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Not surorised they haven't picked Kenneth but MJJ really ought to be in.

Assuming this information is accurate how on earth can the best two riders not meet each other despite having three rides each in a six heat format?!

I think the Danes have made the right choice personally. Kildemand might be a bit lairy but he has the most speed of the four who rode last night and Mads top scored so deserves his place. Bjarne as and Hans just wouldn't be quick enough IMO regardless of their experience. Poland will win it in any event.

Hampel Kasprzak Protasiewicz Kolodziej Woffinden Harris King Stead Iversen N Pedersen Kildemand Korneliussen Ward Holder Batchelor Doyle IMO

Going by what the Danish TM said last week it'll be four from six with none of the younger riders getting a look in this year.....personally I'd have gone with MJJ to join Puk & Nicki plus probably Kildemand from tonight. But I think it'll be Mads and Killer joining the big two for the final.

PL sides are more balanced but I'd argue that the EL format creates just as much balance. Peterborough was a great racetrack in the EL.....the others all would be too IMO.

The PL has the best tracks in the UK, stands to reason the racing will be better. Swap Somerset, Scunthorpe, Sheffield & Peterborough for Eastbourne, Leicester, Poole and Lakeside for example and things would be a little different.

Go look at the kind of racing that 'circular' tracks like Somerset, Peterborough, Plymouth, Scunny, Mildenhall, Sheffield, some Swedish tracks etc can produce. Probably not a good idea to dismiss the idea of altering Lynn's dimensions completely out of hand. Especially if bikes are going to become faster and more powerful still, which I'd say is inevitable.

That is one of the things I've suggested recently, the tracks with shorter straights and longer bends tend to provide the better racing nowadays, tracks with longer straights tend not to. Makes you wonder if taking the white line in all the way round at Lynn to make it more circular might be the way forward.

Wolbert's inconsistency this year come as very little surpise to me having seen him at Lynn a couple of years ago beat a heat leader in one race and then trail in behind a reserve in the next. Lovely chap but makes you want to tear your hair out and just hasn't been good enough as a PL number one this season.

As a GB fan if Stead rode tonight and picked up an injury which ruled him out of Saturday's final I'd be a little cheesed off. You don't see footballers playing for their club side during THE World Cup!

You could well be right screamer but I remember 2011 being a very entertaining season; a televised match early on against Lakeside had passing in nearly every race, Freddie Lindgren coming from last to first wearing black and white in heat 13 v Wolves, Emil and Kenneth overtaking each other and others for fun v Coventry on Sayfudinov's UK début, etc. We get three or four decent races out of fifteen nowadays unfortunately, although a good race at Lynn is usually a better.

If you think the racing over the last couple of seasons has been as good as 2011 or pre 2003 you are in dreamland. I've never questioned Buster's skills, I've said prep has always been good BUT there is some reason why racing isn't as good as it was. The track always looks immaculately prepared but passing is limited nowadays, the idea of different shale is one I've suggested along with one or two others on different threads. It's not moaning, its stating my opinion as a regular customer. And if you don't believe me ask some non Lynn fans who don't wear your star shaped specs I like Halifaxtiger or Bigcatdiary. And it was squit not tripe

Its not been great for two or three seasons now.....up to 2002 in the top division it was one of the best racetracks in the country but it was never great in the PL with a lower standard of rider and although 2011 in the EL was very good in terms if racing its not been great since. The track prep is good but perhaps the shale is more suited to cars than bikes?

It was concreted over in the winter of 2005 to allow other events such as concerts, drifting, go karting etc to take place. Should imagine it makes track maintenance easier too with all the speedway, stocks & bangers which are held there.

While the racing was poor I put Tai's first heat down to set up issues, didn't look fast or comfortable in that race.

I don't think Darcy covered himself in glory last night. How much longer can the 'he's young' excuse be used? Time for him to grow up properly if he ever wants to be the best.

'They could not prepare a track anywhere near worthy of the occasion'. Not really sure its the prep itself which is the problem, it is always smooth and consistent with grip. The type of shale used hasn't changed to my knowledge but perhaps its time it was. I think riders get too spread out nowadays due to Lynn's long straights, not sure what other reasons there could be though as nothing has really altered and two or three years ago the racing was very good in the SWC & EL. Seems too easy for the leader of races to find a fast line and the guy behind getting sprayed with heavy muck does not help.

Aaron Fox?

£££££'s Theresa

Being there and part of it would have helped the likes of Garrity, Lambert, Ellis etc. May be mistaken but didn't see them in and around the pits, was Cook even there? Rosco said he was going to be first reserve but seems that was Worrall in the end.

Did anyone go? Devils 54-40 Rebels. Mr May sharpening his axe?

Better on his day perhaps but not far better, only just returning from injury and has been poor on his last few visits to Lynn. On another day Woodward could have scored well, just wasn't his night.

Hmmm six GP standard riders out of sixteen plus two or three more who might ride in any super league racing last night, not really a balanced meeting with often two riders way ahead of the other two. That said Lynn has gone downhill as a race track for some reason.

Easy to say that in hindsight, Watt I'd possibly agree with but Woodward is usually decent at Lynn and may have gone on to have a good night had he not had clutch trouble while leading his first race.