country has been in this position - everything good to go and then the rain hits. The track staff worked their arses off for about 1.5 hours trying to get it raceable. Some riders were happy, some weren’t. It wasn’t a case of getting the people in and then calling it off, you could see that they were genuinely trying to get it on, but if the riders won’t play ball, what can the promotion do about it? 
its crap, but as said, there isn’t a track in the country where this hasn’t happened, it’s an unfortunate part of our sport.

[SaddlebowRoad]

not like the old days

bikes are volatile to ride and riders wont take a chance if the track isnt right

no doubt the two gp boys werent keen 

 

[Gavan]

Apparently neither Holder brother or Doyle were that keen to race 

[IainB]

3 minutes ago, Cue Ball said:

Every track in the country has been in this position - everything good to go and then the rain hits. The track staff worked their arses off for about 1.5 hours trying to get it raceable. Some riders were happy, some weren’t. It wasn’t a case of getting the people in and then calling it off, you could see that they were genuinely trying to get it on, but if the riders won’t play ball, what can the promotion do about it? 
its crap, but as said, there isn’t a track in the country where this hasn’t happened, it’s an unfortunate part of our sport.

I'm not questioning the efforts of the track staff, 100% kudos for their effort. Fans should not be admitted entry to the stadium until the match is declared as going ahead... this kind of thing does the sport no favours at all... just another cut to die by.

Called off by the SCB, who have zero financial investment in the sport, just choosing who and when to apply their tin pot rules to.

[ShanoXtra]

Everybody agrees it’s a hard track to race when it’s dry as you have to be so committed so being wet it’s probably a non starter. Should have done a Lynn and called it early, only reason they didn’t is because now they don’t have any time to run it. 

[Manifesto]

Apparently Doyle was rider from Ipswich team who didn’t want to ride. Ipswich riders were packed up and gone within 10 mins of announcement they knew ages before 

[Rob B]

21 minutes ago, Cue Ball said:

Every track in the country has been in this position - everything good to go and then the rain hits. The track staff worked their arses off for about 1.5 hours trying to get it raceable. Some riders were happy, some weren’t. It wasn’t a case of getting the people in and then calling it off, you could see that they were genuinely trying to get it on, but if the riders won’t play ball, what can the promotion do about it? 
its crap, but as said, there isn’t a track in the country where this hasn’t happened, it’s an unfortunate part of our sport.

Yes it does happen everywhere yet when it happened at Belle Vue last year heavy shower in middle of meeting, Sheffield fans were going mad even had Woffinden an co taking the piss on social media. 

Edited 2 hours ago by Rob B

[AceBelle]

1 minute ago, Rob B said:

Yes it does happen everywhere yet when it happened at Belle Vue last year heavy meeting in middle of meeting, Sheffield fans were going mad even had Woffinden an co taking the piss on social media. 

spot on Rob no more to be said !!!

[Gavan]

4 minutes ago, Manifesto said:

Apparently Doyle was rider from Ipswich team who didn’t want to ride. Ipswich riders were packed up and gone within 10 mins of announcement they knew ages before 

And neither Holder brother wanted to ride either so what’s your point and why would Ipswich riders hang around 

[ShanoXtra]

9 minutes ago, Manifesto said:

Apparently Doyle was rider from Ipswich team who didn’t want to ride. Ipswich riders were packed up and gone within 10 mins of announcement they knew ages before 

Not Ipswich problem if the track wasn’t ready, I wouldn’t wanna hang about with the aggressive Sheffield fans near me either. Sheffield chose to miss multiple Thursday night meetings during the summer months, it’s on them, not Ipswich. 

[Manifesto]

9 minutes ago, Rob B said:

Yes it does happen everywhere yet when it happened at Belle Vue last year heavy meeting in middle of meeting, Sheffield fans were going mad even had Woffinden an co taking the piss on social media. 

That was a disgrace as well even BV fans would agree with that 

[Manifesto]

9 minutes ago, Rob B said:

Yes it does happen everywhere yet when it happened at Belle Vue last year heavy meeting in middle of meeting, Sheffield fans were going mad even had Woffinden an co taking the piss on social media. 

That was a disgrace as well even BV fans would agree with that 

[M.D]

52 minutes ago, spin king junior said:

Moron. If you'd seen the effort of the track staff you'd have seen we wanted that meeting on. And what advantage does Sheffield have from not running it? Because I can tell you now having to hire out owlerton another night isn't cheap.

 

According to picko over intercom the ref listened to both sets of riders, some were good to give it a go and others weren't. Because they couldn't come to an agreement they've called it off.

Don't feed the troll.

[Fromafar]

42 minutes ago, TTT said:

Call me a moron all you like but the fact of the matter is this meeting had a 0% chance of going ahead no matter how much track work they done because certain riders were always going to dictate a call off.

 

Rider dictating when they want to ride or go home ,what’s new.!

It wont be racing ,will be the excuse.

Everyone when the track needs work done so late it means the riders want too go home, 9times out of 10 the meeting doesn’t go ahead.

[GeneralMelchett]

30 minutes ago, Manifesto said:

Apparently Doyle was rider from Ipswich team who didn’t want to ride. Ipswich riders were packed up and gone within 10 mins of announcement they knew ages before 

anyone from Sheffield - just for balance!

If both Holders, as suggested, and Doyle were reluctant i can well understand it - the is a GP at the weekend, but also Holder snr and Dolye are both late 30s and have had some bad injuries in their careers. I can well understand reluctance to ride on a track that may not be safe. For the record not there - so no idea if the track was safe or not but none of those three strike me as shirkers! 

[bellevueace]

Its the reason fans dont travel away if there is the slightest doubt about the weather, years ago down went the sawdust on went the overalls and away they went. Nowadays with the modern bikes not a chance of that happening, i cant comment here as i didnt see the track but as some wanted to ride and others didnt i would imagine the referee would go with the majority?

[IainB]

34 minutes ago, Rob B said:

Yes it does happen everywhere yet when it happened at Belle Vue last year heavy shower in middle of meeting, Sheffield fans were going mad even had Woffinden an co taking the piss on social media. 

Yes but the club nurse called that one off in the end if I remember correctly 😂