marge
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Why all this negativity? I’m going to wait until the season has started before I have an opinion. None of us have any way of knowing how things will pan out. Just saying!!!
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The voting was carried out during one meeting, I was certainly shocked that Rory won rider of the season but wouldn’t have given it to Bomber myself. We can only answer for ourselves as to who we think should’ve won, we all have our own opinion
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It's not raining at the moment and all forecasts are saying no rain until 2am. I would expect the track to produce some good racing later if we don't get anymore rain!!
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4 minutes ago, HGould said:whatever Somerset have a great top 4 now especially with Rowe and Stoneman at reserve, delighted to see Nathan back in CL. Brummies loss!
Anders has been moved to No 2, Luke Harris is the other reserve signing!
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I think there’s one more to go, feel Todd is at risk now.
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It’s a great idea to promote to the holiday makers, but there are still people living in Somerset who have no idea the track is there. Surely these are the people the promotion should be targeting.
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Super happy Charles and Jason are back, excited for the new season to start.
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I would like to see Charles Wright and Jason Doyle back, not sure about the 7th rider. Not too happy with Jack Holder but can't do anything about it now.
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Think Charles is a popular choice. prefer him over both Holders. Hoping No1 spot is taken by Mr Doyle.
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Excellent signing, hoping Charles Wright will be the next one.
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Yep, agreed, the racing was first class and the regulars were royally entertained most weeks.
I have to say also that Somerset riders generally have a pretty good relationship with the home fans. Charles Wright is very popular and almost always celebrates a race win by doing ‘high fives’ along the back straight with the fans. Equally, Josh Graczjonek is a well respected skipper who generally takes time out to speak to the fans. The home support quickly took to Richard Lawson and he in turn gave them his time with his own specialty victory laps.
Jake Allen is another rider who the fans enjoy. Always ready to talk on the ‘mike’ and his third bend ‘dive bombs’ have become legendary.
Those 4 hopefully will form the core of the 2018 side. Don’t be surprised if Mr May comes up with an excellent signing to compliment that line up.
Just a shame they don't recognise the supporters who go to away meetings, have been to many win lose or draw and nothing. See it at the OTA from visiting clubs, acknowledge the supporters who make the effort to attend. It's not just this year I might add, have been saying it for many seasons.
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Nice to see fans are getting blasted for not going to the presentation night yet have attended all season. Will lose a lot of support being spoken to like that.
Probably the worse season ever, been following the rebels since day one and have attended more end of season dinners than not. This year I decided to give it a miss, extra 50p on the car park and £1.00 on the entrance fee for the same product we were watching the previous season. The promotion have no right to blame the supporters for not spending anymore of their hard earned cash, I'm having second thoughts about next season now.
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Charles has to be back, my rider of the season 2017 also like to see Richard Lawson and Josh. A meeting with no guests maybe.
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Popped on the forum to see what was going on...completely forgot about this fixture.
I started the season enthusiastically...but as it's progressed, have become seriously underwhelmed.
Have witnessed some fine racing on occasion, but the whole situation of doubling up, RR's, Guests, so many riders missing, so many injuries, rain offs etc have pretty much killed it for me.
Probably my least enjoyable season of watching racing since starting to watch the Rebels.
Good luck to Swindon....hope they win the league title. They deserve it.
Just a shame the whole season has been blighted by what it seems like, watching the same old riders over and over again.
I'll make a decision about 2pm as to whether to bother or not. At least there are 6 extra races tonight with a small Junior Individual meeting.
Have to agree with you, unsure whether I am going to bother tonight. I have missed more home fixtures this season and to be honest I am completely losing interest.
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Wasn't really bothered about going this evening it's been such a long time since the last meeting I'm losing the buzz. But I went, there was some good racing but as a spectator I want to see 4 riders in a race, what a stupid rule in not allowing the reserves to take Rohan's rides. Ok rules are rules but it's only a matter of time before the paying public will get fed up of being mugged of. Was really impressed with Dan Bewley shame he took a while to get going.
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I'm not far from the OTA and to be fair when it was called off earlier I was a little surprised, it began raining when I was leaving work although not too hard. Think the right decision was made, nothing worse than standing around getting wet waiting for a decision to be made.
Agree fixture planning not the best, as luck would have it I've not found anything else to do on a Friday evening. Roll on next week!!!!
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Thank goodness someone else saw the dust last week, was beginning to think it was me who needed their eyes tested. No where near as bad last week as this week though, you may have been able to see it at Glastonbury Naijer.
I've not been posting on here very long but have been quietly reading from the background, so if Starman says it was dusty at the Kings Lynn meeting then it must have been!!!!! I may need to visit specsavers....
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Ref Speedway Star, Jake describes the track as atrocious and the riders have been complaining all season.
I'm aware of what Jake had to say, hes had a few good meetings on an "atrocious" track. So I was trying to say the track maybe inconsistent, what do I know?
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Have heard Jakes not been happy with the track prep all season. To be fair you would expect it to be prepared the same each week, I know weather can play a part but if you want to win at home!!!!! Just saying.
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Well done Craig Cook deserve it that's for sure. Didn't expect that from Ben Barker, so pleased for him. The guys all put on a good show, proud to be British.
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Not up to the usual OTA standards for sure. Definitely missed Charles Wright. As the weeks go by Jake is looking more out of his depth, he's not doing enough meetings and it certainly shows. Worse thing about this league, one home meeting in July worried I might lose interest.
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A good win tonight. I'm with you Najjer heat 8 was a complete joke, even the crowd were shouting to the ref but Rod insisted it was Heaps not Kerr. Counted five of them in the box and not one realised.
Jake and Charles stood out for me on what was a tricky track at times. Cook lost interest and threw his toys out the pram, hope Debbie makes him pay to put the phone back on the wall.
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That was a much better result, Richard and Cameron were impressive. Not so sure about Lewis yet, time will tell.
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While I don't necessary think the changes made are an improvement, it's the team I chose to support when the track opened. I will continue to support them if they try their best, the racing this year so far has been fantastic and long may it continue. More dirt and water on the track and I'll be happy.
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Just went to check on the Facebook page to see if there was any developments and looks like everything has been deleted. Looks like Greg Daniels has tried to distance himself from the whole debacle. See he has now got his feet in the door at Plymouth managing the team at Sittingbourne today.