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there’s always the jubilee trophy ;-))anybody for a flat white

Great stuff from Scunny even sweeter after the arrogance of the Poole fans on here telling everyone how easy it would be…

still behind the couch hoping the Ht 14 result was wrong.

Stop bigging up the jubilee Cup,completely pointless and no kudos in winning it,with two made up teams of available riders,no Glasgow in the final, if they were they would win it easily,complete waste of time not worth risking riders getting injured. Time to move on and stop grasping at straws you're making a fool of yourself again.

Maybe not.

LOL.LOL.LOL.LOL.LOL..LOL…LOL….LOL…..LOL….LOL……….LOL……..

Poole bottling two finals in the space of 10 days. Well done Scunthorpe well deserved.

Nobody can ever knock Lambert he can have some poor meetings,but there is NEVER any lack of effort.Deserves a bit of success.

I TOLD YOU ALL!!!! simon lambert is the goat without a doubt lambo was on fire and kemp was back to haunt you. Poole we’re out gated and out ridden (were shook of Super Simon )

At the end of the day it will be Cooks decision we’ve seen it all before.The rider will always win .

Fair enough they were better on the night, Simon Lambert outstanding

Me thinks a tear just dripped into your flat white

God i am enjoying this flat white glug glug

Well done boys fantastic result Happy for the team and Rob for all the hard work that has been put in this season

It was easy. For Scunthorpe.

Yes. Even if there had been a rider who could've come in mid season for Lee and done better - which there wasn't - it would've been a terrible move because he was so good at getting the crowd and the kids hyped up. Not enough riders work the crowd, but he's brilliant.

I think Lee and bomber are good characters to have around the pits and for interaction with the fans too. Was reminiscent of the never to be forgotten Danny ayres in the Oxford and Poole meetings with Lee

Currently raining in Berwick, approx. 350 miles away.

If Ipswich want to keep Emil and Doyle, you need to find a couple of 5.00 riders who can improve their average. Possible options 1. Patryk Wojdylo - Talented rider but he may struggle to adapt to Ipswich. Would be useful on away tracks. 2. Patrick Hansen - Very good on small and big tracks, he would be my first choice. 3. Dimitri Berge - Has a very low average from his time in Britain, has been very impressive in Poland. 4. Jonas Seifert-Salk - Very talented youngster, would adapt to Ipswich very quickly. 5. Mads Hansen - Another talented Danish rider, very useful on small tracks.

Honest opinion I wouldn’t be overly fussed if he didn’t. Wouldn’t be surprised if ends up down south.

I never quite got the objection and eventual banning of ghost teams. If you start with the objective of organizing a racing environment whereby young riders can get competitive track time on a regular basis and enough people are willing to pay to watch them, what's the problem?

Imo the racing should be better with "diluting the league" as you put it, we all know the racing Is better when there's 4 like for like riders in a race be that 4 x GP stars or 4 x 125 lads. Younger riders are never going be able to compete with lining up against PL no1s in the Championship, but this season has proved the young Brits can compete against 2nd strings there and it's improving them. All I see and read is we want changes, now there's changes everyone's moaning about it, people accepted riders taking sweeties off kids in the NDL was wrong and they shouldn't be allowed to ride there, well the same's been happening in the CL and hopefully now that's being stopped/limited too and they'l do away with Doubling up altogether except for U24 Brits.

The wording there that he needs 2 Leagues in the UK to make it pay is partly why British Speedways in the mess it's in, he see's it as a cash cow because Polands possibly not worked out for him. There should be no doubling up/down except for British Riders under 24

Joe has already agreed terms with another club.

She was stood next to me Trackprat

Think maybe Joe as well? From how he answered questions tonight sounded like it. But time of year where you read into everything a rider says!

He was riding at No3 for Redcar a fair it of the season though.

Oxford had to wait weeks for the rearranged league fixture to take place, which obviously delayed the arrangements for the final. The original staging was August 26th, but it didn't happen until September 23rd (and the Lions Cubs only raced on 8th and 9th in between those dates). Plus, what's the reason the Mildenhall Knockout Cup final wasn't staged earlier? Mildenhall won their semi-final against Kent on 16th April!

Zack will be at Poole next year.

Just got back and how the hell did we lose that? Well the reason was clear tonight. Simon Lambert having his best ever meeting at Poole. I doubt anyone saw that coming and he was like Bomber Harris in the final. He has never done anything at Poole but tonight the track suited him perfectly. It was very different to normal and he excelled on it. Sure, times were about one and a half seconds slower per heat but it was the same for both teams. Poole can look at the catastrophic heat 10 though. Pirates well clear and heading for an easy back to back 5-1 when Lawsons bike packed up, turning it into a 3-3. He got it going again (fuel issue?) but too far back to do anything. That mishap alone cost us a 47-43 win and a golden heat, such were the narrow margins. Then heat 14 with Zach leading but Newman fell trying to get on the 5-1, never the same in a rerun. Still, as the saying goes, you make your own luck and tonight we just didn’t make any. We can also look at our top two who have gone off the bill in the last month, just when their leadership was required. Really not good enough, especially so Steve Worrall tonight who looked lightweight and lacking the grit required. He was obviously trying and managed to pass Douglas, only for Douglas to waft around the outside of him the following lap. Still, at the end of the day, Scunthorpe were right up for it and hats off to them. Competitions have been shared around this season with one each for Poole, Glasgow and Scunthorpe. Just one to go next Wednesday when Leicester visit Wimborne Road in the long delayed Jubilee Trophy Final.

