Gavan

Why does everyone take discussions as personal! Cook is out of form in the elite league Im asking are Edinburgh fans worried about this. Surely , rather than saying things like 'go to the Belle Vue thread' try having a discussion and give reasons why you think he will be ok. Why get so defensive? The fact Cook is a prat is irelevent we are talking about his riding

Nothing would please me more to see the old Holder back, but i think he isnt there anymore. Granted he had a really bad crash at Coventry that nearly ended his career, but you still need to have the hunger to go back to the same track and perform. Once you become cautious on any track it will lead to bigger issues. I seem to remember Shawn Moran saying when he lost his nerve he even let the riders leave the tapes quicker so he didnt get to the bend with them. Im not saying Chris has lost his nerve but his form is patchy at best. Maybe Poole could lose Holder and Watt and get in Ward and someone else. I dont know how that would fit points wise. I cant stand North as a person but his form this season is very good and he is more than capable of holding down the third heat leader slot.

How am i spouting nonsense!!!!!! Im asking if your worried his elite league poor form is a worry if he brings it to the premier. Normal question but yet again the high and mighty cant debate.

Think everyone knows who Schlein was guesting for. Nobody said it wasnt legal but it just becomes farcical. Poole had issues but none as bad as Coventry. Coventry had riders fall off in scoring positions Coventry had a number 1 who had awful machinery problems Coventry replaced a premier league heat leader with a premier league second string. Poole replaced a premier league heat leader with an elite league heat leader who could ride as an elite league second string. All that said Poole are strong and will be thereabouts at the end Holder has to be a worry looks a shadow of his former self. Can see Holder leaving when Darcy is fit as he may well need to concentrate on staying in the top 8 No i havent omited that. Fact is Poole with Watt as heat leader and North at 2 would be weaker than North at 3 and Schlien at 2. Dakota North is riding wel this season wherever he goes and certainly is as good if not better than Watt at Brandon. This means Poole were quite a bit stronger than if they had tracked their usual 1-7 What i suggest you do is read my posts better as in every single post i said what Poole did was perfctly legal. Not once have i said Poole cheated or did anything wrong. So before you jump over my posts and accuse of all the anti poole crap , i suggest you dont just selectively read what you want to see

Interesting that an elite league heat leader can replace a premier league rider and then ride as a second string. Shows how ridiculous the sport has become. I know it's legal but it's just daft and handed Poole the win

once out of the last 3 times he behaved even then had 2 rollers as per usual. time before he scored 11 and hated being on the end of a team riding 5-1 and as per normal sulked and rode back to the pits rather than shake hands, and then the time before he didnt even complete 2 rides. Lets be honest good rider as he is and yes i would love him at number one for us, the bloke is a bit of an idiot

Im sorry im still unsure as to why i need to post this on the Belle Vue thread? Craig Cook is struggling in the elite league i get that. However my team are in the Premier League. Im asking if Monarchs fans are worried his poor form could spill into the Premier thus affecting their team. Surely this is relevent to the Edinburgh thread? I couldnt give 2 hoots about Cook in the Elite but hope he struggles against us! He does usually throw his toys out at Foxhall!

peterborough is a better race track than Foxhall. But whatever track it is you need 2 evenly matched teams. It's no fun watching at Peterborough if there riders gate and disappear. You get bad meetings anywhere

thank you for answering my post sensibly and actually having a discussion without the need to get abusive and touchy. Just a shame some Edinburgh fans seem incapable of this

no I won't post under the Belle Vue thread as Belle Vue are of no importance to my team Ipswich. I'm discussing that Cook is in poor form which could carry over to the premier league. Now Edinburgh are a rival of my club so it's quite relevant that I'm debating it on the Edinburgh thread. Quite rightly if he bangs in maximums for you boys then you don't care but what if he scored only 8 or 9 in the next few meetings would it not be a concern? Try to stop being so precious in what you post about wonder boy and try having a debate

second elite league meeting tonight and at least he managed to beat Ashley Morris. Poor performance from Stead to. Seems the premier league top 2 aren't equipped for being elite league riders. Im a premier league fan but the gulf between the leagues is vast

I've said it loads of times I would love Cook at Ipswich. Even if he rode for us he would still be a bit of a prat with his comments and ego but you would want him in your team. All I'm saying is he needs to grow up and mature a bit and in my opinion he isnt going to get any higher in the sport

