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Lets not forget how well he has done in the Prem though, averaging a shade under 5 in his first senior season with much of it in the top five is impressive. Not sure anyone could have expected any more.

Jody has been excellent this year. I think its easy to forget how young and inexperienced Cooper is sometimes. Hopefully they are both back, would welcome Fricke and Bomber too if they wanted to return but cho to the other three for me.

Could / would have got something out of that had Fricke not shafted Cook in heat 11. Which is quite remarkable after the dreadful start. Thank F 2026 is over!

I'd say the chances of that are extremely slim.

The sooner British Speedway can do away with guests the better.

Maldon.

I'd be pinning that up in the Scunny dressing room if I were David Howe! Will certainly make things interesting if the weather means a different-to-normal track.

Completely disagree, the Lynn hardcore have shown over many years and decades that they'll turn up whatever the team capability and league position. Crowds were up this year from what I could see which is probably the Fricke & Rushen factor but whatever happens next season folk will be there again in 2028. If they finally get it right then we'll see more crowds like the Ipswich one in August.

That old chestnut. Completely different when you are riding a track regularly and not against home riders.

Racing is only a small part of it though. The racing in the 70's was no better than now and if it was just what happens on track then Workington, Scunthorpe, Glasgow and BV would be bursting at the seams for every meeting. It's a jigsaw puzzle with loads of bits missing - irregular meetings, doubling up, guests, flimsy call offs, lack of variety, poor presentation, no atmosphere. Most people will want a professionally presented, VFM, enjoyable night out and that really shouldn't be difficult to deliver.

Janowski is old hat and way past his best, not a very inspiring pick at all.

FFS 😂

Yep in 1985 Martin Rogers spent a few quid on Courtney and Paul Woods with neither signing working out. I think Lee made his comeback that year but only rode in less than half of the fixtures. Jessup, Hellsen, Jolly and Regeling made up the test of the team but nobody stepped up to replace John Louis who retired after the 1984 season. A team full of second strings which of course finished bottom.

'86 was Schwartz. Richard Knight was in the same boat in 1987.

Lynn ditched the yellow/gold & green in 1993 but let's be honest they had quite a few lean years between 1980 and then!

Pretty alarming that some folk can't distinguish tribalism from abuse and violence.

Well done Scunny but a long way short of being enough.

No reason to fleece loyal fans who've been going all season though. This is something which has always irritated me.

Nothing wrong with the team that was picked, just the way it performed. Could maybe question the Paco/Jenkins signings as they never worked out but the team failed because Fricke's average dropped alarmingly and he never looked comfortable at Lynn, and because Cook & Kvech failed to kick on. The promotion need to find out why those things happened.

Not unusual but a p!sstake nevertheless.

Dr Dickson at it again.

Latest Pride of the East episode where we wax lyrical about Robert Lambert (and Richard Coleman!)

Every club had a budget of course but I'd be amazed if this Lynn side wasn't the most expensive ever and up there with any other team in the league in terms of cost. This team should have comfortably finished top four as we were pretty injury free, there are obviously underlying reasons why it didnt happen.

Couple of things, you are only going to entice clubs up with a TV deal which would help cover those increased costs and as far as I'm aware there is very little difference between the two leagues in terms of admission. At the end of the day the whole idea of competitive sport is to be as good as you can be, or it should be anyway.

Wa gonna say Bournemouth are likely to be out by then! In any case its not every Thursday, shouldn't be an issue to keep the fixtures apart.