Bagpuss

Reasonably content with a point after the first night mauling but there is room for improvement still, one or two riders have it in their locker as they have been much better in the recent past but one or two others may not be capable of better and might need replacing as the season progresses. Hopefully not as it always preferable to keep the same seven but play off qualification may depend on it. Still relatively early days but over the next few weeks improvement is a must from certain riders.

Damn right, doesn’t happen very often and considering how far above expectations the season has gone it’s something I just have to be a part of. No brainer. Up the Stars!

An awful lot of confidence on here from Twitches supporters, let’s hope your team are able to back up all of the words to save egg on faces 48-42.

Wow, tough old crowd at Arlington.

I believe at one point he was averaging just over ten at Lynn and just under four away.

The pairs format just isn’t my cup of tea, not enough genuine team riding. Thought tonight’s meeting was reasonable, plenty of FTG but more passing than I expected. Love watching Milik when he’s on it, fantastic entertainment. Absolute balls of steel.

What are the 3rd and 4th bend arrangements please Rob? Is it temporary terracing?

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Still early in the season, more to come from Robert I’m sure. He’s not fully up to speed yet the same as a lot of riders. Riding in a few GP’s will be invaluable experience.

Danish qualifiers.

Not saying a particular figure but by the time the Play Offs are happening somebody will have made the number five position their own and be able to contribute in 13 & 15 consistently. Most likely Riss.

Don’t see an awful lot wrong with that to be honest.

One could imagine a bumpy, potholey track not being particularly comfortable for him though even after a month.

Despite good things going on at Glasgow, Ipswich and Swindon amongst others it’s generally been a pretty poor start to the UK season with poor track and poor racing issues at Poole, Sheffield, Somerset, Peterborough, Lynn, Leicester and Berwick according to people on here (not always the best source admittedly) and beyond. Some reported poor attendances too (as well as some good ones for balance) added to the second division champions not even getting to the tapes. It feels like British speedway is at a massive crossroads and it’s going to need radical thinking to enable it to take the correct road. The bottom line is that much of British speedway is an overpriced, atmosphere-less and pretty unentertaining night out and it simply has to change.

But compare the reserves, that’s the main difference. Also Somerset fans were watching the World Champion last year. For a minimal reduction that equals a big come down, especially if the racing isn’t cutting it.

You’ve obviously not come across BCD before

Norwich City promotion parade for me! Otherwise I’d be there. 44-46

By the business end of the season we shall have one. Sticking my neck out.

Riss can average seven, Jorgensen could knock on the door of seven with an injury free run. Kasper will be a great number seven once (if) he gets the hang of Lynn.

Riders improve and develop Sid, as you expect some of yours will as the season progresses so do I of Riss and Andersen in particular.

Despite various moans and groans neither you or anyone else have come up with the name of a rider who could replace Andersen better than Lambert did? And in a meeting Lynn had to win I won’t accept the name of a token youngster who would have been out of their depth. Riss or Jorgensen will step up to second heat leader this year....you heard it here first. I’d have thought Swindon’s eleven last places show the value of a solid team compared to a top heavy one. Give me the former any day.

It is encouraging to read a bit of balance among Panthers fans.

Buster needs to sort the track out, no excuse for wrecking one of the best racetracks in the country whatever you think of the team. And I think over the season Tungate will prove to be better than Harris would have been. The Cook thing has been done to death. I don’t think Buster is the devil incarnate that some are making out but I fully understand why some P’boro fans won’t have him.

That last point had crossed my mind....