david2905

Strange logic of having the 2nd leg away, but I guess that's your perogative for finishin in the top 2. Swindon by 12 in this leg, and by 8 on agregate over two legs is my prediction.

I'd go with that, a few of the Brummies go well at Monmore, King, Harris and Covatti in particular. Wolves win by 6 in this leg, but Brummies on aggregate over two legs is my prediction.

What I think is irrelevant, UK law classes anyone under 16 as a child, this over rules anything in speedway. Bit of difference between an accidental crash/incident and an intentionally inflicted assault by an adult.

Gollob wasn't a child.

If what I have read is true then Lewis Bridger should be banned from riding in Britain for the 2014 season, in the eyes of the law, he has effectively committed assault on a child, bit different to the situation of handbags between two adults such as Barker & Cook for example. If that went to court, Bridger would be lucky not to do a couple of months. And that was pretty idiotic as well as I seem to recall Bjerre was on a T/R and Bridger wasn't exactly waving him by.

You edited out where I said immediatly before that "apart from this season" you doughnut It's an example of what I believe is wrong with the tacticals system, don't take the heats/scores quoted too literally.

It's pandering to Sky in the hope of keeping meetings (when on TV) interesting for longer by keeping the result open for longer rather than one team getting tonked out of sight, as a Brummies fan, it's infuriated the hell out of me as tradtionally we've gone for teams with strength through the order, the typical pattern is we'd go 10-14 up by say heat 9, then a top heavy team would send their Grand prix riders out on one or two tacticals, then with heats 13 & 15 shortly following their use, we'd go from 14 in front to losing by 4 at the end of the meeting Luckily we've been good enough this season to avoid it mostly, but an all too frequent scenario in previous seasons, what irks me most is tacticals favour top heavy teams who can afford the superstar GP riders, it can't be right they are given an artificial chance of winning meetings when they only have 2 riders getting points as opposed to the oppositions 5 or more. Apart from this season, Birmingham v Wolves fixtures have been classic example, we smack them out of sight, then Freddie and Tai get comedy points to dig them out a hole.

Absolutely chuffed for Smolinski having the season of his life, the simple fact is he was good enough to qualify and others were not, he deserves to be and indeed is there on merit, give the guy credit, yes the GP's is a huge step up, but did you think he'd be mixing it with and beating the best in the EL back in March ?.

Some of the opinions on here are just pure comedy, it's all Barkers fault because he has previous ? ok then Cook started this chain of events with his uncontrolled gob, anything Barkers done previously is unrelated.

Your point is ?, averages are an irrelevance to whether Cook is an arrogant prat.

Cook has no one to blame but himself, what did he honestly expect after his attack on Barker & Bridger in the media because he wasn't good enough to keep his SWC place ?, Ben or even Lewis are perfectly entitled to be p***ed off with him. Barker's no angel but Cook is fast turning into a poor mans Darcy Ward, all of the arrogance and not even half the talent.

Bar Woofy, I don't think any of them are capable of the grade required, be it tried and tested in King or potential in Worrall, don't get me wrong, him and Cook are good prospects, but will most likely become the Harris and Nicholls of 2018 rather than Nicki Pedersen or Chris Holder if we are being honest, even if the changes required are implemented tomorrow, we can write off the next 5 years as in my opinion the likes of Worrall and Cook are too far along the line to turn into worldbeaters, we need to catch young riders much earlier than that.

Whoever we put in isn't up to the task in all honesty, and I doubt chucking in some youngsters is the answer either, ok they haven't let us down before, but do you see anything in them to suggest they are Grand Prix material ?. I would suggest steps to nuture and develop some decent talent after 10 years or so, but have zero faith in our promoters and associations to actually implement such things if it doesn't offer an instant fix to their rider and financial issues. British Speedway is in dire straights currently, lack of money, lack and talent and lack of interest, and it's a vicious circle that's extremely difficult to fix one of those problems without having the others available.

It begs the question, why do Edinburgh/Cook talk to him if he's blatantly stirring ?, Fergie didn't speak to the BBC for years after they implied his kid in something dodgy. Bit of an insult to Danny King there, in the last 18 months he's gone from a 6 to mid 7 average and held it, regularly scoring at least 9 at Perry Barr, compare to Kennett who is struggling to score for Berwick and got outgated by the prams in the crowd when Swindon came to Birmingham, and Danny got all this without the aid of a Black & Decker. King may not be Woffinden, but he's the best we have outside Woofy and Harris, and certainly better than unsteady Eddie.

That's rich coming from someone who supports Peterborough or Poole depending what day of the week it is

Only thing I can remotely think of is he didn't score brilliantly when at Number One for Brum, but then who has ?.

Your not going to last very long in Speedway if you throw the toys out everytime a decision goes against you, seems Cook & Nicholls have the ego of Ward, but not the talent.

On his form this season, Jason Doyle is more than a match for Bomber and can cause Woofy griefif he's not careful.

Sometime the fences don't keep them on the track, I remember Woofy going over the fence on the back straight at Perry Barr in his Rye House days, Rye left with about 3 riders that night.

What's the fuss about ?, you never seem a mind numbing 0-0 in Football then ?, Duff matches happen in all sports.

Isn't that called good racing by Barker ? blocking someone attempting a pass is part of the sport. Enjoy the battle for 2nd lads

There was nothing obviously untowards in heat 15, appears a bit of toy throwing after a bad night at the office to me.

What is it with Aussies with Poole connections having big gobs that are two seconds ahead of their brain ?, if Watt is being put in his place by Barker then he should question himself whether he's still got it that insult others, clearly Middlo ditched him for a reason.

Yeah, disrupt a winning side that even on off nights is getting the points of late Nico was nowhere near as bad as his score suggests, just the form Auty is in, it makes sense to swap the reserves, Nico would of definetly got more if he had more rides.

Well he is a Number One at the end of the day, I just find it farcical Bjerre and Bridger had a bout of handbags when it was blatantly obvious who the guilty party was, Bjerre seemingly doesn't understand it's no good Lewis letting you past as Barker & Kings disappear for a Brummie 5-1