Come on the Skipper

Maybe I'm a bit thick (probably) but how could he have an opinion on something that didn't exist 40 years ago.

That'd be interesting as league speedway didn't start at Arena Essex until 1984......

Michael Bolton?

What are you suggesting?

Get well soon Starman

I see Darcy has been giving his opinion about the wildcards, such a pleasant young man! N to you m***** f****** who think @Chris_Holder23 doesn’t deserve one. keep feeding us fuel. Holder bout to have a off season like he 1/2 I can't find a follow up tweet but he does also say "Just seeing the wildcards. I believe nki is unlucky n Vaculik is lucky on them picks." I'm not quite sure how he justifies Vaculik being lucky when he finished ahead of Holder. Apologies for the text size in the first tweet.

Lindback 100 more Smolinski 50 more

Janowski £100 less Zagar £100 less

Zagar £100 less KK £100 more

Zagar £50 Less Holder £50 Less

Kildemand £50 less NKI £50 less

Kildemand £50 more Bjerre £50 more

Lidgren £50 more NKI £50 more

Vaculik £50 less Zagar £50 more

Pedersen £100 less Janowski £100 more

Holder £50 less Janowski £50 more

Made me laugh!

Ok, so I've had a go at working out what the teambuilding average would be for each rider who rode in this seasons Elite League, and they are shown below. They are based on the most recent green sheet averages (EL 31 and PL 33). It's quite possible that I've made some mistakes so if you do notice any please let me know. Name EL Avg PL Avg Teambuilding Jason Doyle 9.58 0.00 13.41 Niels Kristian Iversen 9.04 0.00 12.66 Chris Holder 8.95 0.00 12.53 Andreas Jonsson 8.45 0.00 11.83 Krzysztof Kasprzak 7.91 0.00 11.07 Matej Zagar 7.48 0.00 10.47 Freddie Lindgren 7.21 0.00 10.09 Hans Andersen 7.15 0.00 10.01 Craig Cook 7.37 9.88 9.88 Jacob Thorssell 7.06 0.00 9.88 Tai Woffinden 7.03 0.00 9.84 Antonio Lindback 7.00 0.00 9.80 Max Fricke 7.08 0.00 9.91 Bjarne Pedersen 6.91 0.00 9.67 Nick Morris 6.41 0.00 8.97 Kim Nilsson 6.88 0.00 9.63 Edward Kennett 7.16 9.27 9.27 Danny King 7.22 9.57 9.57 Joonas Kylmakorpi 6.68 0.00 9.35 Chris Harris 6.58 0.00 9.21 Sebastian Ulamek 6.60 0.00 9.24 Josh Grajczonek 5.95 8.90 8.90 Brady Kurtz 6.44 9.22 9.22 Scott Nicholls 6.59 0.00 9.23 Steve Worrall 5.95 8.51 8.51 Sam Masters 7.18 8.88 8.88 Rohan Tungate 6.05 9.03 9.03 Mikkel Bech Jensen 6.26 0.00 8.76 Patrick Hougaard 6.22 0.00 8.71 Richard Lawson 5.83 8.17 8.17 Richie Worrall 5.82 8.33 8.33 Krzysztof Buczkowski 6.02 0.00 8.43 Mads Korneliussen 6.04 0.00 8.46 Jason Garrity 6.00 8.55 8.55 Lewis Bridger 6.09 0.00 8.53 Robert Lambert 7.08 8.76 8.76 Peter Karlsson 5.91 0.00 8.27 Szymon Wozniak 5.91 0.00 8.27 Rory Schlein 5.12 0.00 7.17 Aaron Summers 4.69 8.13 8.13 Justin Sedgmen 5.43 0.00 7.60 Adam Ellis 5.60 0.00 7.84 Ben Barker 4.54 7.70 7.70 Grzegorz Walasek 5.45 0.00 7.63 Dave Watt 5.40 0.00 7.56 Ludvig Lindgren 4.34 7.65 7.65 Piotr Swiderski 5.20 0.00 7.28 Paul Starke 4.94 6.62 6.62 Charles Wright 4.84 6.59 6.59 Josh Auty 4.90 7.10 7.10 Kyle Howarth 5.13 7.18 7.18 Troy Batchelor 5.26 0.00 7.36 Nikolaj Busk Jakobsen 4.15 6.98 6.98 Kyle Newman 5.52 6.31 6.31 Lewis Kerr 4.80 6.59 6.59 Nikolas Porsing 4.99 6.58 6.58 Kacper Woryna 4.65 0.00 6.51 Dennis Jonsson 4.00 0.00 5.60 Carl Wilkinson 3.74 6.12 6.12 Josh Bates 4.76 5.02 5.02 James Sarjeant 3.81 5.80 5.80 Nicolai Klindt 6.36 5.42 5.42 Stefan Nielsen 3.67 5.53 5.53 Lewis Rose 5.00 5.86 5.86 Kai Huckenbeck 3.67 0.00 5.14 Rob Mear 3.65 0.00 5.11 Simon Lambert 5.47 5.25 5.25 Adam Roynon 4.80 5.05 5.05 Joe Jacobs 5.14 5.36 5.36 Ben Morley 3.00 3.85 3.85 Ashley Morris 3.00 4.83 4.83 Max Clegg 4.15 4.04 4.04 Robert Branford 3.00 4.60 4.60

Deleted, wrong base values used. I'll be back

Well done to Wolves and hard luck to the Pirates but what chance did the Pirates have when half of their team didn't perform on the night. I thought the ref got the PK/Ellis decision wrong but I'm not sure why some people are suggesting that he got the heat 15 decision wrong. In the usual "first bend bunching" scenario it's riders from each side involved but here Tungate had to turn the bike really hard to avoid taking out his team mate and this what caused him to fall. How can the referee call all four back for an incident that didn't involve one team? Anyway, looking forward to the final next week with what should be two cracking meetings.

Starman, the gift that keeps on giving............

Perhaps if Swindon hadn't lost so many home matches then he wouldn't have had to worry about the Lakeside track.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/36936354

http://www.mirror.co.uk/3am/celebrity-news/how-many-complaints-bbc-receive-8296843 Literally thousands of complaints.......

Ordered, just for the Barry Thomas article. My favourite rider EVER!