Bagpuss

Let's hope so

What a speedway rider Chris Harris has been and is, will be a sad day when he packs in.

Well done Glasgow, delighted to be proved wrong. Particularly pleased for @Paulco

Here comes the inevitable Poole fightback. Has Basso had a good meeting at Poole since he joined Glasgow?

Fair point, but 'Arena Essex Hammers' is nearly 40 years old. The point is that if you're starting up a speedway team again you'd surely want to use the name that the club has always had would you not.

You'd suspect they'll be keeping Masters & Nicholls so perhaps no room for Kerr too.

Yep, it not like those club names have forty or fifty plus years of history attached to them is it?

Do we have a line up yet?

WTF

This is the problem with British speedway IMO. Teams of course want home advantage but where possible tracks should be prepared for the best racing that can be provided and with the crowd in mind, not how the home riders want it.

As I said on the other thread unfortunately I think Glasgow had a chance to take the tie by the scruff of the neck but failed to take it, six lasts in the final seven heats last night killed their hopes. They needed a lead of 20+. Poole to win comfortably on aggregate.

Spot on. Needed to be 20+ for Glasgow to have any chance, they needed to ram home their advantage over the last few heats but those last places have cost them.

Fat lot of good that's done this year!

I suspect it'll be 6 in the Prem (Brum going up), 8 in the Champs and the NDL will remain with fewer clubs but an agreement among those remaining to have some kind of competition which means it can continue.

Lol.

It's one wally.

If the weather warning rings true then they'd be two very different scenarios.

Yep, he should be averaging much more in the UK than he did.

Looks like Scotland is getting biblical rain today, with up to seven inches possible in some places.

In World terms I'd say he's considerably better than Kurtz, Musielak & Fricke. I'd question if he was regularly giving 100% for BV this season personally.

That's great but points across the whole season is more accurate, if anything it highlights Bewleys inconsistency. If you wanted to go micro with the head to head we could refer to heat 18 last Saturday TBH it seems a bit churlish to be arguing about who is better than who, they are both great talents and most importantly British.

I think the only way they can be judged head to head is in the GP's, there was very little between them but Robert has finished above Dan both times. I get what you are saying about averages but Bewley finished below several riders in the British averages who he is far better than.

Classic BSF overreaction. Why would the authorities exclude two world class riders who put bums on seats? Presumably you felt the same about Darcy when he was up to all sorts of things as a Poole rider All a storm in a teacup. Neither rider probably should have said what they did (particularly Tai) but let's be sensible.

He was, left when Alex Brady did. Would have him back in a heartbeat if he's avaliable in the future.

If people are so incensed by late season signings then the transfer window needs changing. Its inevitable that injuries are going to occur and that teams will seek replacements fir those and riders out of form. Make the window close earlier apart from for injury. I'd also argue that just because riders don't choose to do full seasons here doesn't mean they don't care for UK speedway.