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Don’t know where we are going to get suitable guests to cover Kyle when 75% of his average is 6.22 for away meetings and 6.52 for home. Surely R/R would be preferable. Only rider that comes close is Tate Zischke who can blow so hot and cold.

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You absolute liar, we have all seen the video of him kicking out at Jye from the tapes.

Wow, a couple of crashes, not all of them worthy of exclusion and now he is the new Dirty Nicki.

You have to strike a balance between getting carried away and actually looking to hurt another rider, the younger the rider the more chance they will try moves older riders will not risk. I think to an extent, because we have such a lack of young riders now, fans have forgotten how back in the day there were tons or riders who were a bit harem scarem, but thinking about it, it wasnt just the young riders. Think back when we had the likes of Kelvin Mullarkey, Jamie Habbin, Scott Smith, Rob Tilbury, Jan Pedersen, Rob Grant, Richard Green etc etc a lot of hard riders often on the verge of being over the top. Also, I would have a Cooper Rushden in my team any day over a Troy Batchelor.

The fixture list has a lot to answer for regarding momentum at home IMO.The sport can’t go on working in this way.

How are Krosno bottom of the table with that team?

Some thoughts on Friday. The racing wasn’t particularly great until the last few heats. Not much happening beyond the back straight of lap 1. This needs to change. You can’t keep charging folk £20+ to watch processions. For the Monarchs: I like Dan Thompson. However, something is really off with him at the moment. In the last 5 meetings, he’s won only 5 races out of 25. Unacceptable for any number 1 in any league. He was 5-1'd 5 times out of 6 at Poole. I can’t recall that happening to any Monarchs no.1, ever? He has also openly admitted to not always giving 100%. Now, this one shouldn’t come as a shock. It’s speedway after all. It also ties in with riders who say, “it’s the play offs, I try that little bit harder”. Here’s a thought – why are you quite obviously happy to cheat the public during the earlier part of the season? Young Thompson has so much talent and ability, he could quite easily score a minimum of 13 from 5 in every meeting. Any chance we can have the real DanT back please? Not-so-super Grahn continues to frustrate with his Flask-like performances. I was looking back at results yesterday. In his 1.5 years with the club, he’s lost to Freddy Hodder around 7 or 8 times. I got bored and lost count in all honesty. And yet, this is the same guy who can quite readily pop out the start and beat Chris Harris! And then there’s the conundrum that is Justin Sedgmen. Dreadfully p1ss poor scoring in both Glasgow meetings. I’d like to see heat 9 again. It was either a skelp from Leon Flint, missed by the ref, or one of the most extraordinary, and potentially dangerous, dives I’ve ever seen. A guy with his vast experience and having ridden countless laps around sunny Armadale, could he not have stayed on? Next up is everyone’s former favourite, Michele Castagna. Heat 14 was completely unacceptable on all levels. Absolutely no chance I’m putting my Benevolent Fund donation in his bucket. Good old Kye Thomson. He may have mucked up heat 15 and the super heat but we like Kye. He can stay. Talking of the super heat, why was the winning time not announced? I presume one was recorded? Surely this was a simple oversight and not another case of the paying punter being treated like second class citizens? Now to the reserves. A big hats off to Mitchell Cluff. His scoring has been way beyond ‘senior reserve’ levels recently, especially given his green sheet figure. More solid scoring in this one. Long may it continue. Again, like heat 9, I’d like to see heat 14 again. I wasn’t sure if there was contact between Mitchell and young Battye? It doesn’t appear to have raised any post-match comment, although that may be due more to the ending of that particular race than anything else! Finally, there is Vinnie Foord. The chap with the thankless task of replacing young Loftus. Poor lad spent that much time on his backside, I almost renamed him Vinnie Floored. For Glasgow: Chris Harris keeps reminding me why I still attend speedway. Heat 15 was something else. Not great from our two but sometimes you just have to doff your cap to superior opposition. Sam Hagon didn’t win heat 8. I seem to recall him winning at least 2 previously at sunny Armadale. I just expected him to grab his hat trick. Seems the tapes got in the way. Nick Morris. Wow. Best visitor this season by a country mile. KJP. I must say, I do like his first 2 initials. There should be more riders with those initials in speedway. Also, well done for catching a sleeping Cornetto in heat 14. Leon Flint looked lively throughout. He’s certainly improved this season. Freddy Hodder grabbed vital third places, as he always seems to do. Is he, perhaps, slightly underappreciated by the Tiggers’ faithful? Reid Battye had a steady sunny Armadale debut for his first 3 rides. Slightly less steady in his last 2 though. Roll on Friday... and, again, no more draws please.

