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Maybe a Poole Pirates themed cafe/coffee shop could work... Timo Latte Mars Gunnestad Krzysztof Flaprjack Cheese Swist Sergey Parkin Magnum Zetterstrom Antonio Lindtback Adam Quornicki All whilst watching highlights on the Big Joe Screen!

If Thursday's had been approved, why change it? Sheffield and Ipswich should have had two choices if they wanted Thursdays. Ride top league or ride Thursday's but top league sides get priority on riders. Ipswich, in particular, seem to have been holding the top flight to ransom for years. I'm just fed up with speedway seeing the best way forward being to make the good clubs as crap as the poor ones.

Surely you mean 'HAVE' not 'OF'?

A support group has been established to assist Cookie in 2018 as he steps up into the GP’s I’m not posting this to attract any negative comments but to inform the folks who do support Craig - so if you don’t like him (your prerogative) please just move on to another thread I think it is a great idea and have encouraged a fair few Monarchs fans to join For just £50 a fan can have their name on Cookie’s GP race suit, monthly prize draw for GP passes, merchandise, race worn kit, signed photos, birthday card and members only communications on WhatsApp and Twitter For more information on how to join the CC111 Support Squad contact 111CraigCook@gmail.com

So deserving of a place in the 'losers' category is an ex-rider who got sold a 'duff ticket' Is that really the best you can come up with given all that happened last season? What next, someone who ate a dodgy burger and got a dose of the runs ?

Those were great times when International speedway teams were touring Australia One of the most amazing tours ever was in 1990-91 the visit of the USSR national speedway team. They rode mostly against Australian State sides, and with great success. Here You can find all the results of this tour http://www.internationalspeedway.co.uk/ausvsu.htm After their first seven matches in Queensland and the Northern Territory the Russians were still undefeated with six wins and a draw, when tehy came to face New South Wales at the Newcastle Motodrome. This meeting is on YouTube and You may follow the link below to watch all the action (60 minutes) of this 15 Heat International Challenge. [media] NEW SOUTH WALES v U.S.S.R. 1990 International Solo Speedway Teams Challenge Newcastle Motodrome, NSW, Australia Line-ups NEW SOUTH WALES 1 - Todd WILTSHIRE 2 - Sean WILLMOTT 3 - Mick POOLE 4 - Craig BOYCE 5 - Stephen DAVIES 6 - Chris WATSON 7 - Darren ETHERIDGE U.S.S.R. 1 - Rif SAITGAREEV 2 - Mikhail STAROSTIN 3 - Vladimir TROFIMOV 4 - Viktor GAJDYM 5 - Rene AAS 6 - Oleg KURGUZKIN 7 - Rinat MARDANSHIN I really enjoyed this historic piece of Australian speedway coverage - what a shame that we don't get to see such International tours and challenge matches any more.

BELLE VUE 1. Steve Worrall 6.77 2. Rohan Tungate 6.18 3. Craig Cook 8.45 4. Damian Drozdz 5.00 5. Max Fricke 7.39 6. Dan Bewley 4.71 7. Jye Etheridge 3.89 Team Total: 42.39 Remaining: 0.11 KING'S LYNN 1. Niels Iversen 9.04 2. Robert Lambert 7.38 3. Ty Proctor 5.5 4. Lewis Kerr 5.06 5. Thomas Jorgensen 5.93 6. Lewis Rose 5.25 7. Kasper Andersen 5.00 Team Total: 42.16 Remaining:0.34 LEICESTER 1. Martin Vaculik 8.00 2. Krystian Pieszczek 6.5 3. Danny King 6.66 4. Josh Bates 5.52 5. Kyle Newman 4.86 6. Hans Andersen 7.75 7. James Sarjeant 2.56 Team Total: 41.85 Remaining: 0.65 POOLE 1. Brady Kurtz 8.08 2. Josh Grajczonek 7.34 3. Kacper Woryna 4.65 4. Linus Sundstrom 7.22 5. Chris Holder 7.16 6. Mateusz Szczepaniak 4.54 7. James Shanes 2.88 Team Total: 41.87 Remaining: 0.63 RYE HOUSE 1. Krzysztof Kasprzak 6.86 2. Ben Barker 6.0 3. Eddie Kennett 6.39 4. Scott Nicholls 7.48 5. Chris Harris. 7.63 6. Stuart Robson 5.72 7. Max Clegg 2.00 Team Total: 42.08 Remaining: 0.42 SOMERSET 1. Jason Doyle 9.69 2. Jack Holder 5.82 3. Richard Lawson 6.43 4. Charles Wright 6.69 5. Bradley Wilson Dean 4.67 6. Jake Allen 5.07 7. Jonas Jeppersen 4.00 Team Total: 42.37 Remaining: 0.13 SWINDON 1. Nick Morris 8.87 2. Troy Batchelor 7.63 3. David Bellego 7.37 4. Tobiasz Musielak 7.37 5. Adam Ellis 5.56 6. Zach Wajtknecht 3.21 7. Mitchel Davey 2.00 Team Total: 42.01 Remaining: 0.49 WOLVERHAMPTON 1. Jacob Thorssell 8.64 2. Sam Masters 7.92 3. Rory Schlein 7.72 4. Kyle Howarth 6.64 5. Cameron Heeps 5.25 6. Ashley Morris 3.75 7. Nathan Greaves 2.54 Team Total: 42.46 Remaining: 0.04

it's dead easy to do well paired with a rider who was at the time probably best guy in the PL. his numbers show a great 2nd string but no HL. He's a gater and if his head isnt right his performances go down the pan.

