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Those “people” being poole fans, irritatingly.

It the (racing?) surface, not the size or shape.

My original comment about Flint wasn’t about where he rides but the fact he is in the Birmingham lineup. I’ll say the same once he moves up. Far better rider than Dicken as was shown last night and no doubt tomorrow.

Declared in the Leicester team 02/04/18 on last years 5.57 average. He kept this average when joining Lynn 30/04/18 but then it dropped to 5.23 13/06/18 as it only used his 3 (yes 3) meetings from this year.

Does anyone know why MPT’s rolling average doesn’t include his meetings from last year? If it had his average would be 5.51 thus altering his place in the line up. Also this makes his guest replacement of Summers (5.44) at Poole illegal. It really screws up other meetings as well so I’m not sure if they will alter the score, run them again or just brush it under the carpet as seems likely. I’ve emailed the BSPA about rider averages (there are a lot of anomalies) but they just ignore me. Any explanation would be appreciated.

Flint will decide this.

Though it didn’t fully cover for Steve, Jason’s paid 8 last nigh was an improvement on the 3 & 4 we have been getting away from home in that position. Another score closer to Steve’s ability and we will always be fairy confident of a win.

Great result, awful speedway. Felt so sorry for our little entertainer.

If your paying riders more in line with Championship rates, you should be in the Championship and not polluting our waters?

I don’t know why there isn’t a track curators meeting where tips and tricks could be shared with a view to getting all tracks set up with maximum racing lines. Some tracks favour gate n go but I think it’s a false economy in the long run as excitement is the key. I can’t talk about tracks outside the top league as I don’t visit enough but for me top league tracks could be improved as follows. Kings Lynn - material. Leicester - shape. Poole - maintenance & material. Rye - not sure. Let you know next week. Somerset - generally ok. Swindon - being redone? Wolves - improved outside line. All tracks should have a decent slope.

Nope.

Yep. Auty currently 5.80. 7.55/1.3

Over the limit anyway. What would people think if the stars tracked an illegal team, wouldn’t look good on the BSPA boss? Lol.

Ex Rye House rider and rides Wolves well. Really pleased to see him in an Aces race jacket again. A great but so far wasted talent. I’d like to see the new GB set up get their claws into him and for him to listen.

About the same as Prague, so yes. We could use Showcase car park which is huge. I think DG didn’t see eye to eye with them for the SWC so moved the bulk of the parking to City’s ground. When you think of England’s contribution to speedway it’s odd we don’t have a GP.

It’s a strange anonmoly that the ones who want to see Tai ride and complain about his absence are Tai haters and the ones happy for him to stay away, love him? Anyway I’m looking forward to the mother in law coming over later.

As usual the debate gets side tracked due to emotion/hate/love/bias. Take out the names and insert rider 1 etc. You win the SON in the final heat by scoring 7-2, 6-3 or 5-4. From that you deduce if you finish last you lose. Objective, don’t finish last, all other considerations are irrelevant. If we have a rider at the back, are his chances of moving up the field improved if his partner attempts to help him, are they reduced or do they stay the same? If we are in losing position what do we have to lose by attempting to improve the situation no matter how unlikely a positive result? If 20 odd backroom GB staff couldn’t collectively work that out then we have work to do.

It is tricky due to it’s size and the lines it offers and probably the reason we didn’t see any team riding as we know it. With the track being so wet for the first two or three races you could have done it then by slowing whilst on the inside and offering your opponent a chance round the outside thus filling him in. I doubt anybody would have tried the outside for this reason but it would have been fun to see how slow the race could get. Shame nobody tried it.

What kind of score do people think Cook would have got had he been left it. Aside from Milik and Lindback if Cook isn’t beating the others then he won’t get a sniff of even the semi final on Monday. Lindback had only been defeated by the world champion leading up to his last ride and his subsequent last place was more down to the fact they had already secured first place so he was happy to leave the squabbles to Woffy and Freddie. Handed us some much needed points.

It’s difficult for Buxton to compete since the “big” clubs came along as money that used to be acceptable no longer is due to what’s being offered elsewhere. The irony is that these clubs bleated on about rising cost and wanted a level playing field. When this didn’t come they closed and/or dropped down. I can only think they have short memories as what they complained about a few years ago seems ok now the boot is on the other foot. The Colts got gazumped and rather than participate in a bidding war just said no, we have our (small) budget and that’s it. Probably will cost us another title but so be it.

Yes

Funniest thing was seeing the track staff finally disregard a very animated Phil Morris from BSI, who just can to help themselves and have to interfere. Last few heats were closer to normal service. Intresting that the clerk of the course for this meeting was Mike Hunt. Quite apt. Shame for the French when set fair to meet the Aussies who they had already 4/3’d. Glad we beat them in heat two when things were a bit of a lottery due to the wet track. It made the later slip ups less of a consequence.

Riders and their support team?

Are you Gerald Ratner by any chance?

When Stefan signed for Poole he used his old 2016 EDR average of 3.67 and not his more up to date CL average of 5.53 divided by 1.3. Averages this year, as always, are a bit fluid and more than likely depends on who’s asking. If you have a rider in mind think what average Belle Vue would get him on then Poole, then pick somewhere in the middle for everyone else.