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So anze grmek rode last night at Plymouth then caught the same flight to Poland as Dan Thompson who rides for the same team as zach cook. Cook could have rode at Plymouth and got the same flight but Poole thought they could bring in Edwards who rides Plymouth better than cook but the powers to be were wise to this hence the reduced facility i.e 75% average blatantly caught out trying to cheat or complete lack of commitment from cook or maybe both you decide but these are the facts. Win at all costs backfired on the cheating pirates.

Until championship speedway returns to a semi professional sport it will never be sustainable. How can our level of speedway be expected to finance flying riders around the world to ride. Leave that to the premiership and return our league to how things used to be when riders had jobs as well. Hardly a big ask when you're lucky if there are 4 meetings a month.

A great days racing from Poland that had everything from nip and tuck racing to enthusiastic crowds. You could not ask for more as the riders never back off and chase every point. Thanks to all riders/teams for today’s entertainment and special thanks to those providing the links that enable us to watch great racing.

So now you are saying he missed a meeting to be a mechanic? If that’s correct no guest facility should have been allowed and a ban should be issued for withholding services.

I'm all for hard riding,it's his reckless and out of control riding from him I don't like.There's riders like Zmarzlik,Doyle,Lindgren who ride hard but 95% of the time they are in control of what they are doing. If there were 16 riders like Woryna in the GP's,you would probably only end up with half of them at the end of the series.

At the end of season Poole in play offs. Plymouth in bottom 3. Luke very un lucky last night,a crash and mechanical. Hope to see him guesting for us again soon. Why are Plymouth so jealous of a good team.

It's hilarious how its always 'we were massively weakened' when the guests don't work out yet when ringers score big points its never 'we were massively strengthened'.

We've just gotta except that speedway in the UK these days is a tinpot sport compared to how its ran in Poland and the money that can be earned riding over there, Poland its very professional, over here its Mickey Mouse.

But he wasn't excluded , was unfit for the rerun,so irr allowed

Problem in Dan's case though is that Lodz barely give him any rides to earn money, Kemp was in the same boat and eventually signed for Workington. I think the Championship may be watered down drastically next season to exclude anyone riding for a Polish Club.

The biggest problem will be available riders to run the so called Premiership if Poland bring in the one league only in '27, not just all the riders that ride in the Polish leagues who ride over here, but also the amount of British senior riders who DU more often then not during the season at some point, their all getting on age wise and cant go on forever. Nicholls 48, Harris 44, King/Lawson 40, Cook 39, Barker 38, Wright 37, Kerr 36, to name a few. Yeah there's a few decent youngsters coming thru but not enough atm to replace those mentioned above when they finally retire.

No it was Lawson on TV who went to the loo and left the door open dureing one of the track grades.

You were implying and trying to be clever. I then asked you a question, you can reply to that instead of trying to be a smart arse.

Hello everyone I’m just happy to see my team last night, I don’t really want to get into the politics of it all but if Arthur who is a true Poole fan is saying young will is riding in Poland today and rode at Plymouth last night it makes a bit of a mockery what cook did last night surely being on the spanner’s for someone in the gp if that’s true is not on and sticking two fingers up to the guys and girls who help pay his wages on the outside looking in it all seems a bit bizarre, if I’m wrong Poole fans I’m sorry

That attitude is exactly why UK speedway gets shoved to the bottom of everyone's priorities. Cook has signed a contract with your club, he should honour it. Why are you not p1ssed off that he's decided he couldn't be bothered to make it work, so has just dumped your club? Instead it's just "oh well, Plymouth is rubbish anyway lol 🤷🏻‍♂️" and no blame apportioned to the rider who didn't turn up. He's happy to take the money when it suits him, but not when another club comes along offering more money. I'd almost guarantee that if it was an important individual meeting (that benefitted Cook himself) at Plymouth, and he had to make it to Poland this afternoon, the travel options would miraculously appear.

I don't tell lies clive,you are the biggest liar on the forum and have been called out many times poor attempt at reverse psychology.

If they do sign for polish teams any replacement can only be NDL should be a new rule

Someone on updates was saying Andrew has ploughed over £600k into Worky from the start so you can't fault his heart and commitment if that is true. If this Poland and one other league situation in 2027 is true UK speedway will be forced into making some hard decision next year whether they like it or not. If the current second division ends up going back to the standard of the national league a few years back before the powers that be obliterated it, that could be a good thing. One old hand per team, 4-5 English youngsters and maybe a couple of young aussies like the lad at reserve for Berwick who are committed to being in the UK the full season could be the way forward. Whatever way you slice it if you can't get more punters/sponsors in through the door, the costs are going to need to come down by a third to a half.

