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Can you also ask him why he decided to test a new engine in a KO Cup final for Reading against Kings Lynn, which ultimately cost the Racers the cup?

I was thinking much the same. Why take it to the nips when the Reading public haven't even been fully engulfed yet?

HE NEVER SAID THAT. If you care to listen properly he said he didn't know if he had the motivation to win LAST NIGHT'S GP.

<stalker mode on> The trouble is Steve gets away with things on here that others would be banned or warned for, because many misguidely mistake him for a big lovable wind-up merchant. Where as in the real world he has nasty vindictive side to his nature. Constantly slagging every other club and rider (Twick or Poole riders apart), for doing the exact same thing his own club and riders do all the time. A very bad loser if nothing else. </stalker mode off>

It's hardly rubbish when it's a reaction to a post asking for a rider to be given a smack in the mouth, when in all honesty the decision could have gone either way. I'm sure if the situation had been reversed you would have been up in arms if Lindback or Rickardsson had been excluded when he never touched the other rider. You obviously detest all things Crump and anything anti Poole, but I'm sure you'd love a rider in your team that gave the same commitment to his British club, rather than one who cherry picks his meetings around a GP.

I wish someone would do that to you.

Nicholls is long overdue.

British Speedway is full of weak referee's, promotions and officials. Too often it's accepted that as soon as it rains it'll be off. Far too many meetings in this country get rained off or abandoned that shouldn't be.

That decision could have gone either way to be honest. My first thought when I saw it live was that Crump would be exc, but after watching the replay he never actually touched him, but did he take his line away. I would say it wasn't deliberate or dangerous, just a racing accident. Nobody was really to blame tbh.

And you can guarentee he would have said something completely different if the same thing had gone in Poole's favour.

Can't wait to hear shovlar's version of events when he next logs on. What with his beloved Pirates getting knocked out by some dodgy countback system, and then to top it all off Crumpy wins again. Life is wonderful at the moment.

WOW. Someone's missed a comma out - let's have a party.

BEAT.

Was he on holiday last night when he posted on the updates forum?

I'm getting sick of people like yourself commenting on what you think makes a good race track. "Let's have loads of dirt on the track. Pile it on knee deep - that'll make for great racing." WRONG as usual Ron. You have this obsession about slick tracks and how Oxford is always so much better. I'll be the first to admit that the Smallmead track could still be a lot better, but give me Smallmead any day to the disgrace we all had to put up with on Good Friday at Cowley. Also don't forget it takes two teams or riders to make a good track or meeting. If you are judging Smallmead this year on that performance your beloved Oxford put in on Good Friday, then it proves (as suspected), you know nothing about speedway, despite your many years as a supporter. I think most will agree here, that passing in a league match generally comes from the home team overtaking the away riders (with the odd exception of course). Now which of that dreadful team you put out at Reading on that Friday evening did you actually expect to have the ability to overtake a Reading rider? On the rare occasions Reading riders were outgated they managed to overtake the Oxford rider (Rickardsson being the expection). The reason the Oxford riders didn't overtake Reading riders is that they were/ are inferior (note your league position). Not exactly rocket science. Also I'm all for a bit of Rickardsson baiting, but to blame TRick for everything bad at Oxford this year is a bit sad. The reason you are bottom of the league is the fact that you are tracking the worst assembled top flight team since the Kings Lynn teams of the mid 1980's (possibly worst). It don't matter what TRick would have done or said to that lot whilst he was at Cowley, he could never have made them winners.