Dear me its quite pathetic really. Are you not allowed to make an observation on riders without fans jumping on you. Cook is a top premier league rider. Will he ever be a gp rider? No WIll he be a top elite league rider ? No Its not jealousy i would love Cook as my number one at Ipswich. I point out coming 2nd in the British Final, although a good achievement is not comparable to British Finals 20 years ago yet im told thats laughable. Is it? Its about time he went to Poland and well done at last but its probably 2 years to late

1994 British Final line up. Smith , Screen , Schoey, Havelock, Barker, Doncaster, Loram, Dugard , Cross ,Louis, Tatum, Knight, Howe, Mullett, Hurry , Mckinna Apart from maybe Mckinna and Howe is Cook a better rider than any of the above? 10 World Finalists 2 World Champions 3 more who stood on the rostrum. No mate just making an observation and have said Cook is great for Edinburgh

I notice Cook threw a paddy for Belle Vue at Wolves and sulked again. Shocking attitude. Was even beaten by Bates as well. As ive said before he has reached his potential. Top premier league rider and average elite league one. British Number 2 at a time when the uk has only 3 top riders in Tai Nicholls and Harris he would more than likely never even made a British Final 20 years ago. Still he is a class act for you boys so you cant complain, however i think Masters may get a better average this year

Fancy this will be closer than a lot of our Foxhall meetings v the rebels. Worrall , Josh and Kurtz are more than a match for our top 3. We need Rohan to find his form in this one. Lanham and Wright could be as good as Cam and Ritchie if he isnt fully fit yet. However i feel we are stronger at reserve I said at the start of the season a lot would depend on Cam and Gino. At the moment Cam is looking like he could move up to heat leader so Gino and Rohan are the 2 worries plus Ritchie not being fit. Covatti is up and down and Stefan to me is struggling. I think we can nick this by 4

If you can find where i last mentioned it before today then please enlighten me. I was merely pointing out that Starman said if Coventry make the track difficult it will be daft because of injuries, yet he was quite happy to say the Belle Vue meeting was fine. Its called hypocrisy

Yet again you excel in the daft post area. Use your brain for once SCB is saying the track should be prepared for the home team and not the away team. Surely thats what speedway is all about! Dont talk stupid about riders getting injuries when you were quite happy to let the Poole riders race on at Belle vue in dangerous conditions werent you. Then again i expect the usual posts from you when you arent clever enough to form a proper response

spot on. A track can be made to look either good or poor by the opposition. Peterborough can be a great track with two even teams. Otherwise it's as boring as anywhere else

Said it before and I will say it again you get boring meetings at Peterborough a lot when they set the track up like that. One line by the fence and hope you hang on. Having said that our boys were awful with the exception of King and Heeps. I said this side to me was weaker on paper than last year and I stand by that. Is King , Gino and Rohan as heat leaders stronger than Worrall , Risager and Rohan? I would say similar. Are Cam and Ritchie H as second strings stronger than Cam and Gino? No Are Nielsen and Nico as reserves better than Ellis and Ritchie H? No We are destined to be around the top 6 again but nowhere near strong enough to win it. We will win most at home but unlike some tracks we don't have huge advantage and some teams will win or draw at Foxhall and I cant see us getting a lot away

Much enjoy my club ipswich being in the premier than the elite league

I think Glasgow got the moral victory here. To run Edinburgh to only 9 points missing 3 riders can only augur well for the league meeting. Can see the bragging rights in Scotland shifting

why? If someone writes a daft response that at least 15 people think is ridiculous is it bullying for those people to tell that person he is wrong. Bullying is for me to come on here now with no topic or no post and just call people names. It doesnt happen check any thread you like. Myself and others will answer to the trolls and the clueless. Its not bullying jeez my apologies oldace i completly missed the tone of the post. sorry

its a prety big gang isnt it

where on earth do you get that from? starman was proved wrong on the Jerran Hart thread. He asked when Hart would be released. He was told he already had. He was told to read the thread. He ignored what he was told and hurled abuse. If you think he 'wiped the floor' with people you are very very wide of the mark. And if you call this a 'gang' its quite pathetic. he was told by at least 10-15 people