Lynn v Sheffield 3/8/26

[Jez]

8 hours ago, InTheDeepStuff said:

Deserved win for Stars, quick rider summary after watching on BSN

King’s Lynn

Fricke - Woeful, looked so uncomfortable on him track for a rider with such experience

Rushen - Did more than expected even if a bit erratic 

Harris - Definitely a Bomber type track tonight and he put the points on the board and bar race with Rowe he dominated 

Cook - Frustrating for Lynn fans, 8 pointer in Ekstraliga, 5 pointer in Premiership, seemed to just go through the motions 

Kvech - Up and down night

Edwards - Scored more than Jenkins would have done so did what you want from a guest in beating opposite rider and more 

Scott - Excellent performance from the rising star, lovely style on the bike 

 

Sheffield 

Lawson - Hot & Cold, no replacement for J.Holder whose usually good for double digits there

Rowe - Top drawer, has to be his best performance for Sheffield

Holder - What you expect nowadays, very Klindt like fast out front so poor when behind

Flint - Poor early doors came to party late on did what was expected in the end

Pickering - You’d think he never ridden the place, poor on track decision making in just about all his races, needs to walk the walk rather than talk a good game if wants to be at the top table 

Etheridge - Rode like a novice, awful performance 

Kileen - Slow all night again, didn’t make one start, track dominated him rather than him racing on track

Having gone to Adrian Flux Arena last night, don’t think I can argue much with that summary of each rider 👏👏

[GeneralMelchett]

Riders can be so inconsistent at times Etheridge had a stunner at the weekend for Berwick at Workington but failed to score here!

[szkocjasid]

18 hours ago, Bagpuss said:

It's a credibility thing for me. I don't pretend to have the answers but borrowing riders from a rival team in a 6 club league is just bonkers.

I'd get rid of guests completely if it was possible but even if not they need to be absolutely minimised.

I agree there are far too many guests, maybe only allow guests for injuries, rather than riders missing matches due to racing abroad would be a start?

[Bagpuss]

25 minutes ago, szkocjasid said:

I agree there are far too many guests, maybe only allow guests for injuries, rather than riders missing matches due to racing abroad would be a start?

I think compulsory R/R needs to happen too, and unattached riders from the Championship for reserves or a second rider missing from the tip five eg Kerr, Castagna, Wright, Barker, Palovaara, Mountain, Allen etc.

[marko]

If we still ran junior teams the old rule of promote a junior if both sides were using R\R could be utilised.

Also the issue isn’t so much about the amount of guests but the cause of why there is riders missing.

[Roger Jacobs]

2 hours ago, marko said:

If we still ran junior teams the old rule of promote a junior if both sides were using R\R could be utilised.

Also the issue isn’t so much about the amount of guests but the cause of why there is riders missing.

I don't think there was ever a rule about promoting junior riders - it was more a case of if teams had two similar riders missing there could be a "gentleman's agreement" between the promoters to use juniors.  Certainly if, for example, one team had a heat leader missing, but the other had a second string missing, it was highly unlikely that juniors would be used.

[RS50]

3 hours ago, marko said:

If we still ran junior teams the old rule of promote a junior if both sides were using R\R could be utilised.

Also the issue isn’t so much about the amount of guests but the cause of why there is riders missing.

 

39 minutes ago, Roger Jacobs said:

I don't think there was ever a rule about promoting junior riders - it was more a case of if teams had two similar riders missing there could be a "gentleman's agreement" between the promoters to use juniors.  Certainly if, for example, one team had a heat leader missing, but the other had a second string missing, it was highly unlikely that juniors would be used.

I can remember Juniors being promoted. However in practice how would it work today. Let's say Belle Vue and Sheffield are against each other, and Kurtz Doyle J Holder and Pickering are out.

You put out teams as follows 

1 Cook

2 Cairns 

3 Blodorn

4 Ziscke

5 Kildemand

6 Junior 

7 Junior.

1 C Holder 

2 Killeen

3 Flint 

4 Etheridge

5 Rowe

6 Junior 

7 Junior.

Would it be fair to charge Premiership prices, for e championship standard match.

Would more be attracted to the match, than if you had replacements such as Fricke Douglas Lawson, Musielak?