Bagpuss

It was wet that night so expecting a different track tomorrow and you’d like to think Porsing will perform better. Like tellboy I wonder if Lynn have missed a trick not getting Nicol back in for the rest of the season, he surely would have scored well at Wolves tomorrow. One or two riders really need to pull their socks up after Belle Vue on Monday but can’t see anything other than a comfy home win.

From Stars website: WOLVERHAMPTON v STARS, PREVIEW Sunday September 01, 2019 KING’S Lynn face a ding-dong battle against Wolverhampton at Monmore Green on Monday (7.30). Both sides know they need a win to keep their hopes of reaching the play-offs alive. The Poultec Stars are the only team yet to win away in the league this term, and there is no time like the present to clinch their first away victory. The Norfolk side will travel to the Midlands at full strength with Nicklas Porsing making his return from injury at reserve - while a familiar face, Dale Allitt, will take charge of the Stars for one night only with regular boss Peter Schroeck unavailable. German racer Erik Riss said: “We only have four meetings left now, so it is getting closer to the play-offs so, it is getting more and more important that we get a win away from home. “We are quite confident of winning both of our remaining meetings at home, but we know we have to win at least one meeting on the road to keep our hopes of getting in the play-offs. “I don’t really have any explanation why we are struggling away. At Belle Vue we got smashed there and I don’t think we expected that to happen because we all had hopes that we could win or keep it close there, but we lost big time! “Obviously, every rider knows what they’ve done wrong but away from home we just seem to not be on it, on the day. When you’re away you have got to remember all the home riders know how to setup their bike straight away and that is our challenge on the road and it just seems that we haven’t managed to do that so far. “Monmore Green is quite a small technical track and it is quite similar to Edinburgh where I spent four years and I was quite good there. I expect to have a good performance at Wolverhampton. “I have had good meetings there in the past, although in my one appearance there this year I had bike issues only scoring one point so, I really want to make up for that. “Wolverhampton need a win and so do we which means it will be serious and it is going to be on because both teams have to win on Monday. It is going to be a tough meeting for sure but we’re up for it!” WOLVERHAMPTON: Sam Masters, Kyle Howarth, Rory Schlein, Nick Morris, Jacob Thorssell, Ryan Douglas, Luke Becker. KINGS LYNN: Robert Lambert, Michael Palm Toft, Erik Riss, Thomas Jorgensen, Craig Cook, Lewis Kerr, Nicklas Porsing.

Routine home win, 53-37 ish.

There’s that bad smell again....no doubt jenga will be along in a minute.

Good old starman

As well as ‘riding angry’ Robert has much, much more speed in that last heat of his. Shame it took him four rides to get the set up right but all good experience which is what this year should be about for him.

Spot on. In any case the intention wouldn't be to throw riders out of meetings, it would be to stop them cheating and I’m sure it would immediately.

We all know there would be absolute uproar on here if it had been the other way round and Poole had been on the receiving end. I would hate for one of Lynn’s riders to do it, I’d even go as far to say that a rider should be chucked out of the rest of the meeting if it’s absolutely blatant.

This discussion pops up quite regularly, you are right that these events should be somewhere as neutral as possible but unfortunately the state speedway is in requires the big events to be held where a decent crowd will turn up.

Not sure why you have to constantly goad him and wind him up, it got boring a long time ago.

Referees should have the power to award races if the cheating is blatant. It’s the only way it will get stamped out.

You wouldn’t be surprised. It can’t stumble on with only seven clubs.

We won’t win at Wolves (or Poole) while Buster has a hole in his bottom. Unlike last year we are nowhere near good enough on the road this season.

I’m not comfortable about Sheffield being hammered for dropping a British rider, they have to pick the seven who they believe give them the best chance of winning meetings regardless of nationality.

We didn’t even win there once! Soundly beaten on the second occasion.

They have to be exceptionally good to rock up and only drop a point or two though. It’s difficult enough to do that on a home track they know like the back of their hand.

Iversen hasn’t ridden the Foxhole for years, I can’t see him cleaning up tomorrow night. Nine or ten would be a decent return.

This is a very civilised and quiet thread so far, expected far more childish bickering

Thing is on paper Ipswich looked on paper by far the worst team. Credit to them that they have got to the position they are in now.

Small comforts

At the risk of repeating myself it’s completely different material, we are good at home as it is unique stuff. Personally I think the score would have been even wider yesterday if the track was as normal, we were crap and surely would have been picked off had there been passing. However having a big crowd in and preparing a track on purpose to be gate and go (if that’s what happened) is a pretty short sighted thing to do. You would hope any first timers will come back despite it being a pretty dull meeting. You would like to think the track curator was caught out by the weather.

I’d love to know how Puk could have been fitted into the team without chucking out Cook or Lambert (pointless) or having two weak reserves (pointless).

The guy is a businessman, he will want one of his teams in the Play Offs and the big crowd which goes with it. Hence the Ipswich signing of Iversen.

In theory we could get in by winning at Poole and Wolves but highly unlikely. Word on the street today was that they were caught out by this morning being cloudy and not sunny. It happens. I’ve been to Belle Vue over a dozen times now and that’s only the second rubbish meeting I’ve seen, the rest have been excellent.

Completely different type of muck unfortunately. Bit of pride restored in heat 13 which illustrates how hard it is to pass but it’s been a pretty awful performance.