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  1. Posted

    I take your point Shads.A bit early to judge riders form atm.

     

    However 2 points concern me re Charlie last night. Had his front wheel in the air more often than normal.Barely getting it down before the pit gate each race.

     

    Seems very low on confidence. Never looked likely to challenge for a 2nd place in his races. Also constantly looking over his left shoulder for the guy behind him.

     

    Totally accept he needs a few meetings to dial in after his lay off.

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    And not for the first time in his career. He has incidents at Redcar(Lasse) and twice at Newcastle(Larsen and Ludde), when his whinging indicated that he can't accept reality, and wants to moan and do something he shouldn't do. No doubt the Monarchs Press Officer will be on here shortly to cover the Grinners back for him. Time for the Grinner to grow up.

     

    Still up to his tricks I see. At a Plymouth v Somerset meeting a few years ago, both Masters and Kyle Hughes had a coming together. Hughes was stuck under his machine when Masters came up and kicked him, steel shoe et al.

     

    Not the most popular visitor to the SBA.

  10. Posted

    Hes a liar has its been proved,you obviously are of the same mentality if you cannot see that hed probably taking the ****out of you and alot of speedway fans and you just cant see the big picture of yhe harm hes doing to the reputation of the sport in general another kick in the balls for british speedway by a promoter wiyh his own agenda on the mc and not the interests of british speedway very sad!

     

    Get over it for gawds sake.

     

    In Allen Trump, Plymouth have a person who has done far worse than that! He wouldn't think twice about doing the same.

     

    It has happened plenty of times before, and will continue to happen. Not saying its right at all, but every Promoter could and should be looking at what's best for their club in the same situation.

     

    Perhaps Lewy, you should be looking at the disgraceful outburst on twitter from Kyle Newman. Using lots of swear words and blaming everything and everyone for last nights result. Not once apologising for his own inept performance. :mad: Even Ashley Birks and David Howe have asked him not to be so disrespectful. Had Plymouth won, all would have good!

     

    So in just this last week he has unceremoniously slagged off Scunthorpe and Sheffield without a word of contrition for his own failings. What will he say about Rye House later ? We all know he hates the place with a vengeance.

     

    Some of his actions leave me baffled. Rarely does he chase after another rider who beats him in a good race to shake his hand after the race. Its ok when the other rider looks for him though. Rarely shows any passion when winning a race, allowing the fans to celebrate with him on the wind down lap. Poor at team riding. Take thursday, in a good position with Eklof for a 5-1, didn't bother looking until the last lap, cleared off allowing Lanham through and eventually causing Eklof fall when trying to rescue the 5-1. Poor actions from our captain. Nothing new there though, as its happened plenty of times this year.

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  12. Posted

    Poor decision to drop Wright.

    Simota has had all season and ridden worse than Wright for most of it.

    Only now as reserve has he managed to up his average, still below his starting average.

    Given that Wright only came in a month ago, its to be expected hed struggle a bit. As a reserve, I would have expected him to get amongst the points.

    So much for our Promoters claim that theres too many foreigners, and Brits are not given enough chances!

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  13. Posted

    Nowhere near as convincing a win as when against Somerset and Edinburgh.

     

    After all if any one of the Rockets had fired up, obviously Kennett excepted, it could well have different.

     

    Quite agree about Holders ride. If every meeting had one race like that, we would all go home smiling, even if it was against your side.

     

    While on his SRBF collection duties, I said to Jack, about Ht9, 'what ever big Bro can do'...' His reply was' Chris... Chris who'? ;)

     

    Very impressed with Risager. Ht7 and ht11 were probably his best rides as a Devil, well, certainly at the SBA.

     

    With recent changes, the momentum has swung the Devils way as far as the play offs go.

     

    Rye House away will be the tricky one, as normally Newman is appalling there. Maybe wiser to get a sick note for that one, as I'm sure R/R would help the team.

     

    Long way to go yet, though.

     

    Agree its about time Sky got their backsides down here.

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  18. Posted · Edited by Penny Cross

    The race that turned this meeting.

     

    Copied from live updates: Heat 11: Simota, Newman, Howarth, Harrison 50.97 5-1 35-31
    Line Up: Newman, Simota, Howarth, Harrison
    Comments: Untidy start. All 4 back.
    Rerun: Newman and Harrison down bend 2. All 4 back. Both up and ok.
    Rerunx2: A captains ride from Newman! Out of bend 2 in front of Howarth who he held up enough for Simota to squeeze round the outside of both of them on bend 4.

