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Hard to ride the Uk tracks..lol its hardly Wolves and Arena anymore. .his Polish club wont let him ride and hes been banned.

There is a difference between the Kurtz & Covatti / Musielak situations, if you cannot see that I despair. Kurtz rode in a one-off match (GP qualifier) but hasn't ridden for his British or Polish clubs since. Covatti has basically declared he's fit to ride, just not in Britain. If Musielak doesn't turn up on Thursday then he's done the same.

I'm speaking facts. Kings Lynn are terrible. It's not my job to turn it round.

I'm flabbergasted that peolple are still referring to GI, by some flying pig miracle, building a new track as "positive news" We don't want these parasites to have any connection to the club whatsoever! Anyone worth their salt would refuse to attend and line that b****** Osborne's pockets and it would be a matter of time before he would be looking to put houses on the new land. If GI are our only option, I would rather we stay mothballed!

https://x.com/TWoffinden/status/1800293475004412346?t=HqXM3ITQb5DjkJV6hPEjag&s=19

It was not funny when Woffinden fell off ... very few falls are. He picked up some grip and did well to dump his bike into the last bit of air fence on the 4th bend. British Speedway has been crying out for some personalities and, dare I say it, "baddies", but now Woffinden is fulfilling that sort of role, people start moaning! Before the meeting, Woffinden was the only rider I saw who stopped and talked to fans, posing for numerous photos/selfies, before going into the pits.

Lovely attitude to have

Another disastrous result against a side with no Barker. Hopefully Dickson gets Starke back to guest for the next match as he’s been a roaring success so far.

Lets look on the bright side hope he ok

Good news is, once MPT is fit again, he can guest for Musielak

The only place i see Buster running next year, is into retirement.

Kings Lynn should just run in the Championship. They are absolutely rubbish in the prem

Can't beat a wind up or 2 on these forum pages H18TORY and all that

Showing he has a SOH as well! With the exception of his comment about effing off back to Ipswich I dont have a problem with him - i just feel that lacked a bit of class. British Speedway certainly is benefitting from having a lot of the top riders back in my view. He certainly is very decent around Sheffield right now. Your comments about the gates and passing tally with my previous visit which was Leicester in the cup - gate 4 at Foxhall is the new gate 3 at Owlerton!

Of course it’s all about the racing, and the riders. Bengt Jansson - ‘Benga’ or ‘Banger’ - was pure class and to think that a Hackney rider was within a ride-off of becoming World Champion frankly beggars belief! He once finished with an end-of-season average of 10.26 - a cool Swede in his yellow leathers. Garry Middleton, a one-off, who never rode harder than the night he won the Golden Helmet at Hackney. Can’t remember who he was against, but he was the underdog, and the fans loved it! Slender little Zenon Plech, a real full-throttle merchant, crazy, mad, frustrating, spectacular, the original Polish wonder kid, who at his best was just amazing round Waterden Road. We enjoyed that he didn’t gate consistently - he would square off the corners, especially the last bend, and ‘find’ his way through on the inside at great speed. Little Davy Morton and his chequered leathers. Loved gate four at Waterden Road as he would blast round the first and second bend banking and come out in the lead going down the home straight. Our No 8 from Crewe, he came into the side in May at reserve, and by July was beating the Great Dane Ole Olsen not once but twice! Bo Peep - the immaculate and exciting tall Dane Bo Petersen. He could pass at The Wick up the inside, or hanging spectacularly off the side of the bike roaring round the outside - great balance. Unusually for us, he always had the best of equipment thanks to his sponsor Ivan Henry, and one season actually topped the league averages for a long while - I cannot think of any other Hawk to manage that. He once had to be physically restrained from attacking Danish captain Olsen after Ole had purposely run the young whippersnapper up into the first bend fence! Then there were a few youngsters who had their moments: Un-sung Steve Lomas, resplendent in his green leathers, coming third in the final of a star studded end of season Champions Chase in 1974 and relegating the great Swede Anders Michanek into last place! He had beaten the likes of Terry Betts, Martin Ashby and Simmo in the heats. Dave Kennett, known by the Plough Lane followers as ‘Killer Kennett’, but 'Davy Crockett' to the Hawks faithful, who hugged the white line and woe betide anyone in his way. He had the most scary of crashes early in 1973 when he and the promising Allan Emmett roared through the third bend fence together whilst team riding. Did they lock handlebars? It was a terrifying high speed crash, his bike, which was write-off, flying over the fence, sparks and all. Although he walked away reportedly with just cuts and bruises, many felt that he was never quite the same rider after that. The Fireman Geoff Maloney in his black leathers was promoted up from Rayleigh and had a grin as wide as the Blackwall tunnel. Especially the night when he beat Peter Collins, guesting for Wolves, twice on his way to his one and only Hackney maximum.

If that's the case it's pretty low!

Looks like Laguta all over again. For once in ages it looked like we had put a half decent team together, and it's looking like going t!ts up yet again.

https://x.com/tigersspeedway/status/1800273683820195880?s=61&t=WGGG_bqEEeOH78cfmD9Reg

I can remember when the announcer at Sheffield use to say give me a T give me a I give me a G give me E give me a R give me a S what have you got and all us kids would yell tigers god I am getting old lol

Could someone please start a special topic for @Trackrat and @LagutaRacingFan to post in so they can leave the rest of us in peace?

