IainB Posted June 10 Report Share Posted June 10 (edited) Re-arranged: July 6th 1 home match since May the 4th, next home match July 2nd! Edited June 10 by IainB 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daniel Smith Posted June 10 Report Share Posted June 10 Absolute disgrace. Should have been given till atleast 3pm tomorrow before the call-off. Leicester should be investigated. I wouldn't be going anyway, in fact I'd never be going to this but on the British Speedway Forum, my opinion, and only my opinion matters. Proper shady this?!? Hopefully the BSPL award Ipswich the 3 points. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IainB Posted June 10 Author Report Share Posted June 10 3 minutes ago, Daniel Smith said: Hopefully the BSPL award Ipswich the 3 points. 1 point each... move on 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mikebv Posted June 10 Report Share Posted June 10 What a sh*tshow of a season.... No wonder the SGB Premiership Speedway League Thread has so many other topics to pad it out... 1 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phannan Posted June 10 Report Share Posted June 10 20 minutes ago, mikebv said: What a sh*tshow of a season.... No wonder the SGB Premiership Speedway League Thread has so many other topics to pad it out... We’ve got to find something to talk about as any premiership speedway is about as rare as kings lynn winning the title 😬 7 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
foreverblue Posted June 10 Report Share Posted June 10 1 hour ago, IainB said: Re-arranged: July 6th 1 home match since May the 4th, next home match July 2nd! Wow, not like Leicester to postpone a meeting!! 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bald Bloke Posted June 10 Report Share Posted June 10 Bloody Buster again.. That man has a lot to answer for Oh, it's not him...Err Oh well, he must have something to do with it.... Surely On a serious note. I don't think most clubs can afford a rain off once all the riders have travelled any more. Even worse if a meeting gets abandoned after a few heats. Travel, points money/ guarentee, track rent for most. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GeneralMelchett Posted June 10 Report Share Posted June 10 OFF before we had even started the topic!! 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TB1 Posted June 10 Report Share Posted June 10 3 hours ago, mikebv said: What a sh*tshow of a season.... No wonder the SGB Premiership Speedway League Thread has so many other topics to pad it out... Do you have an emergency supply of those Mondays and Thursdays you mentioned 😆 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mikebv Posted June 10 Report Share Posted June 10 13 minutes ago, TB1 said: Do you have an emergency supply of those Mondays and Thursdays you mentioned 😆 Well.... Plenty on here moan about missing regular Speedway (like in the Good Old Days)... So. Pretty soon they will have Monday, Thursday, Monday, Thursday, Monday, Thursday, Monday, Thursday, at home every week for a whole month...😁 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chun Posted June 10 Report Share Posted June 10 It’s looking very wet on Thursday to be fair Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SPEEDY69 Posted June 10 Report Share Posted June 10 2 minutes ago, chun said: It’s looking very wet on Thursday to be fair It's normally much drier in Sept & Oct when the meetings will be run, silly trying to do that in late spring & summer..... In other news, recently watched the British Final from 84, run on a very wet Coventry with KC and his broken leg. So if we used to get meetings on in the wet before but don't bother now, what's the preference? For me, it's the former, with regular meetings on and postponements a rarity. I'm in the 1 point each and not re-run them camp to focus minds. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chun Posted June 10 Report Share Posted June 10 2 minutes ago, SPEEDY69 said: It's normally much drier in Sept & Oct when the meetings will be run, silly trying to do that in late spring & summer..... In other news, recently watched the British Final from 84, run on a very wet Coventry with KC and his broken leg. So if we used to get meetings on in the wet before but don't bother now, what's the preference? For me, it's the former, with regular meetings on and postponements a rarity. I'm in the 1 point each and not re-run them camp to focus minds. Speedway was profitable back then. Nowadays we fly in a load of riders from abroad 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IainB Posted June 10 Author Report Share Posted June 10 They've lost my £25 anyway, as I booked my holiday away for that week as there was no home meeting in the fixture list! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Elmo Posted June 10 Report Share Posted June 10 We have had 3 serious thunderstorms with very heavy downpours around here already today with more rain due tomorrow on top of that. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mikebv Posted June 10 Report Share Posted June 10 2 hours ago, Bald Bloke said: Bloody Buster again.. That man has a lot to answer for Oh, it's not him...Err Oh well, he must have something to do with it.... Surely On a serious note. I don't think most clubs can afford a rain off once all the riders have travelled any more. Even worse if a meeting gets abandoned after a few heats. Travel, points money/ guarentee, track rent for most. It just shows the state the sport is in these days.... Almost zero margin for error... And is this a track owned by those who run Leicester?... If so, no rent to pay, yet still being cautious due to all the other costs involved... Does "Absence make the heart grow fonder?".... Meaning such long gaps between meetings result in good crowds due to missing the sport?... Or will it be more "out of sight, out of mind"?, and crowd numbers suffer?... Or, are we now solely down to the die hards only who turn up whenever, and accept whatever is put in front of them?.. If ever a sport needed a huge injection of cash, it is UK Speedway... Who from though? Given its inherent flaws and issues, is the several million dollar question... 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hawk127 Posted June 10 Report Share Posted June 10 22 minutes ago, Elmo said: We have had 3 serious thunderstorms with very heavy downpours around here already today with more rain due tomorrow on top of that. How serious? It must be worrying with all that donner and blitzen around. Have they not heard of hair dryers. A job lot from Argos and half a dozen extension leads would have done the trick. No thinking outside the box is the problem with the sport😂 Oh well always got the next round of the European gold fish racing championship. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Teromaafan Posted June 10 Report Share Posted June 10 13 minutes ago, Hawk127 said: How serious? It must be worrying with all that donner and blitzen around. Have they not heard of hair dryers. A job lot from Argos and half a dozen extension leads would have done the trick. No thinking outside the box is the problem with the sport😂 Oh well always got the next round of the European gold fish racing championship. Sorry to disappoint you but the gold fish racing championship has been called off, course waterlogged apparently🫤 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bigcatdiary Posted June 10 Report Share Posted June 10 4 hours ago, Phannan said: We’ve got to find something to talk about as any premiership speedway is about as rare as kings lynn winning the title 😬 That’s better than rare it’s non existent 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IainB Posted June 10 Author Report Share Posted June 10 2 hours ago, chun said: Speedway was profitable back then. Nowadays we fly in a load of riders from abroad 2 hours ago, Elmo said: We have had 3 serious thunderstorms with very heavy downpours around here already today with more rain due tomorrow on top of that. Agreed... but 1 home Lions meeting in 2 months of late spring/early summer is far from ideal. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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