Glasgow vs Poole 26/6/26

[ragdoll64]

1 hour ago, Neila said:

Is it due to the threat of rain or due to the possibility of no howarth and hassle already out 🤔

Got to admit I wondered about this before I saw the worsening change to the forecast. Bad weather working in our favour for a change……🐯

[Nickinho]

It'll be seven weeks next Friday since the last home meeting and it's ridiculous and it's no wonder people drift away from speedway. Imagine the football being postponed for that length of time during the summer. One day promoters will find out that there is a material called tarpaulin which could be cut into parts to the shape of the corners and laid together over it. Both sides are banked and rain water would drain onto the grass and the meeting could take place after they've been rolled off. Just saying.

Edited 9 hours ago by Nickinho

[Youhave2minutes]

6 minutes ago, Nickinho said:

It'll be seven weeks next Friday since the last home meeting and it's ridiculous and it's no wonder people drift away from speedway. Imagine the football being postponed for that length of time during the summer. One day promoters will find out that there is a material called tarpaulin which could be cut into parts to the shape of the corners and laid together over it. Both sides are banked and rain water would drain onto the grass and the meeting could take place after they've been rolled off. Just saying.

And at the end of the season fixtures will be bunched up and unable to fit them in either do to bad weather or the cut off date.

[MD]

9 minutes ago, Nickinho said:

It'll be seven weeks next Friday since the last home meeting and it's ridiculous and it's no wonder people drift away from speedway. Imagine the football being postponed for that length of time during the summer. One day promoters will find out that there is a material called tarpaulin which could be cut into parts to the shape of the corners and laid together over it. Both sides are banked and rain water would drain onto the grass and the meeting could take place after they've been rolled off. Just saying.

Thats why we should run the Championship league season every week from late March/early April until a cut off at the end of June, with playoffs from the first week in July.

Eight home meetings in 12/13 weeks is doable with ample time to reschedule rainoffs. Later rounds of cup comps can be run after this if required. 

The point where enough is enough is ever closer. Even Harris had a dig about this at the Oxford meeting on BSN.

[Noelinho]

40 minutes ago, Nickinho said:

It'll be seven weeks next Friday since the last home meeting and it's ridiculous and it's no wonder people drift away from speedway. Imagine the football being postponed for that length of time during the summer. One day promoters will find out that there is a material called tarpaulin which could be cut into parts to the shape of the corners and laid together over it. Both sides are banked and rain water would drain onto the grass and the meeting could take place after they've been rolled off. Just saying.

That's a great theory, but it doesn't work in practice when the rain is expected at the start time and there's a curfew - and it's not like fans are known for being understanding when there's a rain delay during a meeting! People moan either way.

[StevePark]

47 minutes ago, MD said:

Thats why we should run the Championship league season every week from late March/early April until a cut off at the end of June, with playoffs from the first week in July.

Eight home meetings in 12/13 weeks is doable with ample time to reschedule rainoffs. Later rounds of cup comps can be run after this if required. 

The point where enough is enough is ever closer. Even Harris had a dig about this at the Oxford meeting on BSN.

With four Friday tracks, how is that going to work ??

[Youhave2minutes]

17 minutes ago, StevePark said:

With four Friday tracks, how is that going to work ??

Toss a coin

[MD]

35 minutes ago, StevePark said:

With four Friday tracks, how is that going to work ??

Pick an off night or use guests. Despite so few meetings so far this year, fixtures have been littered with guests, as they often are. When it comes to the playoffs we regularly ride any day of the week anyway, its not as if it can't be done.

[Arthur54]

3 hours ago, Nickinho said:

It'll be seven weeks next Friday since the last home meeting and it's ridiculous and it's no wonder people drift away from speedway. Imagine the football being postponed for that length of time during the summer. One day promoters will find out that there is a material called tarpaulin which could be cut into parts to the shape of the corners and laid together over it. Both sides are banked and rain water would drain onto the grass and the meeting could take place after they've been rolled off. Just saying.

That's the problem with going out of all the cup competitions 

[Hamster00]

1 minute ago, Arthur54 said:

That's the problem with going out of all the cup competitions 

Not really, Berwick are still in everything and last Saturday was the first home meeting for six weeks.

Its a disjointed and disorganised calendar at the best of times and then these days at the first sight of a bad forecast every meeting is called off, Berwick could’ve ran at least 2 of the meetings during that time that they postponed.

[Arthur54]

4 minutes ago, Hamster00 said:

Not really, Berwick are still in everything and last Saturday was the first home meeting for six weeks.

Its a disjointed and disorganised calendar at the best of times and then these days at the first sight of a bad forecast every meeting is called off, Berwick could’ve ran at least 2 of the meetings during that time that they postponed.

 

4 minutes ago, Hamster00 said:

Not really, Berwick are still in everything and last Saturday was the first home meeting for six weeks.

Its a disjointed and disorganised calendar at the best of times and then these days at the first sight of a bad forecast every meeting is called off, Berwick could’ve ran at least 2 of the meetings during that time that they postponed.

Same as Bomber has said, perhaps it needs to be 2 home and 2 away, get rid of the BSN series.

At the end of the day, as long as Poland continue to dictate, it's only going to get worse, they have even added Thursday night to there calendar 

Edited 5 hours ago by Arthur54

[szkocjasid]

2 hours ago, StevePark said:

With four Friday tracks, how is that going to work ??

 

1 hour ago, MD said:

Pick an off night or use guests. Despite so few meetings so far this year, fixtures have been littered with guests, as they often are. When it comes to the playoffs we regularly ride any day of the week anyway, its not as if it can't be done.

How would guests work if Edinburgh have to race at home, while racing at Glasgow, Scunthorpe or Redcar?

2 home & 2 away, would work if

1) they got rid of the play-offs, so no rush to complete fixtures before a cut-off date

2) clubs agreed to race on off race nights, but they'll get lower crowds

3) riders agreed to put British speedway before Poland / Denmark, making it easier to rearrange fixtures

none of these will happen though!

Edited 5 hours ago by szkocjasid

[davie10]

total joke hardly  any rain in glasgow but thats the way of speedway these days promotors that cant promote rides that rubbish it at the slight possibility of rain  but the gp boys went out at the gp at the weekend after torrential rain storm at a track that can prepare a track to take rain and only took an hour to fix after the rain had stopped british speedway putting another nail in its own coffin   

[Fromafar]

10 minutes ago, davie10 said:

total joke hardly  any rain in glasgow but thats the way of speedway these days promotors that cant promote rides that rubbish it at the slight possibility of rain  but the gp boys went out at the gp at the weekend after torrential rain storm at a track that can prepare a track to take rain and only took an hour to fix after the rain had stopped british speedway putting another nail in its own coffin   

Howarth factor involved maybe,but that’s the way the sport is run these days.Weather forecast doesn’t look as dire as made out.

[Cerro]

1 hour ago, davie10 said:

total joke hardly  any rain in glasgow but thats the way of speedway these days promotors that cant promote rides that rubbish it at the slight possibility of rain  but the gp boys went out at the gp at the weekend after torrential rain storm at a track that can prepare a track to take rain and only took an hour to fix after the rain had stopped british speedway putting another nail in its own coffin   

Were you planning on watching it through a gap in the fence if it was on Davie? Seeing as your barred from getting in..

[davie10]

57 minutes ago, Cerro said:

Were you planning on watching it through a gap in the fence if it was on Davie? Seeing as your barred from getting in..

never been banned get your facts right