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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.

It was only a matter of time before somebody from Poole piped up, their slice of cake has been bigger than most others for a fair while after all.

Yep I noticed that too, I think hes right in what he says that too many people have done the same things for too long and are entrenched in a 'can't do' mindset rather than thinking that can, and should. The quote about growing the cake rather than just your own slice resonates too.....far too many clubs and owners want the slice of others to be smaller, or don't care. And he's spot on that self governance is an absolute nonsense.

Well he's addressed two of my pet hates in that interview - guesting for your rivals and unmown centre greens. He'll do me. He's essentially identified all the issues that fans have over a period of time but have been ignored about. I think he'll go down well with supporters if not promoters, but this opportunity simply has to be grasped by British speedway.

No idea what Thomsen was bleating about after heat 10, Pludra did nothing wrong.

R87 is a wind up/parody I believe.

This is the thing so many people fail to realise. They are also expecting their first child so the idea that he'll ditch Sweden for the UK next year is probably wide of the mark.

I hope for his sake he was soaking everything up ready to turn it into motivation for 2027. Biggest compliment you can pay Robert is how easy he made it look after his first heat. The result in the final was never in doubt from the moment he dropped the clutch. Nerves and composure of steel all night.

Plenty of class from BZ & BK at the end there.

Get in there Robert, brilliant performance. From his first demo rides round Lynn at 12 years old to this, totally deserved. A proud Norfolker this evening.

Bit different; Fricke needs the points, Woryna doesn't.

I personally thought Woryna parked it a bit too much in front of Freddie and didn’t really give him anywhere to go.

Lebedevs asleep there.