topaz325 1,859 Posted June 8, 2023 This Saturday afternoon the Workington GT Tyres Comets face the Leicester Lion Cubs in another tough League encounter. The boys will be looking for a win after the defeat last week against Mildenhall. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
SteelShoe 500 Posted June 8, 2023 Looks like Harry drops to reserve on Saturday and Elliot moves into the main body. No news on whether we will be using a guest or rider replacement for Elliot. Always a bit of gamble using rider replacement in case you lose another rider early in the meeting which may result in only having one rider in a heat in the worst case scenario. Conversely it's also a gamble bringing in an effective guest at Elliot's average. Ace will be the only higher average rider able to take one of his rides . Looking forward to this fixture and suspect we will need better luck and all round team performance than last week if we are to secure the points. UTC ! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
bigbird 33 Posted June 8, 2023 it says in today's speedway star its rider replacement for elliot and Adam roynan in as a guest for Leicesters Dan Thompson who's missing due to the concussion rule. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
geoff100 1,426 Posted June 8, 2023 Looks like 7 rides for young luke harry has to step up his game big style . 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
SteelShoe 500 Posted June 8, 2023 Think Royno makes Leicester stronger. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
mc131 365 Posted June 8, 2023 2 minutes ago, SteelShoe said: Think Royno makes Leicester stronger. Over dan t he definitely doesn't Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Sings4Speedway 3,247 Posted June 8, 2023 Crikey Harry drops from 7.11 to 3.00. Can't imagine any riders keeping thier place with that form. Thats worse than Dayle Wood and William Richardson. Interestingly Sam is very much heading in the other direction.....must make sunday dinner Interesting. 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
SteelShoe 500 Posted June 8, 2023 1 hour ago, geoff100 said: Looks like 7 rides for young luke harry has to step up his game big style . Yeah Harry needs to step up and help take a bit of pressure off Luke who is just returning from injury. Thinks this also applies to the skipper geoff. Need all the lads chipping in for sure. 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
SteelShoe 500 Posted June 8, 2023 8 minutes ago, mc131 said: Over dan t he definitely doesn't Haven't seen much of Dan Thomoson to be honest so maybe that comment is reminiscing back to the Roynon who was a Comets heat leader and former track record holder. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
1Tsunami 33 Posted June 8, 2023 40 minutes ago, SteelShoe said: Haven't seen much of Dan Thomoson to be honest so maybe that comment is reminiscing back to the Roynon who was a Comets heat leader and former track record holder. Dan is probably the second hottest rider to come out of recent British Youth Championships after say Jordan Palin. 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Neila 1,159 Posted June 8, 2023 (edited) Gonna be a tough and interesting meeting, Leicester look a strong side, roynan could not be as bad this time as in the Edinburgh meeting, looking forward to seeing young Aston bougham looks to be a very good prospect 3rd week in a row he has been to the Northside areana, the comets need to be on top form and carrying no passengers to win the meeting, also a njl meeting then tha day rounded off by a group, another sunny day forecast . UTC Edited June 8, 2023 by Neila Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
szkocjasid 3,027 Posted June 9, 2023 16 hours ago, SteelShoe said: Looks like Harry drops to reserve on Saturday and Elliot moves into the main body. No news on whether we will be using a guest or rider replacement for Elliot. Always a bit of gamble using rider replacement in case you lose another rider early in the meeting which may result in only having one rider in a heat in the worst case scenario. Conversely it's also a gamble bringing in an effective guest at Elliot's average. Ace will be the only higher average rider able to take one of his rides . Looking forward to this fixture and suspect we will need better luck and all round team performance than last week if we are to secure the points. UTC ! As Kelly is a second string, r/r may be the only option available to them. Pijper gets one ride & 3 for Harrison is good cover. Does mean Harry McGurk needs to take 4 rides though (unless they use a number 8) which I never thought would be a negative before this season! 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
PotteringAround 633 Posted June 9, 2023 (edited) 1 hour ago, szkocjasid said: As Kelly is a second string, r/r may be the only option available to them. Pijper gets one ride & 3 for Harrison is good cover. Does mean Harry McGurk needs to take 4 rides though (unless they use a number 8) which I never thought would be a negative before this season! Callum Foy is the A.R. but wouldn't expect him to get a ride. Extra R/R rides for Pijper, Harrison, and H McGurk make Workington massively stronger than if Kelly was riding. Leicester are weakened by the loss of D Thompson, and have a pretty much like-for-like with Kai Ward in for injured Vinnie Foord. That means this will be a very comfortable home win. Edited June 9, 2023 by PotteringAround Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
lbw 869 Posted June 9, 2023 Travelling up for this one on the Jolly Boys Outing Looking forward to visiting the new track after many visits to Derwent Park. I'm a neutral, being a Pirate, for this meeting but travelling with 2 Lions so there will be plenty of banter shared between us. Could go either way so I'm excited with the prospect of seeing some great racing no matter who wins. Keep turning left 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Supersteady84 41 Posted June 9, 2023 1 hour ago, PotteringAround said: Callum Foy is the A.R. but wouldn't expect him to get a ride. Extra R/R rides for Pijper, Harrison, and H McGurk make Workington massively stronger than if Kelly was riding. Leicester are weakened by the loss of D Thompson, and have a pretty much like-for-like with Kai Ward in for injured Vinnie Foord. That means this will be a very comfortable home win. Clearly new to speedway I take it Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
