Bagpuss

The best one ever was 2010. Oh how everyone laughed

I think you are barking up the wrong tree there, Daniel doesn’t even go to Lynn any more. Heat 13 was absolutely unbelievable, fabulous speedway. Breathtaking.

Indeed, but what a pity Holder wouldn’t acknowledge Worrall afterwards despite having two opportunities.

Of course the lumps, bumps and holes of Wimborne Road fit nicely into this argument too. Let’s hope Belle Vue don’t bugger about with their magnificent track eh?

Never nice to be on the end of a hiding but in the grand scheme of things it probably won’t matter as the hard work was done on Monday evening and unless there are a couple of unlikely results tonight top spot is all but secured. The main aims should have been to come through in one piece and get an idea of the set ups and lines for a potential return in the Play Offs. It was always going to be a tough assignment with two heat leaders absent. That said those who rode last night will need to pull their collective fingers out for any play off meeting at the OTA. Just like Poole at Lynn last week I’m pretty sure next time would be a very different performance and result.

To be fair he wasn’t the only one who predicted Lynn to be bottom (including me!) and all three changes have been forced by injury or retirement. It’s just nice to prove so many people wrong, and pretty remarkable considering Iversen’s average dropped so much. Robert Lambert has also made a few people look a bit silly. Even if we don’t finish top or win the title this team has far exceeded expectations and the management team need to take credit for that in part for introducing the health and fitness methods in pre season.

It makes sense, if he was riding through the pain barrier and word had got through that Lynn had won at Wolves then it was sensible for Doyle to not aggravate his back further. Will be interesting to see if he rides tonight and tomorrow.

No need for Lynn to take unnecessary risks tonight, whatever happens six points tomorrow against Leicester should be enough to claim top spot. With Proctor likely to be out the last thing we need are more injuries.

This run of wins has a similar feeling to the run of 2000 which set up the league decider at Eastbourne.

Well that’s three points I didn’t expect. Lovely old job.

One point behind Cook. But if people really want to compare the two then league averages would be the only way to do it and that shows a fair old gap across the three main leagues.

Not as good as he thinks he is? On the contrary, I’d suggest that one of Cook’s main issues is his self belief and confidence. I’d also add that while doubling up exists any British rider should be entitled to do it if they wish. Cook is riding for Glasgow because he wasn’t able to get a regular ride in Poland so it was mutually beneficial for them to offer him a team place.

Exactly, one would suspect his options were limited. Klindt is uninspiring but better than R/R.

I can remember several of us commenting on how we were in the right place at the right time and had been fortunate to meet you on that night. Also as it was a GP qualifier (which shouldn’t be raced on Mondays anyway as it’s a UK race day) it could easily have been Iversen & Lambert missing that night. Your last sentence rather spoils what was up til them a very good post. Our fixture list is a shambles and I think Lynn favs are entitled to express their displeasure.

Spot on, British speedway is far too lax with how rules and regs are applied. Shanes could have ridden last night and today if he had really wanted to. Its worrying how many folk shrug their shoulders at flimsy appliance of rules. Without proper governance you have a weak sport. Good to see Kasper impressing again by the way.

Just one, that being the team full of Danish riders who therefore had to have lots of blank Wednesdays as most of our team were riding in their homeland. Chuck in two or three rain offs and you get the need for two double headers. At least they are in the school holidays and in decent weather but certainly very much less than ideal, and it needs sorting for next year.

When it was much slicker than normal! If a track is prepared grippy (as is any home teams right) it’s a different kettle of fish, riders aren’t used to it and if the home riders have the set ups spot on then you get score charts like last night where quality, experienced away riders are made to look silly. We had it at Lynn in the noughties.....I remember thrashing Edinburgh in 2003 and riders like Rory Schlein and Frede Schott were being beaten by Darren Mallett and Adam Allott simply because of set ups. Of course it helps when you have a good team like Edinburgh have, I don’t see comments about home advantage as a criticism, it’s just reality. And doesn’t need to be met with defensiveness. As long as the track doesn’t have bumps and holes in it then it’s all good.

One would imagine that Lynn were missing at least one rider for the other dates offered. Not ideal going there without NKI, in fact he is likely to be a huge miss but it’s preferable to the fixture not taking place before the cut off.

He /she is right though....as you said yourself on a different thread when Armadale is prepared grippy it is an extremely difficult track for away riders to score points on. Has as much home advantage as any track in the country, the results over the years refelect that. Not sure why you take such great offence from that being stated.

How did they mistreat him?

Agree but we don’t want any that to include not putting effort into meetings to reduce averages.

It’s shambolic, but it is what it is and I think the time to dissect it is when the season is done. More importantly Lynn need six points from this to finish top, along with a couple from the two preceding evenings. I’m a bit concerned about four matches in three nights, the toll on man and machinery could be significant. Just hope we come through it with all seven riders in one piece.

Norfolk Braves ran out of Kings Lynn for a short time, I think it was in between being at Skegness and being renamed Boston.

I wouldn’t give up on Kurtz just yet, he appears to have the raw materials to be a very good speedway rider. Next year he could have a season like Lambert is having where everything clicks into place.

Precisely, which is why we won’t be picking them if we finish top.