Bagpuss

Please tell me this isn't Edinburgh blinkerism? Fixture clashes will make this a non starter but I don't understand why anybody wouldn't want a young up and coming rider in their team.

Oooft.

Exactly!

Hopefully we'll do our peaking at the business end of the season this year rather than doing so far too early.

Why not? We're not so far up our own arses that we can't criticise our own promoter if its warranted.

So very little evidence of track problems apart from the usual south coast stirrer. Even foreverblue says the track was ok! About time Buster put spectator comfort ahead of bar takings when the meeting is already behind and the weather is baltic. I'm lacking enthusiasm to attend this year and reading about last night does little to rekindle it.

Would be interested to hear first hand what the track was like as nobody who was there has actually said it was bad, even rentagob Muddlo was only whining about the fact that it took an hour to run 4 heats.

Good to win but bad that two riders were hurt, hope they are ok.

Fair points but I've not used the phrase 'trick track' once on this thread

More likely to be slick with the slop all scraped off I'd have thought. Hard to believe there's not a cloud in the sky now after what we had this morning!

Seems daft that we haven't entered now that the Saturday clash issue is no longer, er, an issue.

From kingslynnstars.co LYON CONFIDENT OF VICTORY TONIGHT Posted on March 26th, 2015 Tonight the King’s Lynn ‘Roger Warnes Transport’ Stars go into the second leg of the Elite Shield against Poole at the Adrian Flux Arena needing to overturn a 14 point deficit, and manager Rob Lyon is confident his side can win the meeting. Lyon said: “I am confident we can get a victory tonight, I will be disappointed if we don’t. Whether we win on aggregate or not is a different story, but we are certainly more than capable of doing that. I think the main thing is that the boys to get some more competitive laps and be ready for next Tuesday. “The boys will want to make amends tonight and try to turn it over and get a win on home soil.” On reflection of the first leg, Lyon added: “We struggled a little bit to be honest, it is early days and the track was usual Poole. We were in the meeting early on, the first half was tight but they had a couple of 5-1’s at crucial times and that was the difference. “I don’t think we looked like a team that lost by 14 points if I am honest. If we got a 5-1 in heat 15 then it would have gone the other way and we would have lost by only six points. Admittedly we never looked like winning the meeting. “I think it is unfair to comment at this early stage about form because it is what it is, an early season challenge. Stars reserve Ashley Morris made his debut for the club on Wednesday and Lyon was pleased with his efforts, he said: “Ashley had a bright start, looked nervous but that was expected being his first meeting back. He made a great start and looked very competitive. “I said to him it would take a little bit of time to get dialled in and back to competitive racing, he will be fine I am sure.” Gates at the Adrian Flux Arena will open at 6pm tonight with the parade taking place at 7:30pm. Admission prices: Adults £17, Concessions £14, Juniors £5, Kids under 11 go FREE. King’s Lynn Stars 1. Niels-Kristian Iversen, 2. Robert Lambert, 3. Rory Schlein ©, 4. Nicklas Porsing, 5. Kenneth Bjerre, 6. Lewis Kerr, 7. Ashley Morris Poole Pirates 1. Chris Holder, 2. Dakota North, 3. Davey Watt, 4. Kacper Gomolski R/R, 5. Maciej Janowski, 6. Paul Starke, 7. Adam Ellis (G)

Edinburgh?

Ellis very comfortable round the Adrian Flux Arena. Still raining in West Norfolk but due to stop and brighten up in the next couple of hours. Think Poole will defend their lead tonight comfortably and possibly win on the night. As Skidder says lets hope everybody comes through safely for the serious stuff next week.

Ellis guests for Newman (best wishes to him) and presumably R/R for Gomolski. Stars at full strength.

I think speedway has the same problem as football in this country, as soon as a promising youngster comes along we all lump massive amounts of pressure and expectation on him as we don't produce a good one very often. The media do it in football, Raheem Sterling is suffering from it at the moment....he is being touted for big moves to Spain for £150k a week but when you actually watch him play his decision making and final ball is a long, long way off what is should be for a top class player. Riders like Lambert, Perks etc really need leaving alone to develop at their own pace. They may well have the ingredients required BUT its all about hard work, application, fine tuning of their skills and seeing how they develop over the next 4-5 years. As far as Woffy goes I'd say he was better than Robert at the same age simply because he could gate much better. Don't want to labour the point but Lambert HAS to develop that part of his game.

Well done Brummies, thats quite a turnaround from last week which must give heart to the rest of the league too.

Seems like common sense to me. It'll never catch on!

So pleased for Glasgow supporters, have spent some of my most enjoyable hours as a speedway fan on the back straight at Ashfield in the sunshine with Paulco et al and its great to see such positive things happening at such a friendly and welcoming club. Pity its so far away or I'd pop up one weekend. Looking forward to the Sky meeting

I think several riders will struggle round Arlington in this division, its a tight narrow track which will offer a fair degree of home advantage once the home side have had a few meetings there. Team kevlars are a bit bright! Like matching suits and bike covers though, makes them look like a proper team.

Very early days but Poole will take some beating to a third title on the trot if North & Starke keep riding like that. Well done to CVS for not picking Starke for Wolves Expect a very close meeting tonight as Poole ride Lynn as well as their own track, and North is a specialist. As long as we don't get thrashed and everybody is ready for Tuesday that'll do me fine.

Poor show.

Exactly, lots of heats where the finishing order isn't what you'd expect. Would have been nice to win but at the end of the day it doesn't matter a fig really, the first important meeting is next Tuesday.

Suprising result as Peterborough look a decent side and Somerset quite ordinary compared to their recent teams. Highly unlikely that Panthers' number one and senior reserve will score so poorly at home again though so I'd not be too worried. Encouraging start for the Rebels.

If it develops into a proper competition in the future then great, I will be interested but its just not for me at present. Fair play to those going to watch it this year though and I hope they enjoy it. At least Pepe rode for us once upon a time, albeit 17 years ago