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Well speedway has just gone full on Mickey Mouse with this decision Irrelevant that it’s Poole it’s a cup competition for the top league and the top league only Basically it will be a Poole select side ….. as an Ipswich fan I don’t want Tom representing Poole and risking injury and not would whichever club Ben Cook rides for Absolute farce of a decision

Wouldn't mind a Berwick rider being in decline and be in the top 5 or 6 of the averages in various countries for the past few seasons.

I think fans who discredit this idea is taking the p!$$ to be honest. Woffinden has almost singlehandedly lifted Great Britain back on the world stage. Without this guy, we'd be nowhere near the medal tables in the 'Speedway of Nations', 'World Cup', 'Speedway Grand Prix'. He has given our up & coming young lads something to believe in & aim for. The belittling of his achievements & service by many to British Speedway overall is nothing short of absurd. Disgraceful in fact. Tai Woffinden IS a true 🇬🇧 legend

Poole will provide better opposition than a bye, I don't see any problem with it...

Wonderful 🙄

Still a class act at this level. We will happily swap, we will keep cookie an you can go into the season with batchelor as your number 1? Thought not

Expecting: Ben Cook Jan Kvech Richard Lawson Niels K Iversen NIcolai Klindt Chris Harris Ashton Boughen *confirmed

Personally think it’s bonkers that the pirates cab ride in the premiership KO cup. Well it’s not even Poole it’s effectively a select side they can go with. Must’ve been several pints down when they came up with this and thought it was a good idea.

Ridiculous being in the Premiership k o cup.

And he didn’t get going until May/June! His mechanical issues were well documented both here and in Poland. Once sorted he was back to the form he showed the previous season where he comfortably topped the averages. He’s now on a figure a point less than the one he started on, there’s an increase there. He’s another reason we’ve managed to squeeze in the team we have, alongside five brits with reductions and one of them on a 25% reduction. Our main competition you’d think, will all have a weaker team on paper than they did this year. We probably won’t get another opportunity as good as next year for a while, they’ve built absolutely superbly.

I would say Brennan, Dan T, Ellis, Sayfutdinov & Jenkins could all be expected to up their averages. Can't see any team getting close to them over the regular season tbh.

Was looking forward to return of green helmet colour. Gutted. being serious, glad there are so few changes KO Cup; was the draw arranged - getting Holders back at Poole. What’s not to like? It will be box office.

Shame Poole didn't get Leicester. Could have doubled up as the jubilee trophy.

Oh great! Let's p!$$ off the best thing to happen to British Speedway recently - British Speedway Network, by dropping their competition!!!!??

And rightly so. Much better idea than having an uneven number of clubs and one club skipping a round. Good decision.

So the 7 Prem clubs invite the 2024 Championship winners into the ko cup 1st round rather than have 3 meetings and a bye! What's not to like.......?

Know which one will have the biggest crowd and it not vs Plymouth!!

Still no Jubilee final. Gutted.

Well a 40 point limit to work with. Better news is we’ve got the pairs on the 5th April. Now to see some announcements.

Musielak has always wanted to ride in the UK since he started riding for Swindon (and Wolves before) - his commitment and availability have never been an issue.... until he went to KL.

I agree about Lawson over Becker....all day long!

For someone on a decline at the time of his crash he was 3rd in the averages for the league behind Doyle and J Holder. But yes he's on a decline 😂 and for him being injury prone. Every rider would be out with the injury he sustained, I don't see him having time off for a dodgy shoulder or concussion because he rarely crashes

It wasn't done to strengthen Leicester, but to get under the points limit. Everyone knows Leicester will be weaker next year.

He must really hate Glasgow….he’s the only one not been mentioned in their line-up…..lol

Bewley, Kurtz, Emil And Doyle, TWICE!!! What's not to like..?

And gives us even less racing for our money.

They've probably read this forum, So no point in holding announcements back.

That could be a good argument against, for some...

I agree with that,they should only use their actual 1-7.So as it is they can use horses for courses,I'm assuming they can use guests to strengthen up.If that is the case that would make them favourites wouldn't it.

“Get ready for a frantic Friday”? I guess just announcing Klindt on his own is considered frantic by Lynn’s standards tbf 😜

If it came to a pick between heats 13 and 15 and the rest I'd plump to ditch the rest first over the big 2

If Poole meet Leicester in the KO cup the winner should get it 😂😂

If it wasdown to Danny that would be a resounding NO!

Reading Morris’ comments in the PR, he mentions getting more local double headers on this year. Wonder if that means we’ll get our old Bank Holiday double header back on? Hope so

Anyway to get the thread back on to the club it's meant to be about, I'm glad we are racing on Mondays to avoid the potential Thursday carnage with Poland. Looking forward to the team being named, excited about 2025.

Having seen the crowd and the way some of riders treated CLRC last year, probably right it is awarded to a lesser track

I still think it's a shame we are not drawn against the spires, Harris would have been up for it 😛

Anything to shore up the Prem Cup!!😂

He has burned a lot of Bridges recently. Glasgow and more recently Edinburgh to name but two. Wouldn’t surprise me if he has upset Workington as well.

Points level 40 for 3 years Pirates invited to Premier Knock Out Cup (with ability to build to Prem level while keeping most of the team) Sounds like a good AGM Would be great to see Ben and or Tom back for Prem KO Cup

Monday Race Nights for King's Lynn as well.

True, but I can’t see that happening in 2025… there’s no Musielak/Tarasenko type riders this time, just a team built of riders that truly want to ride over here and they’ve all worked with Buster and/or Rob Lyon before very positively

Polish a turd day?

Someone getting a little bit 'insane in the membrane' hey 😤 Many rider's get injured, in the back of an ambulance & the meeting continues. Chill the stress. Crack on brudda 🏍💨

No doubt they are favourites. Last year they were odds on but injuries caught up with them in the end. People such as Doyle are irreplaceable if they get a season-ending injury.

Well put 😄

Yes that’s why there’s a disclaimer at the top.

The argument about moving off race night doesn’t wash with me! A repeat of the fiasco of last season may well be the final nail,they haven’t got a clue or don’t care what the fans want. As a business model, it’s a joke.

ITV Dave Lanning.

Well my choice is obviously very biased but it was Sky’s production followed by BT both of whom were very professional and forward thinking with their production with Sky making it HD, Jib cameras, Kerb cams,multiple slow mo’s then BT took over and made it a UHD production However this came at a cost with each Sky meeting production costing the same as what Eurosport spend for 5 UK meetings. There simply is no budget for UK racing everything is done using the cheapest option possible for example they use a lot of University students who are looking for unpaid experience that’s why we get some dodgy camera work and editing, vision mixing . The Sky production was normally a 15-18 main cameras and 2 slo mo plus 2-3 radio cameras while Eurosport is 4 main cameras plus 1-2 radio camera they don’t even pay the OB provider for lighting for presentation and instead Mr Morris brings his battery flood lights. Who knows when the contract is up for renewal again Sky may be interested as would now be a good fit for the Sky Sports + channel and is a good filler when no Football