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But Auty won't ever be a number one in a decent team.

I assume from the sudden appearance of the Dorset propaganda machine that Lord Ford was one of them

Buster got rid of the yellow and green half way through an injury ravaged 1993 season when we sat bottom of the league....most probably a coincidence but the change led to a much better half of the season. I think the first meeting after the change (and a couple of team alterations) was a home win against a Wolves side flying high at the top of the table with Bo Brhel breaking the track record to boot. Yellow and blue race jackets appeared at the beginning of the next season and have remained ever since except the Silver Machine years, and as somebody has said it fits in with Lynn FC and the yellow and green is very much a Norwich colour scheme.

Without pressure? I'd say there's more pressure on a rider at the top end of the league.

Auty is a very average speedway rider who won't get any better, but can be very entertaining on the right circuit.

I don't disagree. One of the reasons I go less than I used to is missing riders because of commitments elsewhere.

I think it would be a struggle to get 119 riders to ride regularly over here without flooding teams with NL riders. Six man teams might well work with the correct format. Just seen SCB's post, this would be the best way to do it, phase out double upping gradually.

In which case there wouldn't be enough riders to go around. Although I agree more could and should be done to avoid clashes. Anyway, which Brits are unable to double up?

There would be a big old rider shortage.

Kasprzak is perfectly competent on small tracks, if he can be bothered.

Exactly Paul. Most of the time the forum and a large number of its contributors are best taken with a large pinch of salt, especially this time of year.

Somerset.

There will always be haters, whingers and those with agendas but Mr Chapman has done some great work this winter and the bottom line is that he has helped to save the EL (Premiership). He isn't perfect and has his faults but over 25 years he has done wonders for our club and is now starting to make his mark with the governing body too.

Wouldn't disagree, but it's about encouraging as many 16-18 year olds as possible to go and charging full adult price rather than a concessionary one is less likely to do that.

Met Dennis several times during Lynn's PL days and I always found him to be friendly, knowledgeable and great company. Very sad to hear of his passing. RIP.

I think it's too soon for Kinsley. Maybe they are waiting to see who Belle Vue use as their number seven as Williamson would fit.

I think it was Gary Hicks Henka replaced, in 1990. The Commonwealth Final takings 'theft' was 1992.

Would have been Bill Barker who signed him. Loram was on lawnmowers until 1994 so really he only had one exceptional season in Lynn colours. Henka had three and always averaged more than Mark when they rode together. Remember them appearing in last heat deciders week after week at Lynn 1991-93, they were great times.

Just missed out on seeing Lee in his pomp unfortunately (wasn't born till 1977) so for me the most exciting thing I've seen is Henka's three and a bit years at Lynn. Quite brilliant.

I know we are sh!te ourselves right now, but that was hilarious.

Jesus Christ.

Nobody has said that they expect him to fail, just that he has it in his make up to be hit and miss.

Difference between negativity and realism fb. KK has proved umpteen times in his career that he has two racing mindsets, sometimes we've even seen them in the same meeting. Chances are he will have a great season for you lot but there will always be that doubt about whether he can be bothered on any given day.

I think you are a little bit obsessed with Gavan! He obviously gets to you In terms of the whole Aussie champs thing, I've never really taken it too seriously as an indicator of UK form a few weeks later. Riders could be testing equipment etc and their performances over a three/four round series very rarely reflect a long UK season although in this instance Sam Masters was always a likely winner.

Fair enough, will put that down to different understanding of the phrase. To me 'if not' means could be. He could well be, KK is a class act at his best so would be foolish to completely rule it out. Poole is the kind of environment where he could achieve it if anywhere.