Ipswich v Sheffield Thursday 4th June

[Roger Jacobs]

3 hours ago, ShanoXtra said:

Why do I clearly have a solution? I’m not the one slating the sport, you are! Thursday and Monday you race. Same as other countries have fixed race nights, but the thing is, UK weather is awful compared to Poland so they don’t need many alternative nights to re run cancelled matches. <snip>

You don’t re-run cancelled matches, only postponed matches.

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[YeOldPitGate]

1 hour ago, DSC67 said:

Yes , May 2nd was the last home meeting at Shielfield 

My god is it any wonder that no one (other than the Fords) can make a quid out of the sport how are you expected to hold onto a fan base with a month and half between home match's.

[mikebv]

6 minutes ago, YeOldPitGate said:

My god is it any wonder that no one (other than the Fords) can make a quid out of the sport how are you expected to hold onto a fan base with a month and half between home match's.

Any business, regardless of industry, cannot hope to succeed when your "opening hours" aren't regular...

Expecting your customers to have to constantly check when you are open, rather than just knowing due to consistent opening is asking, and expecting,  a lot...

 

[Spencer]

Hard to expect riders to be at their best when they are not getting regular track time.

[IainB]

6 hours ago, dontforgetthefueltapsbruv said:

Track has been/is currently under water following torrential downpours in last 24 hours

Check out the picture on the website post notifying the postponement 

https://ipswichwitches.co/sheffield-clash-postponed/?fbclid=IwdGRjcASNB_5jbGNrBI0H0mV4dG4DYWVtAjExAHNydGMGYXBwX2lkDDM1MDY4NTUzMTcyOAABHhRpHhjwnrY1UONANNQC6Stoet_HzD5t61ACn8rWkz7awjY8zxPAPk6WD2BK_aem_bD6tBxUUHu-rP0l9uq9gYQ

We had absolutely biblical rain in Leicester for over an hour during the night before the Sheffield match last week yet the track was dusty after a couple of races, yes we did have 30 degree temps during that day but with the wind we're having at the moment and around 15 hours of daylight I do feel this was a bit of a premature postponement. 

5 hours ago, ShanoXtra said:

I mean the fact that Ipswich town had localised flooding yesterday and it hasn’t stopped all day today kind of tells its own story 🤷🏼 easy decision I’d say for this one! Our garden was full of hail stones yesterday and puddles and we only live a few minute walk from the staidum

 

4 hours ago, ShanoXtra said:

Can people just go about their daily business and not constantly moan about speedway in this country. What are you moaning about… the fact it’s raining and we can’t race? That’s the weather’s fault not the promoters, can people give it a rest for a bit please jheeeez. You want them to be able to just race Friday now because it’s raining Thursday? Please sit down and tell me how you can make that work. And if you can’t, don’t bother commenting just for the sake of posting.

When you've sat and watched a GP qualifier from Glasgow at the weekend being ridden, often in driving rain, on a wet track you have to wonder why Ippo meetings get called off so easily... like the BV match the other week! Have the Foxhole drainage problems resurfaced?

[IainB]

6 hours ago, DaveWayne said:

Will be interesting to see if this thread gets the same hour by hour analysis of the latest forecasts as the Lynn thread did on Monday, or was that just special treatment because people don't like Buster ?

I assume the Ipswich fans who were all over it, despite the meeting not involving them, will be equally critical of their own team if the forecast rain doesn't arrive. 😉

Well,  there's ckall else to do with every speedway match in the country being called off this week, when they mostly could have been run with some effort from those involved.