Reading through Jeff Scott's Quantum Of Shale last night and came across this gem:
"One thing I do want to establish once and for all to those that perhaps don't understand is that this is a new promotion with a new ethic and those that think we should have taken the opportunity to call the meeting off as we had suffered an hour's drizzle or that we should have called off in the morning in case we lost, need to understand one thing. We are professional and we are building you a club to be part of and proud of. Therefore we do things right. Plenty of speedway businesses and the sport itself have been damaged sometimes beyond repair with a string of early rain-offs - some without weather foundation all in the name of winning. We won't do that as it's not just gamesmanship it's cheating and cheating the sport and cheating the paying public who invariably lose interest in the end and don't attend at all. We will wait until the track is too wet to prepare for an 8pm start every time and if that's 4, 5, 6 or 7 o'clock that's the way it will be. You can make your minds up if it's worth risking a trip but you do it in the knowledge that every effort will be made." - Jon Cook, Lakeside programme, 08/08/2008
23/08/2012 - Calls off meeting with 12 hours to go, because of a forecast of rain, and with a rider woefully out of form (who subsequently quits the club)
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