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I wonder if Squall still has a man crush on him

100% agree.

Or when they did the draft in November(?) they/he assumed he'd get an EL place.

Whine whine whine. Another young Brit thinking he should have everything handed to him on a plate. Fine, quit, get a job working for Tescos, but warning Richie, Tescos won't just give you the area managers job in a couple of years time because you fancy it, you have to work for it and prove you deserve it. Life is a bitch. You have to work damn had to get anyway. That said, it does seem odd to me we'll have a draft that'll give the Starkes, Lamberts and co of the speedway World more help but not the Woralls (and last year the Autys and Birks') of the speedway world who stand a greater chance of being something in the sport.

There you have it! Even two staunch Poole fans agree heat 10 (and 9, 8, 7,6,5,4,3,2 and 1 for that matter) should not have been run. Making the £4,000 worth of fines that Coventry Speedway and it's employees have received a joke!

Want to bet on that? I bet people will be along any time soon to lay into Glasgow

People are getting this all wrong. The issue is not that the track was unsafe at heat 9. It's that Coventry knew that suddenly the track would be unsafe at heat 10, meeting over and Coventry lose. so Coventry either had to abandon it or get to heat 15, they couldn't get to heat 15, they knew it would be called off at 10 so they had to stall and get it called off. Why did Coventry know it would be called off at 10? Because they had done it exactly 4 weeks earlier vs Lakeside while winning and also at Swindon last season. Seems a bit rich to start bleating now. IF meeting HAD to go to heat 15, this wouldn't be happening. My solution would be for meetings to get to heat 15, exceptions being if the losing team concedes the meeting. OR if after giving the losing team a 4-2 in every heat left the result cannot be changed from a win to one team or the other. So at heat 10, you have to be 12 up. Quite how the SCB can be so sure the track was fine at heat 9 and not at heat 10 though, I don't know! Seem pretty difficult to me to be so sure that they can fine people for it.

Tim Stone did it. Started about September - was open in May.

Give it anothr 50 years and we'll be like China. Loads of new build homes that investors have bought but nobody lives in because the people that need homes won't be able to afford them as they're jobless because their place of work and places of entertainment were knocked down to build more houses for people to invest in. It's ok building more and more new houses but you need the amenities to go with it!

Unless Coventry protected him. Clubs can protect one foreign asset each season I believe. That said, I doubt Coventry will fight too much for him. He looks to be about the 5.5 point PL level which is about where he was two years ago.

Surely as soon as foreigners were allowed into the second division is when it become it's strongest. Before then as it was only Brits you were excluding a lot of riders. if you made the PL British riders only today you'd end up with a load of MDL rider in it. But you'd still have the top guys like Craig Cook in it. The real strength of the league is more the bottom guys than the top guys. So once again, how many riders in the 80s and earlier who rode as a NL reserve and also rode in a World/European (as it was then) final? Because this season we have Stef Nielsen and Victor Palovara both doing it. My post was a joke - picking one rider to prove a point is silly. For Darcy Ward, a better example would be Tai Woffinden who won a World title at aged 22 and as you point out, so did Mike Lee.

But he'll also see 25 points as a stellar performance by a team low on confidence and one that they should take heart from.

You can't have both of them.... If you can call the CL the NL then BWitcher is ok calling it the old NL, as thats what it is now One of the other

I didn't think the Abbey could be demolished until a replacement was built. So at worst they'll be switching stadium mid-season.

He did have a long time out due to injury last season which possibly has some effect but I have seen have wild boy meetings since. But certainly that injury may have had some effect.

He rode PL but not NL and he consider by some to be the most naturally talented rider ever. Proof the PL is better!

What a crying shame that what should, IMO anyway, be a meeting between two top and very exciting teams is marred by injury and retirements If the real Richard Hall turns up Glasgow are laughing, if the one that has been riding for Berwick turns up then Sheffield should be fine.

Hes an odd one Greg Laguta - a few times I've watched him and he's be great, a tenacious battler who fights his way from the back in great style. Other times I see him and he always seems content to sit in 3rd and do very little. How can a rider go from wild boy to gating tart?! Odd.

It makes very little difference. But I'd argue a rider low on confidence should be at #1. The number 1 goes out against a couple of second strings in heat 1 so should be good for 2 points. Put him at 3 or 5 and his first ride is against 3 heat leaders so more likely to score 0!

A journeyman? I'd say it's a solid, dependable rider. Someone who has either been around a few years or will be a few more - not a fly by night who flukes a good season. They're the bread and butter riders, they're not likely to be a GP riders these days or World Finalist in years gone by. There nothing wrong with being one of these riders - they can often be loved more than the World class rider.

That was heat 20. Where Pawlicki off gate 1 swept out wide in a Gollob-esq way. Thats where this decision does fall down, having allowed Pawlicki to do it, Gollob should have been allowed. Personally, I'd have excluded Pawlicki in heat 20.

Cook finished 9th in a GP. That meant he was 9th best rider in the World - throw in Emil and Laguta and make him 11th. Yeates didn't even make top 16! I think you're confusing exciting riders with good riders. What about BWitchers question from earier. How many NL reserves made it to a World/European Under 21 final?

But as you have booted out all the foreingors, in reality all you have in the NL, in the PL with the current draft riders, Howarth, Robbo and Cook. they probably wont be interested in £20 a point and will go EL full time anyway. And you think you can''t fool people. Just look at the people who still don't grasp that an 8 pointer in a 16 league is not as good as a 5 pointer in an 8 team league

The comments are not anti-Poole. They anti-those who let Poole get away with stuff. Also, which comments are slanderous? I've had a look and at best you've got silly/stupid comments but nothing slanderous.

It was mediocre. The PL is now. It's average, it's the middle of 3 leagues. They are journeymen. And it was easier than the BL (now EL). That doesn't mean it was easy, just easier. Id' not call a 6 year old. But a 6 year old is OLDER than a 5 year old. Easier is a relative term. As for the suggestion that scoring 2 in an overseas final is easier than 7 in a GP - come on!