Daniel Smith

There has to be an importance to finishing top but I think because Speedway is a pretty minority sport, maybe the thinking is it would detract from the Play-Offs. Thus making the Play-Offs feel like a pointless trophy. If ever the European Team competition ever starts up again, maybe Play-Off winners and table toppers can qualify. Every league runs a Play-Off so would suit quite well with 8 clubs. Maybe in a 4's format. Obviously the rider situation will come up again with them riding all over the place but it can be over come.

Concussion lay off is only a BSPA regulation if the concussion happens in a BSPA run meeting. As Niels injury was in Poland the concussion rule doesn't exist. The fact he said on live TV he felt perfectly fine doesn't sit well with me.

I fully understand where you are coming from with regards NKI. He stood there in front of the camera last night and said he was perfectly fine. He felt rough on Monday but perfectly fine today and will be available for the KO Cup. So the question has to be, did the management choose purposely to sideline Niels to stop Poole having "the inform track specialist" in Ellis? Could easily explain why Ellis was such a shocker over the 2 meetings for us. If anyone watched Niels interview, something really didn't add up for me and I totally lost interest in the meeting from that point. I genuinely felt and still do feel like King's Lynn got what they deserved. I love that club to death but these last 2 seasons there's something about the management team that really really stinks for me. I cannot bare the thought of any of my money going into their pockets. As a Stars fan, the only support they'll get is away from home. Yes I am bitter but because I do really care. I do not trust this management team 1 bit. Everyone is always in uproar when Ford plays his games, it certainly smells like these games are also being played by King's Lynn also.

In a roundabout way we probably got what we deserved for the shenanigans over the guests. Poole will and should feel justified league champions.

Congratulations to Poole. Fully deserved, nothing can be taken away from them.

Klindt hates grippy tracks, Woryna and Jakobsen won't know what's hit them but I don't think King's Lynn will still have enough. Harris will love rolling in the deep and Grajczonek and Worrall will also not have a problem with it. R.Lambert, Jorgensen and Riss will be fine and S.Lambert can get 6-7 points on a deep circuit but it will hinder both Ellis and Proctor. Both slick specialists. So overall, tonight will finish up 48-42 to the Stars. Poole win the Premiership title.

King's Lynn ARE the reason all this has kicked off. Poole had Ellis and Morris booked as guests for Kurtz. King's Lynn booking Ellis for Monday, although not against the rule, made the sport look a total embarrassment by swapping guests for each leg. If everyone was totally honest with themselves, King's Lynn should have been made to find an alternative guest. Poole should have kept Morris and Ellis. There are other alternatives out there and Poole should have NO blame.  There were alternatives available to King's Lynn, i.e. R/R, Jacob Thorssell, Hans Andersen, Ricky Wells and David Bellego. The first 3 being much clearer options. Stars fans 'disgracing' Poole and it's supporters for it's blinkered views are exactly the same. This whole sorry mess all started from King's Lynn 'disgracing' the sport and we all shouldn't get away from that. Yes there were terrible decisions from the referee in the meeting but these wouldn't have been as bigger issues had King's Lynn not gone 18 points down in the first 5 heats. We displayed an embarrassing start to the meeting. Also, just remember, had Jakobsen been excluded instead of MPT, he was still injured. Had he come out for the rerun as the adrenaline was flowing, 100% would have pulled up in that heat with a broken wrist. Result; 51-38. Although a bit of fighting spirit was shown by King's Lynn mid meeting it was still a pretty abysmal performance. People should wind their necks in, focus on tonight and try to turn this result around fair and square with what we've got. Regardless of whether Ellis and Howarth score 0, King's Lynn need 8+ from all of Jorgensen, Riss and Proctor. Double figures from R.Lambert to be expected and 3-4 from S.Lambert. Any points from Ellis and Howarth should be looked at as a bonus. We have to go into this meeting with our minds set as a 5 man team and our middle order has to be on form. If one of Jorgensen, Riss or Proctor flop, quite frankly we're in the poop and we only have ourselves to blame for the appalling display in the first leg. Fingers crossed all rider's end the night safely, both sets of fans have an enjoyable evening and the world becomes a happy place again. May the best team over the 2 legs win and good luck all

