I think this is a bit extreme, but having just witnessed your team throw us around like a wet towel, then it’s fair enough.
The top heavy team building was evidently strategic; a risk to seek the reward.
Evidently, the plan was for the main body of the side to accommodate young Freddy and Max, thus affording them time to develop and fulfil their potential.
What there wasn’t a contingency plan for was young Ashton - who drew the short straw with his average, becoming a victim of his own rapid progress - having a nightmare season.
It’s also about small margins. Leon Flint scored 3 from 4 at Scunthorpe. Inexcusable and had he scored one more point, we would have won that meeting. Had he scored at all in his first two rides at home to Poole, we would have drawn and had Jason Edwards and Paul Starke not secured a 5-1 over him in heat 12 of the same meeting, we would have won.
Had Kyle Howarth not been passed twice in his first two heats in that same Poole meeting, or scored one point from heats 13 and 15 at home, we’d have won or drawn.
Our team building strategy means we can’t accommodate those shortcomings.
We’ll have a good season, all in, but that title is Poole’s. 100%.
That track, however, would cause a man to fall out of love with speedway.