Bagpuss

I actually believe that there should be a league winners shield like in Rugby League, everyone will know that the Play Offs decide the champions but a bit of recognition for being the best team over the league programme would be appropriate IMO. Along with a bit of celebrating. Maybe it did spur Poole on a bit but I believe Lynn would have won the final comfortably if it wasn’t for those two injuries. Their name was definitely on it last year.

Only because we know how detached from reality he is and as a result his opinions can’t really be taken too seriously. But I take your point.

I know it’s starman so we have to make allowances but the irony of a Poole fan accusing any other club of having a moto x track

It comes across that you are suggesting anyone who doesn’t go isn’t a real / true fan.

At the end of the day Poole were perfectly entitled to celebrate their comeback in the first leg but equally if Ipswich were wound up by it then they are entitled to use it as their motivation. A pretty regular occurrence in professional sport I’d say.

And on a bargain average. As scooby says expect the wealthier clubs to be sniffing round him too.

I think all Lynn fans on here know that and know ie too much clay in the dirt which suits cars but not bikes. That doesn’t mean we can’t comment on the racing elsewhere. I think there were reasons it was poor last night, from my point of view I went to the Foxhole many times between 1992 and 2002 (was a regular in 1999 when I lived in Chelmsford) and the shape of the track now is a million times better than it was then.

The Foxhole has a big old capacity though, it could be a decent crowd for a speedway meeting and still look half empty.

Too good round the EoES not to have I’d say.

I bet they’ve got even smugger smirks now

Good question, you surely have to have the same number of heats from each venue for it to be fair over two legs?

Such a pity there was so little passing. One or two good tussles but pretty dull really.

And a bit more luck on the injury front for 2020.

Met Office app has rain arriving over the Foxhole at 11pm tomorrow.

Not necessarily. I can’t believe any team would become complacent in the first meeting of a two legged tie, you just have to keep at it for every heat. But sometimes speedway riders aren’t the cleverest.

I don’t think they got complacent, they just failed to adapt to the changing conditions and lost the ability to gate.

If they met up and had a pint and a chat it might save us a lot of the garbage on here.

Poole have it sorted already, wouldn’t be surprised if they win the second leg too.

I think Hawkins is getting a raw deal here, makes perfect sense to get Sarjeant and Heeps’ rides done as early as possible and for Allen’s last three rides to be against reserves. Don’t think that was at all responsible for the collapse.

Oh Ipswich......

Amateur hour. At least if you are going to be a team of waifs and strays then make sure none of your riders Kevlars resemble those if another team. Especially in a live Play Off meeting

Impossible to say really, you would imagine it didn’t help but only those in the thick of the pits action could possibly know. I think the right team manager can motivate riders and squeeze extra out of a team just as Rob Lyon used to, people questioned last year if Dale could do the same and results would suggest he did but who knows.

Undecided about him, my main concern is how top heavy we’d be with him and Lambert. If the correct balance could be achieved with both then probably a yes.

Not sure what Lynn’s track is like makes too much difference really, it certainly didn’t last season when we finished well clear at the top of the table. The team is full of experienced riders who have been round the block and have and do ride all sorts of tracks in our leagues and others. I just think collectively the whole team has dropped a level this year, maybe they overachieved last season. If you say for the sake of argument that from last year Cook replaced Iversen, Kerr replaced Proctor and Porsing replaced Lambert then on paper it doesn’t look too much different in terms of strength but I bet every single rider has been worse this season than themselves or their equivalent from last season. It’s easy to get into a habit away from home as a speedway team, last year it was a winning one whereas this year from the opening night hiding at the Foxhole it’s been a pattern of disappointment. It needs to be rectified for 2020.

Ah, my apologies. Will teach me to skim read in future!