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  1. Posted

    Najjer if it stands as it is it you could be correct but if the 2 NL teams enter the league there could be more league match's ,

    Don't forget the Championship have 2 cups to play for so could be more.

    I like your good self a little disappointed.  The racing last year was great with usually 4 riders contesting each race not 2 x 2 man races for each heat. 

    On the plus side we still have racing and a team to watch. 

     

     

  5. Posted

    4 minutes ago, g13webb said:

    First may I congratulate Garry May and the Somerset Rebels on their success of winning the KO cup.   Without doubt, you were the best  team in the final.    The fact you achieved this with half a team and 3guests merely highlights how poor the Stars were.   What was suppose to be a season finale,   turned into a damp squib..  I've  experienced more atmosphere  in a dentist waiting room.  The place was dead. On a night when we had to wait 5 heats before we had a race winner, any thought of a come back were gone by that time.   The only pairing to offer any excitement was Lambert and Riss, who showed the others how it is suppose to be done....  

    Like I have said, I have fallen out of love with this sport and see so many things that disappoints me,  for that reason this was probably my last meeting.    I'm so fed-up with the consistent gate and go races.  the track is that grippy the only rider prepared to fight from the back is usually Lambert.   Most races are decided but the back straight..

    Why did we have to stand around in the cold for half an hour waiting for the meeting to start??    They said it was about the team formation, but we all know it was to allow the late comers time to get in .       Again our guest selection was dire, never in a million years would he come close to the standard of MPT.     His inclusion all but sealed our fate. 

    The respect I once had for NKI is fast disappearing,    Tonight he was selfish. he obviously had a point to prove, an axe to grind,  but to whom.     The fans here use to love him when every week he would perform to the highest level.    But not any more..     For three races he couldn't care lass, he  rode like a novice,  50 yds adrift, shutting off  halfway down the straight,  his application was nil.   Then come heat 13,  the toughest race of the night, he makes a lightening start and is gone, leaving the likes of Doyle  and Bomber well adrift..    whether he has issues with Dale or Buster I don't know, but one thing for sure he didn't enthral anybody with his performance last night.    Its as if the fans don't matter.     a 16pt mountain was always to high to climb, but we could have made a fight of it..... 

    Probably, more sceptical than most,   I feel this could have been our water shed season.  Everything was in place to write our chapter in the history books, but unfortunately we fell way short.   I cant imagine there ever  being a better chance then we had this year , but as usual, we ended up with nothing.

    The brilliant fireworks display at the end ensured we finished the season with a bang,   just a pity it wasn't reflected on the track....

    I do feel sorry for you there should have been a trophy for finishing top of the league you deserve that you were consistent all season.

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  6. Posted

    7 minutes ago, Cliffeboy said:

    Bit harsh I think Tigerowl. The nature and danger of the sport make guests a viable solution to the problem. Provided the selection and choosing of guests is fair and within the rules laid down at the beginning of the season I think it’s the only way. The BPSA have made some strange decisions over the years ( double points tactical ! ), but in the 20 or so years I have been following Speedway again since the formation of Somerset Rebels , I think the most damaging has been the Poole/ Nick Morris business in the Play off Final. Sorry Poole fans every other team will see this as bang out of order, if the boot had been on the other foot your Poole thread would have gone into meltdown. Whoever was responsible at high level for that decision should be shown the door, it was very wrong. Can the Poole fans not see that their win will always be remembered as the one where Morris was riding ?. 

    As fir Somerset being a mish mash of riders , with four guys injured what could we do, pray tell. Jack and Aaron were both victims of other people taking them out, BWD a pre booked hospital procedure, and Jake an injury picked up the day before. All our guests came in within the points limit. 

    Somerset only made one enforced change all season and that revolved around the disciplinary thing with Wrighty. Jeppersen was struggling and Summers and Covatti came in . Compare this to Leicester who changed their entire team apart from Hans, and Poole who only kept Josh and Brady.

    We were everyone’s favourite to finish bottom, I think we were around or in the play off positions all season. 

    I also have no problems with riders riding for two leagues, it’s a job you have to go where the money is. The season was messed up with the football World Cup, some riders were doin nothing for two to three weeks. 

    Well said Cliffboy.

    can someone come up with a solution when you only have 3 riders fit to race ............ common sense  has to prevail  the public need to see a full team racing 

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  10. Posted

    1 minute ago, Hodgy said:

    And even if we have won the meeting, I always put Doyley and Jack in heat 15 because the crowd pay their money to see them. Doyley shouldn’t be sitting in the pits having four rides. If he can do five rides ands wants it, he goes out. I’m not doing the public over.”

    Garry May last weeks SS. 

    that's if the riders fit and not carrying an injury.  Doyle hurt his back earlier .  

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  12. Posted

    8 hours ago, speedybee said:

    Lawson and Andersen (the latter, although slower, was strangely trying to block Richard

    Exactly as i saw it , looked intentional from where I stood on exit of turn 2. if it was it was a very naughty move .

    A entertaining meeting never seen so many non finishers by the Rebels due to engine/ mechanical failures, score could have been a lot bigger for the Rebels

  14. Posted

    Nice comment by Rosco about the track

     

    “I must also say I felt the Somerset track was in the best condition I’ve seen it in for a long time. There were some problems the last time we were down there but they’ve obviously done a great deal of work and whilst we can often be quick to criticise, we should also give credit where it’s due because it was really good last night.”

     

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  15. Posted · Edited by idh

    15 minutes ago, Najjer said:

    Friday night traffic headache on the M5

    Agree Najjer i like Wednesdays as coming up from Exeter is a lot better only downfall is more road works/ diversions going home but id rather that than the traffic probs on a Friday.

    Some great racing last night.

    Next time you venture over to the dark side (back straight) touch base with us. 

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  20. Posted

    11 minutes ago, wealdstone said:

    As far as I can see no official information has come forward regarding this dreadful shambles, indicative I imagine of the arrogant disregard for fans shown by those in charge in just about every and any crisis

    or is someone trying to rescue a situation?

  22. Posted · Edited by idh

    53 minutes ago, EnglishRoundabout said:

    Iversen was in a class of his own. Although matched from the gate a couple of times, his drive and speed over that 15 metres or so into the first turn was the telling point.  Not once was he led out of the first and second turns the whole evening. Once in front he settled into the fastest line with ease. It always seems that when a rider is fast and comfortable with the track, they look like they are settling back into an armchair. Iversen epitomised that view last night. 

     

    Sorry ER but BWD did it in Ht1 

    http://ihitchcock.zenfolio.com/img/s/v-3/p2940385867-3.jpg

     

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