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Well done, Dave! Heads down over the winter and shoot for the treble.

Steve Lawson at Workington brought back a coffee cup full last year! I believe he had it analysed and then sourced its domestic equivalent. Certainly a lot of praise for the Derwent Park circuit last season.

Hynek's race win, Steve?

As to the top four, you're right, that's how the side is built -- you can't have your toffee and your ha'penny as we used to say oop north! FWIW I thought Shanes raced his heart out and his score certainly doesn't reflect his efforts. Again FWIW I expected Rosco to go with Batch and Musielak and think it was the right decision given their obvious pace. For Wolves, RR covered Nick Morris quite well (ditto Nicholls for Thorssell) but obviously you want your first choice seven ASAP. Becker will rightly garner the plaudits and was hugely impressive -- potentially a very big takent. Good night's racing.

Magnanimous post there, Sidney. Best of luck this season.

I can but speculate!

I can assure you it isn't!

Having interviewed Kyle on more than one occasion (not the one being discussed!) I can confirm that he conducts himself honestly, candidly and in a very mature fashion. He certainly values supporters and will always give a straight and thoughtful answer to a straight question. I'm pleased to see him sticking up for himself here. For what it's worth, I have a high regard for Frigbo's forum contributions but respectfully suggest he's just misread this one a touch.

Well said.

That's a real statement of intent and doubly good to see from a club that's had its struggles in recent years. Kudos to the management.

Yep, build the 2018 Workington way. You know it makes sense!

Good post, IMHO. I’m presuming the bonus for you and your fellow Belle Vue supporters when watching the Colts is the prospect of some of them coming through to the senior side.

Beat me to it! I’ve been to Lakeside on many occasions, though not local to it. Of course I’d like a replacement. Wouldn’t we all?

Eastbourne every chance, I'm sure you're right there. Great kid and I'll even trek over to West Row now and then in 2019 to watch him.

Edwards is a fine signing IMHO, bright, talented, personable and level-headed. Such a mature approach in a youngster. Not a wild throttle-jockey but someone who goes about his business, constantly learns and quietly stacks up the points. I see him having a long and satisfying career.

The live stream analysis from the awards did mention the quality of speedway at Lynn.

Certainly the middle of nowhere as far as having a speedway track, sadly. Let’s hope for better times.

It’s not unlikely that Dave will have several spares should you feel the need!

FreeSports is on ch95 for me; its website also suggests ch64. It is, as the name suggests, free to air and broadcasts a lot of live Polish and Swedish speedway with Mr Goddard commentating. It would, IMHO, be well worth a retune to pick it up. Premier Sports requires a subscription. Don’t know if you take Speedway Star; there was a feature during the season on Dave.

I would have thought Worrall had shown enough at the back of last season for that not to be (too much of) a worry. Championship berth sorted as well. And I hope and suspect he’ll be well into the groove by the time Bewley arrives if, as apparently seems likely at least according to the Workington thread, he does miss the start. But fingers crossed in any event.

Do you have Freeview?

Dave Goddard’s work will be familiar to many through Premier Sport, Free Sport, match DVDs and — no, actually, I think I may have mentioned that already. Edit: In answer to Richard Weston.

Dave Goddard, whose work will be familiar to many through Premier Sport, Free Sport, match DVDs and a number of live commentaries at various forms of four-wheel racing, has just been named Commentator of the Year — from a shortlist of 10 — at the inaugural Motorsport Awards. I am beyond chuffed! King’s Lynn won an award (I think it was racetrack of the year) ahead of the likes of Silverstone, so it seems that speedway fans have been making their votes count! Congrats again, Dave, richly deserved.

Fair point, particularly in such a tight tie, but obviously we Workington fans would have loved to see Bewley and Proctor in the saddle rather than on the sidelines. I did think, with all due respect to Lakeside and an injury-ravaged Peterborough, that the Tigers/Comets encounter would produce the eventual champions.

I suspect that Championship would simply be one commitment too many for Nic this year — he didn’t have a Premiership club when signing for Workington and upon joining Poole found the logistics tough. Rode more than a hundred meetings last season. Assuming he gets a top-flight spot then I can’t see him riding second-tier in 2019, certainly not a full season.