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Pirates would bring in Oxford's number 7 Gusts if we had to replace Kerr, sure would make us weaker!!! 😆

Irrelevant what their reserves scored …. Missing a heat leader who was replaced by another sides number 7 is it that hard to see why they were weaker? So if next week Lewis Kerr is out and you replace him with Jack Smith or Ace Pijper you won’t be weaker then

Their team manager weakened them!! 😆😆

Out of interest why were Oxford weakened when their reserves scored paid 19?

Read my post I clearly mention Fricke is like Adams I state how good Adams was in the league but Crump better at world level I state that that’s similar to Fricke and Kurtz …. Pretty obvious that I’m comparing Fricke to Adams and Kurtz to Crump I’ve just shown you my post Im certain 99% of people can see what I was saying lol

Not necessarily, it just didn't help their cause.

Correct! After the meeting Starke and Cairns were trying out different set-ups under the watchful eyes of Matt Ford and Richard Lawson until the ref got impatient for the second half of upright races.

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His tactics cost them the meeting

Gusts had 6 rides but should've been used more tactically before heat 15 in heats 12 and 13.

The team is built to have a strong reserve my a*se 😂, sorry but that is not what how it was planned! Let’s face it, they could not attract good enough riders to provide a decent heat leader spearhead. Lynn have a team of six pointers on a merry-go-round who take it in turns to be at reserve, number one and all positions in between. Based on your wording, they started with a six pointer at reserve and then picked five others above this average to build a team. Having a reserve that you can look to for additional rides is a reflection on how poorly the riders in the main body of the team are performing. That’s okay on the night, but to see it as a tactical option on a regular basis just shows that, yes, it is actually desperation! Okay, put my opinion to one side and look at where Lynn will finish in a league of seven teams.

you need to read your post better. thats not in your original post talk more bullrubbish to explain that

Annoyingly Todd was just very good! You raised a point about Arena - seeing as it was my old home track and I saw NL and top tier speedway there. There were lots of top riders who used to slag the place off (plenty of fans too) - often they didn't do that well there - mainly cos they were mentally defeated by the place before they even rode a lap. But it was always worth noting that top riders would turn up and often do very well. Leigh Adams was classic example - i was at his first ever visit to Arena in 1989 for Poole - first race he came a cropper - track probably too tight given it was his first UK season and he was used to Poole and Aussie tracks - a few years later he was our no 1 and almost unbeatable there! Riders like Loram were a pleasure to watch wherever they rode, but also at Arena, cos they attacked the track and never knew when they were beaten. PK was another great rider who rode pretty much any track in front of him, seem to recall they even named part of track after him at Monmore, he would do the same at Arena inside pass master as was Leigh Lanham. A good race is a good race no matter what track you are at. That said that british final heat at the NSS is the type of race we all crave seeing! No argument from me there!

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Cracking meeting tonight played out in front of a very big crowd. Perfect conditions for speedway. Warm dry evening, two fairly evenly matched teams and lots of good racing. Oxford might have the best rider in the league with Masters but Lawson showed him the way home tonight with a superb 15 max. Backed up by Cook and Kerr and the ever trying Thomsen. Tonight though Oxford had a huge advantage at reserve and Gusts, on his first visit to Poole, took an instant liking to the track and was quite brilliant. So a big thank you to the Oxford team manager for only using him for 5 rides. I couldn’t believe it when Killeen came out for his 4th ride, and then in heat 13 when Gusts didn’t replace Knudsen. Cost Oxford the opportunity to get something tonight.

Gusts should have been in ht 12 no disrespect to luke 2 weeks in a row if away ht leaders were on form could have been away victories

Takes 7 riders to make a team not just 2! Top of the league for a reason! Don't choke on yer popcorn! 😀

Yep looks like it was R/R for him tonight. Doesn't necessarily mean he was injured as not all riders seem to ride over there every time but perhaps he's had a reoccurrence. How is it desperation? He is Lynn's form rider and is able to have seven rides at reserve so would be daft not to use him the maximum number of times if possible. But as people have said we need others to score well too. For the umpteenth time this team is built on a strong reserve.

Is it desperation or how the team is built? No one ever mentions when top riders have 5/6 rides in a meeting

As I have been critical of Kerr, I must say he rode very well tonight particularly later in the meeting and on another night would have been given heat 15.

So I’m assuming you never watched speedway before 2016? Please tell me how many tracks were like the NSS before 2016 in the uk? None is the answer Ive watched speedway since 1981 and with the exception of Bradford and a lesser extent Peterborough nothing comes close to the NSS You summed it up perfectly saying you no longer attend or watch speedway apart from at the NSS ….. sorry that is a shocking attitude to have if you can’t appreciate the other tracks in the UK and blinkered to the extreme You have the best track we aren’t disagreeing and the best races will be at your track more often than not … but I get to see the skills of Doyle and Emil every week taking opponents from the back and it’s sensational at times just like watching Bewley and Kurtz at your place … faster isn’t better always So please tell me why you went to speedway before 2016 as let’s be honest the racing you would have seen was nowhere near what your track now provides so why didn’t you stop going ??? You come across spoilt and entitled

Actually I believe there were 3 malfunctions and one of them, Poole gated.

Have you not seen Glasgow, Berwick or Redcar?

The majority of those passes though you can spot coming a mile off so I understand the point some are making.

Is NKI riding,I see a post on Facebook that his team in Sweden used RR for him.Don't know if this is true.