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  1. Posted · Edited by iainb

    Personally, I don't think Zagar is the answer for Brum, Milik needs replacing for me, he's not even one for the future.

    Tolley needs to approach one of the other half a dozen riders that were "on offer"

    "Laurence (Rogers - Director of Speedway) and Chris (Adams - Assistant Team Manager), as well as myself, are extremely busy in the background to make sure we pick the best two from around half a dozen riders we have on offer.” - Nigel Tolley 

  5. Posted · Edited by iainb

    Personally I thought it was a pretty decent GP, above average in fact compared to recent years. It may not be racing for the purist, but the way the bikes and tracks are riders seem to have to be pretty extreme to make any moves and use the ruts, it certainly makes for entertainment and the FIM don't seem to be in any hurry to tone the bikes down. Heat 15 was purist stuff and a great race!

    None of the noobs disgraced themselves and probably did at least as good as some of the journeyman that have been cast aside this year with maybe Huckenbeck being the stand out. 

    Maybe the reason a lot of the field don't resonate with some is because we just don't get to see most of them regularly in this country anymore?

    As for Woffy, for me he's at the stage of his career where he's quite comparable to Doyley and the contrast between the 2 is blindingly obvious to see, just the body language on the bike, Doyley looks as though he'd do almost anything to get back to the top, his semi final 2nd place was all you needed to see, brilliant stuff, Woffy... I can see him retiring from Speedway at the end of the year. 

    Well done to Jack Holder, very impressive,  I like his style, just the right amount of arrogance without going over the top with it and he's able to back it up unlike Woffy these days.  

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  12. Posted · Edited by iainb

    16 minutes ago, szkocjasid said:

    Stewart Dickson did the same at Glasgow, giving Schlein a 15m heat & not giving Hodder his 3rd ride instead.

    Dickson did the right thing tonight in replacing Douglas with Kemp when he touched the tapes and remarked on it in his after meeting interview. It was obvious that passing was going to be at a premium tonight, especially in the early heats, so even after Milik's impressive victory in heat 1 it was looking extremely unlikely he was going to come through from the back in heat 5 against Masters and Lawson, so to make that decision was very strange especially as Dickson had basically shown Birmingham what to do in the previous heat. 

    With the Brummies struggling for points on the track the last thing they need is for the management to be making basic errors like this. 

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  13. Posted · Edited by iainb

    44 minutes ago, Teromaafan said:

    Maybe, but you surely have to beat the visitor’s RS? Flint did Joe three times tonight.

    Twice, and Becker also. 

    There are very limited options with regards to JT, so it's going to be down to the management, club and his team mates to help him get going I think. 

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    Just now, Teromaafan said:

    Here’s me thinking that Joe might have turned the corner after his performance last week, but he looked way off the pace again tonight. Very worrying when you can’t get a point at home against the weakest team in the league. I thought that he may have be given a fourth ride in heat 14 instead of Kemp, but no. His confidence must be rock bottom.

    Weakest in the league but with possibly the strongest reserve partnership... although they didn't really show it tonight

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    4 hours ago, SPEEDY69 said:

    Some of the reactions on here are quite hysterical.  A person committed a crime, was caught and served their time - happens all the time, get over it :)

    As for other speedway riders, we've had alleged and convicted corruption, multiple drug abusers, alcohol abusers, violent criminals, including murder and many of these are/were warmly thought of e.g. Lee, Morans, Ward.   Very few have no victims, the drugs trade sees many deaths and abuses of people across the world.  If he wants to ride speedway then I have no problem with that.

    And don't even get started with some of the promoters!

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