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  3. Posted

    23 hours ago, Yearbyred said:

    On paper this is a tougher meeting than last week for the Bears. 3 ex Bears in the Scorpions line up, plus Howarth and Lambert who both score well at Redcar.

    Need a much better performance from the Bears or it will be another home loss I fear.

     

    Needs to be a marked improvement Dave, from the majority of the team. Unless that happens, all I can see, as you say, is a straight forward Scorpions win.

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  4. Posted

    6 hours ago, Biffa said:

    Biggest problem with that side is 4 riders returning from season ending injuries. Fingers crossed they’re all ok but could bite early on if not fully fit. 

    Point taken, with regard to the injuries. I'm taking the positive view, that they will recover, well. Any way I don't  expect Connor Coles not to have been snapped up.

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  5. Posted

    Team I would like to see at Redcar, next season. Hope I have got the averages right, with British reductions

    Danny King          8.41

    Charles Wright     7.80

    Thom  Jorgensen  6.30

    Connor Bailey       5.22

    Jason Edwards     4.55

    Jake Mulford         3.06

    Connor Coles         2.63

    Equals                    37.97

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  15. Posted

    8 hours ago, KK62 said:

    I think you’ll find my facts are right, as I negotiated the lease .

    So how come, Redcar raced against Poole on a Friday and had an amateur meeting on the Saturday, this season. Earlier in the season, we potentially had Stuart Robson's farewell on a Sunday and Redcar v Newcastle on a Friday in the same week. Loads of other instances, over recent years, It seems to me, that if its in the lease its not enforced.

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    35 minutes ago, scunny1 said:

    Changing gate positions every heat ,so coin toss is really not that important. I think prior to the start, everyone both home and away supporters expected a close finish.   Charles Wright probably had his worst meeting at the EWR, usually he is top notch. Scorpions just had their race heads on all night, but it was alarming not looking out for each other when in front. Heat 14 was lost by Jake because he was nursing his team mate around- not a bad thing, but it definitely cost him a win.

    So we have a 20 point advantage ,but we have blown so many points away at Redcar we cannot be complacent.

    Charles Wright, did have his worst meeting, at the EWR, but because he was struggling to get a set  up that worked, as were most of the bears, (Connor Bailey excepted). You could see he was spinning up and struggling for traction out of the starts and out on track. Whatever set up he had used previously, didn't apply last night. I have long believed, that there is a trick to the set up at Scunny (its surface and material are not like, a lot of other tracks) and Rory Schlien alluded to this on BSN commentary, when he said it was a big secret, with Ryan Douglas.

  21. Posted

    1 hour ago, lisa-colette said:

    Yeah Redcar are still a top 3 side, the track seemed to be just how Poole like it and are used to imo. If Hume made slightly different decisions in a couple of races could have ended up with a lot more points. Tough for him because he is now at a track with no home advantage. Bit different to Poole and Glasgow where there is one!! He has to be on it all the time. Think Connor should be at 2 imo though.

    Mulford will come good, I mean he is right there in most of his races. The more meetings he gets in the faster it will turn around.

    There's some truth in what you are saying, (not sure Jake will come that good). The weakness of the second strings and reserves, has been apparent from the start. This problem  is compounded, because of the starts situation. Gates 2 and especially 4 are currently so dominant. When Redcar are on these gates, they don't have a second rider, to take advantage of the situation, whereas Poole very often maxed it when the roles were reversed. The first  thing that should happen, is to try and even up the gates.

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  25. Posted

    2 hours ago, Bellers101 said:

    2 points from 3 riders at Oxford tonight. Not good enough. Same 3 riders registering too many 0's. Might soon be time to give Redcar track specialist Drew Kemp a call.

    I like that, but I suspect he's already had a call. I have been saying from the get go, this season, that the tail, was woefully weak. This applies especially at Redcar (example Danyon Hume 4 matches, prior to this season, 15 rides 12 points ) hardly startling pedigree. Connor Bailey  has only had 1meeting at Redcar (from memory) didn't score much. Jake Mulford only  been once before (from memory) and Jeffo might be right about his suitability. If we persist with these riders, (not saying we shouldn't) then they have to grasp the nettle, roll their sleeves up and come out fighting.

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