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Big step up for him but he seems aggressive enough to have a good go. Was impressed with him in the Ipswich meeting, if that’s the standard of potential 2 pointers in the league next year then he’ll do ok

I went up to 49.13 mainly thanks to Rushen. It was higher but Harrison and Ace P dropped almost 2 points between them in the last set of GS

Return of Woffinden?

That's probably the only 5-1 we ever had at the County Ground 🤣

Frank Smart Leigh Adams Rafael Okoniewski and I always loved watching Carl Wilkinson, a style I'd never seen before or since.

There is an argument he should be but his last Green Sheet from 2023 was 7.81

Not related to the GPs or 2025 speedway but there’s an episode of American pickers on sky history tonight about speedway history. They meet the family of Ernie Roccio by the looks. season 26 ep 9

But he has Abi and Scott for that kind of stuff and they don't seem to provide it either. Football is probably considered the gold standard in that they have the resource to pull in all kinds of real time data, so whilst perhaps a tad harsh, the basics aren't there for Speedway. There are plenty of armchair stattos that I imagine would gladly give up a few hours on a Sunday evening to prepare such a 'pack/guide' for Kelvin but he appears to not want to take on that role and is happy giving the absolute bare minimum. That is the perception that's given off to me and it doesn't do anything to help the sport's profile.

That and everyone's been going well on the continent when in fact they're really struggling winds me up no end. It takes 2 minutes to have a read through the Polish results on a Monday morning before a TV meet to throw some colour and insight into things. Unless its Erik Riss and his long track achievements he hasn't a clue what's going on. I've never watched a football match where the commentators don't know anything about a player on the pitch.

I hadn't seen him properly but he was certainly impressive. Especially when he almost lost it. Must say Ingram impressed me as well but seemed to run out of steam, he was very aggressive

Presumably Rushen is nailed on for the RS after Louis being his mentor last night? Did I hear he turns 16 in March?

Is Peter Mole still involved there?

He also hit one at Stoke going up the hill a little too fast after a bad race! What a boy

Just wave him through Jan

Also begs the question, if everyone knew this would happen, why was this the first set of play off's to be staged with two riders going for podium places in the GP 2 days later, with a poor forecast. Decision was announced 3 days after the last GP round so it wasn't a surprise that 2 of the Belle Vue team would be up for some serious silver wear 2 days later

Old factory site is interesting - what's the track in the US that appears to be in a factory? I'm sure it was used in the background of the True Detective series? Could that be an option (proper air extraction included of course) for the UK? Sound proofed walls and a filtrations systems wonder if anyone has ever explored that idea

I knew I wasn't going fully mad, just couldn't remember where and what side would have had priority! Thanks

I'm sure he posted on socials a few days ago that if Ipswich top the league he's got a clash with play off dates... just checked, Play offs in Poland are 8th and 14th so should be fine

Doesn't that mean they're missing Brennan?

Great stuff! There were a few pictures of the back straight at Newport and I don't ever remember it being that busy but it was packed out!

Not quite on the same lines as the other posts but I bought some photo's off Vinted from Newport that were taken on the corner I used to stand with my old man after a few too many sherbets last week. The lady kindly put in a host a of old programmes that her uncle had left, opened the package at my old mans and they turned out to be his old programmes dating back to the early 70s and up to 2004. He'd sold them on just after Newport closed and I've somehow managed to get them back. Great Sunday afternoon reminiscing over lunch

He loves a good bit of PR so must have known they were 'announcing' today to get chins wagging.

Woffy also announcing he'll make an announcement at 5 today....surely not? The image they've used does bear a resemblance to him though

and injured

Someone on here this week referred to Fricke and Kurtz as modern day Adams and Crump and it’s one of the best comparisons I’ve seen on here in years. Brady’s got that killer instinct, what a ride from gate 2