[Chrislong]

I agree with what Pidge says, but I do hope we go back.

Fair enough, you guys want to defend the work you have done, and you deserve a load of credit for it as it was a good track apart from one part of it. But in my opinion the greatness was somewhat dilluted by the straight being random. If Ellis and others in the top 10 can't do it consistently, then what chance do the rest of us have? I can accept bumpy, but the straight should be do able, and any obstacles be consistent accross the width and be visible - the bumps were not visible or consistent. And FFS it was so bumpy cars were airborn over the loop to the point they were not counting.

Another point, is Batley got a slating and a letter from the BRCA - for a rough straight and lack of toilets. So what has changed now? Personally the straight at Batley and general track condition (at the last national held there) was better than Talywain last weekend in my opinion. Im just stating this in response to the denial that the straight being overly bumpy is an issue. A lot of it is down to opinion, but benchmarking it against Batley straight which was complained about - then yes Talywains should have been a bit smoother and predictable (by no means flat ofcause, but there is a middleground)

The other thing is it could be made 80% better by the straight being do-able consistently, the other 20% I personally could live with and I did enjoy the track until I got to the straight. So I do hope we're back there, that we have toilets (i was bursting so much in the morning I snook into the ladies before I exploded - would have been messy), and that the pub stocks more Magners.

I did make a comment to H, didn't go down well, would have been nicer if was able to chat to him as I wasn't looking for an arguement or to offend him. I was trying to say I liked the track except for the straight. But hey ho, clearly a lot of work has gone on, and granted none of you want to hear negativity. But the fact is something wasn't right, so please don't take offence for the critisism.