Macca 45 Posted May 3 Congrats to Poole on going through. Special mention to the fans on the third bend who made the trip up. Couldn’t really understand why your riders (minus Brennan) didn’t take the victory lap for you after heat wins. Story of the Thomson’s tonight - that was the difference, really. Not the best night’s racing but, as always, Josh made up for that in heats 13 + 15. Encouraging result. Beating the best team in the league on the night and missing out by just 5 on aggregate. Playoffs hopefully a realistic aim. 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
lisa-colette 6,102 Posted May 3 Tom has said he got an electric shock in H15! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Endeavour 708 Posted May 3 1 hour ago, Macca said: Congrats to Poole on going through. Special mention to the fans on the third bend who made the trip up. Couldn’t really understand why your riders (minus Brennan) didn’t take the victory lap for you after heat wins. Story of the Thomson’s tonight - that was the difference, really. Not the best night’s racing but, as always, Josh made up for that in heats 13 + 15. Encouraging result. Beating the best team in the league on the night and missing out by just 5 on aggregate. Playoffs hopefully a realistic aim. Writing was on wall when Kye got passed by Tom when we were on a 5 1. Connor should be winning heat 2. Will support the boys but really we should have had a couple of new faces in the 1 to 5. Great to see Josh use the inside line tonight. IMO league is too diluted rider wise this year with the new team building average. Congtats to Poole, won fair and square but what a great chanceMonarchs missed after blowing an 8 point early lead. 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
szkocjasid 3,224 Posted May 3 9 minutes ago, Endeavour said: Writing was on wall when Kye got passed by Tom when we were on a 5 1. Connor should be winning heat 2. Will support the boys but really we should have had a couple of new faces in the 1 to 5. Great to see Josh use the inside line tonight. IMO league is too diluted rider wise this year with the new team building average. Congrats to Poole, won fair and square but what a great chance Monarchs missed after blowing an 8 point early lead. Many have said that, but where do the riders come from to strengthen the league. Quite a few heat leaders left the Champ, there's a few British second strings happy to do RS & Poland. The only way I can see the league being stronger would be to drop all the 2.00 Brits for 4.00 foreigners. Think fans will have to get used to a weaker Championship in the years to come. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
GM95 29 Posted May 3 Disappointing not to go through as I feel Poole were there for the taking after the first 4 heats. The track dried out pretty quickly after the first grade and heat 5 killed our momentum. All credit to Poole, they rode well and adjusted to the drying track, Brennan was top notch. On the positive side, it’s another home win against a very strong side. Josh now looks like a reliable number 1 and has been well backed up by Paco & Sedgy. I’ve been impressed with Connor & Max settling in and scoring important points at reserve but Kye was woeful tonight, it’s simply not good enough for a number 3 and I’m not sure how long we can put up with it for. 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
tyler42 159 Posted May 4 1 hour ago, szkocjasid said: Many have said that, but where do the riders come from to strengthen the league. Quite a few heat leaders left the Champ, there's a few British second strings happy to do RS & Poland. The only way I can see the league being stronger would be to drop all the 2.00 Brits for 4.00 foreigners. Think fans will have to get used to a weaker Championship in the years to come. And with this weaker league, will we get lower admission prices? This year, last years reserves are now in the main 1-5 and all the reserves have come from the NL, but the admission prices have not been reduced to reflect this? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Skidder1 7,667 Posted May 4 6 hours ago, tyler42 said: And with this weaker league, will we get lower admission prices? This year, last years reserves are now in the main 1-5 and all the reserves have come from the NL, but the admission prices have not been reduced to reflect this? Rider wages are not the only cost in running a speedway team! If only........ 3 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Gazc 7,205 Posted May 4 1 hour ago, Skidder1 said: Rider wages are not the only cost in running a speedway team! If only........ He has a point though, if you keep diluting the product but charge the same or more for it then eventually fans will see it as not value for money. The way it will be viewed and rightly is paying less 2 years ago for a better product. Nearly all sports look to improve there product but in Speedway it is the opposite. 5 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
poole keith 912 Posted May 4 Great move by the promoter to shuffle things and bring in brennan,cant see him being in this lower league next season,think the cooks if they are really going to progress have to move on from div2 somehow. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Skidder1 7,667 Posted May 4 27 minutes ago, poole keith said: Great move by the promoter to shuffle things and bring in brennan,cant see him being in this lower league next season,think the cooks if they are really going to progress have to move on from div2 somehow. All three already have Premiership places! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
JanAndersen 842 Posted May 4 Kye is a worry - our no.3 needs to be scoring better than that at home even against a reasonably strong Poole side. What would Herr Wolbert come in on out of interest? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Gazc 7,205 Posted May 4 53 minutes ago, JanAndersen said: Kye is a worry - our no.3 needs to be scoring better than that at home even against a reasonably strong Poole side. What would Herr Wolbert come in on out of interest? Wouldn’t be difficult to deal with. Probably a couple of Hamburgers from his favourite Airport restaurant. 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Bagpuss 10,855 Posted May 4 1 hour ago, Skidder1 said: All three already have Premiership places! Poole Keith obviously means other stronger leagues abroad. Boils down to ambition at the end of the day. 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
JanAndersen 842 Posted May 4 46 minutes ago, Gazc said: Wouldn’t be difficult to deal with. Probably a couple of Hamburgers from his favourite Airport restaurant. Any chance you lads could take him on to massage his average down a touch for next season? Friends across the M8 and all that. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
lisa-colette 6,102 Posted May 4 45 minutes ago, Bagpuss said: Poole Keith obviously means other stronger leagues abroad. Boils down to ambition at the end of the day. Going by interviews last few years they have both been trying to get a Polish place which would mean it would be harder to do Championship. 1 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
