Bagpuss

Correction, it was 2011 we reached the Play Off semis, not 2012.

You may be thinking of the league title going to the very last meeting at Eastbourne in 2000 which we lost. We lost in the EL Play Off semis to Poole in 2012 & 2014 and won the second division Play Offs in 2006 & 2009.

Not the final Lynn wanted as we are pretty awful at Wimborne Road. Depends on the guest for Kurtz but can see Poole heading to Norfolk with a healthy lead. I see this as being very open, don’t think there is a favourite or an underdog really.

Awful racing but job done. Three riders need to raise their game for next week otherwise we’ll be easy pickings. If everyone contributes we have a great chance.

Don’t think this will be as easy as some think but you look at the two line ups and you imagine it is going to take something extraordinary for Lynn to not go through. I expect Belle Vue to come out fighting though and give it a good go tonight.

I personally quite like running both meetings together and at the end of the day if live telly demands it then it’s what will happen. Much better to have something to watch on the big screen than large gaps after each race with nothing going on.

In Swindon’s three matches at the NSS this year Bellego has outscored Museli 26-15.

Not quite sure why the usual Poole guff has polluted this thread but I’d have thought that as a general point if a team (any team) were able to replace a rider who had a ‘season ending injury’ with another after a deadline and that rider rode elsewhere despite being ‘injured’ then the replacements points should be declared null and void and the team made to use a three point replacement if the original rider didn’t return to action despite riding abroad. Common sense surely?

Poole Town I’d imagine starman.

Wow.

The difference is nearly every Swindon fan on here has carpeted their own team and promotion rather than thinking the sun shines out of their collective arses.

You are far too sensible and measured for this forum. Go outside and have a word with yourself

Klindt

We’ll agree to disagree but at least yourself and Phil are making your point without name calling or making derogatory remarks about Dale Allitt so fair play.

Got to fight fire with fire

I think ‘attacked’ is a bit strong.

As a I’ve said before I think he got involved for the right reasons but ended up making things worse, I’m all for passion and defending your own riders but he went OTT. Haven’t read the article but I’d have thought he’d have been better off reiterating his apology and playing the whole thing down personally, perhaps there was other stuff going on behind the scenes on the night which we don’t know about which wound him up but he should have acted differently and been a bit calmer about it all. Notice I haven’t told you to go and find yourself a Poole thread starman

I think considering the team they started the season with and how much stronger it was than all the others then getting to the final is the very minimum expectation for Poole fans and the speedway community in general. On the other hand Lynn were predicted to finish bottom so should feel under no pressure. Anything now is a bonus.

Considering our last two results away st Poole and Somerset I’m surprised at our odds. However I don’t expect anything the bookies say to affect our riders, but being in the final if we get there might. Not many of our riders have been there before.

As Mr Rogers found out with ‘enginefailuregate’.

A quite different and rather unique situation of course.

Lynn have recently been seen as very (too) loyal to riders, it’s more than likely that Kerr, Rose and Andersen would all be in the team now if they hadn’t picked up injuries and forced the promotion’s hand. No doubt we are stronger with their replacements and in a perverse way Lynn’s hand being forced has probably resulted in topping the table.

If a team has access to their track to practice then good luck to them, don’t see the issue.

I don’t think the management are poor, but they do seem to rub fans of other teams up the wrong way. I’m sure it’s little more than water off a ducks back to them.

Assuming we go through I don’t think there will be a clear favourite whoever we face.