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  1. Posted

    1 hour ago, Bagpuss said:

    A family member has e-mailed King's Lynn speedway about a ST and, guess what.....no response.

    Speedway really doesn't help itself sometimes. 

    I e-mailed Kings Lynn between Christmas  

    and New Year as directed on the website.

    regarding the purchase of two season 

    tickets. 

    To be fair they responded within a couple 

    of days.. First time applicant as only

    moved to the area 14 months back.

     

  2. Posted

    On 9/5/2023 at 9:34 AM, Mimmo said:

    The racing at Peterborough is amazing, and I think we are possibly all looking forward to this final ever meeting at the East of England Arena, although the developers aren't meeting the laid down rules, which hopefully the Peterborough Council Planning Department turn down.  

    Welcome to North Norfolk, and it's great to know that you will be a regular at King's Lynn in 2024. If you have the time, please give Mildenhall a try on a Sunday afternoon, as it really is a lovely afternoon out, at possibly the friendliest track in the country.
    They are at home this Sunday (4.00pm) and still have a Cup Final to race, which will probably be against Leicester, on a date still to be confirmed.   

    Thanks for the welcome Mimmo. Yes I will keep an eye out Mildenhall cup final wise.

     

     

     

  3. Posted

    Very enjoyable last night with a good atmosphere. Will be following the Stars now following my relocation from Essex to North Norfolk. I must admit having seen my then local team Lakeside close down I have largely been attending Foxhall the last few years. Pleased that they are still in the KO Cup after it appears they have probably  just fallen short playoff wise.

    Was pleasing to hear the positive vibes from Buster in the bar  after the meeting and hopefully look forward to good few years attending my new local club.

    That said quite fancy the still to be confirmed away fixture at Peterborough as haven’t been there since the 4 team tourney final days back then.

  5. Posted

    Although I have BSN looking forward to

    attending this fixture this evening. Hoping

    The Stars can keep it relatively close. The

    weather in the build up has been pretty

    much the same as last Thursday. Will we 

    see much the same track conditions

    and preparation. There wasn’t more than a

    few passes against The Panthers. With the 

    likes of Artem,Emil and Doyley on show 

    we are sure to see more tonight.

    Going 42-48 but hope Kings Lynn prove

    me to be wrong.

     

     

     

     

     

  6. Posted

    37 minutes ago, Teromaafan said:

    Out of interest, what was the 50/50 prize payout tonight? Last weeks prize ( £102) seemed poor to me although it was apparently a season record. Since attendance figures are never revealed, the 50/50 prize pot is probably the next best thing for an indication of crowd size.

     

     

    The total before splitting was announced 

    as £294 if I heard correctly.

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  11. Posted

    On 9/27/2019 at 11:16 AM, Terry said:

    Hackney's win at Halifax in 1980 was quite impressive. 31-16 down after 8 heats, four 5-1's and a shared last heat and we win 39-38. Plus we had 3 riders who didn't score a point between them!

    I was at The Shay that saturday evening with two other Hawks fans. Infact we were discussing that very meeting a few weeks back on route to Kent Kings.

    Zenon Plech   was superb that night. Pretty sure it was Thommo,Chalky and Sean Wilmott who were scoreless. That victory made up for all the  Northern Trip

    hammerings that we normally witnessed. They were good days, Dons on thursday routing for the opposition, Hackney friday of course and more often than

    not Coventry saturday as my mate was Ole Olsen drunk.  

    Back on topic pleased for the Witches who I have now adopted since Lakeside closed down and have been a regular all season,only missing a couple of meetings.

    Looking forward to the final whenever the weather will permit.

     

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  13. Posted

    The score sheet tells its own story:-

     

    Lakeside 1-5 scored 37 Poole 1-5 scored 31

     

    Lakeside EDR Reserves 3 Poole EDR reserves 19

     

    That pretty much sums up all of Lakesides frustrating season at home. There are four teams whose 1-5 have averaged less than the Hammers 1-5. Still no use crying over spilt milk, just relieved to see the end of a dreadful season, although at the moment there seems to be a reasonable chance of another season at the track, although nothing is certain at this stage.

     

    Apart from the fact that the EDR position made the result inevitable it was a decent meeting and I can't take anything away from Poole who do look like probably the most solid side we have seen at Lakeside this year and on this form do look like play off (or even pokc :D ) favourites, especially now Coventry and KL seem to be unravelling.

     

    I hope ,Magic is OK after the most scary crash we have seen a Lakeside for a long. long time. Magic was leading when AJ came off bend 4 with a lot of speed and squeezed between Magic and the safety fence, Magic seemed to lean which somehow seemed to cause Magic to pick up a lot of grip and the bike reared up and threw him of. Luckily the bike demolished the safety fence going into bend one and Magic bounced along without hitting anything but it was a really bad looking one . AJ did well to miss him. Didn't do the bike a lot of good though.

     

    Apart from that AJ looked a class apart and it took a terrific ride from the gate by track specialist Dave Watt to inflict his only defeat. Davy has his critics but it looked like the old Davy last night and I enjoyed watching him.

     

    I was once again very impressed with Max Fricke who must surely be going on to big things in the sport. His dices with Dakota North I thought were excellent and to be fair I though that Dak was far, far better than the score sheet showed.

     

    Kim Nilsson clearly not match fit yet and his gating was naff but he'll be back.

     

    I have really warmed to Ed Kennett this season . He lacks self belief at times but he really wanted his win over Holder. Holder must have thought he had Nicki Pedersen inside him in the fight for the first bend.

     

    So overall a disappointing result to a good meeting before the best crowd of the season, proving that even without Darcy Poole can pull the punters in so I have to wish them well for the Play-offs

     

    The meeting closed with a very emotional speech to the crowd by Jon Cook thanking them for their support during what he called nine roller coaster years. According to what he said to the crowd and in the programme notes there is a fair chance this wont be the last ever meeting at Lakeside but things are still uncertain and there will be further announcements when there is more definite news. He also apologised for and took the responsibility for the teams disappointing performance this year.

     

    So, the end of an awful season which we can hope wont be the last

     

    Best wishes to all clubs left in the play off chase

    Absolutely spot on with this.

    Came away last night feeling more positive about the future having heard Cooky at the end compared to the

    comments attributed to Duggo posted on the website earlier on in the week.

    Just hope they remain in Essex.

    Only get to about a third of the home meetings due to work and other commitments but thought the crowd was the largest

    I have seen since Rico`s memorial meeting.

    Not a bad ending overall bearing in mind we knew before a wheel was turned who was going to win comfortably last night.

  14. Posted

    What a tremendous evenings entertainment.

    Great credit due to all those involved in making this meeting happen.

    Whether they organised, rode or worked on the night they were a creditt to our sport.

    And as for the fans, well what a turn out from all over the Uk. Even saw a few Glasgow fans.

    Hope they have raised a great sum for the Richardson family.

    As for the car park,what with the numbers I expected nothing less.

    IM normally out within a few minutes though it took me 45 mins to get out last night.

    In view of the circumstances last night though, that was a very small price to pay.

     

    PS Can we have AJ back next year please Cooky . ;)

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