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Have a gold star. Presumably Proctor will end up at reserve at some point? Good signing if so. If there was any prospect of that at Lynn I’m sure he’d have stayed.

We are riding.

Two changes are inevitable and Id not be adverse to a third but I think making four or five changes as suggested would leave us a bit vulnerable at home which would be dangerous with mainly home meetings left.

Iversen won’t come and would miss meetings anyway so a waste of time including him.

MPT would be a no brainer if he fits.

Indeed, his last couple of scores had been much better before last night so you’d like to think he’s getting back to where he should be. With lots of home meetings left I’d not be looking to replace him but Proctor and Jorgensen can’t complain if they were given the heave ho. MPT too to a lesser extent who has been pretty ordinary since moving up from reserve.

It’s the way the comments are made Mr Webb. Constructive criticism with reasoning is one thing, sly digs are quite another.

That’s often the issue at Lynn, especially with the grippy nature of the shale. Would be nice to think that one day Buster might make our track shorter and wider like you guys have but if it doesn’t suit the stock cars it won’t happen unfortunately.

Douglas off to Wolves apparently.

Take the point but to be fair they’ve been riding at reserve in a successful team.

I think that’s the bottom line. Made a slow start and I think it’s been magnified by his schedule. Not getting out of the start like he was last year which will always have a big impact on a speedway rider’s scoring.

All the best to both lads.

Awful. The only saving grace is that there were no league points at stake. And that two of those riders are to be replaced soon. A few of those remaining need to pull their socks up too.

A hosepipe FFS

I expect it’s because he is offered a team spot at Lynn on a temporary basis, why would he turn it down? People whinging about him is like putting a pub darts player into the Premier League as the competition is one short against some of the best players in the world and then complaining that pub player isn’t winning matches. Its pretty clear that Simon was signed to get Cook into the team and will then be replaced once the averages change again. If we’d been winning away matches I suspect nobody would be saying much about his away scores but because others haven’t ridden to the standards of last season SLambert gets it in the neck when in reality he is unlikely to beat any other reserves away from Lynn anyway as they are better riders.

At the end of the day Simon does a job for the team, when he is signed it’s to fill a gap vacated by somebody else or in this case to allow the acquisition of another rider. It’s pretty clear he and somebody else will be leaving soon so I don’t understand why people need to let into him particularly after a meeting where he has scored in every ride. Just seems a bit unnecessary to me.

I don’t think there is any problem with Lamberts hunger or desire, he simply is as good as he will ever be and any shortcomings are down to his limitations of ability rather than effort and commitment.

Proper speedway Nige.

The difference is Nicol is a young lad with improvement in him while Simon is thirty ish and reached his level long ago. He always does a decent job for Lynn as a stopgap but we need to try somebody else who may well be better given the chance.

No away points = no play offs so whoever they bring in at number seven will be worth the risk.

Great memories of Shane as a Knight / Star in 1997-98, 2000 & 2003, in particular that first season when he had some very quick bikes and beat most riders round Lynn. Very best wishes to him for a full and speedy recovery.

Because people want their riders to succeed and would rather not chop and change too much? I feel the same about Kasper at Lynn, desperately wanted him to cut it.

If one big league could be done properly I think that would be great for British speedway, unfortunately I think the financial disparity between the haves and the have not means that there would be enormous gulfs between teams and it would be a very lopsided league. It would need to be done much, much better than 1995 that’s for sure.

You keep coming out with this back of the queue thing but I just don’t think it’s true.....from the word go pretty much everybody predicted Ipswich would finish bottom of the pile and also that Peterborough would join them once Harris and Cook had been removed. Lynn were widely thought to be the strongest of the three in paper albeit also not in the Play Offs. Also Cook has ended up at Lynn rather than one of the other two. I would agree though that spreading his resources three ways has impacted what he could spend on Lynn’s team, although it’s pretty certain there would be no Premiership if he hadn’t.

Good luck with that.