He could have to build his confidence however already being on a 4.00 that would likely have pushed his average up a bit. As it is I don't think we'll see him at Glasgow next season. He missed a few meetings riding elsewhere, never got any momentum going at home and represents poor value on a 4.00.

I’m not sure if the Floodlights on the STAND SIDE were actually working .Perhaps someone one backstraight can answer that one. Think Havvy was at the delaying tactics the way Dickson was saying on the microphone after Ht 15.?

Hate that this is in regard to easily one of the most exciting young riders in the world, but all noise aside, this is the risk Cooper Rushen faces; he may hurt someone very badly one day. I absolutely love watching him. He has breathed life into British speedway this season, but far too often, he’s a health and safety hazard. I’ve only saw the crash; I haven’t saw Poole/Berwick fans’ comments in here or online, so I hope Havelock, Forde and/or Middleditch are defending him in public, but advising him behind the scenes because nobody wants to see riders hurt. He’s such a bubbly character too. Ironic that this pleasant boy is putting people in the dirt.

The 75% fixtures completed rule needs to be either scrapped or amended that changes can be made if A) Rider quits (like Howarth) or Injured riders (Like Hausl) as long as a Doctors/Hospital note can be provided that a rider is injured.

According to the Glasgow website, appears we've not been able to replace Kyle so it'll be guests for Kyle and Mario from now on as we're over 75% of the season's fixtures Hopefully we get lucky with guests, as we did on Friday. Shame for Mario as he could have done well with a spell at reserve.

You mean the pretend money...

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Cooper is obviously a top talent but he is getting a reputation…. Unfairly in some cases He was rightly excluded last night I think he was wrongly excluded in the Etheridge incident But to say he didn’t kick out is just deluded it’s pretty obvious

Have to agree with most comments on this thread, a very boring GP. Most of my mates are not into speedway and I sometimes think I should persuade/encourage them to watch a GP on TV and they might even get hooked. Thanks heavens I didn't contact anyone as regards last night! I hate to say this but in a nutshell it was dreadful. The only speedway I seem to get any enjoyment out of at the moment is the Championship League. Lots of variation and riders generally giving it a good go.

Giving his comments, I`m delighted to see that Gary Havelock has not lost any of his wit or humour.

In 1976 less than half the teams in the league rode on a Saturday (6). 3 rode on a Friday with the other 10 riding mid week. This was at the height of the sports popularity yet most CHOOSE to open mid week. Moving to alternate nights to gain the biggest crowd happens in all industries. Film distributors will not go up against the blockbusters, bands will swerve dates when big hitters are in town and pubs will arrange theme nights on dates to attract the most punters. It’s not a case that Saturday is the holy grail and we need to avoid the negative connotations currently being associated with mid week.

As a doubling up rider competing at all tracks in the UK, how would one league offer him any more variety?

I understand that there will be a drop off in talent that is true. With the polish league + 1 league rule coming in this will happen to a smaller extent anyway. We will likely still retain Jason Doyle, Tom Brennan, Chris Holder, Ryan Douglas, Tobiasz Musielak who all race on Saturdays or Sundays in the 2nd polish league. I don't accept that the premier league will become poor quality enough that it will be full of national league riders

Howarth said he was fed up racing the same four tracks. That statement is irrelevant because he would ride 16 tracks

The fact that speedway nowadays is ran by fans (albeit rich ones) shows by way of this forum how and why it is where it is. Imagine these very discussions taking place at the AGM. The main takeaway is, I can’t be bothered building a new track/stadium, spending time & money on a youth policy, improving the racenight experience, nurturing talent to the point they become world beaters, etc, etc, etc. Let’s throw the baby out with the bath water and continue to dumb down and kid the fans that by doing that we will overnight become interested in all the things mentioned that could actually improve the sport.