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Season Finale - Scorpions v Redcar 8.9.19

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What the hell did Rob get the blade out for and ruin a track that was perfectly acceptable to the Scorpions? Managed to gift the Bears a point making the track slick with only an inside line and follow the leader round.

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22 minutes ago, scunny1 said:

What the hell did Rob get the blade out for and ruin a track that was perfectly acceptable to the Scorpions? Managed to gift the Bears a point making the track slick with only an inside line and follow the leader round.

Thanks Rob.

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12 hours ago, foamfence said:

It's listening to what the riders want that has lead to most tracks becoming boring and processional.

Agree 100%

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9 hours ago, foamfence said:

Are you sure that he doesn't or that messages aren't passed on from management and above? Most riders like an easy to ride track and don't give a hoot about what things look like from the other side of the fence.

Yeah we liked the track at Glasgow, but the Tigers didn't.:D Our promotor is too busy ripping the track up and taking air fence down for next day stockcars to attend to after meeting event.

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1 hour ago, scunny1 said:

What the hell did Rob get the blade out for and ruin a track that was perfectly acceptable to the Scorpions? Managed to gift the Bears a point making the track slick with only an inside line and follow the leader round.

Yeah on reflection it was a surreal decision. Scorpions ride like the away side after that!

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13 hours ago, scunny1 said:

What the hell did Rob get the blade out for and ruin a track that was perfectly acceptable to the Scorpions? Managed to gift the Bears a point making the track slick with only an inside line and follow the leader round.

More so after we had just got a 4-2 then 2 x 5-1's. Rob probably thought meeting was won so thought about payments to riders. :nono: ;)

Dave Peet more annoyed about gifting Redcar a point especially as they were trying to pull a fast one using Douglas for Toft. Quite a few phone calls were made before the meeting.

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Good meeting, and job done by Scorpions in winning it.  Nice to see Stefan Nielsen have a good meeting – his confidence has taken a battering recently, but at least he can now go into the winter on the back of ‘a good one’.

Those last four races meant nothing, really.  It’s not that the lads stopped trying, the track just shifted as it’s likely to do during an afternoon meeting. I think the track grade was an attempt to stop that happening, but it was already too far on its way.  It showed why Friday meetings at 7.30pm are the preferred option.

It's also cost Scorpions nothing, since the only team we can really finish on level points with is Berwick.  If they fail to take a point from their last two meetings, that would mean two away defeats by 7 or more, in which case we go back above them on race points difference.  So, no damage done – it just gave Redcar an extra point.  It also gave their lively group of fans something to cheer about. 

There was three points up for grabs for Scorpions yesterday and we got all three of those points.  On this occasion, all the hard work was done in the first eleven races.  Some fine racing, including in Heat 3 as Ben and Stefan worked their way from behind to change a 1-5 to a 5-1, a bit more Auty v Douglas controversy (they’re still friends off track), Josh grabbing second place in Heat 10 on the line despite being down on power, and what turned out to be a vital third place for Ryan Kinsley after a race-long battle with Kasper Andersen in Heat 11 (without that, Bears three 5-1s would have taken it to a last-heat decider). 

Good final meeting of the season, and plenty of interesting titbits in the clubhouse after the meeting, with the Scorpions plus Dave Peet and Rob Godfrey all giving their thoughts.

Wake me up when it’s March 2020 and it’s Josh’s testimonial!

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48 minutes ago, IronScorpion said:

More so after we had just got a 4-2 then 2 x 5-1's. Rob probably thought meeting was won so thought about payments to riders. :nono: ;)

Dave Peet more annoyed about gifting Redcar a point especially as they were trying to pull a fast one using Douglas for Toft. Quite a few phone calls were made before the meeting.

Wasnt douglas in for wright, or did they try to switch ?

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1 hour ago, geoff100 said:

Wasnt douglas in for wright, or did they try to switch ?

Correct. As far as I'm aware Redcars' management already knew that they couldn't switch the guest facility from Wright to Toft and had to use r/r for Toft . 

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1 hour ago, lucifer sam said:

Good meeting, and job done by Scorpions in winning it.  Nice to see Stefan Nielsen have a good meeting – his confidence has taken a battering recently, but at least he can now go into the winter on the back of ‘a good one’.

