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Morning All, beautiful day in Yorkshire, have fun!

The constant bickering (on this site in particular) is boring the sh*t out of 99% of Comets and Glasgow fans alike. Could you all please give it a rest!

So the slagging off that has infested multiple threads over the past fortnight can now be put to bed and we can stick to this one to slag each other off . Finally we can get it on ( weather permitting of course) to decide who the northern representative in the final will be . Back in June Glasgow beat the Comets 50-40 while in Cumbria the Comets won 48.5 to 41.5 . Those two scores would do us very nicely . But those results dont tell the full story , Workington were understrength at Ashfield , with Klindt and Campton scoring 29 of the 40 points between them . Of course that was June 2018 BC ( before Cookie ) and we might well be Cookieless due to his injury . The choice of qualifying guests , should we need one , doesnt look appealing , with either of the Worrall twins the best candidates . But if Cookie makes it and is anywhere near fit enough , that just might swing it in our favour . Just as well it wasnt planned for today , even the ducks have went indoors .

Iversen isn’t ruled out. No broken bones being reported. How do Poole become the 4th best team when we finished third?

Tai Woffinden has won three. Peter Collins has won one. That is the only thing they can be compared against. The ability of team mates, which are necessary for the other titles, render them redundant to the discussion. Plus the standard of opposition in some of those pairs and team victories was not exactly 'elite'.

was all around the kings lynn area last night for a show attended, but saw no posters on display about the play off....whenever theres a circus in town, posters are up everywhere...not blaming the promotion, but bearing in mind kings lynn have never won the top flight league, would of thought plugging this everywhere may of helped...a little?

well done tai on a third world title.was nice to see the poles getting well and truly peed off.good luck comets on your quest for the title.

You need to read Steve’s post again.

paulco has started a thread , worky v tigers . any bad mouthing should be done on there or not at all (better). only Glasgow triplets and older GLASGOW ladies can post ! also . only the crazy sisters lol .myself, scaramange and the chosen few . will get an invite by e mail to join in . same applies to the glasgow fans . daffo no sheff , scunny or edinburgh fans . just to remind everyone , its invitation only . have a nice day punters .

Calling off meetings like this is a major contributory factor as to why fans have been deserting the sinking Speedway ship! Even if the track was 'unfit' several hours ago it just isn't good enough on a near perfect day for Speedway!

Tai was brilliant and a deserved winner. He is without doubt the best rider of the current era and I think he will add to his 3 titles but you really can't compare him with riders of different eras. I have seen the best since the mid 50's and there is no way you can realistically say how someone like Fundin would fare today on completely different machinery, different racing surfaces and against different opposition. I would say that Mauger is the best I have seen. Not only because of his 6 titles but because of the way he dominated the sport week in and week out both domestically and at international level for so many years but it's an opinion not a fact. The is no-one today who dominates as he did but that doesn't guarantee that he would have shone so brightly with the changes that have occurred since he retired. I think he would but the truth is nobody knows for certain. It's the same in reverse. We don't know with certainty how Tai would have done in the 50/60's when riders had more or less the same standard equipment, tracks were deeper and the best in the world rode in the UK on the many and varied tracks that were different shapes and sizes. I think he would have done well but good enough to match the like of Fundin, Briggs, Craven and Moore, I don't know and neither does anyone else.

Steve, your clearly wearing blinkers mate. Not everybody can take a day of work willy nilly, and not everybody has a spare £100 floating around. People have to work mate, there is such a thing as bills to be paid, We are all not Art conniseurs like you. I have spoke to many many poole fans who used to go on a weekly basis, but can now no longer afford to. Peterol and Deisal are as high as they have been for years, Gas Electric going up all the time, i could go on and on mate. And im very sure that many KL fans can tell the same storry, unless you use a credit card...

Probably because we have never been regarded as winners, it is assumed we haven't got the fight and determination to succeed against a seasoned winners like Poole. But I don't get this crap. Whatever Poole have achieved in the past has nothing to do with the team the have now. The only remaining members are Middlo and Ford and they don't even ride a bike. Looking back the over the recent years, this must be one of the worse Poole teams I can remember. The only problem we should be concerned about would be their track, but apart from that we should be really confident of doing well. I will be disappointed and surprised if we lose the first leg by more than 3 or4 points. We finished 10 pts clear of Poole in the league, (that's more than 3 match results better) yet fans and posters on here talk as though they have some divine right to always win... Bomber magical win in heat 15 hides the embarrassment of losing to a severely weakened Somerset team. Had they had a full team, Poole wouldn't even had reached the final. This is probably the best team Lynn have had for many a year, and represents a wonderful opportunity to get our name on that trophy. Our close, united team with loads of spirit has more than enough strength to win this, …….. Both teams are made up of predominately Championship riders, the main difference is that Lynn have 2 world class riders in Niels and Lambert to spearhead the team . On a good day we will win with points to spare. A person who talks about a 14 point deficit, watches a different teams than the one I see...….

having seen both gps and old style world championship, its old style for me everytime..(my choice) my reasons are you had the drama of the one night final, but you got to see a variation of riders along the way...im simply bored with a closed shop of riders every round, then as sometimes happens, the same riders get given the wildcard...add on top of that indoor speedway, no thanks

Tai Woffinden, Three Time World Champion Britains Finest The ultra professional and a shining example to the youth of today that if you have a dream and work hard enough to achieve it you can do just that.

Going back to KL promoting the playoffs, there has been a lot of coverage in the local media as I follow some of them on Twitter and there was been a lot of links to articles. Good to see!

Yep, not taking anything away from Peter Collins at all. Brilliant rider. Just this nonsensical argument put forward about his other titles. Look at the 77 pairs.. on his home track at Hyde Road.. the opposition was mediocre at best. Similarly in 1980.. nothing major in terms of opposition, the Poles on their own track plus the Danes with a yet to fully mature Nielsen the best.. the rest complete also rans. Similar story in many of the World Team Cup Finals. The standard of the teams competing in a World Cup Final now is way above those competing in the World Team Cup Finals of the 70's.

No way was Egon Muller a shock winner. I went to that meeting, and beforehand pretty much everyone on our coach thought he might win. He might not have won it on a Grand Prix system, but on a one-off in Germany he was one of the favourites.

It is unbelievable, surely any track that is dry all day with a start time of 4.00 can't be made raceable by that time? If Eastie had been at home today I'd be going expecting the track to be pretty much perfect even with last night's heavy rain. As you say the fixture planning/calling off meetings is a huge factor with the poor crowds, think it just wears everyone down and we get fed up trying to double guess if it's on or not, especially when there were so few meetings run in the summer.

Since 1954, Only two riders were imo shock winners. Jerzy Szczakiel and Egon Mullier. Who else would you say were no where near the best rider to win it from 54?

Think you missed the - out between the 1 and 8

Really last time I checked he was still my Brother so what is it you say oh yes jog on .

some people struggle with money and can't justify it, shame you haven't any sense of that reality

I think the one offs would have suited Tai even more, the Poles seem to crumble under pressure

Nice of Tai to dedicate his Championship to Thomasz