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Fully expected an awful crowd tonight, was surprised by how many were there, certainly above (or around) break even figure. Cant see many tracks managing this for the "failures" cup. Allready looking forward to next Good Friday when we renew our rivalry with KL.

And also we got 5-1's in Heats 12 & 14 AGAIN, all thanks to our well balanced side. We've certainly had more successes in these 2 heats, than total failures in 13 & 15.

It would be if this was a pointless league meeting, but as it's cup S/F we've got to go with our strongest possible side. Hopefully one of our lads will be able to beat Rene this time, i dont think we've managed to do this so far this season.

Yes, Leigh was brilliant again tonight. Great to see the deadbeats get a 5-1 in ht15, but those 2 cant keep carrying the Aussies. But at least tonight made sure of one thing, Leigh and Morten will be the first 2 signed up for next year. Rohan appears to have lost the art of gating, and please pease please Chris, get Taylor down to the quacks and get him a sicknote before the S/F's. It'll be hard enough with a full side to beat either of those, but there's no way we can keep carrying Taylor.

But only sad little trolls make a statement then cant back it up. But keep on slagging off Chris, this unmoderated forum must be brilliant for trolls like you.

Would you care to give us a list of riders that are available tonight, that have won races (or even scored decently) around Foxhall. Cant think of any myself.

Nobody likes this sort of thing, but i reckon most riders would have done the same thing in a close meeting. Anyway, 90-89 to the Witches, lets hope for the same in December when we ride the S/F.

Very nice of Edinburgh to make the effort to ride us. When's the cup S/F?? I'm being a bit unfair, i dont blame them for stringing it out when they've got injured riders, but if the S/F in the 3rd week of October gets rained off, when will the final be? Anyway, good luck to the lads tonight, not expecting much though.

Maybe nobody wants to start one, as soon as it's up we only get the usual crap from the troll. Once the moderators do as they said they would do and ban trolls, then more people might like to put threads on here.

Maybe Len was just stating the obvious. Promoting in the 70's must have been a cakewalk compared with today. People had disposable income and not much to spend it on, now the spare cash goes on, sky tv, mobile phone bills, internet access to name but three. With the dreadful Summer we've had, any Promoter (except Mr Ford) that comes out of this season breaking even will be very happy i'd imagine.

Fair comment Shadders, but some posts are deleted for personal abuse. But this vile little moron abuses the promotion every week and gets away with it, seems like one rule for some and one for others!!

Totally agree, along with all Witches fans (i hope). Getting Len to bring his team to Foxhall was an obvious choice in most peoples eyes, i cant think of another promoter who is still going from the days of JB. Len didn't often get one over us in those days, but i still remember one day when he did, he was on the back on the truck waving his arms around and really stirring all of us up, bless him!!

With our play off hopes almost over (based on the current merit table), we've just got to hope that Taylor can get back his fitness and confidence before our cup s/f's. We're certainly capable of beating most teams over 2 legs with a full side, but it's almost impossible to replace Cam, and we cant carry Taylor as well.

Moderation on this forum?? We were told when the forum came back that trolls would be banned, there's no sign of that happening. I only go on one other forum (not speedway related), but a troll like aljerk wouldn't last five minutes, they have moderation, and dont suffer idiots ruining the forum for other users.

Fair enough. I just assumed if you've only got a 7 month window to earn money, you wouldn't be out of the country when you could be missing guest bookings etc. Seems strange to me, obviously Premier league riders are a lot wealthier that i thought.

When was the last time Premier league riders went on holiday in the summer? There's no 12 day gap next week, why cant they come to Foxhall next thursday? Then comfortably get back for Matts meeting on the Friday. They should be FORCED to ride us next week!!!

Great performance from our deadbeat journeyman last night. The troll has been slagging our deadbeat journeymen off and praising the 4 young Aussies all season. Now it's time for the 4 young Aussies to get scoring again. We've still got 2 cup s/f to look forward to, but we cant rely on our deadbeat journeymen to get all the points.

Does it really matter who the captain is? All he does is have a toss at 19-30ish. If the riders want advice they'll ask Chris, as he's forgotten more than most of them will ever know. Like most Witches fans, i'm glad to see Taylor back, at least when he's at the start the fans will feel they've got a chance, unlike Doolan who has looked awful on far too many occasions.

Thats what i thought, but as Doolan has gone, maybe somebody who started it was putting 2+2 together and making 5.

If the rumours at Mildenhall this afternoon are to be believed, Klindt is replacing him. That'll do for me.

More and more riders aren't bothering to practice these days, the rest of the Aussie team were in the area, Ryan would have had a 4 hour drive to get there, he obviously thought whats the point. I'm not a fan of Ryan or Davey, but if the Aussies wanted to win this thing, they should have picked their strongest team available, they didn't. Maybe they thought team spirit would get them more points than having the best riders, thats their choice, but i would always pick the best riders if i wanted to win something. I wouldn't call Ryan a disruptive influence, he's jusy not as matey as the rest.

I also remember this, he didn't refuse to ride from memory, he refused to go for a pointless practice and was then dropped from the team. At the time he was as quick as anybody in the Aussie team around Polish tracks, and he thought practice wasn't worth it. If the Aussies wanted to win the SWC they should have picked the best riders, they didn't. If the SWC was on a smaller track i wouldn't pick Ryan in a million years, but there's no doubting his ability on the big tracks. But with the Aussie team, it's all about being one of the crowd, Ryan isn't one of the lads, and they would rather lose the world cup than admit they're wrong.

Please could you tell us where you go to school? They should be reported for not teaching their pupils simple maths, when will you join the rest of us in the real world.

You really are in need of some fact and reality in your fantasy world. Duggo openly admits he throws £50.000 a year trying to keep Lakeside competitive, yet you seem to think that this sort of money would last for years. Back to our underperforming riders, i dont see that practice afterwards is that much help, but as Jules says, at least it shows the fans that they're trying. I know they cant have a proper practice before the start, but surely they could practice starts somewhere. Last week when Doolan crawled out of the start in his 1st race it was embarrassing. All you'd need is 2 stakes in the ground, a bit of elastic and a stopwatch, time the riders over 50yards (if you could find 50yards of flat ground), had we done that, then when Doolan was timed much slower than the rest, that would have given time to change his set-up. Seems simple to me.

Aussies have only themselves to blame for not picking their best riders. I know Ryan threw his toys out of the pram a few years ago, but that should have been forgotten by now, he's still one of the best "big track" riders around, look at his scores in Poland, and then compare them to Watt. But me thinks Chump picks the team, and with the Aussies, mates come first. It was the same when Adam was riding better than some of the others, as he wasn't one of the "in crowd". he was left out.