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I think you'll find he's talking about Kyle Newman, not Howarth. 👍

It also doesn't help, if Hagon has to stay at No2 for the rest of the season. It would have been much better to have him down at reserve.

Does that mean the Tigers can use guests for both riders for the rest of the season? If so, they will have a good choice of riders for Howarth.

Which will be Kennett 😂

or ITV4 !!!

Thank you

So how long can Poole keep using guests for Bowes? Using Kennett down at reserve is a massive bonus for Poole. Surely there must be a cut off date, where they will have to name a permeant rider at reserve.

13 Heat wins from gate one, says it all. Terrible GP, and Tatum has the front to say a fantastic night of speedway!!! Maybe when you're getting paid to talk boll**S, it softens the blow!!

You've got to hand it to Tatum; he can polish a turd. Lebadevs was never going to pass Kurtz. The way the pair were shouting, you'd have thought it was a close run thing!!

But Plymouth are a 6-man team. Unfortunately for them, unlike Poole, they are stuck with a No7 who can't score a point, and you lot are moaning the fact you can't use Kennett or Jenkins down at reserve. I don't know the ins and outs, but surely Plymouth have got a lower team average than Poole? If that's the case, why have they been using two lads at No7, who, not the riders' fault, but are nowhere near good enough for the 2nd division?

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That's a bit strong. He got you a draw last!!

So does Sam go back to No2?

I agree 100%. The majority of riders back then, as well as training schools, came from the grass tracks. Nearly all our big stars of the 70s and 80s came from the grass tracks. PC, Morton, Wigg, Doncaster, Loram, Screen, the list goes on and on. As you quite rightly say, a lot of the young riders of today have not reached the standard required to ride in the 2nd div, but we are so short on riders, they are thrown in at the deep end; Scoring the odd point off each other and then getting hammered when they go out against the main body of riders, is not good for them and neither the pay in public. Over the last 15 years or so nearly all our young riders have come through, the Neil Vatcher school of speedway. Rushen and Cairns have been fantastic finds. Also, riders like Howarth, Flint and Rowe have turned out to be useful league riders and, to a lesser extent, Edwards and Kemp. Harrison, Piper and Scott are fine young riders, but international stars of the future? I don't think so. I hope they prove me wrong, because Rushen and Cairns at the moment are our future International stars. Let's hope someone might step up to join them.

I would say the introduction of air fences, has definitely been a factor in riders going on into in to their 40s. Riders bodies in the 80s and 90s took a lot more punishment with solid fences taking no prisoners, hence imo thats why a lot of riders didn't make it past their mid 30s.

Spot on, A throwback to when riders rode and worked.

So you think a rider who is 26, Current Avg: 1.42. (Lowest in the League) Should be retained? How many seasons does he need to develop?. There is a paying public that Plymouth have to think of. Tom is obviously out of his depth in the Championship. It's not fair to him to score no points week after week, and it's not fair to the paying public. Sport can be hard, but being dropped is all part of it. imo he has been lucky to last this long; It's only due to the lack of riders that has kept him in the team.

Yet Kennett still beat the up-and-coming British star, Leon Flint?, Even though Kennett hasn't ridden at this level for a few years. If he ain't up to it, don't say too much about the others then!!

I would have thought he would have worked that out pretty quickly after watching other heats. Alas, he just kept blasting around the outside to no effect.

When you say better temperament, I take it you're talking about Lee? Mick Lee, at 16, finished his first season at Boston with an average of 9.13. The following year (17), he finished the season with an average of 9.22 in the British League Division One, which, imo, was the hardest league in the world at the time. He was also the British U21 champion that year. Following season (18), topped the averages in the British League with an average of 10.64. Also won the senior British Final and was part of England's winning World Team Cup, and made his 1st world final. Cooper is a great talent, but a bit premature to say he's the next Mark Loram or Mick Lee, imo.

"By Golly, where's my strepsils"

This is his third full season in the championship I agree about Hagon. imo, this year's British U21 Championship is going to be a much stronger lineup than last year. Scott, Cairns, Harrison, and possibly Rushen. These boys, imo, are the future of British speedway, with Dan Thompson, Flint and maybe Luke Killeen. Oh, I forgot to add the young lad at Scunthorpe, Ryan Ingram. He looks very promising.

Well done, spot on, and there I was thinking the Tigers might have given the Pirates a fright! Apart from Bomber and to a lesser extent Flint. Glasgow were pretty woeful. Hagon didn't score a point and never looked like scoring a point. Hodder and Smith didn't beat a Poole rider between them, but it was great to see the two Poole youngsters strutting their stuff also Luke Harrison never giving up. Glasgow have always had a good team, but to be in with a chance of the playoffs, they might need to make a change.

When Exeter came into town, back in the day, most clubs thought the same about them. On paper, it looks like it could be a hammering for the tigers, but nothing is won on paper. Sport has a habit of turning up a few shock results over the years, so you never know!!

Not as much of a joke as Dan Bewley going unbeaten with 18pts at the German GP. A guy scoring 8 scraps into the silly last chance saloon and ends up with 20 points, 2 more than Dan. Now that is a joke of a system.