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Congratulations to Poole on finishing top. I certainly think it carries some prestige even though it doesn’t decide the title. A real pity our season has finished with such a whimper but covering the two Danes has proved impossible, six points from their rides tonight when they would probably score somewhere between treble and quadruple that between them. Big changes needed for next season.

Well I hope Cookie pees all over your parade.

So when and if Poole win the title will be it be an incredible backs to the wall performance ? Nobody can say you aren't predictable.

So how have we cheated tonight idiot

Easy for Robins as predicted well done to them and all the best for the play offs.

You enjoy the typo while us Poole fans can enjoy finishing top of the pile.

I would certainly understand Wrights stance. Any rider in his position would probably do the same..

"Now it’s all about planning for the future. The first thing to decide is which league we’ll be in and I think that will be the top one again. “Once that’s certain we can really press on with putting together the team for 2020.” C.Johnson in this week's E.T

Whilst i get what you are saying in reality the MDL style leagues should not contain riders that are learning to ride (although sadly in places it does) it should be riders who are bike competent and are honing their racing skills and techniques in preparation for the step up to the next level. The competent riders along with lower level NL riders would produce good racing as all you need for good entertainment is a raceable surface and competition that is of similar abilities.

Is Cook now peeing on parades as well as attacking innocent marshals?

What a shame - It looks like old TrackPrat has got the hump with Poole even worse than normal.....I wonder why

Big well done to Poole on coming up on the rails to finish at the top. Lets hope all 4 teams going into the play-offs injury free and stay that way. May the best team win. As for Lynn it’s never looked right since the get go and the changes didn’t do anything to correct it.

What a huge turn around after the interval. Shows just how good Middlo is as our manager, getting the riders in the right frame of mind to do the job in hand. we probably won’t win it this year but we are still in there fighting to retain. #PiratePride.

Well done to the 7 riders who’ve clicked as a unit the last 2 meetings & done the job. Now onto Wolves in the play offs as Poole will choose Ipswich.

Good luck to both teams and no injuries. Hope its a great attendance

Shame for him and a shame for us. It was frustrating watching him ride Monday. He had a few opportunities to give it a good go and he just didn't go for it. All hype and no substance. That must really hurt for him too because I would have thought he was expecting to score 6/7 every meeting. To not be as good at something that is the main thing you base your life upon must really cut deep. Maybe he needs a spell on a slicker track that is more suited to him so he can get some confidence up and prove everybody wrong as an away rider next season. Riders with a point to prove are worth Their weight in gold! He should go somewhere else with that attitude and it will be the making of him. There is a 6 point rider in him. He just needs to find it.

Did you get that manky bread at the workplace where Orion washes the dishes at Doris.!!!!

BT contract with BSI has two years to run ...

Plus the name calling is immature and rather irritating.

Fingers crossed buster succeeds in getting a FIM meeting at the showground next season, we have the best track in the country and we need a big international meeting to showcase this. Plus it might bring in some people that have never seen speedway before which is always good !

Maybe the problem isn’t with the bikes, engines or mechanics

Stoneman certainly has the potential but you just feel when watching him that he’s bound to fall at some point. 1 mistake can cost you this meeting.

Better racing at Brough than you get down in Redcar... I'm sorry Just my opinion... You just need some balls to ride Brough... Where Redcar is gate, wind it on and go...

Isn’t it time to move on from ‘Horton bashing’? Mick has lost a great deal of money running speedway over the years - any ideas that he was trousering funds are pie in the sky.

Better than doing all over the fans who paid to see the CLRC.

So why mention it if you can’t back it up?

Forgetting they were favourites at the start of the season, finished top as predicted but are underdogs, same old record every year.

Why have you got a Poole scull and Cross bone as your profile picture, shouldn't that be Coventry bees

Poole have chosen Ipswich in the semi final.

Shaky with 4 heats to go then 4 5-1s killed off Aces. Well done Robins, big crowd and good atmosphere.

You must be so mad with anger- you can't even spell Poole correctly

So I had a look at the Showground exhibition today and the initial plans look to build houses where the Speedway track currently is. However, they say that this will be starting in 2023 at the earliest. I think that is ambitious and there is clearly much concern from local residents about the existing infrastructure of the surrounding area and the effect 600 new homes will have. This could drag on quite a while. On the plus side, the local councillor was on local radio this afternoon and was adamant that any plans must involve keeping the Speedway Heritage in Peterborough (her words not mine). She was very committed in that Speedway is not overlooked, I was surprised, I didn’t know she was a fan. She was at the exhibition and I made myself known to her. She explained that there was a Local Planning order number 30 that requires any sporting activities (she said such as the Speedway) must be relocated before the existing site can be demolished and that she would be vigorously making sure this is followed. I was very impressed with her. Alas we all know and probably have experienced how developers and planners can operate, but I am confident our local councillor is going to be on the case for Speedway, which in all honesty is probably a lot better than I thought it would be at this early stage.

Makes no difference. It reflects directly off Swindon Speedway!

Great, thanks

What is this fixation with a 12 team top league? None of the other main European leagues have as many as 12 teams. 8-10 would be good though, but then its all down to what level ie points limit, is set?! If the top league sticks with Monday/Thursday as priority nights then it indicates they still want to attract riders that also ride in Europe on the other nights and the bigger the league the more they will need those riders. I don't mean the really top guys - those days are gone until the Polish bubble bursts - but Polish 2nd strings/reserves,Swedish, Danish, Czechs etc and of course the Aussies will still be very much in demand

If BV get a GP or Euro meeting I think the GB Championship should go elsewhere. Peterborugh would be perfect.

When you assume....etc. Because of his age, I assumed 10 years ago, he'd be long gone from the SGP. I was wrong. I assumed anyone deep into their 40s would no longer to be able to compete at the top level. I was wrong. If you base your assumptions (and you have) on speedway history and other riders, you are making a mistake. To repeat myself, there is no other rider in history doing what he has done at his age. He doesn't fit into any conventional template or graph you - or anyone else - might have in mind. Is he in the top 15 riders in the world still? If you don't believe he is, then I'll challenge you again, make the case for 15 riders being better than him. Name them. Make the case for Antonio Lindback, Janusz Kolodziej, Robert Lambert etc. If you truly believe he is no longer in the world's top 15, it should be very easy for you.

Paper never refuses ink. Chapman already made his and the club's position clear in August so unless something is confirmed externally and officially around that then I wouldn't take too much note of anything else.

He was probably drunk

By far the smallest crowd I have seen at a Stars home meeting this season.

more like chasing him out of the door . anyone want to put a dont touch with a bargepole thread on here . would be interesting .

Didn't he ride for Wolverhampton? Or was that James Bond?

Fair comment, and with his recent luck probably a wise move

Somerset; Edinburgh; Scunthorpe; Leicester - Glasgow would have better chance with Rasmus and Claus Vissing IF Cook in strop mode again..

any fear of you mugs taking this chat elsewhere since it is Redcar 2019 thread

You have a good memory,that comets team was probably the worst team in national league history.

Heat 14 :

Exclusive photo of the appeal being heard.

Yes that's correct.

Because it works. It is popular which means people paying to attend and that means money that keeps promoters solvent.