Bagpuss

Typically mature response from Mr Skidder.

Surely people aren’t judging Aarnio on injuries? If he had ridden every meeting since being signed and carded lots of lasts then fair enough but he can’t be criticised if he’s not actually on track? In any event Berge should be doing much, much better than that.

As you well know I said if he gates, as few (no?) Lynn riders would have passed him. He obviously didn’t so no points. It’s stock cars that count and not speedway, not sure the race times are of any relevance. Cars completely dictate the surface nowadays.

People moan because they care, it’s possible to still love the sport and your club without being willing / able to go any more. £18 is an awful lot of money for two or three races out of fifteen, especially if it involves a long drive or rushing around after work. And it’s perfectly possible to know what a meeting was like without being there, plenty of ways to know how good or bad it was. As SL says the ‘use it or lose it’ line can only really be used if the person running the show is doing absolutely everything in their power to make the product attractive and customers feel valued.

If Simon gates well tonight he’ll get a hatful and beat most of the Lynn riders.

Lambert averages far more than 3.5 at Lynn.

Despite all the bleating Lambert is a good guest too.

If the will was there Buster could get hold of whatever shale Belle Vue use and lay that for speedway and the clay crap for stock cars, I’m sure it’s much closer to a day than an hour to achieve but it could be done. He could also eat into as much of the concrete centre as he wanted to make the track a rounder and wider one making Lynn one of the best speedway tracks in the world. If the will was there.

Don’t agree about Team GB or whatever you want to call it, he has shown passion for the project by wanting it to be the best it can be and and removing himself from it when measures weren’t in place to ensure that. Don’t always agree with his actions or comments but I don’t think his passion can be questioned. Agree that he should come over and do the British Final, pretty poor that he doesn’t. But don't blame him for not doing the British League, our top division is a shambles compared to Poland & Sweden and the World titles he has won vindicates his twice a week schedule. Yes he has an ego but he is passionate about GB winning things.

Panthers have a couple of decent guests booked there, can see them running Wolves close with plenty of Monmore knowledge in the side.

As Phil says Cook was unable to ride the inside properly due to his wrist injury.

Don’t know if this is a new rule, saw the same thing in heat one of the U21 meeting at Belle Vue last Friday when Lambert touched the tapes but it was an A4B due to the Pole moving first.

Possibly but he has time and potential on his side so would have learned from the experience while being no worse than Bomber.

Cook has Tweeted to say he couldn’t hold on.

The only problem I see with Rosco is that he and Tai don’t get on and that nothing new, it’s been the case for several seasons. Assuming they can still work together after this weekend I don’t personally see the point in changing the TM.

Totally agree. Our best three riders have all ended up being injured after two laps of our first heat, yes Bewley should have been out there rather than Bomber if he was fit but other than that and possibly needing a new TM an awful lot of the criticism has been way OTT. We came second last year with our best three riders and might have done well with them this year so let’s calm down a little and just accept it’s not been our year. No reason why Woffy, Robert and Bewley can’t give it a good go next year if the format is the same.

Awful track, awful crash for GB, too many tapes/starting offences, hardly any team riding, terrible ref. Bomber way off the pace, should be Bewley out there. What has happened to the once wonderful sport of speedway? Truly dreadful to watch.

I can remember very similar arguments ten years ago when Ron Lyon picked a young team including Bridger, Kennett and a very raw Tai as a long term plan. Difference was we were a bit more competitive then with Nicholls, Harris and Rico a match for anybody on their day. This year however we won’t win it with no Tai, it would be the greatest upset in history if we did. So why not use Bewley and give him some priceless experience. Not convinced his scoring would be much different to Bombers anyway.

Should have been Bewley as screm says. Bomber is the best of the rest on foreign shores, riders like Wright, Lawson, King, Worrall etc wont get any better so pointless taking them.

No surprise Glasgow get good crowds, they promote properly.

Just goes to show if one is going to be a poo stirrer it pays to check your facts first

Have better things to do than sift through nineteen pages of garbage but I think both teams will be happy with the outcome, Ipswich’s form has dropped off a bit but plenty of time to regain momentum over the next couple of months before the Play Offs. Poole have coped admirably without Kurtz and I don’t think either team needs to fear anybody in the Play Offs, both capable of winning it if they have luck on their side. Will be interesting to see if another contender can gain momentum over the next 6-8 weeks and come through to win it.

Spot on. If every club (no exceptions) had a professional website & social media approach, matching team suits and bike covers and a properly prepared track it wouldn’t cure every problem but the sport would come across one hundred times better than it currently does. As you say the bar representing the acceptable bare minimum needs to be raised way, way higher than it is now.

Agree but I don’t think anybody currently involved could do what is necessary to save British Speedway. Needs a third party who can see potential to come in, grab it by the scruff of the neck and see the wood for the trees.

A Peterborough win next week would at least put to bed all the conflict of interests chatter that we’ve had since the winter.