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Vuolas returns.

If only cookie had played fair to andrew and steve they might have kept him !

James was a very skilful and fast young rider around Ashfield, everyone who visited Ashfield could see that. He beat a lot of good riders in his first season with the club. He probably had only visited most away tracks twice at the most before joining the Tigers, so his away form wasn'ta complete surprise. To me he was a success and I'm really disappointed that he's not in next year's team.

Good to have Antti back.

As is often the case there are two sides to everything and right & wrong on both sides as I expect is the case here. However what puzzles me is that the rider stayed in contact with the club during his injury lay off and never raised a grievance despite having multiple opportunities to do so which is very odd. He obviously no longer wanted to ride for King's Lynn and wanted to be elsewhere. There is a narrative that Lynn are a shambles but plenty of experienced, quality riders are happy to ride for the club and return after leaving so it's obviously not the case. Sometimes people just don't click with eachother and can be on different pages, I suspect that is what happened here.

The constant topic policing around this forum is utter brain damage. It is incomprehensible for me to process that a grown adult would look at this topic and think ”the subject of discussion has deviated, I must intervene”. It’s genuinely the behavioural characteristics of someone who has a spectrum disorder.

IMO it's how it should and indeed used to be. Top riders in the Champ at reserve in the top league (or at the very most, second strings). But, sadly, those days are long gone.

I think any youngsters coming to Glasgow has a good chance to greatly improve, with the 2 tracks big and small and unrestricted track time they would have a great chance to really develop.

Very happy with the team building so far a good scoring reserve and the 2 riders who in my opinion needed to be back after we gave them a start in British Speedway it’s only right we benefit from them in 2025.

Enter Peter Kildemand

Different era but surely Zenon Plech, maybe Eddie Jancarz too.

Still would of been a lot stronger if we'd kept cookie instead of batchelor. But Not a bad start to team building, although will be some disappointed when Jye Etheridge is announced 😕

As much as it pains me to say this, if the rumoured lineups elsewhere are close to true I would fancy that Glasgow team as comfortable favourites to make the play offs and challenge for silverware.

Good to see a line has been drawn under the matter. I know Alex is passionate about his speedway, and the Stars. And maybe sometime in the future he could be involved again in some capacity.

4.08 from reserve to 5.51 mainly in the top 5 is a huge jump. You are doing Pearson a disservice.

Hound? What an overreaction. Foord’s erratic racing style is fantastic for the sport; it’s a talking point. His attitude after the crashes at Poole, while questionable, was entertaining. People love to hate characters like Foord and it’s an essential aspect of competitive sport. The poster who created this topic evidently did so, tongue-in-cheek. For you to then raise the subject of mental health is utterly mind-numbing. Give yourself a shake.

I find all this riveting reading, but what does it have to do with Poole 2025??

I doubt he will fit, rumour is they are getting Tate.

You’re all wasting your time I’m afraid. They won’t have it that it can possibly be anything other than the rider that walked out who is totally to blame. Kings Lynn and the bloke that runs it are of course totally blameless. It had nothing to do with them, obviously.

Absolute guff.

You can't ride with a break and it was a bad one.... A broken promise

New episode of the Pride Of The East Podcast discussing the class of 2025 with Rob Lyon, Dale Allitt and skipper Nicolai Klindt: https://open.spotify.com/episode/1JrflzvvwGaMeWWoPYNe5F?si=URLdhpP9S3yfckLWmRUMTA

Neila.dont be having a pop at cammi.he made the best decision of the season releasing starke and meaning he could sign for the comets and help them nick a play off place from the tigers.

An exciting start to team building

Good rider, exciting to watch and on a 6.4 average. Welcome back Anti!

Hope the move works out for both Musielak & Brummies. Musielak had been reliable for Wolves, Swindon & Sheffield before his move to Kings Lynn last year, where it seemed to go very wrong. I've seen him unbeaten at Owlerton more times than I care to remember, less effective at Leicester, but seemed to have got to grips with the NSS after struggling first few times I saw him there. With the number of GP & ex-GP riders returning to British League racing I'm not sure Musielak qualifies as a genuine #1 any more though. Two other solid heat leaders are required.

weaker

100% Spot on. The new rules are utter garbage - If you want to open the opportunities up for the final ; do the Top 2 straight through and 3-6th place in Final Run off. This new format is dross !!

The GP series now using all the F1 sayings like P1, LCP1, Q1, FP1 gets right on my wick, I’ve got one for them FO

He ended up at reserve because we signed a clown on a 6.00 average. Absolutely nothing to do with James. He also spent a fair amount of time riding at 4, also nothing to do with him.

A very difficult character

He will be back.

Boughen at 3 will be weak .IMO

He’s capable of 8 easy a meeting if not more

spot on i reckon - regardless I hope for once Lynn have a decent / drama free season make the top four etc.

Yeah. Him and Bomber starting as reserves in the Prem is pretty crazy!

If Rory is at reserve that is one of the best reserves in the league.

Its interesting that Stars have set their side up polar opposite to the concept of having high scoring 1 & 5 in favor of a health middle & strong lower order Clearly with Bomber at 6 he will score a bagful of points home and away but after the first month will, more than likely be in the main body of the team and who knows who he will be swapping places with. Conversely, difficult to see Stars 1 & 5 doing particularly well v their opposite numbers so filling in the minor places will be vital if Stars are to have any sort of (much needed) cushion for heats 13 & 15. Overall, its fairly reasonable to expect Stars to enjoy a winning season at home but think the away results may prove costly in terms of gaining valuable aggregate bonus points.

Why not belle vue?

Let’s hope he repays the promotion back and dial in straight away

I'm not saying that its not a great signing...it looks like it 'could' be ? He didn't leave a great impression last season (even when he did ride!) The fact is and this is my main point....the team needs to be way better constructed than last season and he's not stronger than Lindgren from my position! So, the next signing needs to be stronger than Brennan, whom was B'ham's no.2 heat leader last year!

You could argue he is here, which is all that matters for Birmingham. Musielak’s last full season here in 2023 for Sheffield, average 9.35 with bonus across all meetings, Lindgren this year for Birmingham, 8.85.

you seem hard to please museilak is a quality rider in the uk if whatever his issues were last year can be avoided hell be a great signing

Oxford can still be stronger than last year, even if they don't sign a top heat leader. As long as they find a 6.5+ rider, they've strengthened on Harris at the top of the team. Then if they have got Schlein or someone of a similar ability at 6, that's an improvement on the Kerr / Kemp / Killeen position. Apart from that it's Killeen for Boughen, which does weaken them imo. *I know Killeen rode with Boughen for a few weeks, but I'd say he's effectively replacing Boughen's position this year.

So who’s next??? zagar rew jeppeson ?????

How many years has Musielak been riding in the UK? How many of those years did he go AWOL? All you Lynn fans can stick your fingers in your ears and go blah blah blah and blame everyone else til the cows come home. The fact is he’s never been seen as anything other than a loyal rider in the UK for Donkeys years until he rocked up at the Norfolk circus. As for your “stable environment” comment, LOL.

And what about when the same reasons reappear next season? Say what you want about Buster/Lynn but at least it’s a stable environment. He might be out of a job come May…

Why Poole would be interested in Starke is a mystery too me.Shows the state the sport is in regarding Averages.

Is there any need for this thread? we've already got a stupid one on Vinnie.