You talk some crap

My Top 20 Riders as at 31.5.24 are as follows:- 01-Josh Pickering-Edinburgh-1100 02-Tom Brennan-Poole-1010 03-Chris Harris-Glasgow-1000 04-Richard Lawson-Poole-980 05-Scott Nicholls-Oxford-975 06-Charles Wright-Redcar-970 07-Sam Masters-Oxford-930 08-Troy Bachelor-Workington-920 09-Justin Sedgmen-Edinburgh-850 10-Dan Thompson-Plymouth-845 11-Craig Cook-Workington-840 12-Connor Mountain-Scunthorpe-830 13-Michael Palm Toft-Scunthorpe-820 14-Ben Cook-Poole-810 15-Steve Worrall-Glasgow-790 16-Ben Barker-Plymouth-780 17-Jake Allen-Scunthorpe-775 18-Kyle Howarth-Scunthorpe-750 19-Tate Zischke-Workington-745 20-Leon Flint-Glasgow-715

And we would av to batter Leicester again! Yawn

H18tory . how do you see it ? H is a H . 1 is a year of the event . 8 is a year of the event tory is a tory colour .( blue ) so its 2018 when worky made history for the club . untill the next one . love the hate relationship between clubs .

Yea it's the tiggers of Glasgow who don't like it much, but can't see many lurking on here as it seems they have given up on this season with the team that's been built to a budget for a change

Don't think you'll wind up too many on this thread as in 2018 Poole were too busy winning the harder league whilst being bottom for half the season

.... And who can forget Zuper Zenon with a last to first missile surge at Waterden Road down the back straight taking current W.C. Ole Olsen from the back in the process with other two riders AND smashing the Hackney track record at same time !! ( i stand corrected, was it in time of 62.0 seconds ?? ) i think it was in the 1979 season. i went to World Final at Chorzow that year to cheer him on with the 100,000 + Polish fans. He finished 2nd but should have won. Even Briggo said it. August 9th 1980 : Halifax v Hackney Oh boy the meeting of a lifetime if your a fan of the Hackney Hawks. i had the amazing pleasure to be there ! Hackney 11 ? points down at heat 7 they came back, and back , and back.. winning 39 - 38 in the last race. Zenon was in class of his own with 14 paid 15 maximum despite Kenny Carter there in his prime ! The track was incredible i have to say. What a spectacle seeing riders going round at high speed on huge banked track. Leaping Len was in meltdown with happiness ! i hope he reads this forum and pages for his beloved Hawks - Len Silver IS HACKNEY ! My other half had a mini around this time with a .... ZUPER ZENON !! STICKER in the back window. She was toddling down M11 in it one day. A car pulled up along side her and the driver waved ! Who was it - The man himself !!!!!

Worky may want to delay even longer after Zischke's big crash in Poland today.

I suppose it does get boring, seeing them winning all the time

Wrong spelling should be win bored out of my mind road

What would be useful is Pirates releasing some dates for the BSN & KO Cup semi finals. Giving reasonable notice as well would also be useful. But as always dates for the finals, should we get there, will end up being shoe horned in at a time that is not favourable for anybody!

Wonder if Kvech is in for Toby, and maybe someone like Z. Cook ends up in for MPT? . Who knows, but that would put us over 5 points under the limit. The mind boggles when it comes to Lynn lately. Laguta , Jakobsen (2023) and Tarasenko, Toby (2024) Lynn is becoming a circus, for one reason or another

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The sort of humour that people with a football mentality, such a Shano101, clearly can't comprehend.

It's more evidence for me that we are simply in the wrong league, if you can't successfully employ top riders for a full season then we need to be competing in the Championship.

Surely your not suggesting he's not a speedway fan and is purely a troll. .

If Musie gets a 28 day ban (which he will), then Kurtz will get one too, well at least he should… but the SCB are f**ked tbh, so he probably won’t

Don't understand your preoccupation with pensioners. If it wasn't for pensioners supporting the sport in general,then you would't have a team to hate and most likely any team to support!

You think you're old.... 1, 2, 3, 4 let us hear the Brandon roar, B E E S, Bees

Equally impressive was the fact that their 4 bikes proved to be durable enough to last the night under extreme use.

After 61 years of watching Speedway, I have had to stop going due to family circumstances. I paid for a season pass so I can see live Speedway even if it is streaming. it is good to be keeping in touch via streaming. 2 more meeting this week and the SGP on Eurosport.

I thought there would have been comments on here about Sam’s commentary. Or are people just used to his name mangling? I remember when Andreas Andersen used to ride for Glasgow…..under a different name. As did another Danish rider who seems to have changed his name to Rasmussen.

Nobody on here is THAT old, are they?

Zach Cook.

So what if they do, doesn't mean they'll get it. Anyway I don't see how having the second leg at home is seen as an advantage (unless it's an aggregate draw). Last year the BSN series, KOC & play-offs were all won by the team that had the home leg first.

im sure its easier getting to a track for 3pm on a saturday than 7.30 on a wednesday when most will work midweek

Football fans do those kind of journeys every Saturday. Where there's a will there is a way.

How can they not? Plenty cheap places to stay the Friday night or you just get up nice and early.

I went up for the U 21 and the racing was fantastic , don’t really need superstars to provide good racing just riders of similar ability. I was a little surprised at the low turn out but this could have been because the Tigers had just been riding on the two previous nights and fans had already forked out on sway trips to watch their own team.

With Tarasenko, Basso and Vissing that's perhaps understandable but we couldn't manage just Vissing this year I find hard to believe. If the above is true we've created a bottom three side to suit the admin of the team rather than whats best for the team.