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You mean Matt punched him in the face

hi guys could we leave this alone my son took quite a knock in this incident . he and cooper who are good mates have discussed it and are ok with it. its racing it happens lets move on.

The Gniezno club have set up a fundraiser to raise money to help Patryk and his family and so far has raised over ( equivalent) of £40,000

Especially when he has said he hates riding at Oxford.

Sorry that's too complicated. How about making RR available to two riders above the replaced rider and two below, rather than one above and three below

Well said.

That decision alone pretty much summed up UK Speedway.... A team found a "sweet spot" night to ride on, so were getting better crowds, and then got stopped from doing so as it wasnt their "official night" meaning there were not enough "guests" now available on Fridays... FFS!!!!

With the amount of injuries we've seen this season, along with other issues such as riders missing, away riding on the continent and 6 or 8 CL teams riding on the same day the guest and R/R situation needs reformed IMO. It's something that never seems to get looked at. R/R should be made more appealing, as it stands it more often that not, makes the side instantly much weaker and racks up the zero's for the reserves, especially if those reserves are NL guests. Something like if a 5.50 average rider is missing, the team manager gets 22 points (5.50x4) from the team's averages to replace that rider. It can be any combination, i.e an 8.5 could take a ride, but that one ride uses up most of the points, and technically have to use 'weaker' riders for the other 3 rides. It would bring more strategy to the meeting for team managers. If it's deemed too strong at a vote, a 5% reduction to the 22 points figure (20.9) could be in place for R/R used at an away meeting. The 8 day guest rule should be abolished IMO, with a lack of riders, I see no need for this rule anymore. Guests should be able to be brought in from anywhere on previous or assessed averages, i.e not declared in a PL or CL team, this would probably be very rare, but if clubs want to do it let them. The 28 day rule replacement rule is nonsense.

Sedgemen as a replacement that's like having to decide to cut off your left or right foot with a rusty breadknife he won't be any better than paco, he's 7 point man in the championship and purely a trapper very rarely overtakes.

Don't be a wally, be graceful. You fully deserved it last night but were incredibly fortunate last year. Because Sedgmen isn't very good and didn't really want Prem. McDairmid would have fitted and looks a better option right now in light of how well the reserves have started (would have been a very young bottom end with him at 2). If Castagna and Cook were replaced before Thursday/Monday I wouldn't be disappointed, neither were anywhere good enough last night. They shouldn't be that uncompetitive on their own track. Next Monday is a must win, its effectively season over if we lose another home meeting as its difficult to see us clawing those defeats back at BV, Sheff, Leicester or Ipswich at the moment. I dont think the score last night really reflected how much better BV were, there was a bit of a chasm between the sides in reality. Cooper just gets better each week, phenomenal stuff from him last night.

Will Mr Godfrey make a team change their fixtures so Workington have a better choice of guests like he did a few seasons ago? NO, he only did that for his teams benefit, all in the best interests of the sport (his team).

Lots of the old "Humble Pie" being eaten on here......

Poole can carry Bowes with no issues, they might be scuppered if a reserve gets injured but apart from that they will walk the league no problem

DT-TV great insight 👍🏻

Think Harris is working on getting his average down under 8 to guarantee a Team place next year.🤔

Think this deserves it own page, sadly Jenga has recently passed away, but love him or loath him on here, he was certainly a character. RIP fellow worky fan this was previously posted on the Workington thread Hi all, I hope this is okay to post as a comment in here. I know many of you may have known my father as Jenga / j20hh. He sadly passed away recently after battling with various illnesses the last couple of months, but I know he was fairly active on here, and I thought it would be fitting to log into this account to announce it. I'm aware he was a bit of a marmite character on these forums, but he was on here exactly how he was in real life, a windup merchant with bad grammar. It's been fascinating to look back through his posts and comments, and more so the replies from other people. I can only apologise if he aggravated any of you with his comments, but know that they've brought a grieving son a great deal of joy, to have an online archive of my Dad just trying his best to wind people up over a sport he loved. Speedway and Workington Comets were a huge part of my Dad's life, and a huge part of my childhood, I'm sure I'll have to get down to Northside to honour his memory soon. If any of you happened to know him in real life, I'd be more than happy to pass on funeral details over a PM. Thanks

Not in Speedway.... (The UK version, obviously)....

