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‘Is Nagel really that key?’ Just look at his scores.

Thank you Mike.

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Zach Cook would do me....also we dont know the make up of next season yet

an awful lot of unnecessary pant wetting about this result it meant virtually nothing for ipswich and im expecting much different performances from them next week

the title this year really is anybodies difficult to pick a winner or name a favourite

Grand final 1st leg is on Tuesday 9th September Torun v Wroclaw start time 4pm UK time line-ups Torun 9 Duchinski 10 Kawczynski 11 Heiselberg 12 Ruminski 13 Derek 14 Lewandowski 15 Wroclaw 1 Andersen 2 Krawcyyk 3 Gusts 4 Kowolik 5 Drejer 6 Mikolajczyk 7

Sounds awful.... Best Wishes ..

Planned on attending this one and alas can’t now make it, or the return next Thursday! Holed up in hospital with a shattered leg and broken hip after an accident Thursday evening 🙄

According to 360Speedway Nagel is on borrowed kit as well.

Nagel definitely the key at Ashfield.Poole will be happy he is not there.IMO

Well now the season has come to an end I thought I’d offer my thoughts on each riders season to try restart this thread! Steve Worrall - it’s been a tough season for Steve who is certainly isn’t a number 1 anymore. He is on a nice average for next year but If the rumours are correct that he has retired it will be a shame but not surprising. Jake Allen - another tough year for Jake, some nights looks like he’s got bags of speed, other nights looks like he’s on a tractor. Ideally you would only want Jake as a third heat leader. On an average of 6.53 I’m on the fence as to whether he should return. Connor Mountain - one of few riders that has a decent enough season. A solid and dependable rider who I would expect to be back next year. Only thing I would say his average just over 6 is a little heigh for my liking. Zaine Kennedy - Zaine has progressed nicely this year and deffo has potential to grow into a heat leader. On an average just over 5 I would say he needs to snapped up for next year before someone else does. Luke Harrison - a talented young lad who has maintained a decent average riding in the main body of the team for large parts of the year. Would deffo want Luke back next year but looking at this Facebook page he may well be off elsewhere, maybe this is a negotiation tactic - I’m not sure?!! Declan Kennedy - very much had a season of 2 halves. Started well at reserve but understandably struggled when riding at number 3. If he could be slotted in at reserve next year would be an ok signing in my opinion. Simon Lambert - well, where do I start! A pretty poor first 2/3 of the season although he did pick up some form later in the season. His average has plummeted to 4.64 but I think really Rob needs to put a line in the sand and let Simon go for next season. Potential signings - well the obvious requirement is a genuine number 1 however this is easier said than done! I’m struggling to see a number 1 in the league that might be tempted to the EWR. Scunthorpe certainly have a type of rider they go for so having said that here are a few people that might come and would be decent enough signings IMO - MPT (cheap average) Nick Morris (former scorpion on a cheap average) Dan Gilkes (providing injury is ok) Anders Rowe (may be a victim of the numbers at Poole) Anti Vuolas (seems to love the place but think a few clubs will want him). As a I said just my thoughts.

I take my hat off to any Pirates fans who are off to Glasgow on the off chance of it going ahead. My weather app shows a pretty dodgy forecast at the moment. Is Nagel really that key? (I haven't had a chance to see him race) if so just as well he's got other priorities. Mind now Anders has his gating gloves back Poole will be stronger.

Being measured up for a Poole race suit as we speak

Monday’s teams Indianerna v Vastervik- live on Premier Sports 1 Indianerna 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Vastervik 1 2 3 4 5 6 7

is a long way on coach it was a flix bus, seats quite comfortable, more comfy than a plane, Manchester to Victoria not bad, 1.5 hrs wait then Victoria to dover, your off coach for 2hrs, long one was Calais to berlin, but did stop to pick other people up and drop off, a couple of times, so you could jump off for 2 mins stretch your legs, changed coaches at berlin with 1.5 hrs wait for next bus to Poznan, lets say its better than going to work,,😁, cost £115, going £94. back.

