Gavan

Have to ask if there is a facility for a replacement if injured before it starts i.e Ward Event one: SAYFUTDINOV, IVERSEN, HANCOCK, KOLODZIEJ Event two: WARD (if out can it be Holder?), WOLBERT, KUS, CRUMP

ah you got to laugh at some people on here! Bash ive been a speedway fan for 30 years of my 36 year life, i followed mark loram around with my aunt and uncle and always went foxhall as lakeside or arena as it was was not built and we preferred the british league to national league though we did go to rye house a lot as we live in essex. i am not an alter ego of aljack i just happen to agree with what he says sometimes but not in his context always. check where else ive posted on this forum and hopefully you will see we are not the same person. i havent been to foxhall this season as family and work are a hinderence so maybe im not the best person to pass judgement on this years side but im an ipswich fan and want us to do ewell

It must be hard for a lot of you witches fans but i have been a fan for 30 years and can you not see Aljack is right? ok i will agree he goes to far sometimes in condemnation of individuals and im not a louis hater by any means but our club is a laughing stock. the win over glasgow just glossed over how badly our team is put together and the fact that when things go wrong our management do not make changes at all just trundle along to mid table (if we are lucky). look at scunthorpe gone and got morris and now have howe morris and auty as top 3! thats 45 points against our awful top 3 everytime lol. what i am saying is they are struggling and did something about it!

Lol Jepsen Jensen again hey lets give him a permanent wild card!! it should be a young pole most definatly same as when jepson jensen got the danish one and how i would imagine Tai will get our one! just waiting to see what gp they give Ward because chances are he will be the only wildcard that will be capable of actually winning a meeting thus taking points off the top boys. would be interesting when he is in the same race as Holder if he is chasing the world title!!

Glad to hear Worrall is in - he should be as he deserves it if there are no qualifiers. Personally with 32 rider semi finals you could easily seed the top 16 riders have the next 32 do two qualifiers and then so be it. I remember years ago there were quarters and semis before the british final but that was when the british final meant something. I remember being at Ipswich and Mark Loram tried to ride in the semis with a broken collerbone and couldnt turn the bike. He was out the british final that year.

Lets be brutally honest the only way Kennett or Bridger will ever ride in the gp is as a wildcard at cardiff

3 GREATES RACES FOR ME AND I AM A BIASED MARK LORAM FAN LOL 1. NOT MARK!! JAN O PEDERSEN IN AN 8 RIDER RACE STARTED OFF THE BACK MESSED THE START UP THEN PASSED EVERYONE ITS ON YOU TUBE SOMEWHERE 2. LORAMSKI 1999 GP FINAL IN LINKOPPING SWEDEN - CLASSIC OVERTAKES 3. LORAMSKI BRITISH FINAL RUN OFF WITH LOUIS -HARD BUT FAIR RACING PASSING AND REPASSING

N Pedersen Holder Gollob Sayfutdinov

Correct by all means have the top 8 brits seeded to this and then hold qualifiers its not rocket science. Richie Worrall should be in this meeting ahead of a lot of the other riders thats for sure. But if we had qualifiers and he didnt make it then so be it, and no he shouldnt be at Cardiff!

they didnt just use him for that reason although wouldnt suprise me anything ford did with the win at all costs attitude. Im not going over the end of may/ all season debate on AM its been done to death. There isnt just 1 reason why Poole are disliked there are numerous and again they have been flogged to death. Its a shame as your club has good support the best two riders and racers in the world really yet time and again your promotion let you down and speedway in general with they way they do things and get away with it. when supporters are on here and cant understand why other speedway fans get annoyed about it then it adds more fuel to the fire, you need to realise what is right and wrong with your club. Im an Ipswich fan and believe me i loved it when we won the league but we manipulated it all when we had Gollob on a false average with an obviously improving fast Nicholls and Louis and Rickardsson and a premier league number 1 at reserve in Toni Svab. It wasnt done right or for the interests of the sport but by golly we enjoyed winning it. I wish Poole fans were the sam enjoy your success and the riders you have but accept you havent entirely been legit in doing it.

where did i say it was wrong to replace an 8.5 rider with an 8.5 rider? that is within the rules it was the way that AM was signed which is the problem here. Obtaining a 5.5 rider to stop anyone probably using him again and then making sure he stayed long enough to get his new average was the issue and to be fair 99% of this forum do see that!

Miedzinski was obviously a better rider than 5.57 and Pawlicki is obviuosly a better than 6.97 or whatever it is. Miedzinski did up his average and in my mind Pawlicki is better has more potential and so therefore will do as well if not better. You cant say AM at 8.50 is a 1.5 better rider than Pawlicki thats just rubbish! you cant compare the 2 averages. the only problem with Pawlicki is his availability so in that respect you may be weaker but not on scoring ability! Its a typical Poole thread i.e that they defend the indefensible time after time. Putting in excuses as to why they wont win the league already just in case they dont happen to, when any normal educated supporter can see they will walk it this year. They looking for the excuse that whoever comes in will make them weaker and so therefore will lose the league. It is blatant what they have done bought in someone on a false average to then make sure he doesnt leave until he gets his new average meaning they can effectively replace a 5.5 rider with an 8 point rider!! And that will make them weaker? How? Only if they replace with a 5.5 rider which they should have done at the end of May. 2012 season - the year the elite league was ruined

Averages dont come into this at all cant believe what some people write! Did any Poole fan think AM would only average the 5.5 or whatever it was he had? Everybody knew he was an 8 pointer in disguise. Its irrelevent even if Pawlicki was on a 4 average the potential is there to average far more so to say his average is lower it will weaken Poole is absolute rubbish he is a better rider with far more potential. So bring in Hampel on a 7 or Linback on a 6 and they are worse riders than AM because there average is lower? Get in the real world here! Kasprzak was the guy they wanted to fit in so please dont tell me you think he would have weakened you as well!

