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I don't really want to quote myself but I pointed out the issue over a year ago.

As we've seen from previous seasons. it's not just reserve replacement rides, it's covering rider replacement and injury replacement rides as well. It would be great to have two big hitters but there aren't that many about and I certainly don't see a strong reserve as a negative.

After last week they're stuck in the u-bend with a few councillors who bought in to their guff are trying recover them on a pretty weak argument, compared to the planning committee chair's summing up. Good to see some support today from previous events' organisers https://www.peterboroughtoday.co.uk/news/politics/council/truskfest-would-be-the-first-in-the-queue-to-return-to-peterboroughs-showground-if-development-plans-fail-to-materialise-4836976 That backs up Councillor Harper's view on viability and ineptness of the EEAS in their use and running of the East of England Showground, The call in is a problem but with one more flush AEPG will be gone!

Don't understand the negativity in regards to the rumoured side and I'm someone who normally always criticises Buster Chapman 1-7's. If the rumoured team becomes a fact then I think it's the best 1-7 you've had in years. The vast majority of the 1-7 were either full time KL riders or riders who regularly made guest appearances for KL towards the end of this season. During that time KL wen't on a winning streak and they weren't wins against poor sides either, These wins were coming against some of the better sides in the league like Leicester and Sheffield. You didn't have any superstars in the 1-7 then but you still got positive results on a regular basis.

If it is the rumoured 7 (Magic or Cook), then on paper its stronger than the team we finished the season with. The same team that had some pretty decent form in the latter part of the season, against what were probably stronger opposition than next year. The rumoured team looks ok to me, I think some people are blowing it way out of proportion.

It's not recent though, he was identified as doing it at the end of last year. When he shuts off going into the first bend he was invariably last he was shutting off so much, not even 2nd or 3rd and then proceeded to be the whole length of a straight behind the riders in front. Now that's okay if he wants to be the next Jack Smith or Connor Coles but if he's the next messiah as some are predicting he ain't going to get anywhere with that approach to his Speedway. His end of season form has been as bizarre as anything I've seen from a rider that I can ever recall.

I think he probably meant to say playoff and KO Cup 'finals'. Playoffs A vs Oxford - 4+1 H vs Oxford - 10+2 KO Cup A vs Oxford - 11+1 H vs Oxford - 8+3 That's 33+7 (40) in four meetings. Hardly laughable.

4 would possibly be Rowe?

It’s called opinions it varies from person to person. Because there opinion differs from you doesn’t make them any less a Glasgow fan.

Brennan now needs to be dropping the Championship from his busy calendar. I personally thought he was spreading himself far too thin this year and he MAY have have progressed even further with a few more breathers here and there. If Ben Cook doesn’t feel Championship racing benefits his career anymore, then Tom Brennan certainly shouldn’t. He’s on an upward trajectory and has bigger fish to fry.

I'm not going to comment on your views of Boughen and Coles. One thing I can say is that Jack Smith gave 100% for Glasgow and suggesting that if Boughen continues to perform the way he has done recently he would end up like Jack is out of order.

Rapport

Pity to see Ben moving on, but the upside is that Zac seems to up his game when his big bro isn't around. Making him Captain would be a shrewd move too, good for his confidence and good for the team.

then look at what happens when one (or even both) gets injured, you're all of a sudden up rubbish creek, its a lot easier to replace a 6/7 pointer than a 9/10 pointer.

🤣🤣 go have a look how bad the WHOLE league was then. That Peterborough team is not a yard stick to go by. It's fact, you can't win anything without Heatleaders, anyone over a 5½ average at No6 is a waste of points. King's Lynn before a wheel is turned will really really struggle to make top 4.

It’s concerning lack of effort in 3 races last night.That not what fans want to see.

Lovely bike( IMO best looking engine of all time ) always wanted to own and race a Jap powered bike ,now i suspect I will just buy one and polish it to look at !

Except perhaps Leicester , who run Premier League , NDL, MDL, amateur meetings and practices .

If it is Rowe, and then Cairns comes in.... going to be tough to beat again in 2025.

All ready confirmed as staying put

Harris can't replace Boughen in heat 8, but he could in heats 4, 12, 14 where he meets another reserve. That's the point I was making. Even if he can't beat opposition heat leaders, having a reserve who may score 8 from 5 is better than a 4 point rider scoring 4. I'm not saying I definitely would've gone down the route of Harris at reserve over a top number one, but if they can't get anyone to sign, then if I was a Lynn fan, I'd still feel positive about having Harris at 6.

This is a bit different, Harris has been a 6+ rider for a few years, he's not on a massive downward spiral. Plus he rode at number 5 for Oxford for a lot of meetings, so moving to reserve should see an increased average without him improving. I agree with your point about 7 rides, he'd only get that if multiple top 5 riders are underperforming, which they don't want. But he should have the beating of opposition reserves in heats 2,4,12,14 which is where you gain the advantage.

