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Having a discussion about it would be better......

But you are talking about a stronger league twelve years ago. I'd say a better barometer would be his Polish Extraliga averages from the last couple of seasons.

If Ipswich sign him and do a 1998 again it would grate a bit of course but at the end if the day there's a bigger picture, he'll put bums on seats and make the league stronger, I'd much rather see that personally. I can remember him coming to Lynn with Coventry in 2011, the place was packed to the rafters.

I really don't think that's true, surely the majority of folk who attend the six other Prem tracks want to see Sayfutdinov ride when Ipswich visit? Why would they not?

It's a mystery, there was definitely another Eastern European rider representing Ipswich that Good Friday in 1991 but I can't find any evidence of it anywhere online. The only way to know might be if somebody is able to physically produce a programme from their attic.

Yep the chippies at both Mildenhall and Rye House twenty odd years ago when I went regularly were fantastic. Don't generally do food in speedway stadiums unless I have to though as its usually overpriced garbage.

If that's true its quite different to pre season targets but in any case riders need a little bit of pressure if you want to be successful. Not too much but at the same time not ambling around pressure free and unmotivated. Team spirit and togetherness is the key for me though good team managers and captain will cultivate that early on and keep it going even when results aren't great.

AFAIK he doesn't but happy to be corrected. No idea why Skidder found my post so funny!

Or perhaps he'd rather sign for Ipswich for more money if the Emil deal falls through. If Buster isn't really involved in the day to day running of the Panthers as I suspect then I don't think Holder would be put off riding at the EoES.

So there we have it, as you say they essentially have the same second tier experience and Cook has the lowest average of the three. In terms of where they are right now I'd say that's case closed. Let's all reconvene in eight months time and redebate it then.

Kye Thomson, I have now taken the P

Course he is averaged over half a point less than both Brennan & Thomson without bonuses in 2022. Might well turn out better than those two but as things stand he's behind them.

Knew I wasn't dreaming it! Remember going to the Foxhole in the afternoon full of optimism having dispatched the Twitches comfortably in the morning 54-36 with Henka Gustafsson scoring his first Lynn maximum, but the Stars were poor and Ipswich ran out deserved 48-41 (?) victors. Lynn put that right a year later though after a morning washout by wining 48-42 in enemy territory, Henka and Bo Brhel doing the main damage and securing the win with a heat fifteen 5-1.

Gold Cup I'd imagine.

Injuries are the big thing, no doubt they have robbed you of a shot at the title more than once in the recent past.

He definitely rode against Lynn home and away on Good Friday 1991.

https://www.newsandstar.co.uk/news/23205865.cleator-moor-man-accused-strangling-partner-case-dismissed/

Remember that, 1993? Was rained off but result stood, think he won his last two races.

Thomas will do very well if his wrists are fully healed.

As the Miedzinski saga proved that means two fifths of sod all!

Roynon and Newman look like the strongest pairing initially but I'd be surprised if they are by the time we get to the Play Offs. Other teams reserves will develop or be replaced, perhaps Poole will have made changed by then too but if not you feel Roynon and Newman have a ceiling to how well they can do having been around a fair while now. I think its clever team building but might not prove to be the best method over eight months, time will tell

Ten trophies in five seasons 2005-09 including two trebles. Good times. Nothing like competing on the top league though.

Poole doing their bit for youth development by going with reserves who have a combined age of 65

When Lynn closed for a year in 1996 I did a few meetings at P'boro, Ippo, Mildenhall, Arena and Cov but its just not the same when you don't watch your own team. If the next nearerest track was an absolute thronker like BV, Redcar, Glasgow or Scunny it might be different but if you are a long time supporter of a particular team you can't just switch.

I think its being an asset of the same club for ten years nowadays. Its not for me personally as they seem to get handed out like confetti but there we are.