Bagpuss

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.

Very, very flat performance by Lynn. Awful from the gate and not quick enough on track. Lambert obviously not fit and riding within himself. Not good enough unfortunately. Racing poor too making it a depressing afternoon catching up with one or two old friends at least so not all bad.

Track very grippy, track record broken, racing quite processional. Am sure it will improve though. Lynn need to gate better, Aces heat leaders having it too easy at the moment.

What time are you guys setting off Trees? Must be an early start especially for you