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Lakeside v Peterborough frid 6th april 8 pm CS

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12 minutes ago, TonyE said:

No doubt based on their performance at your place!

No based on the fact that your team is built around Lakeside track specialists.

 

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 I enjoyed the meeting which was close for a long time. Some good races..Lakeside look solid apart from Bowtell who can gate very well but does not look ready for this level yet whether they can give him time remains to be seen..... Crowd looked good to me but it is very spread out round the track and with many in the top bar it is very difficult to judge accurately......i think we should have a decent season ..the result at Peterborough suggests we will not be as weak as some have suggested away from home,,,and Lakeside should be a fortress,..Bring it on.....

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1 hour ago, bigcatdiary said:

No based on the fact that your team is built around Lakeside track specialists.

 

 I would say Morley and maybe Lawson are track specialists and that’s it.

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1 hour ago, bigcatdiary said:

No based on the fact that your team is built around Lakeside track specialists.

 

That doesn't really square with getting 44pts at the Showground but time will tell.

I would be more concerned with Scott's performance thus far - averaging 5.60 (or 6.93 with bonus points) is hardly what one would expect from your No 1 rider.

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21 minutes ago, TonyE said:

 

I would be more concerned with Scott's performance thus far - averaging 5.60 (or 6.93 with bonus points) is hardly what one would expect from your No 1 rider.

Indeed we are although we are fairly confident he will sort it.

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Spoke to rider on the night and he said the track was lacking grip..something they need to sort out to improve the racing..

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Yeah the track certainly lacked grip, didn't help that there seemed to be only one tractor driver so they could not grade and water the track at the same time, We clearly have a decent team but the club needs to improve on one or two minor things, sort the track and sound system out, perfectly doable.

Next week should be interesting and I am sure there will be a decent contingent of Witches fans there.

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1 hour ago, TonyE said:

That doesn't really square with getting 44pts at the Showground but time will tell.

I would be more concerned with Scott's performance thus far - averaging 5.60 (or 6.93 with bonus points) is hardly what one would expect from your No 1 rider.

I don't think any concern is necessary after three matches in any context really. There are riders up and down the country who will take half a dozen or more meetings to get going. Nicholls is a class act at this level and will score plenty of points this season.

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Have looked for Scott's scores with interest over the last couple of nights as he is Rye's number one this term again. Would have expected a lot more from him around a track he is mightily familiar with in Ipswich and one at which he is considered a specialist in Lakeside. Hopefully it is just a case of early season blowing the cobwebs away, if he was going to fall off a cliff I'd have expected it to have happened a few seasons back. From a selfish point of view I'd prefer to see him have his off nights in a Peterborough race jacket than a Rye House one too!

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Have Rye House dropped Chris Harris then as his average is higher than Scott  Nicholls? 

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1 hour ago, scoobydoo said:

Have Rye House dropped Chris Harris then as his average is higher than Scott  Nicholls? 

I suspect you already know the answer to that. 

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Given the amount of rain that has fallen recently (the car park was a perfect example) , I can understand why it may have been difficult to prepare the track to the standard we have come to expect of late. Maybe next week we will see normality restored. 

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9 hours ago, bigcatdiary said:

No based on the fact that your team is built around Lakeside track specialists.

 

So which track specialists is the team built round?

The reality is that Lakesides top four scorers scored 39 points between them last night and 37 points between them at Peterborough last week. Virtually no difference there then . All four of them ride for big tracks in the Premiership League. Absolute nonsense to say the team is built round Lakeside track specialists. The three heat leaders plus Zach can ride most tracks pretty well.Its in the nature of speedway that most tracks have s home advantage which is why most meetings are wins for the home team wherever you go.

The fact is that for reasons best known to yourself you have a chip on your shoulder about Jon Cook and Lakeside and are always looking to find whatever fault you can fault with the promotion and the club, never anything positive to say about anything so nobody values your opinion.

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Richard Lawson, Zach Wajtknecht, Ben Morley all track specialists with Bowtell in the NL team last year and Ellis a former EL rider for you guys, then arguably the best rider in the league at No.1 and Kyle Newman on a very attractive average to me at 4.

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12 minutes ago, E I Addio said:

So which track specialists is the team built round?

The reality is that Lakesides top four scorers scored 39 points between them last night and 37 points between them at Peterborough last week. Virtually no difference there then . All four of them ride for big tracks in the Premiership League. Absolute nonsense to say the team is built round Lakeside track specialists. The three heat leaders plus Zach can ride most tracks pretty well.Its in the nature of speedway that most tracks have s home advantage which is why most meetings are wins for the home team wherever you go.

The fact is that for reasons best known to yourself you have a chip on your shoulder about Jon Cook and Lakeside and are always looking to find whatever fault you can fault with the promotion and the club, never anything positive to say about anything so nobody values your opinion.

To be fair Custer it’s difficult to find anything positive to say about Lakeside, it certainly isn’t the quality of the racing or the superb all seated grandstand. But I should think your riders are happy, well apart from Kim Nilsson anyway.

 

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