Bagpuss

Lambert Riss Pickering

That was uncharacteristically positive of you.

Interesting first leg if not enthralling but plenty of incidents to chew over. Swindon’s top five could even cope with a poor night for Batchelor and still win comfortably, they have looked like the best team for a few months now. Fair play to them. Ipswich should be proud of their efforts this season, nobody gave them a prayer of anything other than 7th.

Stock not stick

Yep, my reply was to tellboy really in relation to Riss. Wasn’t referring to Proctor but I think we did well to get a decent season out of him last year, he was pretty awful this season and his stick has fallen in both leagues unfortunately for him. Certainly wouldn’t want him near the team for 2020 despite his average.

Sounds like that’s the plan going forward.

I think most riders need to gate at Lynn to be in the points nowadays unfortunately. Even Robert struggled to pass this year. I feel there is more to come from Erik and want that to be at Lynn.

Bonus meeting at Lynn next week, GB v Denmark http://www.speedwaygb.co.uk/_mobile/news.php?extend.37610

I think Riss and MPT have to be retained, were two bright spots in a pretty awful season. The team you have suggested has plenty of experience but has too many riders past their best and whose careers are only going one way.....Proctor, Nicholls and Harris certainly are and I’d suggest Puk won’t ever be the rider he once was for Lynn. I’d personally prefer to see some new younger blood.

I’m sure top riders returning would bring more folk through the door but the sport had been run so badly over the last ten years or so that I fear we are beyond the point of no return now unfortunately. It all needs a major overhaul and to be pointed in a completely different direction before we can think about getting the big boys over here. Poland paying the kind of money they do might rule it out anyway.

I have to say having read quite a few of your posts this season through following Redcar on here with their Lynn connections you are one of the most articulate, fair minded, unbiased and balanced posters on the forum. This post sums it up well.

For such an accomplished and now fairly experienced rider who averages seven and a half in the Championship it was odd how few points Lewis scores for Lynn on the road this year, he should have been our trump card once he dropped to reserve. Just didn’t happen for him unfortunately.

I don’t, it’s boring, tiresome and wrecks the thread.

If Poole ever dropped down they’d be the biggest fish in that pond and would have no trouble attracting whatever riders they wanted and would start the season as one of the favourites I’m sure.

Those eight seasons 2003-10 were some of the most enjoyable I’ve experienced as a Lynn fan. The enormous home wins wore a bit thin at times but we had riders who really got involved with the fan base, won several trophies and had some great weekend away trips.

I’m sure I read on this thread yesterday afternoon that rain was due to hit at 6pm but yep I accept that the forecast changed late and people would be on their way or in the stadium by the time it arrived. To be honest my gripe was mainly with folk who watched the meeting on telly and saw the track awash before it started yet sat through the whole thing and complained that the racing was crap. As if it was going to be any different. I didn’t watch every heat (first and last four races) but thought it rode reasonably well considering.

The subscription thing is a fair point, but did you expect anything other than what it was? The issue that we should all be complaining about is the authorities leaving it so late in the season so there was no choice other than to run in on a wet night.

Same principle with those who paid to get in, the forecast was pretty clear. You pays your money and takes your choice. It was always going to be a quagmire. But I’m not disagreeing with whether the meeting should have happened or not. Unfortunately the window for getting these meetings raced is shrinking because British speedway is so disorganised and quite frankly a mess. We shouldn’t be scratching around in mid October trying to get semi finals raced.

Feel sorry for Wolves, given normal track conditions they would have been much more competitive last night but it is what it is unfortunately for them. Swindon deserve credit for doing their job though. Those people moaning about the track and the racing had the choice to turn off as soon as they saw how wet the circuit was once the broadcast began so don’t really understand why you would watch it and then whinge. I do agree however that these meetings should be scheduled early in September and the whole thing over and done with long before now. I appreciate recent Octobers have been decent weather wise but with damper, shorter and cooler days compared to 4-5 weeks ago I think you run the risk of encountering problems the longer things drag on. I just hope both legs of the final have good weather as the rain has affected both semis (although not the Ipswich leg where Poole crumbled).

Ten years ago I could understand your viewpoint but the difference between the leagues is as small as ever now. I’d wager if it ever came to it would would go even if it was occasionally.

Can’t imagine Riss, Nicholls and Cook busting too many guts for this with far bigger fish to fry later in the week.

Absolutely. But we should be getting seven or eight rounds like that every year. And could do if they used better circuits.

That’s a fair point. It could just as much be my own issue as that of the series. GP speedway just doesn’t give me the buzz it once did.

The 2020 line up may be fairly close to the world’s top fifteen but with a very similar field to this year and with pretty much the same tracks it doesn’t fill me with great anticipation for next year. Smacks of more of the same which, for me at least, wasn’t a particularly vintage year.

The paying customer has the choice to not go. Have never understood people going to a speedway meeting when there has been loads of rain and then complaining that the track was wet or it doesn’t go the distance. Pretty straightforward if one is a meaningful fixture and the other a dead rubber. Common sense.