Love Reign O'er Me

Ok, so it was the other type of rain that fell today.

It totally spoilt our day.

Because our day consisted of a trip to Newcastle Speedway, where the mighty Monarchs were due to do battle on the track, against the Diamonds.

Now 72hrs ago this looked an easy task for our seemingly invincible team.

But just when you think you're winning, fate steps in and trips you up.

Firstly, on Friday during our team captains testimonial meeting, our #1 rider crashed heavily and was taken to hospital, it transpired that he'd broken his wrist in two places and will be out of action for a number of weeks.

Another of the teams riders also was brought down during the incident and is now doing a mean John Wayne walk ouch!

Secondly, just when we were still getting over the shock of that, it was announced the following day that another member of the team, who'd been racing in Poland, had also crashed!
And as a result had broken his hand!

You really couldn't make this up!

And this morning we were informed that a third member of the team is suffering from a virus and is resting at his home in Germany!

Well, how do you find 3 replacement riders at such short notice?

I don't know but give the promoters their due, they did it.

So it was all systems go!

We all boarded the coach, travelled the 3hrs down to Newcastle, got off the coach, paid our entrance fee, bought programmes etc

Yet within 20 minutes we were informed by the track announcer that unfortunately due to the severe rainfall the meeting was being cancelled in the interests of safety and would be restaged at a later date.

So we did the only we could do, we bought some chips and sat on our butts until the car park emptied and then we boarded the bus and headed back home again.

It's a long way to go for chips I'll say that!