I’ve pulled you up on this before and it’s been a while since you’ve regurgitated this nonsense. Right from the start of the season you seemed to take offence at every man and his dog tipping Ipswich to win comfortably and you wrongly labelled Ipswich supporters on here “arrogant”. You haven’t specifically said Ipswich fans this time in your post, but it’s obvious who you meant. The Ipswich supporters actually were the ones who were much more reserved about their chances because of the way they’ve been burned the past couple of years, it was supporters of other clubs that basically wrote the season off as Ipswich were going to clean house. When you argued against this, I asked you to quote these “arrogant Ipswich fans” posts, and surprise surprise you disappeared because said posts didn’t exist. Others joined you in sticking the boot in and it all became a bit bizarre. The usual suspects from Belle Vue joined the party, as did one or two of your fellow Leicester supporters, and unsurprisingly, one vociferous King’s Lynn supporter. None of them could back up the cr@p they were coming out with by actually pulling up the quotes they were all whinging about. The only ones that didn’t seem to pile in were anyone from Sheffield so for that reason, if Ipswich don’t manage to pull it off, I hope they do. One poster, @szkocjasid , was the one who asked the question, “can they win every meeting” after Ipswich were blowing everyone away early doors. He didn’t say they would to be fair to him, but he asked the question. I personally hope Ipswich win this and I hope others who don’t have a horse in the race do too. I’ve an awful lot of respect for the way Chris Louis runs his club. A proper speedway man and as it turns out, a very good and professional business man too. If others in the sport ran their clubs as professionally as Louis does his, we wouldn’t be in half the bloody mess we currently find ourselves in.

He'll be at Poole that's obvious

touts were asking for 100 euros, and some wanted 400 zlotys, didn't want to pay that. i was stood near where the moto x lads were doing jumps back flips, this was after they had finished , the racing had stared i was watching on my phone ,problem it was 60 seconds behind what i could here in stadium, tried to blag my way in at one of the turn styles where 2 people were stood, they said try that window round the corner, there was a woman sat at the window asked her she said no tickets left, then a guy behind her said hang on a minute, lets have a look on computer screen, said your lucky one left, 240 zlotys, was on first bend about 3 rows up on a end seat. mental could not believe it.

They surely won't/can't stick to 40 if there are a different number of league teams? Also I can't see Fraser Bowes at Worky next season!!?

This. They’re clearly concerned the engine room could be vulnerable with Dan there, so have put our strongest rider available in there with him to counter that a bit. Not sure it’ll matter too much here though, Doyle hasn’t been good at the NSS for quite a while now.

Definitely has that feel of “we’re going to get battered here” doesn’t it. Only area of the team we SHOULD have the upper hand is reserve and that simply MUST happen because we’ll be second best everywhere else. Ellis needs to step up here big time and needs to do better down there than he did on Thursday. Hope I’m wrong but I’m with you on the score, 16-20. That performance Thursday was an absolute stinker and all the confidence I had has drained away because of that one result. Dan concerns me in the engine room of the side also.

Really tough to call this one over two legs. Ipswich have been so flaky recently, don't know why but they just seem to not click. Belle Vue again can be flaky, inconsistent and away from have been poor at times but at least Belle Vue have been here and done this before. They have got good experience and at home they can be deadly when it's all clicking. Going for a 52-38 home win..

Not many teams ever get put together where you have quite probably one of the best two riders for that position in the league... The top two are both genuinely World Class... Brennan is a perfect third HL level rider, not quite good enough to be a one or five yet consistently, but ideal at Number Three... Both King and Ellis can be very inconsistent as a 3rd HL, but, again, perfect top level second strings when matched against all the other twos and fours... And, in Dan T, they almost had a cheat code at reserve given his development this season... Add in the RS was the best available, (shouldn't he have gone to Brum under the rules?), and you had a team well above the team limit by brilliantly using UK talent in the main... A huge advantage in team building versus the other three in the play offs, (especially when Woffy got injured), so it means all the pressure is on them to deliver now over the next few matches... If they all click then, statistically, they win comfortably., however, they won't possibly ever get a chance to put such a team together again, so, that in itself, will bring some added pressure to deliver the trophy.

sounds good, although coach from Manchester to Poznan? where did you get your ticket for gp?