teaboy279

Garrad seems to produce one classy ride a meeting but 3 like a rank novice. Personally I am still angry at the way harris was treated he is the future! Not that it's jason ' s fault and I will support what ever 7 riders we have representing us.

Tbf fella we spanked coventry and mildenhall at home in the league and got spanked by the both away. So a semi against either team would be tight over 2 legs in my opinion.Just getting to the play offs and the development of Danny Ayres have made this season for me. The only downsides for me is treating 15 year old luke harris so badly and letting him go, and John Sampford's tactical ineptitude. And I have to add i would rather watch tight competitive meetings each week then spank every team by 20 points. Must get boring at Monmore on Tuesdays. A measure of how good cradley are, i reckon if 7 club number ones formed a select team to face the heathens at home I still don't think they would get close.

Benji got withdrawn from Poole team Friday at arena essex with broken finger so be interesting to see if he is fit to ride at number 1 or whether we get a guest in or just use RR

That said hopefully we could nick an unlikely point or 2 weds and it's irelivant anyway.

Erm we had to fight tooth and nail to get our "kent" fixture away to Devon. They tried cancelling it. Now my understanding is the only way the result can be voided is if Devon were thrown out of the league or withdrawn from the league. Any other removal of results completely against any published rules i can find. I believe 2 seasons ago Iow missed out because they did not get all their fixtures done before cut off It would be totally illegal and immoral to change the goal posts in the last week of the season. Kent have managed to ride at Devon twice this season so some responsibility must fall on the away teams to get their meetings on.

I completely agree with the post that said about sending a couple of riders out to ride laps (not race) to develop the track. As much as getting a result I think the promoters wanted to get to heat 10 to avoid handing cash back to fans. If a football match was abandoned after 80 minutes everyone gets full re admission tickets. Don't think I have ever seen a match abandoned with 4 riders at the tapes, when you consider the fact the rain had stopped and the track was better then it was two races earlier when the track was deemed safe it makes the abandonment even more baffling. Was the track even graded after the resumption? All being said a part of me was smiling at Poole getting shafted after the way they entered the play offs last year. But the real loser is speedway credibility. We should only have match officials making decisions (including ex riders who have risen poor conditions) as riders will always think a track is unsafe if it benefits them and say it's rideable if that suits also.

As a kent fan i think you are bang on the money in many respects, we had a 3 point win in the bag and never used sheppard. A fair number of us fans on turn 1 have been crying out to see him get a few rides, after all how could he get up to standard without track time. And the way luke harris was treated is disgraceful and to be replace by somebody in garrad who struggles to stay on the bike 3 out of 4 races (with one race each meeting he seems to look classy and fast). Harris at 15 would of been a perfect rider to watch develop and if in a few years time we have not stepped up to elite league ourselves then he would of been a valuable asset to sell. Of our side this year and taking current averages into account i would keep Lambert, baseby, morley, ayres, and if fit freemantle. Which hopefully would leave enough points to bring in young local riders Marc Owen, and Arron Moggridge. Mason i would keep involved but not as a rider as does not travel well, and Comptons 9 point average is just far too high.