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Because the idea put forward that I was responding to was to do one home and away fixture with eight teams, instead of the two home and away we currently have with six teams.

Lynn fans have to be pretty miffed at seeing the “efforts” of Cook and Kvech when they see Cook in Poland and Kvech mixing it with the worlds best in the GP’s. Wouldn’t include either next year personally but just my opinion.

You not looking forward to watching him next weekend Tellboy? Be honest.

Good summary. Healthy to now have a three horse race instead of a two horse race. Makes the final few Gp’s even more interesting. Really looking forward to next weekend even more now after that last night. On Woryna, for all the criticism of his hard riding, his heats are simply unmissable. You ain’t getting up to make a cup of tea while he’s out on track!

This is what I was talking about Kevin. So many on here like you have bemoaned the lack of fixtures these days so going for one home and away instead of two giving you only seven home League fixtures in an eight team league, just won’t cut it. There isn’t enough fixtures now with ten home league fixtures, we certainly can’t reduce that further! Eight team league, twice home and away giving you 14 home league fixtures and three KOC fixtures giving you a guaranteed 17, seems ideal to me. Start the season a tad earlier in March like we always used to as well to accommodate the extra few meetings. We always used to start middle of March but that’s now slipped to April starts. Probably due to a reduced fixture list.

We talking one or two home and away in an eight team league?

Not sure I agree mate. One of the biggest complaints on here over the last few years is not enough meetings, and far too stop start with big gaps between fixtures. Many have constantly trotted out the old “people will just find other things to do and lose interest” reasoning for wanting more meetings. Once home and away in an eight team league, gives you only seven home league meetings, plus a couple of cup fixtures between March and September. Thats nowhere near enough IMO.

SIGN HIM UP SIGN HIM UP SIGN HIM UP 🧙🤣

Ironic really that everyone has been moaning that that kind of rider and excitement has become extinct and it’s now become boring with riders with no character, we get one and people want him chucked out of the sport 😂

Seems to have come through the Nicki Pedersen school of Speedway! People are going to be critical as we’ve already seen on here, but he makes you tune in and makes you want to watch him race.

Bit of an old wet wipe is Olly. Probably doesn’t like his aggressive riding.

As a spectator I love to see it, but yeah I wouldn’t personally like to be in a race with him if I’m honest 😬

Doesn’t take any prisoners does he 😂

Reluctant to say naughty from Woryna, but was certainly hard on Kurtz!

That’s simply because of the restrictive points limit due to the majority of clubs not being able to afford anything else. Remove these restrictions and there’s a couple of clubs that could probably afford to compete in the Ekstraliga. Maybe. All hypothetical as I can’t see that happening in a million years.

They’d still have to do twice home and away IMO otherwise we’d have even less meetings than we do now. We currently have 10 home league meetings, a league of 8 teams once home and away would give you just 7 home league meetings. What else would you fill the season with to have the “home meetings at the minimum every other week” that you mention? Eight team league, twice home and away giving you 14 home league fixtures plus the KOC fixtures would help plug some of the annoying gaps in fixtures that we currently have. KOC could continue the same format as this year. Two groups of four instead of three in a north/south split, giving a guaranteed three home cup fixtures in the group stage, group winners meet in final. 17 guaranteed home fixtures in total. Sounds much better to me.

Now this really does deserve a whinge and has been one of my biggest bugbears for many years. It’s a problem across the board unfortunately not just Kings Lynn. Some are better than others, but not by much. It just shows a complete disregard for your paying customers and is extremely lazy.

I know it’s in vogue on here these days to have the “end of the world is nigh” attitude, but even I have to admit the doomsday prediction that it’s gonna be exactly the same as last year because nothing has leaked on next year by the beginning of August, is a bit of a stretch. Come on chaps rein it in a bit 😂

Come on Kacper 🧙😁

Louis by all accounts rejected a couple of proposals for Ipswich before going with Mayfield so there are people out there willing to take over clubs. One of Ipswich’ suitors was allegedly Phil Morris along with a couple of others forming a consortium. Fingers crossed there’ll be options for Sheffield IF the Bates’ decide to walk away which we don’t know yet. They’ve known for a while now what they’d ideally like to do, so the best scenario is that they’ve had the time now to find the investment and/or people to take over the club. They’re suffering crowd wise a little at the moment mainly because they’ve lost their star man who helps to bring in the punters.

Indeed. One thing I will say, is if we now have far better contacts and ability to entice new top riders over, then that’s exactly what we should do instead of taking the easier route and throwing a few extra quid at one or two of the small pool of top riders we’ve already got here. There isn’t that many that you’d call world class riders over here at present, so if we can bring our own in and add to that number rather than pinch someone else’s, then that’s better for the league as a whole. More clubs would get a good number 1, and more world class riders over here to add to what we already have would make the league more attractive and increase the chances of securing a new TV deal.

Coleman wants to put bums on seats next year. The hope is to bring back those that have drifted away this year due to losing Doyle and Emil in particular, and even add to the numbers we were getting the last few years. The ambition is certainly there and the two names he mentioned to me personally last week certainly outlines that. Sometimes you run in to people who have all the talk and then just don’t deliver. We’ve seen and heard many of those over the years! This fella though, doesn’t strike me as one of those. BUT, the proof of the pudding and all that. Just have to wait and see if those plans come to fruition.

Didn’t see it can you summarise please chaps?

Siggy was my childhood idol. Can vividly remember crying all day long when he was forced to retire through his ankle injury! Was a serious threat to the Danish dominance of the 80’s before that incident. Beaten Nielsen in the run off of the most lucrative meeting ever allegedly at the time, the British Open in 82 which was the standard of the world final itself, then topped the British League averages on 10.99 in 83 and was on an upward trajectory. Then came that accident in 84 that cut his career stone dead. We’ll obviously never know for sure but I’m convinced he would have stopped Nielsen and Gundersen from dominating the world Championship between them in the 80’s.

Link to the interview Bagpuss was referring to. Really good listen.