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You know, that would probably be the most named four... Funny how the most unpopular riders are all multi-world champs; says it all, really!

Friend of mine worked for years with Slater's when out of the blue they sacked him. Took them to court for funfair dismissal

On 30/9/1995 at 7:15 PM, Craig Boyce said: Tomasz Gollob

Simon Cross. Spoon.

then the body should be rested and not just turn up and go through the motions .. thats my thoughts ..

No the best race of the night is normally watching the must get out the car park first brigade, normally after heat 14.

I think I agree. But doesn't that support the argument that the Challenge should be after the GP season? The more current GP riders that take part in the plan B route, the more devalued the Challenge becomes. I know we still get 3 qualifiers from the Challenge, come what may. But we might have to go well down the finishing order to see who that is. And worse still, we won't know who those 3 are, on the night or potentially for many weeks. Surely the Challenge route was set up to provide a focused route for the top three riders to get into the GP series? Not as a safety net for riders in the middle and lower order of the current series.

Many tracks no longer fit with modern engines. Look at what is served up at some tracks that were superb even less than 10 years ago. Whilst its not the only reason for the lack of entertainment, team owners need to adapt their product (track shape/width etc) to suit the modern era. Very few have or will bother to do so. Entertainment IMO is about passing not necessarily speed and the ridiculous gulf between abilities at the top and bottom of the riders averages wont achieve that. Nor will poorly prepared tracks. If last night the riders were on £250 for the meeting that is likely to be around a quarter of what most of the top enders will take home. I'm not surprised they don't take it seriously or put themselves out. There is no prestige in these events and wont be again unless the competitors are adequately rewarded for taking part. Speedway doesn't even give out medals to the league winners far less reward the riders and their teams for being better than the rest over a season. The whole ethos up is fundamentally flawed but we already know that. Unfortunately we also accept its not going to change.

No it proves exactly what you are

The Steve Shovlar of Ipswich?

Could potentially be the last time we see Chris Harris in Witches Kevlars around Foxhall. Every cloud and all that..

Think about what your saying before you open your mouth if you don't know for sure what the real reason was.

Sounds broadly similar to the Cradley match last week, my first visit to the NSS and enjoyed the experience (if not the actual match!) Seeing the Colts guys deep in the dirt was a pleasure, especially Flint who has a fantastic style leaning over so far. Cradley couldn't lay a glove on the Colts, I can't remember the last time Clegg went a whole match without winning a heat, nor the last time he registered a last place but none of the Cradley riders were able to live with the home team. Harry McGurk was unlucky in the reserve race where he was in the mix for the lead and suffered engine troubles. Great value NL racing for sure at a fantastic venue, kids for free and £10 per adult is great stuff

Ha, you making it sound better than it actually was, it was a typical foxhall turdfest

Well if it is Eurosport lets hope the coverage is better than what they have dished up in the past, starting the broadcasts at Ht17 etc, Sky were definitely the best, and BT would have been ok if they had covered more meetings. Just an opinion.

Ha ha seriously? You just written the same guff as you put it, for the christ knows how manyth time. Just saying

So you expect reading racer to make sense!!

I was a big Kenny fan, & im from Worcestershire!

I hope that when the dust has settled from this debacle of a season there is some philanthropist willing to step in and repair the damage this season has caused to Panthers.

Dave is his uncle. Dave's brother and Ellis' father is former ref Robbie Perks Edit - correction Dave is ELLIS' great uncle.

The boo's that were made were out out of respect more than anything else he was the benchmark that everyone had to try to expire to..He certainly put bums on seats and when he came into town the place was buzzing.The incident Ivan had with Bob Kilby at the Abbey was the only time he may have been in the wrong that i ever witnessed but he was a hard but fair rider.

I seem to remember he pulled wheelies down every straight to keep the crowd entertained as they watched the less than edge of the seat spectacle of one rider completing four laps all alone.. Obviously the ref didn't appreciate his efforts.. Or lack of them as he saw it... You have to remember though that the crowd were primarily there to watch him referee, not to be entertained by the show the riders were putting on for them...

Greaves rode to the pits after someone fell bend 2 (thinking the race was gonna be stopped)and was excluded. Then Ayres and Phillip's either fell or had mechanicals and both set off to push for 3 laps, both were excluded for not completing the race in 3 mins.