Lol @ homestraight. the only way you will be weaker with Pawlicki is when he dont turn up. will score more away then AM and will match him at home

Very hard to define an order of legends in any sport. Do we go by World Titles or National crowns? Is Scott Nicholls a better rider than Mark Loram as he has won more British titles? Is Havelock a better rider than Wiggy or Tatum as he won a world crown? Look at snooker as 1 example Davis v White who was the best? Davis more world titles but White much more natural. Very hard topic to assess this one. Personally ranking it on my own combination of talent and titles these are the top 3 that i have seen race i.e 1980 onwards. AUSTRALIA - CRUMP, SANDERS, ADAMS DENMARK - NIELSEN, GUNDERSEN, JAN O USA - HANCOCK, PENHALL, ERMOLENKO SWEDEN - RICKARDSSON, PER JONSSON, ? ENGLAND - LEE, LORAM, TATUM

No dont want anyone missing in the grand final! Holder Ward Lindback Kasprzak Holta Pawlicki 1 and Pawlicki 2 whoever they have signed must all ride and somebody beats them fair and square then all the Poole fans cant claim they didnt deserve it

Sorry but the majority of the Poole fans on here are a complete joke in their knowledge of speedway. Im not saying it has happened or wether or not it will happen but if the Pawlicki brothers come in for AM and Kling/Masters your team will be STRONGER!!!!!!!!!!!! can you read that STRONGER STRONGER STRONGER not weaker as some clowns on here are saying. This is one of the reasons Poole are hated blatent rule bending, stopping assets being used, cheating, oh and add to that some idiotic supporters!! i sincerly hope that Poole do become strong and they have all their riders for the grand final and someone somewhere comes and beats them. Im an Ipswich fan so not worried who wouldnt even mind if it was Kings Lynn!! Imagine if its Lakeside v Poole the whole of the speedway community has Lakeside as their second team this year it would be the whole family v Poole lol

it is hard to nominate who we could have had or who is available now i know that but i did say on here at the start i wasnt happy with the team. Poole was a good addition and yes very unfortunate to lose him. I said Doolan was no longer a number 1 and that is proved. Very unfortunate for Risager with injuries but he is not good enough. Dak Rohan and Heeps emerge with credit and the signing of Lanham smacked of a quick fix. We are weak at the end of a meeting and 13 and 15 are huge worries. The team was poorly built at the start. Ok he is a bit of a wild thing but why didnt we move for Fisher before the start of the season or someone like Seb Alden? these guys were available but yet again we go the easy way out route the cheaper option.

to be fair i would have hoped we wouldnt have built our team to defend the fours but to try and win the league! but when the team has been built so poorly then it wasnt even a concern. i am suprised the majority of fans are happy with mid table

In a way i agree with Aljack just the way he gets his point across is all wrong. Tungate , Heeps , and North are potential and lets not kid ourselves we have badly missed Poole who could have made a big difference. Doolan is on the way down that is obvious, Risager has never lived up to his potential 5 or 6 years ago and needs to go and the signing of Lanham was a panic move. Im sorry it smacks of bad team building. we are weak in the latter stages when it comes to 13 and 15 everytime. Do they still run the pairs? If they did we would be bottom i reckon just look at the top two of other sides. SCREEN & GRIEVES ALDEN & ASHWORTH BARKER & FISHER LEMON & ROBSON AUTY & HOWE LAWSON & BACH COOK & TULLY just to name a few. I would fancy home and away we would concede a 5-1 or 4-2 to most of those everytime in 13 or 15 it needs to be changed

HOLDER GOLLOB HAMPEL HARRIS

Personally i think this is the best gp race for many years so many in the mix. Riders like Gollob and Hampel have not really hit top form at all yet are bang there. Holder had a bad first round but along with Nicki is riding the best at the moment. Hancock is plugging away and like Crump is there or thereabouts every time. In my own mind (and i bloody hate Poole!) im going for Holder as long as he doesnt start to tire like previous years as i think he is riding the best but i still wouldnt rule out Hampel. What does everyone else think?

Is this thread serious i cant believe what some people are writing. I want to see Team GB in the final and that means picking the four best riders that we have yes or no? The top 3 pick themselves HARRIS NICHOLLS WOFFINDEN simple as that. The only position up for grabs is number 4. This should be picked on form and experiance basically. Kennett and Barker have ridden in world cups so to have Stead and i believe King and Bridger. Kennett is out of form and personally i think Stead has had his chances at this level and isnt good enough. I also dont really think King is up to it so i would pick Bridger or Barker. The young blood the worralls and the like are nowhere near up to this level yet. Put Auty in the squad to give him that experiance of being around it all but i want us to do well and see us in the final and no one can tell me that Screeny wouldnt get more points than Stead or King because he is in great form

HAMPEL HOLDER THOMAS H JONASSON JONSSON

The finalists were the old guard with 9 world titles between them and these guys love em or loathe em are proving they are true legends of the sport. but to be fair to me it shows the decline of up and coming riders. We have only Holder and Hampel who can mix it with these boys on a consistent basis. Jonsson proving that last season was a one off. With the exception of Ward who else is there? No wonder these 4 finalists dont want to retire they are still the best out there