    Read more: http://speedwayupdates.proboards.com/thread/14743/plymouth-workington-pl-17-15pm?page=1#ixzz3gBb6iq2C

     

    Complete and utter farce from referee Jim Laurence. How on earth wasn't Newman excluded for falling and bringing down Harrison? There is no way it should have been all 4 back.

     

    Ostergaard did the same in when P'bro were here a few weeks ago, and was rightly excluded. Newman did EXACTLY the same in the same meeting , yet got away with 'all 4 back'. It turned that meeting too. That's twice Newman has got away with poor riding. Shocking decisions. In the rerun, I don't agree that Newman team rode either. He was busying himself with Howarth. That in turn left room for Sam to blast round the boards. Nothing intentional about trying to get Sam through. It was only when they reached the back straight next lap that they settled down.

     

    The result of Ht11 would probably have been a 3-3, maybe even a 2-4, thus Comets would have got at least a point. As it was, it was the 2nd 5-1 of three on the bounce, and Devils were visibly lifted.

     

    Holder basically didn't turn up for his first 2 rides, before taking Wells round the outside, much to most peoples surprise. Wells got it back before Holder hit the notorious 3rd bend bump, catapulting him into the fence. Very good in his last 2 rides though, he actually gated!

     

    Both Risager and Simota rode probably their best meetings of the season at the SBA.

     

    Edited to add ; To Matt Bates. If you want to get on in speedway don't be in McDonalds at 6.40pm eating when you should have been in the pits by then. Not very clever.

  19. Posted

    Hi Andy,

     

    Ive just purchased an Amazon Fire Stick with Kodi added.

     

    Loaded easily enough, within 30 mins of opening the box!

     

    However, when I try to watch Swindon v Poole 2015, I get Polish speaking commentators, over and above Nigel and Kelvin. You can hear both commentaries.Those 2 on their own is bad enough, but Polish as well is a bit much!! :wink:

     

    Is there anything I can do?

  20. Posted

    Can only see an away win here.

     

    With R/R at No.1 for Fisher, its going to be a tough ask for the Devils to win.

     

    Official Plymouth website:http://www.plymouthdevils.co/devils-prepare-for-comets.html

     

    Team Line Ups*

    Plymouth: 1 R/R for Ryan Fisher, 2 Morten Risager, 3 Jack Holder, 4 Todd Kurtz, 5 Kyle Newman. 6 Sam Simota, & 7 Matt Bates (G)


    Workington: 1 Kyle Howarth, 2 Rusty Harrison, 3 Rene Bach (captain), 4 Kenneth Hansen, 5 Ricky Wells, 6 Matt Williamson, 7 Matthew Wethers.

    Wells is always good value, as is Wethers. Bach, Howarth and Harrison are all capable of winning races. I suppose it really depends which Hansen rides, as he can be red hot or stone cold.

    If recent home performances are anything to go by, all the Comets need to do is set up to gate and go, as too many Devils don't seem to have the appetite to chase.

    You get the impression that the Promoters are waving the white flag. If as it says on the Devils website, its been known for a week that theres doubts about Fisher, why hasn't a guest been lined up? Maybe they did try, but as usual, little communication with the fans.

    I get the distinct feeling that its a case of now getting through to the end of the season.

    It looks and feels like the end of PL racing. NL speedway next season or nothing. I hope Im wrong, but that's how I view things.

     

     

     

     

  21. Posted · Edited by Penny Cross

    I watch Jack Holder most weeks at Plymouth.

     

    His gating is dreadful. Gives away a bike length almost every time. He then has to give chase, and falls quite often too. Last Saturday v Somerset, he fell 3 times in 4 races.

     

    He seems to like to dive bomb riders going into turns, and gets himself into bother. In Ht9 he clouted Josh G going into turn 3, you could hear the bang of metal on metal. He took the lead for a few yards, then chased Josh into turn 1 where he tried the same move. He ended up baulking Josh who lost position to Todd K, and then fell. I cant fault his effort, but he is getting predictable.

     

    When he comes off the white line to go wide, he makes up lots of ground, only to then dive bomb and lose it all. I really wish someone was in the pits to watch and correct him. The very odd occasions he does gate, he looks very impressive.

     

    You can definitely see 'big bro' Chris in his riding style. Sort out his gating and encourage him to ride different lines, he could definitely go places.

     

    Of that, I have no doubt at all.

  25. Posted

    Oh brilliant, i know we are supposed to be encouraging the younger generation but i expect they were just running around getting in everyone else's view and making alot of noise with no interest at all in what was happening on the track or am i being a miserable old git!!

    They did it at Plymouth the other week.

     

    Just a load of constant whistle blowing Brownies.

     

    Got on my nerves as they whistled through announcements.

     

    Im with you! :mad:

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