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Chin up! At the F2F event with Richard Coleman he said the team were undefeated at home and more than one person responded "until tomorrow", meaning the meeting against Belle Vue - it didn't happen though did it, so let's wait and see, although Palm Toft is a wildcard choice 🙂

Could be a home loss incoming. Tocha said on another thread that King was suspended until the end of this week but there's been no mention of that anywhere else I can see?

Don't think Lidsey would have but Klindt yes. Lidsey was easily passed by Fricke in Ht 13.

I would. Lidsey is even more of gating tart than Klindt (who had only been beaten in heat 13) and was passed easily in heat 13. The only reason I can think is that Klindt said he didn't want to do it.

Strange decision by Adams to put Lidsey in heat 15, should've been Klindt surely?

Why is he suspended? It was speedway related accident and he has a rib injury?

No, no equivalent. I also don't think the Ben Fund is just for British riders, so what you say is true in terms of independent financial support to riders.

Dry slick tracks suit some more than others and no surprise that Musielak did well given his Polish experience, certainly made the meeting a little more entertaining. Not sure what's going on with Lawson but I don't think the Ipswich management will be too impressed but if he was genuinely ill then that can't be helped. Will King be back on Thursday and if so, then R/R could be used for Lawson if he's still ill??

Hurry said last night when asked about Pedersen, watch this space.

Blimey, a lot of witches fans really are glass half empty. They haven't lost that many this season and Lynn were due a good meeting. They said they'd had a word with all riders to improve there performance and it worked. Ipswich made starts but got passed. Tom went from first to last in heat 1. It happens and doesn't concern me at all, I'm glad to have a local team I can watch and see some good battles, there'll always be a winner and a loser, that's sport.

The racing was good - it seemed much slicker last night than it was the last time I went, maybe that's the answer for Lynn? Brennan was terrible, looked nervous, even when in good positions he gave them away easily. Obviously very low on confidence but Ht 13 was better. Hopefully he can focus on that.

Who wants to watch football anyway - not me, it's as dull as.

No surprises really in this meeting, BV are very strong at home.

Surprised that's true - did he say that in the interview?

That's a great name, although sounds more Dutch than Swedish.

It's the Ipswich MP Jack Abbott.

Nonsense, if that were true Redcar and belle Vue would be packed every meeting but they are in exactly the same boat as everyone else. The racing makes no difference to crowd levels.

So, Harris again - the fourth time out of six meetings this season, he should be well dialled in. The winner tonight may be the ice cream man's bank account.

Yes and he intimated it was a waste of time and the contract ends I think at the end of this season.

Richard was quite clear last night that he thinks it can't really operate properly without 8 teams and that the gap between PL and CL needs to be bigger - he cited Poole and Glasgow as the obvious choices to join but that we'd then need to race on Wednesday as well but he didn't think that was an issue. He also dissed the fact that we've had three home meetings against King's Lynn this year! He wants independent leadership as no sport which runs itself is successful and too many navel gaze about how it affects their track, which doesn't move the sport forwards. Overall I was impressed with his views, he's also badgering the FIM about developing careers of young riders - just having and SGP3 or 4 doesn't generate the riders in the first place. Given he's only been involved this year he seems to have spotted a lot of the flaws/things which need improving and apparently his children can't stop watching speedway!

Yep

Benefit fraud is still dwarfed by tax evasion though so if you want to focus on money, look at those who evade tax by not declaring earnings etc. From t'internet "Yes, the total monetary value lost to tax fraud and evasion is significantly higher than the losses from benefit fraud in the UK. However, the government prosecutes far more people for benefit fraud."

Yes I was. They won't be the only riders to be defeated at the NSS (and I'm including all of the Ipswich team here) because when behind from the off, it's very difficult to make up speed there on a home rider, which we saw with all of the Ipswich and Leicester team. On Nicholls specifically, his starting ability has never been a strong point but in the Championship, where he's outscoring King I think, overtaking is more of a possibility for him. However, riding at No.4 is stretching and as the weakest rider above the reserves, he should be at No.2. Oh, and those 14 points from "years ago", were probably only about 5 meetings ago for him 😉

I think that's a bit harsh on some of the riders, it's only a few years since Scott got 14 at the NSS and Bangs did ok in the world cup or whatever it's called plus Lawson has also done ok there before. When you miss the start you're not going to overhaul a Belle Vue rider, as King and Musielak found out. You have to give credit to Belle Vue, their riders are so good around there I don't see them being beaten, it's their away performances that will be key to winning the title this season, which I think they will. It's a game of two halves so let's see what happens Thursday but I still think King and Nicholls should swap riding positions.

Spot on.