Which is completely his own fault with the bare minimum cheap ass team he has provided us with this year.

Well Ben Morley did ride and scored 13 points in a match won by Kent 48-42

... and yet back in the "golden" days the tractors came out at the end of every race and did a couple of laps. Meetings dragged on for two hours - only 13 heats in those days too - but everything was sunshine and lollipops. Admittedly at most tracks the music being played today is the same as we listened to as the tractors tootled round in the 1970s

And before anyone asks - I have booked a room for tonight and rebooked a flight for tomorrow.

Exactly. Nothing wrong with R/R for a genuine injury or a genuine missing rider. Better than loads of guests.... ...but how can it be legal to use R/R for a rider who had a 9 day concussion suspension, which ended 3 months ago? If Ruddick is withholding his services, they should have had a facility for 28 days to allow them to make a new signing. It smells as if Leicester are purposely not letting Ruddick ride because they can get more points from using a facility. Anyone seen the supposed NL coordinator recently?

Can you guarantee that please. Having said that, let's hope he has saved his best for this one, and possibly a couple more

It's all up for debate what is good and what isn't. I like speedway racing, where the rider behind has the chance to make a pass because he or she is faster and has the skill to. Last week was not one of those meetings, just look at anyone that tried any move round the outside, they went backwards, that's not speedway racing, that's follow my leader and hoping a gap opens up on the inside so you can shove it through. It's obvious there wasn't any chance of passing on the outside, what was done about it? Nothing. Luckily I'm not always half full and see positives in everything, I can actually say what I feel about what I see. If I think it's good I will say, if I think it's bad I will say. Maybe it's just me, as they only seem to put trash racing on when I'm there, or maybe I'm now spoilt having watched speedway at the Nss. Who knows. I just want to watch some decent speedway at Foxhall more often than I do. Please put a track together where the riders can race on it where and how they want to.

Can’t see anything other than a very convincing Swindon win. Ipswich are the whipping boys and almost as bad as Peterborough.

If Aspgren had qualified would you have considered him to be better then Fricke or Zagar or Iversen or Michelsen? Would you consider Craig Cook a better rider then Piotr Pawlicki?. Cook finished 4th in GPC last year while Pawlicki finished 6th? And how do you determine who the 15 best in the world are?

I guess I'll do what most politicians are doing just now, I'll tell you what I don't want. I don't want riders coasting through the back half of the GP season, already knowing that they have a guaranteed place in next year's series.

Said it time and time again that the use of RR should be restricted to emergency use only. Allow guests of whatever level but give fans 7 riders and a meeting that doesn't drag out forever

There are better mdl riders around Monmore than porsing.

Poor in the UK by his own high standards from last season. However in truth his career has progressed further on the world stage. Im sure like the majority of top riders the UK is a low priority, which makes Doyle a real pleasure to have in the top flight.

Sometimes fans forget riders are only human after all and the body needs time to heal.

Dale Allitt said afterwards that he shouldn’t be riding really. He’s had some pretty horrible crashes this year, hopefully he has a bit more luck in 2020 after a restful winter. Allitt also said that Cook is in a bad way and was withdrawn by the paramedic. MPT has an ankle injury.

With Woffinden in the two/three man team, it doesn’t take much to push for the top spot, whoever’s the TM Without, any TM is on a dead cert loser

So you should disgraceful

He was officially replaced in the side a couple of weeks ago by Josh Embleton

Peterborough agreed a date but Wolves didn't like it.

He still is. On track he was a great "friend" of Neil Evitts.

To be honest those same posters straight away after a Poole and ask where Gavan is all the time, and when he posts he is the instigator! Both parties equally at fault.

You never know things happen in speedway, some go for you some go against you, don't write off Ipswich yet.

Seriously hope Jorgensen is not part of next years team plans. Shocking away from home!

I suspect you don't know what you are talking about. Why don't you wait to see what Craig has to say before you slag him off.

Despite Chapman's plea for fans to turn out in force. I reckon there will be more track staff and medics there than supporters. Interest from the majority has long gone!!!

Kent vs Cradley in 2014 finished with a 0-0 in heat 2. Im sure it was something daft like a rider not under power when a rider fell then the two Cradley riders left the track thinking the race would be awarded? Someone with a better memory will correct me but was certainly a strange atmosphere as it all happened.

You also have a very good idea of what 10cm is. 2.5cm more than the usual gap