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  4. Posted

    5 hours ago, HGould said:

    Lot of talk about the Thompsons and possibility of splitting them up. 

    I don't think either has kicked on quite as many expected. 

    I do wonder if splitting teams would help them find their own levels and identities and levels and kick the Danjoe image

    It can't have been easy for their parents with double the costs so made sense to reduce the travel costs and other costs. 

    I think both can still reach significantly higher levels but time waits for no one and this winter might be time to split and stand on their own 2 feet. 

    As much I have enjoyed watching them progress over the last few years, I think in order to continue their development they need to spend a season riding a different track to Leicester week in and week out, ideally a Belle Vue, Scunny or Redcar type circuit.

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  10. Posted

    2 hours ago, uk_martin said:

    So just going through the averages, and "weeding out" those riders who are European and who would struggle to pledge unconditional allegiance to the British leagues, and those British and Australian riders with foreign league commitments, and allocating the double-downers to the most senior club that they ride for, we would be left with:

    BELLE VUE - Charles Wright, Jake Allen, Jye Ethridge & Connor Bailey  = 4
    IPSWICH - Danny King, Aaron Summers, Danyon Hume, Ben Barker (!) & Cameron Heeps  = 5
    KINGS LYNN - Josh Pickering, Richard Lawson, Richie Worrall, Jason Edwards, Jake Mulford, Lewis Kerr, Jack Thomas  = 7
    PETERBGOROUGH - Chris Harris, Scott Nicholls, Jordan Palin  = 3
    SHEFFIELD - Kyle Howarth, Connor Mountain, Lewis Kerr, Dan Thompson, Craig Cook, Stefan Nielsen, Justin Sedgmen  = 7
    WOLVERHAMPTON - Ryan Douglas, Luke Becker, Steve Worrall, Drew Kemp, Leon Flint, Joe Thompson  = 6
    BERWICK 1 - Ricky Wells, Nathan Stoneman, Ty Proctor, Kyle Bickley  = 4
    BIRMINGHAM - Josh Auty (!), Ashley Morris, James Shanes,  = 3
    EDINBURGH - Jacob Hook, James Sarjeant  = 2
    GLASGOW - Broc Nicholl  = 1
    LEICESTER - Max Clegg  = 1
    OXFORD - Dillon Ruml, Josh MacDonald, Paul Starke, Kyle Newman  = 4
    POOLE - Ben Cook, Nathan Ablitt  = 2
    PLYMOUTH - Eddie Kennett (!) Connor Coles, Ben Morley, Lee Complin, Daniel Gilkes, Alfie Bowtell, Harry McGurk, Henry Atkins  = 8
    REDCAR - Jason Edwards, Adam Roynon  = 2
    SCUNTHORPE - Simon Lambert, James Wright, Zaine Kennedy, Ryan Kinsley  = 4
    ARMADALE - Tom Woolley, Danny Phillips, Elliott Kelly, Josh Embleton, Gregor Millar, Kyran Lyden, Willian Lawson, George Rothery, Lewis Millar  = 9
    BELLE VUE 2 - Sam McGurk, Archie Freeman, Freddy Hodder, Jack Parkinson-Blackburn (!)  = 4
    BERWICK 2 - Greg Blair, Luke Crang, Ace Pijper, Mason Watson, Ben Rathbone, Kieran Douglas  = 6
    KENT - Danno Verge, Connor King, Jamie Halder, Sam Wooley, Chris Watts, Joe Alcock  = 6
    LEICESTER 2 - Max Perry, Tom Spencer, Mickie Simpson, Vinnie Foord, Kai Ward  = 5
    MILDENHALL - Jack Kingston, Alex Spooner, Sam Bebee, Josh Warren, Luke Muff, Matt Marson  = 6
    OXFORD 2 - Jody Scott, Sam Hagon, Arran Butcher, Jacob Clouting, Luke Killeen, Ben Hopwood, Sam Woods  = 7
    PLYMOUTH 2 - Ben Trigger, Adam Extance, David Abraham, Rhys Naylor, Ben Phillips, Eli Meadows  = 6

    So that's a total of 112 riders who you can count on, from 24 teams located at 18 tracks. And I'm being very sympathetic in that definition as I'm including Eddie Kennett, Josh Auty, Ben Barker and Jack Parkinson-Blackburn in there, even though these riders are hardly the kind that you can actually "count on". Other riders like Lee Complin, Adam Roynon, Aaron Summers and James Wright are also in the mix, despite only being on the verge of (re-)retirement.

    Anyway, optimistically divide 112 by 7 and you have just enough for 16 teams.  Go radical and choose 6-man teams, and you'll have enough for just over 18 teams.

    Not enough to go around, is it? And woe betide the 8 riders who I mentioned don't come to the tapes next year. That'll be one less team that can be fielded.

    So, if you had your way, which teams would you instruct to shut down? Would you tell the clubs that they can only have one team going forward, so that those clubs with 2 teams will have to get rid of their CL team?
     

    You can knock off another 2 as you have Lewis Kerr twice & Ryan Douglas also rides in Poland.

  12. Posted

    4 hours ago, Turnip said:

    Well done to the Thompson's Twins on winning the NDL Pairs albeit a foregone conclusion :t:

    Heat 2 was a classic, needs to be on a 'wot happened next?!' :D 

    One of the most bizarre races I’ve seen. Even Jason Edwards tried to get in on the act with a 360 coming off the 2nd bend when miles in front.

    I am not sure that 1 camera could have covered everything that was going on though.

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  14. Posted

    36 minutes ago, speedwaysliders said:

    Just a few question from me from anyone who went to this event,is

    1- watching on TV we get zero info who is grading the track after every 4 heats,is their a track team mentioned in the program who they are?

    2- Again zero info on tv who gets the gig at the tapes?How is he chosen ? Is he considered to be the best start marchall around?

    3- I think the ref was mentioned,but any clue in the program of who he is,and whats he done in speedway?.

    4-Track machinery and shale,is it the best around?

    Maybe all these questions people arnt really interested apart from me.but surely Kelvin and the team can find the info rather then tell us 100 times what info is stored in their brains.

    Start Marshal is James from Leicester and they have around 12 in total working this weekend.

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  21. Posted

    As a side note what about the crazy 56.60 time announced for heat 7, 4 seconds slower than most of the rest, I don’t think so.

    My take as a neutral, heat 1 superb at the 3rd time of asking was the high point as it soon became clear there were major problems with bends 3 & 4 with riders being catapulted in various directions on a regular basis and then there was the dust issues later on too. Fair play to Mark Phillips for the apology.

    From my vantage point I couldn’t argue with any of the refs decisions but King did make the most of it in heat 3 and maybe Kerr was a bit unlucky.

    Overall Poole were comfortably the better team and deserved their win.

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