Bagpuss

Having seen him a couple of times at Lynn he seems a bit too 'safe' if you see what I mean, a bit like Max Clegg. Too keen to stick it round the inside in a neat and tidy fashion rather than go for it a bit more. Plenty of time left in his career to develop a bit more belief in himself and come good, the talent is certainly there.

I expected much, much more from Wajtknecht this season. He's young enough to come good but has been a huge disappointment in the PL.

Half the problem is the type of shale Lynn use, it is so high in clay content that even the smallest amount of overwatering from the sky or the bowser and conditions can become unfit very quickly. We got covered on the first bend during heat one on Wednesday and its was difficult to remove the blobs of muck from your clothes or skin so sticky it was. Can't imagine getting plastered by it on track, no wonder there were such enormous gaps between each rider.

I think all parties had good intentions; the riders all gave it a go and Buster tried to get the track raceable. The problem is that it all took far too long, there needs to be some kind of procedure/protocol for a rain affected track instead of people standing around arse scratching. There was the best part of an hour from the rain stopping and heat one starting in which time a couple of riders from each team could have tested conditions and track work been done. We could all have been home before 9pm.

Absolute shambles. Fingers will be pointed in all directions and to be honest whether people blame the riders (none of them were interested in continuing), the referee, Buster, Rosco or whoever the fact remains that speedway has absolutely no idea how to treat its customers. Complete waste of an evening.

Quite right, we'd not have met if it wasn't for the 2009 PLRC!

The wife and I will be in attendance, what better way to celebrate a wedding anniversary

I'm no fan of foreigners riding at reserve this season but it seems to be the making of Lewis Rose, good on him.

Each to their own but I have little interest in seeing Hancock gating his way to the vast majority of their points, would rather see what the Germans can do on a track which should suit them.

Why is Wilkinson not riding?

Fair enough, hadn't seen it posted already or wouldn't have done so myself.

I was under the impression that number 8's could only appear in the top five.....

Quite amusing to read some saying Glasgow shouldn't have dropped Barker, but then others saying Ipswich shouldn't have dropped Kerr for him. Is Kerr really better than Bach? All much of a muchness IMO. Not a fan of the jealousy posts against Glasgow's money, its a good thing that somebody is putting that kind of finance into the sport somewhere. They are still going to lose meetings along the way. All a bit playground to take the mickey when they do.

All three Danes have been very disappointing this year.

All seems unnecessarily complicated.

Bates is the British U21 champion and the second highest Brit in the World U21 standings behind Lambert so can feel very hard done by if he3 doesn't get the reserve spot. Like King he has produced in the big meetings this season, a good reason for both to be included.

A good opportunity for Tom to show what he can do.

Is Howarth's average really lower than Lambert's? Wow.

Good ride but a prime example of why I dislike team riding.....King should have cleared off and secured the 4-2.

Much ado about very little.

Woffinden Lambert King Cook Bates

The reserve situation has been a complete dog's breakfast, and sadly a reflection of the state of EL speedway in general. Not a bad thing for FTR's who have performed well to go into the top five, but not as heatleaders where they have generally been slaughtered, they should be moved up to second string positions only. And any non FTR's who drop to reserve should only be able to take four programmed rides rather than seven. Also riders like PK and Bjarne being signed after the start of the season and dropping to reserve shouldn't be able to happen, let them earn a real time average like FTR's rather than using old figures from last season.

I think it was this meeting but I could be wrong http://speedwayupdates.proboards.com/thread/12144/scunthorpe-workington-pl-2013-30pm

Don't get to speedway too often nowadays for various reasons but I thoroughly enjoyed that, was the first time for several visits that I felt I've got full VFM for my £17.. The track was perfect leading to passing in the vast majority of races and because of the black clouds the meeting was pushed through at a proper pace and all over in ninety minutes. Deserved win for Lynn with Rose fantastic. Batchelor was excellent too and stated on Radio Norfolk the next morning that he had come back from his injury too early and until Thursday night had struggled to do four laps, hopefully we will see the best of him from now on. Thought Busk Jakobsen looked promising and once he gets used to the track could be very useful.

Nothing wrong with Ayres' celebration, we need more of that kind of thing in speedway. Contrast that to most riders coming straight back to the pits last night at Lynn with no interaction at all.