The Good The Bad and The Ugly

First the good news 4 points from two meetings with Ipswich shouldn't be sniffed at, quite why we had to have two meetings on the same day though escapes me. Didn't make it to Foxhall but heard the crowd was massive but certainly think the attendance at Rye was down on what it would have been on a normal Saturday night. Lets face it who can afford to shell out over £30 on admission money plus petrol plus food etc all in a day.

Now the bad yet another injury to the Rockets answer to Frank Spencer it seems in the words of a wise old blues man who's name I've forgotten "if I didn't have bad luck I'd have no luck at all". Quite how many more injuries Luke can take is anyone's guess but we wish the lad well and hope he's back soon.then to Heat 13 on Monday night and Jason Doyle's dislocated shoulder. Must say he managed to get off the track swiftly in what must have been agony but looking at John Sampford's face in the pits afterwards told the story. Finally we have a top rider who for me was just running into form and suddenly its back to pouring through the averages to try to find a guest. On that note hats off to James Holder who was sunning himself in Poole on Monday afternoon when he got the call from Mr S and unlike some others who'll remain nameless volunteered to drive up and take his guest rides.

Finally the ugly and that had to be Morten Risager's crunching meeting with the fourth bend fence. Commentating on racing is great but there is a real downside when you have to talk through an incident like that, my mind immediately flashed back to a similar one in the late 80's involving Hackney's Andy Galvin. Thankfully Morten walked away with just a finger injury, a pretty severe one I'll admit but it could have been so much worse.

So its off to Berwick and Glasgow with half a team...... wait a minute that's the phone ringing and its John Sampford surely he's not sunk that low down the averages!!