Get in you beauties… go scorpions, fully deserved :)

Well done to Scunthorpe and a real captains performance, our captain wasnt so good.

Unexpected I guess.!!

I'm sure it's Robert Lambert not Simon! Quick switch in the changing rooms nobody would ever know!

3 heat leaders in a 38 limit just isn’t really going to work, also not going to be enough riders for 3 heat leaders in each team.

You can pick both still and win. But you need to be wise about picking your 2nd strings. No point going with Riss again. Need someone who looks like they can put points on their false average. Someone like a huckenbeck or a lahti etc

I would guess Ipswich are my supported club as its local and i attend regualarly, i did stop going for a long period of time only really been going again regularly since 2010 maybe

The fact that the BSPL has never shown any interest in youth development is very much their fault.

Your kidding yourself if you think the MDL still exists, it doesn’t ! One club , in the MIDLANDS ,running two teams against a Redcar side, in the NORTH, is NOT a league. The BSPL never had anything to do with running the MDL or any other junior league so don’t blame them. But Birmingham do an excellent job of providing racing for the youth, so you got that bit right.

Interesting if that’s the case Phil. Doyle is absolutely loved by both Chris Louis and Ritchie Hawkins to the point that if they decided to pick just one of them, I’d feel sure they’d plump for Doyle. As I’ve said, if they want the title they should be picking one of them, but I still think they’ll go for both. We’ll see.

A third level of the sport needs to exist to ensure a pipeline of new talent but the format of a meeting does not have to mirror the standard thirteen or fifteen heats. Make race days a festival with teams made up of say, 500 cc, 250 cc, and 125 cc with perhaps 80 c c or even electric powered bikes. Each category would race as a team with say four man teams and include both male and female riders. Set an upper age limit for each category. Set a fixed price for points and that is it. If the talent exists and it wants to compete then they have to understand that at the 3rd level it is equivalent to an apprenticeship. Clubs could band together to offer a season ticket to punters which gives them access to all tracks or a flat £7.50 entry on the day with kids under 16 free. Just thoughts and I am sure others on here can come up with more and better ideas, but most of all you have to create the demand and start somewhere. The sport cannot afford to lose the Kent’s and Mildenhall’s of this world.

I did.....but him and rew are your average increasers required in any team. You need those riders who can add a point or two, Riss can. He can't get any worse, a winter of resting and sorting out his health is all that's required to get him back to a 6.00 rider

I think the 1960's to early 80's British speedway set up of 13 heats with a 2nd half including novice races was a great set up cause many riders cut their teeth this way. I know that most of the crowd would leave but personally I found many ordinary matches were made more interesting by seeing local novices trying to make their way in the sport after the main event. With regards to the NDL, British speedways 3rd Division, it has to be retained because since its inception in 1994 it has been one of the best things to happen to the sport. Countless numbers of riders have learned their trade at this level in a proper League set up something they would have been ready for at a higher level. Also like in the case of Workingtons reopening this season this lower cost League has enabled new venues. reopened venues and current tracks struggling to make it pay in the higher professional Leagues pay a platform to operate in. - Would Workington Northside have gone straight into the Championship without the safety net of the NDL to run in before? Birmingham and Eastbourne in recent years needed to drop into the 3rd tier in order to keep running. The likes of Mildenhall, Stoke, Somerset, St Austell, Kent, Linlithgow, Rye House, Buxton, Carmarthen, Scunthorpe, Plymouth, Wimbledon, Arena Essex, Skegness, Weymouth and Berwick only opened or reopened because of the existence of the lower cost 3rd Division. Many of these tracks went onto move into the higher Leagues keeping team levels up to a sustainable level. Looking at all the above facts disbanding the 3rd Division, the NDL in its current guise would be a negative move cause the gentler introduction into the sport for new tracks and new riders would not be there which would seriously hinder future existence of the sport in the UK.

So no Brennan, Basso, Tarasenko, Vissing or Nowak in 2024. Big changes for most teams.

maybe he thought his polish team would get promoted and treble his money over there but got pumped in both legs of the playoffs

How about returning to the old fans favourite happiness is 40- 38 yes 13 heat matches then having a second half for junior racers

Well he has, howarth and Worrall.

Harris will prob guest for someone that once rode for Wolves