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Well I thought it was a decent meeting aswell.Ok you don't get overtakes in every heat but believe me this never happened in the past neither.I have often thought speedway was better in years gone by but when you look at old dvd's,videos some of these tell you a different story. Last night there was some close racing.Lambert and Wright had a cracking little duel with a bit of hard racing.North was hard but fair.Why point out a rider like NKI could make no impression,when the fact was Morris gated and never put a foot wrong,and indeed he was fast.Thought Bjerre and Harris had a good race too.Seems to me Bjerre will race against someone he knows he can trust on the track. Well the group of us seemed to think there was some good fought battles out there.

That's what I was thinking.

So hopefully by rights they should use their Pl averages for the rest of the season,but will they?

Whats wrong with showing you are patriotic.So what its not the main issue but its still an issue.Will you be telling all the Poles that descend on Cardiff to join a majorette club. That's a problem with this country at the moment some of our own people don't want us to show that we are patriotic,but will let others do as they please. Ps sorry I didn't criticise on the main thing

Didn't think heat 15 counted towards averages.

Good close meeting tonight.Some very hard and good racing aswell SL.Was expecting it to be close to be honest as the top 5 from both teams looked evenly balanced.Thought the reserves would have won it for us tonight but how wrong was I.So it was good that the top 5 scored well for us tonight or else we could have quite easily have lost. Don't know why Fricke didn't acknowledge Lambert when he beat him in ht 5 Lambert tried pinning him on bend 1 and they clashed and then Fricke clashed into him on the back straight to even it up.Nicholls was brilliant in his last 3 races. Hopefully Swindon will provide the same amount of entertainment in a couple of weeks.

In between 1st/2nd bend from there it actually looked like they were stopping on the bends.Then we went around and took in races from the back straight and then in between bends 3/4 and the final race on bend 4.Maybe its just not my cup of tea having watched speedway at Lynn all my life and on occasions at Peterborough which both are totally to Lakeside.

I must admit I missed the first 2 races,whether there were overtakes in that I don't know.But for the remaining 13 races I can remember I think 3-4 mainly due to mistakes the 2 overtakes in the 2nd reserves race was first a mistake from Boxall and then from Kerr to let him back through.Couldn't see how Lambert passed Boxall.Like somebody said Bjerre had a good race with Jonsson but he wasn't going to move off the blue groove so Bjerre was never going to go by in a month of Sundays. I do believe Lakeside actually comes over better on the TV than it does actually being there.

Well I can see why l haven't been for so many years.Daughter and missus came here for the first time and said not again thanks.Best race had to be the second reserves race.

Thanks for the updates Bryn.Haven't been to Lakeside since the Arena Essex days never really enjoyed my times watching the racing there(may have something to do with Lynn getting stuffed every time)Nothing else to do today so what the hell at least we should be more competitive than we were in those dark times

Thinking of going to this now.Having seen the forecast has changed for the Thurrock area and it is just meant to be dull and grey.Hopefully the Stars will be able to brighten it up.

Can't understand why Lynn don't use R/R for Porsing.Schlein,Lambert and Kerr x 2 can take his rides,would they not score more than Doolan.

That to me is cheating and if this was to be allowed they then shouldn't be allowed to re-declare again,and made to use R/R until Watt is fit again.

While I agree with you on most occasions,you would have thought the likes of Lambert,Morris and Ellis would be making the mistakes and not SWC riders like you mentioned.These riders should have the experience to ride most tracks and yet these youngsters showed them how to ride the track.They have the experience to find the correct set ups but failed to do so.

Think there is only one confused person on here and he comes from Dorset

WTF are you on about,you are responding to Trees not Steve

Don't quite agree with the glorified friendly and charging full price.I bet the riders didn't take a price cut,the energy company didn't let him have cheap electric for the night or food,drink,shale or the ref came at a discount.Maybe if he got all them on the cheap we may have got in for £16.50. At the end of the day we are customers like we are in almost every other sport.

Must admit I have thought about not going for the first time on Tuesday.Is Sky really beneficial to league speedway bosses or just a few.Having said I have thought about not going I would say my daughter may have something to say about that

It's all on the BSPA site now. They have to carry through with how they done the calculations for the tier 1 riders I assume which was done using their PL averages.Don't know how they worked the tier 2 riders out though.

Have you been on the panda pops tonight

Bothered about this trophy now you have won it are you .On the home leg thread you didn't seem to bothered as the real trophy is handed out in October Onto the meeting pretty poor really.Best race was the last with Iversen just getting by North on the last lap.Nice that North just give him enough room(unusual). Hope Porsing will be ok after that nasty looking tumble.Think Holder will be he just seemed to be a bit disinterested after his first heat fall. Would like to see the speedway season started mid April that was bloody cold tonight.Instead we start in March and have some nice Wednesday nights off in the summer with no racing.

Why is everyone getting so excited on this topic.Read the title of the topic and this is correct. Lynn topped the table with Darcys points taken away. BWitcher didn't mention the play-offs in his first post he/she merely stated that Lynn have now topped the table. How topics seem to alter over the course of a few pages.

I thought I knew how the averages worked but I am flummoxed by Holder and Iversens averages.I just thought I would look on the BSPA site because I thought Holder had a 9+ average,i was wrong.But I did see his average after he had finished his stint at Poole was 8.83 all the way through the different issues then on the final one his average dropped to 8.75,why? With Iversen's average he got injured in the early to mid September and his average come 23rd September was issued at 8.77 for October so all the required matches were taken into account.So to me he would have no more matches to add to that average.But come the final issue his average jumped to 9.03. Over to you SCB could you explain

Having watched Lambert all last season the only thing inconsistent with him was his gating.

Absolutely,it's amazing how big a motivator money is.