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King's Lynn ARE the reason all this has kicked off. Poole had Ellis and Morris booked as guests for Kurtz. King's Lynn booking Ellis for Monday, although not against the rule, made the sport look a total embarrassment by swapping guests for each leg. If everyone was totally honest with themselves, King's Lynn should have been made to find an alternative guest. Poole should have kept Morris and Ellis. There are other alternatives out there and Poole should have NO blame. There were alternatives available to King's Lynn, i.e. R/R, Jacob Thorssell, Hans Andersen, Ricky Wells and David Bellego. The first 3 being much clearer options. Stars fans 'disgracing' Poole and it's supporters for it's blinkered views are exactly the same. This whole sorry mess all started from King's Lynn 'disgracing' the sport and we all shouldn't get away from that. Yes there were terrible decisions from the referee in the meeting but these wouldn't have been as bigger issues had King's Lynn not gone 18 points down in the first 5 heats. We displayed an embarrassing start to the meeting. Also, just remember, had Jakobsen been excluded instead of MPT, he was still injured. Had he come out for the rerun as the adrenaline was flowing, 100% would have pulled up in that heat with a broken wrist. Result; 51-38. Although a bit of fighting spirit was shown by King's Lynn mid meeting it was still a pretty abysmal performance. People should wind their necks in, focus on tonight and try to turn this result around fair and square with what we've got. Regardless of whether Ellis and Howarth score 0, King's Lynn need 8+ from all of Jorgensen, Riss and Proctor. Double figures from R.Lambert to be expected and 3-4 from S.Lambert. Any points from Ellis and Howarth should be looked at as a bonus. We have to go into this meeting with our minds set as a 5 man team and our middle order has to be on form. If one of Jorgensen, Riss or Proctor flop, quite frankly we're in the poop and we only have ourselves to blame for the appalling display in the first leg. Fingers crossed all rider's end the night safely, both sets of fans have an enjoyable evening and the world becomes a happy place again. May the best team over the 2 legs win and good luck all
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King's Lynn ARE the reason all this has kicked off. Poole had Ellis and Morris booked as guests for Kurtz. King's Lynn booking Ellis for Monday, although not against the rule, made the sport look a total embarrassment by swapping guests for each leg. If everyone was totally honest with themselves, King's Lynn should have been made to find an alternative guest. Poole should have kept Morris and Ellis. There are other alternatives out there and Poole should have NO blame. There were alternatives available to King's Lynn, i.e. R/R, Jacob Thorssell, Hans Andersen, Ricky Wells and David Bellego. The first 3 being much clearer options. Stars fans 'disgracing' Poole and it's supporters for it's blinkered views are exactly the same. This whole sorry mess all started from King's Lynn 'disgracing' the sport and we all shouldn't get away from that. Yes there were terrible decisions from the referee in the meeting but these wouldn't have been as bigger issues had King's Lynn not gone 18 points down in the first 5 heats. We displayed an embarrassing start to the meeting. Also, just remember, had Jakobsen been excluded instead of MPT, he was still injured. Had he come out for the rerun as the adrenaline was flowing, 100% would have pulled up in that heat with a broken wrist. Result; 51-38. Although a bit of fighting spirit was shown by King's Lynn mid meeting it was still a pretty abysmal performance. People should wind their necks in, focus on tonight and try to turn this result around fair and square with what we've got. Regardless of whether Ellis and Howarth score 0, King's Lynn need 8+ from all of Jorgensen, Riss and Proctor. Double figures from R.Lambert to be expected and 3-4 from S.Lambert. Any points from Ellis and Howarth should be looked at as a bonus. We have to go into this meeting with our minds set as a 5 man team and our middle order has to be on form. If one of Jorgensen, Riss or Proctor flop, quite frankly we're in the poop and we only have ourselves to blame for the appalling display in the first leg. Fingers crossed all rider's end the night safely, both sets of fans have an enjoyable evening and the world becomes a happy place again. May the best team over the 2 legs win and good luck all
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For me, Buster has dragged the sport down to almost irreparable harm. He's done that in just 2 years of chairmanship. Yes, Ford has been bad for the sport but that's only been allowed to happen because every other promoter has allowed it too. Ford is a virus, Chapman is a disease. I will never pass another £ into that man's pocket. I'll only watch the Stars away from home in future.
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Ridiculous, Worrall did nothing wrong. You only get excluded for riding on the infield. He was gardening and that's perfectly fine. Rider's are allowed to push their bikes across the infield, that's not against the rules. Stars fans clutching at straws and looking for all kind of issues other than our team being abysmal.
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Even I don't know what Worrall has done to warrant an exclusion. But there's no way MPT should have been excluded, nobody chooses to sent themselves into the fence. MPT's foot was taken away and lost control. Every other day Jakobsen would have been excluded. The referee did a bottle job. Agree with you about Ellis, king of the rollers last night but in 13, he and Harris should have been 15 meters back. But, at the end of the day, King's Lynn simply wasn't good enough. Appalling in fact, and fully deserved to be a mile behind. Think Poole have done enough regardless of the track that gets produced on Wednesday.
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This is an absolutely awful situation for British Speedway to be in. For the good of both teams and integrity Ellis should ride both meetings for Poole and Morris for King's Lynn. Or both teams run R/R. The idea that both guests could be on opposite sides 48hrs later is simply totally embarrassing for British Speedway. This is King's Lynn's first chance of a top flight title in many a year, probably only chance for another 18yrs, and this happens. It really has dampened and damaged the mood all round for almost every British Speedway fan. British Speedway has literally died. Cannot be excited about this final and to think of the poor sods spending small fortunes to attend these jokes of a meetings. A very very sad day and hollow victory for either club. The BSPA President, Chairman and Vice-Chairman should hang their heads in shame and resign.
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Not opinion but fact. Speedway is an individual sport and being the greatest rider individually is based on world individual titles. Opinion is having a favourite rider that you believe to be the best without statistics to back it up. My all time favourite rider has always been Nicki Pedersen from his time at King's Lynn onwards. He's my all time favourite rider, 'the best there's ever been' but I know and understand that he factually isn't the greatest of all time. Factually, Tai Woffinden is the greatest ever British Speedway rider. The numbers don't lie.
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The best and fair way to say which rider's were better than others is by individual titles. Even over generations. Mager and Rickardsson are the best of the best and can't possibly be disputed. They're very much at the top for everyone because of the number of world titles. So, to be the best British rider it also has to be judged on the world stage individually. Tai Woffinden tops the chart of the greatest ever British rider.
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How many of Collins 10 titles were individual? How many of Collins 10 titles were as a team and his partners score 0 points?
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We're very good away from home from heat 10 onwards as that's where we have a higher concentration of heats including Robert and Niels. Unfortunately most of our away defeats have been because our middle order are to weak. Poole could have their home meeting wrapped up by heat 9. I just don't think Riss, Jorgensen and MPT will deliver to keep the meeting close enough in the early heats.
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You massively underestimate the quality in this Poole team and the poor form of Riss and Jorgensen away from home. You've also got to remember that R.Lambert has got us out of plenty of brown stuff by having 6 rides away from home. That option isn't available in the Play-Offs. I hope you're right and we can keep it as close as 5 points but the truth is, we'll do very well to keep it within 10-15 points. We're not as good away from home as some seem to think.
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That's your opinion but please tell us what Peter Collins has won?