Those last four races meant nothing, really.  It’s not that the lads stopped trying, the track just shifted as it’s likely to do during an afternoon meeting. I think the track grade was an attempt to stop that happening, but it was already too far on its way.  It showed why Friday meetings at 7.30pm are the preferred option.

It's also cost Scorpions nothing, since the only team we can really finish on level points with is Berwick.  If they fail to take a point from their last two meetings, that would mean two away defeats by 7 or more, in which case we go back above them on race points difference.  So, no damage done – it just gave Redcar an extra point.  It also gave their lively group of fans something to cheer about. 

There was three points up for grabs for Scorpions yesterday and we got all three of those points.  On this occasion, all the hard work was done in the first eleven races.  Some fine racing, including in Heat 3 as Ben and Stefan worked their way from behind to change a 1-5 to a 5-1, a bit more Auty v Douglas controversy (they’re still friends off track), Josh grabbing second place in Heat 10 on the line despite being down on power, and what turned out to be a vital third place for Ryan Kinsley after a race-long battle with Kasper Andersen in Heat 11 (without that, Bears three 5-1s would have taken it to a last-heat decider). 

Good final meeting of the season, and plenty of interesting titbits in the clubhouse after the meeting, with the Scorpions plus Dave Peet and Rob Godfrey all giving their thoughts.

Wake me up when it’s March 2020 and it’s Josh’s testimonial!

Just so I understand you correctly, was that a compliment to Redcar's travelling support or a dig at them actually creating a bit of atmosphere?

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5 minutes ago, erimus11 said:

Just so I understand you correctly, was that a compliment to Redcar's travelling support or a dig at them actually creating a bit of atmosphere?

It was a compliment.

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1 hour ago, lucifer sam said:

Good meeting, and job done by Scorpions in winning it.  Nice to see Stefan Nielsen have a good meeting – his confidence has taken a battering recently, but at least he can now go into the winter on the back of ‘a good one’.

Those last four races meant nothing, really.  It’s not that the lads stopped trying, the track just shifted as it’s likely to do during an afternoon meeting. I think the track grade was an attempt to stop that happening, but it was already too far on its way.  It showed why Friday meetings at 7.30pm are the preferred option.

It's also cost Scorpions nothing, since the only team we can really finish on level points with is Berwick.  If they fail to take a point from their last two meetings, that would mean two away defeats by 7 or more, in which case we go back above them on race points difference.  So, no damage done – it just gave Redcar an extra point.  It also gave their lively group of fans something to cheer about. 

There was three points up for grabs for Scorpions yesterday and we got all three of those points.  On this occasion, all the hard work was done in the first eleven races.  Some fine racing, including in Heat 3 as Ben and Stefan worked their way from behind to change a 1-5 to a 5-1, a bit more Auty v Douglas controversy (they’re still friends off track), Josh grabbing second place in Heat 10 on the line despite being down on power, and what turned out to be a vital third place for Ryan Kinsley after a race-long battle with Kasper Andersen in Heat 11 (without that, Bears three 5-1s would have taken it to a last-heat decider). 

Good final meeting of the season, and plenty of interesting titbits in the clubhouse after the meeting, with the Scorpions plus Dave Peet and Rob Godfrey all giving their thoughts.

Wake me up when it’s March 2020 and it’s Josh’s testimonial!

Good to tell you are Scorpions PR man. Last races meant nothing?  Well tell that to a stand full of supporters around me , who were incensed that the track had not been graded but, actually bladed and outside line totally removed, robbing us of actual racing instead of follow the leader hugging the inside.

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9 minutes ago, erimus11 said:

Correct. As far as I'm aware Redcars' management already knew that they couldn't switch the guest facility from Wright to Toft and had to use r/r for Toft . 

But they did try because of Toft's late withdrawal hence the number of calls made.

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10 minutes ago, lucifer sam said:

It was a compliment.

To be honest, I didn't expect it to be otherwise :t:

We do tend to get the "marmite " trait of opinion at times :)

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Enjoyed yesterday (Scunny v Bears) not our team(s) so not fussed who wins we (3) just enjoy speedway.  Arrived late, 4:50-ish pm, seemed to be a big crowd, had to park far end of car park in between the 'usual' rows of cars, as did a few, not visited that area for a long time, anyone have any idea how many, just out of interest....

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