Totally agree with your comments about Pearson, I think Pearson was the only one that increased his average by 1.5 points, and yet those on here were criticizing him. As for next year probably some real Glasgow supporters who saw what I did may well be disappointed. And yes his away form was poor but just think, his last matches away were a lot better because of engine changes - will be very easy to improve from 3.00 - even putting 1 or 2 points on that average. Easy for all other clubs to see that.

I said this before, he was doing this in his first season, hope he changes this but I can't see it..

Nothing to do with that. It’s the president who everyone hates, the internal audit found losses of 10 million zloty due to poor and underhand going ons, people in Gorzów hated the trainer too and his daughter who got a high paid position for doing nothing. President cancelled Woźniak contract one year early. They have basically got new people in to clean up but need 4.5m by 31st October or won’t get a Ekstraliga License and will be demoted to national league and with that basically go into liquidation. Sorry site for the most decorated polish club in its history of speedway! Fundraising is currently sitting at about 135,000zł in 4 hours.

going by what @siggysigalos has said elsewhere on this thread lynn & birmingham wanted jenkins but he wanted to stay at ippo therefore the 'draft' isnt really a draft at all

It's amazing what people want to read into posts sometimes...

Might be interesting to ask about the track made on the farm owned by Peter Collin’s dad. The Morton’s and Collin’s spent many hours racing there even before they got on to a Speedway track

I understand it, its Daniel Smith and his usual negativity towards anything Kings Lynn do.

What have they spaffed all their Zmarzlik money on? They should contact Birmingham to ask how their £755 saved the club!

It was a response to this message We have to work with facts, and the facts are, no team has ever been successful with this "strength in depth" nonsense. which is categorically wrong.

A good 1 and 5 is a must .look at Ipswich,Belle Vue .Sheffield..

As I said it’s only recent as he wasn’t shutting off going into the first bends prior to the CLRC and as it says above if he gets to the first bend in front he’s off and gone, it’s only when he realises that he may have to get the elbows out in the first turn does he shut off. Similar thing happened in the first leg of the cup at home, heat 8 I think it was, clearly appeared to have the speed to get past Foord, but every time he got close or had the chance to go outside him, he shut off.

Damn smart machine

i guess the theory is that one of those would be accompanied by a 8/9 pointer at 1 but its quite clear that the club hasnt been able to sign that kind of rider and will be going with a top six with less than a point between them instead personally i think the clubs priority has to be to sign a team who will win the majority of home turn up every week and have an affinity with the paying customer and the mooted team would do that i believe

Yes agree with that, he is improving and on a very tempting average.

That's the problem. If he does continue to do it, then it's going to backfire on Oxford and King's Lynn in 2025. However, he's got that potential to significantly raise his average if he finds his form again. I think I'd rather have in my team in case it's the latter. A lot easier to release him if he struggles (let's hope it doesn't come to that) than try and sign him if he's in red-hot form.

Go on then tell us. The suspense is killing me.

Leicester.

Heard the one about the Dane and the 'Russian'??😉

Poole will have some re-building to do. Tom will be following Ben out of Poole, so the management will have to pull some rabbits out of the hat to replace the quality of those 2. I'm sure more will become clear after next Monday. Clearly it's still being discussed on here, but sadly when you don't move up riders like Ben and Tom move on, that is the Fords choice. I wish them the best of luck for 2025 onwards and looking forward to seeing their progress for years to come.

completely agree feels like the time is right for them both to put their time into other things and riding better riders more often

I echo that and I’m pleased I started the thread to gain some knowledge

There is certainly a lack of track craft with a lot of the modern days riders.IMO.

No. But we what we do have is a daft Bald Bloke

Exactly. Zmarzlik back to Birmimgham

Traditionally I've taken tracks that have been described as "technical" to mean, Eastbourne, Arena, Wolves, Rye House etc. Where you really have to back the bike in almost to a stand still. To a lesser extent the likes of Leicester, Coventry, Ippo, Swindon, Glasgow, Poole etc. Then there's where you pin the throttle tracks like the NSS, Sheffield, Peterborough, Somerset and the worst track of the lot Scunny! That's not to say that these tracks aren't without their nuances.

Jack Millen.

For MPT read R/R in both teams

It’s clear from the video evidence Vinnie Foord wasn’t at fault for either incident at Poole. In heat two he was up the inside of Killeen. Killeen then attempted to go around Vinnie but went for a gap that wasn’t there. And his front wheel went through Vinnies footrest, showing he was half a bike down at the time of the collision. As for the crash with Jody Scott, it’s clear Vinnie got up the inside of Scott off the 4th bend and Scott panicked, turned into Foord crossing the start line, causing the crash. Ford’s line never changed as can be seen in the BSN footage. Scott should have been excluded. Think that clears everything up concisely so time to lock this ridiculous thread.