That's correct. Any rider who has a Championship average above 4.00 and a Championship place cannot ride NL at the start of the season. Bizarrely, they can be included at a later point. Armstrong must change his mind - I have had it on very good authority that he won't be riding for the Colts.

greg hancock , oops . wrong team .

Good luck to Craig Cant say I'm his greatest fan but I wish him all the best and hope he can put together a set up that enables him to do himself justice

Doesn't look too bad to me, and most importantly contains five young lads.

Another page of comments forgetting the racing was pretty good the 2nd half of the season!!!! it was drab until the new stuff was put on the track! i agree with that. but it improved loads in the 2nd half! Riders like thj auty and toft made loads of passes and this wasn't just the odd meeting it was many meetings.

If that is the case it pretty much sums up everything that is wrong with British speedway.

Reider Eide was also a pretty decent longtrack rider , i remember watching him win the first longtrack meeting a couple of miles up the road at Haldon in 1978 , against a damn decent field. Not sure about his results in Europe though.

It’s their championship ave that dictates if they can ride NL

Thankfully it's pinned now. The right one is at least.

maybe Sheffield have not got the wonga !

Fully expect r/r to resign for 2018 again

The rule still led to it happening, though, which is what the post said.

I dont see all them teams being bottom 4, Stoke's team so far except for Alcock being an unknown is looking pretty good. Then wouldn't put IOW down their either as have strong heat leader duo and will get points from elsewere.

The rule didn't cause Swindon or Wolves to lose their top riders. They CHOSE to lose them.

Next year, we'll hear of the "losers" who got their Speedway Star late over Christmas!

Don't think he has any desire to ride for worky, it would benefit all if a transfer fee could be agreed,instead of arsing around with loan fees and sever all ties so to speak

They should have scrapped doubling up and used Young British talent ,let these money grabbing riders solve their own problems.Its still a mess IMO .

A long time ,I phoned SS on wed got last weeks copy resent, got it on Thursday,then later in the day got the original last weeks copy .Proof its Royal Mail who cause all the problems regarding delivery IMO .Great service from Pinegen when contacted.

Bloody hell the winners and losers in the star is all light hearted, why do some appear to take it so seriously? Hence some appearing in both categories.

Interestingly my view on the Plymouth forum was similar and I got shot down by pretty much everyone on there for suggesting the team was pretty disappointing. As a Devils fan it's great that speedway continues in the City and ensuring that going forward is paramount so building to a budget is simply a must. If you look at that side I can only see Bradley and Henry improving their averages. Adam will win races everywhere but outside that I think Plymouth look vulnerable. Away from home we'll get some tonkings. Looking at the teams being put together so far I can see it being two leagues in one; IOW, Plymouth, Buxton and Stoke look like being the bottom four with the rest looking much stronger (on paper). This is of course before Belle Vue and Coventry show their hands but I'd expect both to be competitive. As ever, time will tell.

Not entirely sure pairing Charles and Holder together is going to be a great idea and may end up getting in each others way more than anything. I'd be tempted to swap Jack with Richard and have Richard at 4 and Jack at 5 - especially for home matches.

Say what you want about Colin Pratt i for one have great respect for the man like Eric Boocock he tells you how it is.

Glad to hear John is still remembered-he was in the first meeting I ever saw in June 1964 riding at Newport for Long Eaton-anyone know when and why he emigrated to Oz(maybe some of the same reasons why I emigrated to Canada)!!

Probably because the modern engines rev so high,with peak power high up in the rev range.When these modern bikes hit a bit of of extra grip,it kills off the revs a bit and the bike grips hard and takes off. So in general the tracks have less shale than they use to to make these modern bikes easier to control,less grip in general = slower times,up to a point. However as we saw in the Lynn v Poole meeting on "that" night if a rider attacks a grippy track,the race times are faster than on a slick track.. A lot of riders want a smooth consistant ride over a 'tighten their bum cheek ride' on a really grippy track these days.

Would make sense for Poole Somerset and Swindon to work together. A few floating fans do all 3

Because the whole average situation this year is farcical and the people who run the sport in the UK are unable to distinguish between their bumholes and their earholes?

Why would you lie directly to there faces!!!

It will be a bonus for Comets fans watching youngsters like Bewley and Bickley making their way in the sport.Not enough young riders in Championship these days.IMO.

Pleased for Comets and their fans. Looking like a decent team.

If it forces them to sort the shambles out its very helpful

This seems to be a convenient bandwagon for people to jump on but as somebody who attends Lynn meetings reasonably regularly I've never seen any evidence of this on a race night, i.e. no strutting around the pits or big ego etc. People will probably point out his mother or the argument he had with a fan during the Poole meeting both of which don't do him much good but I think people go over the top with their criticism and it's almost like people would rather give him a kicking than give him the benefit of the doubt because he is British and has talent. As a teenage sportsman he's not going to get everything right and learns as he goes along but he's not half as bad as people like to make out. You want him to have self belief but there is a fine line between that an arrogance. Generally speaking I think he stays on the right side of that.

infantile behaviour, proved wrong and then 'it was just a joke' . Pathetic actually

Exactly! Doubling up should be for Brits only.