Seeing Luke,cooper and will on BSN is always a joy. So enthusiastic and loads of charisma. Great to see them progress. Darren Thompson dad of the twins is always brilliant with letting kids have photos on the bikes. I guess once the pressures of deadlines of getting to airports starts it unfortunately changes things.

Have you? Im guessing you have or you would not have asked. I assume you think you need to have ridden there in order to voice an opinion

Does it really matter now, Plymouth won and Poole lost, let's just move on to the next meetings. I personally don't agree with it, specially as the meeting in Poland was not until Sunday, they will be the death of speedway in this country

Perhaps Zach was booked on the same flights that Klint used to get

We dont know what time Poland want Cook there for. Dan T sometimes doesnt even get a ride, so slightly different. Anyway I am sure Poole would rather have Zach there as a first choice! If Zach doesnt want to ride Plymouth, can't say i really blame him.

7 GPs and 7 winners. People will realise next year that we are blessed this year to actually have the best riders of this generation all in the Grand Prix (apart from Nazar) but minus the Russians. Anybody can turn up and win this year, I would have happily seen this line up (official line up) go again next season.

Someone on the Plymouth Facebook said Poole fans were treated to some proper speedway, loads of overtaking

Im sure a battered and bruised luke is grateful for your contribution to straightening his bent bike whilst guesting for you.

Please don't quote the idiot as when you do i can see his posts

That is an anomaly of the rules, brought in for no logical reason this year. Counts as a ride in his average but not in his completed races count.

Correct, and the guy on pro boards that seemed to want Nick banned for life might want to consider how Reid ended up with fractured vertebrae.

It was a racing incident there was not a lot of contact ,but it was Morris to blame.NH Jacobsen wouldn’t have finished many meeting colliding with opponents was taken into account.🤔

The problem with Victor is he was signed on falsely high average,which was gain by riding for Edinburgh at reserve at a track with a huge home track advantage if you can ride it(which he could) over 10 pt at one point,he went into the Top 5 as was mediocre but seemingly riding with illness.Finished the season on an inflated average IMO.Im afraid scoring your average doesn’t mean that much,when you see who he took his points off.Away from home he has been very poor for a Heatleader and costing the Bandits.In previous seasons I have been critical of Jye away from home but this season he has really stepped and I give him credit but I has been negated by not having a3rd heat leader.

Being brutal, maybe shift workers will miss meetings. The reality is that the majority of speedway fans are not shift workers and its impossible to facilitate any form of fixture list which can accommodate all eventualities. FYI, back in the day, when I worked shifts, where possible I arranged swaps or even had to have my fingers crossed that the meeting finished on time to enable me to get to work on time for the 22h start.

We said something similar on the pod this week, more in terms of consistency than effort necessarily but they have both been disappointing this year having started on averages they really should have improved on. Both could score 14 or 4 on any given day. If I were building a team right now for 2027 I'd try to keep Fricke, Bomber and the two young lads and have three fresh faces.

Keep digging 😂

The irony of this comment is why your known as arfwit, you have constantly called me names with your cry baby split personality mate @Whitelinehugger embarrassing pair.

Here comes the name calling, which we don't get on the new forum

Different Polish clubs, different contracts, different requirements.

All this missing meetings here to be in Poland stuff has to stop next year, as I've said several times before the BSPL need to grow a set and veto signings where riders are going to be absent regularly, and in the case of FIM meetings organise the fixtures much, much better.

Lewy rides regularly at plymouth tbh

That's pretty normal, no 8's are often named on the day. But let me amend your original post: Dan Thompson isn't down to ride watch today in Poland

Only talking facts

Good summary. Healthy to now have a three horse race instead of a two horse race. Makes the final few Gp’s even more interesting. Really looking forward to next weekend even more now after that last night. On Woryna, for all the criticism of his hard riding, his heats are simply unmissable. You ain’t getting up to make a cup of tea while he’s out on track!

Leave worky out of it we are crap 😜

yes he needs checking for drugs

Our Premiership barely holds up against 2.Ekstraliga let alone the top league. Perhaps they could join the same league as Landshut and Daugavpils and it can almost become a sort of European league

I’m not really sure you can change too much re the surface because of the clay content and the stocks? The conditions Dan was talking about was due to them buggering about with the track because of Dicksons demands despite him being told by those that actually know about track prep, that it would make things much worse. Perhaps they’ll look again at uprooting the drains and lowering the inside to create artificial banking that Louis was going to do before he shelved the idea due to costs involved. Who knows. They need to try something because for whatever reason, the track has gotten worse this year and the entertainment almost non existent. It’s never been the NSS, but it’s been better than this.

I thought this was a Brandon Update

A 28 day contract is a minimum of 28 days. Hence Redcar signing Nicolai Klint on a 28 day contract and he stayed 15 weeks.,

Redcar

You think Sandhu is to blame?