Cookie spinning today at northside

Seen that he's taking over from Bomber 😂

Not a Kurtz fan are you

Unipart, agreement has been reached to allow parking again.

How convenient a poor scoring rider is out, with a non speedway injury?? keeping his average high, for a future change, and far better riders take his place, thus potentially scoring more points 😲. That's not cheating is it 😃

There is something called the National Speedway Stadium in Manchester, heaven only knows why it was called this. Touted as one of the best race tracks in the country and pretty central why oh why aren't the Pairs and CLRC being staged there. British Speedway is just exasperating.

Is a "workshop" injury, a Speedway related injury?

Pretty decent, especially given the watering the track got.... Phil Morris would have been proud!!! The inside is still a bit too grippy due to the moisture, meaning the wide line isn't quite working well enough... Still a good watch, two pretty even teams.... With Jason Doyle probably the difference...

Great team riding from Berntzon... Blocked his team mate and let Doyle ride underneath the pair of them... Hold the line and would have been a 5-1...

....and Lewis Kerr!!

He’s not rubbing shoulders he’s winning world championship races 😂.

Leo Klasson replacees Joel Anderson for Smederna since Joel and his partner welcomed a little baby girl to the family the past night. 😄

I'm rolling in the aisles sadly but 100% spot on.

Oh, so that's what caused the defeat. I wonder what was to blame at Compost Corner last night?

To be fair, Foxhall has changed a bit since he rode it regularly. Ironically, I wonder if it's a confidence thing? He's settled into Championship racing, but is feeling a bit stressed in the Prem - not just the expectation of the fans but putting pressure on himself, because the current Witches line-up needs all seven riders to be on it ... Hopefully, he will get off to a good start in Heat 3 - he definitely needs to beat Cook and Kerr.

probably got more money scoring zero, in Poland then he did at kings Lynn, but we know his club in Poland wont take much more of that,. he is fast when in front but struggles when behind. so will be thinking about his future.

Yes, Indianerna v Vastervik on TV tonight.

I wasn't keen on Cook either tbh, although he eventually came back at the end of last season, and did ok. I questioned his commitment to the team/club. And Paco was a worry from the start. Big hitter or no big hitter, so far it seems the same old theme.

Can't stop him doing his stuff though! I don't think they are putting any pressure on him.

Given the Aces away win last nibght this could be a tricky match - my first 'live' of the season (I hope) - Kurtz if he gates will be tough to beat. Key battle at reserves - hopefully a close home win

That would only provide twelve riders though. I suspect if Cooper & Cairns weren't in it people probably wouldn't turn out in enough numbers unfortunately.

Have you listened to Sedgmen's interview on 360 speedway podcast? Not that into doing the top league by the sounds of it, similar to Kerr? Wants to concentrate on Edinburgh but did seem to say if deal is right he'll do top league.

At least Richard Lawson should turn up...

Middle order needs sorting if not we will not make the play offs! Belle vue won't win another away meeting all season imo

Ducati obviously think something of him.

Belle Vue are more top heavy than Katie Price! Kings Lynn win.

It's Bollox like this that put people off your posts. 😁

That is possibly the worst crash I have ever seen in over 60 years of watching Speedway, lets hope Patryk makes a full recovery.

Start Gniezno official info: Patryk Budniak is in stable condition and in a medically induced coma. He is currently undergoing surgery. Tests conducted have not revealed any injuries to his internal organs.

Bowes is no standard

Have a read of the first post etc.

Connor is now awake in hospital

Loving lamberts neck scarf, how very once a jolly swagman