Bagpuss

The P'boro stevebrum?

Hate, really? Dear me.

I thought it was a fantastic race, and I've seen a lot of speedway at a lot of tracks.

Lovely jubbly practice for Batch ahead of Wednesday.

Yet having read most Ipswich threads this season it would seem last night was the exception rather than the rule and your racing has been just as bad.

He has a good job I believe which must have a big factor on how much speedway he does. Welcome Danny Ayres, decent signing. Just hope he and Jorgensen don't miss too many meetings through doubling up.

Why does he need to master the smaller tracks? I think after starting his British career at arguably the trickiest track in the UK he is fine on small ones anyway. He has struggled a bit at number one but moves away from there now so should flourish again, whereas Kurtz may do the opposite. I think riding against and beating genuine top class riders in the other two leagues will prepare Fricke for the GP's just fine.

If anybody wants to speak to Buster on a Wednesday night it would be easy enough. I'd suggest those who are most vocal on Lynn threads would get better answers and have their opinions heard by the right people if they did that rather than posting on here.

One word, envy.

You can see the appeal of Belle Vue for Tungate, riding a track he seems to love and working under the Aussie team manager.

Forgot to say how good it was to hear from Josh Bailey during the meeting, he spoke very well for one so young. Good to hear he will be back on a bike soon.

Dear oh dear oh dear Worky.

Can't have him at number seven so presumably you'd chuck out Rose? As he wouldn't be an improvement on any of the others.

Pretty simple, Lynn is now a stock car stadium which occasionally holds speedway meetings. The shale used is perfect for cars but doesn't lend itself to good speedway unfortunately.....the team was highly fancied at the start of the season and really should be winning every week at home but hasn't performed as it should be. As somebody has said people like a winning team or good racing, but they will struggle to tolerate neither. The length of the meeting last night (and last week) was disappointing as so far this season they have hurried things up considerably. I don't have a problem with 10-15 minutes of track work after each block of five races as long as the heats are run quickly and we start at bang on quarter to eight and something is happening while the tractors are going round to entertain people.

They seemed to have sorted the running time of meetings at the beginning of the season but the last couple have taken far, far too long.

If that's the case then Holders 'average fiddling' is a fantastically elaborate plan as it involves poor scoring in Sweden, Poland and the GP's too. All to ride for a promoter he doesn't even get on with? They were both released due to availability, no point having riders who are going to miss the majority of your home meetings through riding abroad.

Would be there if it was a Friday meeting, can't do a 300 mile round trip on a school night though!

Quite agree, you shouldn't be allowed a tactical at home. If you are poor enough to be ten down on your own circuit then tough breast. That said it livened up what was a dour contest until that point, track far too dry early on. Lynn can't keep gating like that at home, only one win each for the top three isn't anywhere near good enough. Huckenbeck was very good and Jorgensen seems to have something about him (very unlucky in heat five) but the rest were far too inconsistent. Good to meet Phil the Ace at the end, well done on a deserved victory.

Exactly chaps, an embarrassment of riches. Kurtz will surely be reserve but no one could k d argue if Morris or Fricke were included.

I'm not sure he is on the way down necessarily, seems to have rekindled his career this year at Redcar.

In speedway terms I guess that is part of being outclassed.

I saw no lack of appetite or effort last week, just a meeting where we were completely outclassed.

Nathan Greaves guests at seven.

Yep you are right, I was looking at the wrong figures. Can't be long until someone signs him after last night's performance.

Average too high it would seem.