Paulco

Think we'll all have to wait till after the promoter's conference to see where we all stand as regards next season . Workington have been one of the stalwarts of the second tier for many a season , long may they continue to be so . Whatever malaise has infected speedway at Workington , the hope is that it can be eradicated and the club grows stronger again .

Good luck Edinburgh , an all Scottish final would be nice . Unlikely , but nice .

I hope he's right too , and we can keep this close to give us a fighting chance on Tuesday .

With both our normal reserves injured , that scenario is unlikely .

Agreed . Keeps us competitive in heats 12 and 14 , well that's the theory anyway . Good luck to the lads , we're massive underdogs but we live in hope .

We say that every year . The League Cup was always supposed to be done and dusted by June , but it never was . Just as well we binned that or we would be talking about Christmas . Once we start getting rain offs , and surprisingly that does happen in this country , re-arranging fixtures to cope with riders doubling up or riding abroad , and the issues that brings , means we'll always have this end of season carnage . The saddest thing I read on here today was the announcement of the Ipswich v Edinburgh play off semi on Thursday and Friday , and did the fans of both clubs declare that they were looking forward to it ??????? No they were fretting that they were going to go into the matches with 2 or 3 riders missing cause they might be riding somewhere else . That's a sad indictment of where speedway is just now .

Suppose we agreed to go to Workington on Saturday before realising the possible implications . Saturday night the place could have been rocking , be like a morgue on Tuesday especially if we get battered on Thursday night . Hopefully the 30th can be used for the home leg of the KO Cup tie against Newcastle .

What about the ones who got byes then ?

At this moment in time I wouldn't bet too much money in us getting past Newcastle

On his low average , he's well worth a punt at reserve . Mind you maybe he shouldn't have top scored yesterday , silly bugger . We're not paying him to top score

no one stands on the back straight now either apparently

Well he did , 7+1 in a curtailed meeting . Nothing wrong with that from a reserve . Wish we had a reserve who could do that away from home .

So why not just make every draw on aggregate golden heats ? We were ready to race our KO Cup tie in June but had to wait on Workington and Newcastle sorting out replay dates .

That's what we thought , but now he's been on Facebook saying he should be fit in under a month .

And good practice on the track for Harris and Holder ahead of next Sunday . You couldn't rule either of them out .

Stood on the back straight you could see Summers visibly shaking his head in frustration exiting the second bend . It was evident the bike didn't have the speed required . Seems to have been a recurring problem this season , he has the odd meeting where he looks the rider we know he is , but days like today have become the norm .

The Glasgow tie was held up with Workington and Newcastle drawing their first running and having to stage a replay . With the fixture list being the minefield it has become , time to stop the replay scenario and just have golden heats or whatever .

Racing was poor apart from Worrall's ride in heat 13 to protect a slow Summers and keep Harris behind him . Peterborough were very good and looked like winning the meeting from pretty early on . Looked like Holder got a puncture in heat 1 , after that nobody got near him .

Jenga and Kermitfrog active on the same thread god help us . All we need is Jeremy Corbyn fan to complete the set .

Thing is , Richard and Aaron are club assets , Richie is not . So that counts for something

Wasn't a classic last night , but the result was more important . Maybe it's me not being able to get into it the same with so many guests riding for us . But there was one or two decent races , especially when Barker was on track , wish he had rode like that more often when he was a Tiger .

Sorry never started a thread , was at the speedway yesterday . Should be a more entertaining one today with Harris and Holder in opposition . Pressure is off as regards us having to get a result , and the weather is good , so lets have an enjoyable day at the speedway regardless who wins .

I think it's a given that it would be better for team spirit if Richard and Richie weren't in the same side . So if it came down to a choice , Richie is the more reliable away from home , so for that reason i'd plump for him back . Adding his twin brother would also be a good idea . If that's not possible then i'd approach Rene Bach about returning . I think Nike and Jack are stick ons to be back , not so sure about Dan as he hasn't kicked on this season as much as i'd hoped he would . After that , we seem to be taking an interest in both Ryan Douglas and Josh Pickering . I think Douglas might have visa issues which might rule him out , but getting Pickering from our feeder club would be a good move .

We always suspected they had their heads stuck in the sand , this only proves it

Has there ever been a situation where guests outnumber our regular septet ? I know we went to Armadale on Halloween one year for a Scottish Cup meeting with only Lee Dicken as one of our regular side , but i cant ever remember it happening in an official meeting . Just another example of how ill thought out it was making it a hard and fast rule that nobody could make a team change after 31st July . Keep going Boz , between our two sides we could beat some kind of record .