King's Lynn ARE the reason all this has kicked off. Poole had Ellis and Morris booked as guests for Kurtz. King's Lynn booking Ellis for Monday, although not against the rule, made the sport look a total embarrassment by swapping guests for each leg. If everyone was totally honest with themselves, King's Lynn should have been made to find an alternative guest. Poole should have kept Morris and Ellis. There are other alternatives out there and Poole should have NO blame. There were alternatives available to King's Lynn, i.e. R/R, Jacob Thorssell, Hans Andersen, Ricky Wells and David Bellego. The first 3 being much clearer options. Stars fans 'disgracing' Poole and it's supporters for it's blinkered views are exactly the same. This whole sorry mess all started from King's Lynn 'disgracing' the sport and we all shouldn't get away from that. Yes there were terrible decisions from the referee in the meeting but these wouldn't have been as bigger issues had King's Lynn not gone 18 points down in the first 5 heats. We displayed an embarrassing start to the meeting. Also, just remember, had Jakobsen been excluded instead of MPT, he was still injured. Had he come out for the rerun as the adrenaline was flowing, 100% would have pulled up in that heat with a broken wrist. Result; 51-38. Although a bit of fighting spirit was shown by King's Lynn mid meeting it was still a pretty abysmal performance. People should wind their necks in, focus on tonight and try to turn this result around fair and square with what we've got. Regardless of whether Ellis and Howarth score 0, King's Lynn need 8+ from all of Jorgensen, Riss and Proctor. Double figures from R.Lambert to be expected and 3-4 from S.Lambert. Any points from Ellis and Howarth should be looked at as a bonus. We have to go into this meeting with our minds set as a 5 man team and our middle order has to be on form. If one of Jorgensen, Riss or Proctor flop, quite frankly we're in the poop and we only have ourselves to blame for the appalling display in the first leg. Fingers crossed all rider's end the night safely, both sets of fans have an enjoyable evening and the world becomes a happy place again. May the best team over the 2 legs win and good luck all

There's one problem, Buster would have lost a fortune for the home leg and I think that would be the reason Allitt kept his cool

For me, Buster has dragged the sport down to almost irreparable harm. He's done that in just 2 years of chairmanship. Yes, Ford has been bad for the sport but that's only been allowed to happen because every other promoter has allowed it too. Ford is a virus, Chapman is a disease. I will never pass another £ into that man's pocket. I'll only watch the Stars away from home in future.

Riss maybe but I don't think Jorgensen has delivered as expected.

Absolutely isn't likely. Poole have the far better gaters. Round the AFA hit the front and ride the inside. Poole by far the favourites to see through a 16 point lead. Many Stars fans in total denial about how weak our middle order is, picking them for the team in 2019. Madness

Ellis is already booked as a precaution. Iversen isn't ruled out yet.

King's Lynn certainly been clever with their fixture planning making sure there's 8 days between the Play-Off home leg and the KO Cup home leg.

Only have to have the rear wheel on track when called to tapes, under green light and racing. For gardening the rider just has to remain in contact with the bike.

Ridiculous, Worrall did nothing wrong. You only get excluded for riding on the infield. He was gardening and that's perfectly fine. Rider's are allowed to push their bikes across the infield, that's not against the rules. Stars fans clutching at straws and looking for all kind of issues other than our team being abysmal.

Even I don't know what Worrall has done to warrant an exclusion. But there's no way MPT should have been excluded, nobody chooses to sent themselves into the fence. MPT's foot was taken away and lost control. Every other day Jakobsen would have been excluded. The referee did a bottle job. Agree with you about Ellis, king of the rollers last night but in 13, he and Harris should have been 15 meters back. But, at the end of the day, King's Lynn simply wasn't good enough. Appalling in fact, and fully deserved to be a mile behind. Think Poole have done enough regardless of the track that gets produced on Wednesday.

King's Lynn have no chance of pulling back 16 points. Job done by the Pirates. Disappointed Allitt didn't drill the referee a new hole. Very costly decisions and he just accepted them.

As expected, as I said many pages ago. Our middle order are in appalling form and an embarrassment. Our team away from home only get going from heat 10 when the majority of the heat have heatleaders. This grand final will be over by heat 9 Congratulations on winning the title Poole Prirates

As per greensheets Kurtz is 6.75 Morris 6.91

While common sense has theoretically prevailed, Morris has a higher average than Kurtz for Wednesday. That will stick in my claw if Poole win it Wednesday and Morris nails double figures. Poole should be the happier of the 2 teams with the guest options.

This is an absolutely awful situation for British Speedway to be in. For the good of both teams and integrity Ellis should ride both meetings for Poole and Morris for King's Lynn. Or both teams run R/R. The idea that both guests could be on opposite sides 48hrs later is simply totally embarrassing for British Speedway. This is King's Lynn's first chance of a top flight title in many a year, probably only chance for another 18yrs, and this happens. It really has dampened and damaged the mood all round for almost every British Speedway fan. British Speedway has literally died. Cannot be excited about this final and to think of the poor sods spending small fortunes to attend these jokes of a meetings. A very very sad day and hollow victory for either club. The BSPA President, Chairman and Vice-Chairman should hang their heads in shame and resign.

I'm quite sure Poole will be happy with Ellis score for Lynn as I'm sure Ford will see him well.

Not opinion but fact. Speedway is an individual sport and being the greatest rider individually is based on world individual titles. Opinion is having a favourite rider that you believe to be the best without statistics to back it up. My all time favourite rider has always been Nicki Pedersen from his time at King's Lynn onwards. He's my all time favourite rider, 'the best there's ever been' but I know and understand that he factually isn't the greatest of all time. Factually, Tai Woffinden is the greatest ever British Speedway rider. The numbers don't lie.

The best and fair way to say which rider's were better than others is by individual titles. Even over generations. Mager and Rickardsson are the best of the best and can't possibly be disputed. They're very much at the top for everyone because of the number of world titles. So, to be the best British rider it also has to be judged on the world stage individually. Tai Woffinden tops the chart of the greatest ever British rider.