June

Anyone know the teams please?

This may be a hard meeting for the Saints. Heeps was here Tuesday. Stefan an x Saint knows his way round the EWR. Plus I think most of the Mildenhall team are quite familiar with the track having done our Am meetings. However I do think the Saints can win this one! GO SAINTS!!!!

Please let the rain stay away so we get this meeting on. Will be my last meeting before going on my annual visit home to Wales. Good luck SAINTS. stay safe!

Looks a walk over for Stoke to me, huge advantage on home track with a very strong team. However Good luck to the young SAINTS, no pressure on these guys...enjoy and have fun! Pity Gary Irving wasn't able to be in the team..rules for ya! Stay safe everyone!

Talking to Tom Young in the pits after the meeting. He blew an engine in his last race!....His dad seems to take in his stride though. Hope it doesn't turn out to be too expensive!

Well done Saints !.... A good team effort producing a very good win. Thanks to the brill Ashley Birks. Excellent guest!

Lewis I'm tipping the Saints to win.....".no pressure lads, just get stuck in like you did against Dudley". I have so much faith in the youngsters who try their best every time they race." Enjoy and good luck to you all ! " ...... GO SAINTS!!!!!!!!

I did expect Heathens to hammer our untested youngsters as your team looks so strong on paper. The Stars meeting was may be like a practice for our youngsters, dont forget 3 of these kids have only had one or two league meetings and I'm referring to them. Jerran and Gary can take care of any situation and to some point we are now seeing that Tom Young can. He rode brilliantly to beat your best. but when you think that 4 of these kids av amount to 12.25...come on figures ( heat points) are there for all to study and the Stars and Saints were level/even for most of the meeting. notice the scores after heat 14...43.41 in both meetings. but lady luck shone on the Heathens. I felt gutted for the Saints. Always another day though for you to either hammer us or we take a win!

boston five. You asked about the crowd. As a fan who attends every meeting at the EWR I thought the crowd was quite good. What I will say is that The Young Stars gave us a harder match than the Heathens. You started off with 2 x 5.1s. after 8 hts the score was even until ht 13. The last 3 hts it was still either or to win giving us a last heat decider,and a dam good meeting. You deserved your point! I wouldn't have even minded Heathens take a point but for them to win was definately not on the cards as Scunny led all through the meeting, and had a 2 pt lead going into the last race only for Jerran to have E/F and Gary who was winning lose a chain 50mtrs from the finish line. That is pure luck! But thats speedway!

Thoroughly enjoyed this meeting...first home meeting for the new Saints. Well done to all the team on their 1st win. great stuff. Some BRILL racing between the two teams. Welcome back Gary so pleased to see you in the team ( always my fav rider) you certainly didn't disappoint, still exciting as ever. Ive watched Dan Phillips in the AM meetings, he's a really good rider, he'll get going! ...don't dispair Dan its early days! Tom Young who Ive adopted being welsh lol. You was star of the show. surprised us all I think. A huge well done! Keep it up. I hope Ashley is feeling better. I see on FB that hes been in A & E overnight

To Adam Wrathall......Hope you have a speed recovery!...rotten luck to have that happen in your first race, first meeting....speedway sometimes is cruel!

With 3 rookies a 3.25 av rider. Adam breaking an arm in his first race left us weak to say the least. However for an away performance the youngsters handled the situation, which is what its all about for them. Hard luck to Gary falling when on a T/R. Well done Tom! Thats the first meeting for 3 riders out of the way. Onwards and upwards, Scunny youngsters will come good.......just watch!

Too many foreigners in all our leagues is a problem BSPA should be looking at. Surely theres a happy medium, First and foremost we must have means of british youngsters moving through our leagues. Our kids deserve a fair playing field! SorryTim for using your thread to get my point across.

Having posted on this thread days ago, then it disappeared, hey presto found it again. I cannot believe how bitter Backless appears to be against the Scunny promotion and the track. Why?.....Rob Godfrey has worked so hard to give us fans speedway after being without it for over 20 years. I never miss a meeting and as a supporter who started watching speedway in the late seventies, Ive got to say he's excelled in providing us with some of the best speedway. Take tonights meeting I didn't think it possible to have racing at the level we did. The track after weeks of rain was prepared very well and we enjoyed racing with lots of passing and very fast times. A huge well done to the track staff! Don't know which track Backless attends but if he watches better racing than we do at Scunny he's very lucky.

What a shame!. We would have been in for a treat with plenty of passing. Poor Rob & Co have worked so hard down the track throughout the winter. the weather has been against them for the last month, probably too much work to undertake. Nevermind I'm over it already. we still have plenty of speedway to look forward to!

Shame that Richie didn't get on to the podium. He rode so well, however a little bit of luck is needed at these events and I'm pleased Joe had some of that last night, he's had a terrible year or so. well done Joe! Richie's day will come!

Good luck to all the Past and present Scunny youngsters! Hope the meeting is a safe one for all riders.

Wuffy was a prominent figure and a very popular guy at Scunny. When he brought Tai over to ride ( Tai was in plaster with a broken ankle I think it was ). I remember us all waiting forTais first outing as a youngster so well. 2006/2007 the team of Tai, Josh, Tully, Richie Dennis, Benji, Byron Bekker and led by Wayne Carter was such a happy bunch, really enjoyed themselves, what a team! gave us so many happy memories winning everything. I'm hoping Tai will have a good year and make the Grand prix at Cardiff. I didn't go last year. not enough british interest . Josh is doing really well and its brill to have him back at Scunny. Ash Birks Ive followed since he started practicing on our track and hes doing great.If you make a visit to Scunny you will for sure see some excellent racing with loads of passing!

Remember those days well. Phil was my favourite rider then. met up with him at a meeting in Buxton a few years ago. had a long chat reminising.

Sydney, If you ever get chance pop to Scunny to an Amateur meeting in the winter. See 60 odd races of mostly youngsters ( few older ones riding for pleasure ) Its great, these kids go hell for leather. Names like the Worrall twins, Ashley BIrks, G Irvin, K Howarth ,J Sargeants., A Morris , S Neilson, A Wrathall all progressed to N/L and even Prem as you will know. This year D. Phillips O. Greenwood and Tom Young been getting loads of practice and have done the AM meetings. I'm expecting them to improve in the NL this year. Other training schools operate, W Carter has a busy one on the training track at Scunny plus Newcastle, Stoke, K. Lynn and possibly others are doing their bit to give youngsters a chance. So whilst the system in your eyes is maybe not like it used to be there are many people dedicated to helping our young brits.

An excellent post Lucifer Sam which explains everything us fans need to know. I think this is exactly what the NL should be all about, pity all teams aren't run in the same manner, having said that I know about the stand alone clubs needing to win etc. We are lucky at Scunny to have a prem side too. I love watching the youngsters and look forward, yet again to see these kids progress. Come on you SAINTS!

Well I dont believe it!...Stoke you theiving lot! Must say thats put me off the N/L ...Its bad enough trying to get with this midland developement league in half time. How do you expect fans to get behind teams. When riders are all over the place.? RUBBISH!..........Are we to believe then that all N/L teams can operate a squad of riders? How come fans aren't told of any new rules, thats the least we expect. !

I really don't understand this, surely Stoke cannot use Scunny's Ollie Greenwood. ( thats stupid ) he belongs to one team or the other. Its bad enough with teams having to use guests and R/R, for gods sake don't let this become a reality as new youngsters will never get started. Please dont let this happen just when we seem to be getting youngsters on the ladder!. This annoys me. I'm waiting to see Stokes 1 to 7 names also. In this weeks speedway star they have a starting team averaging 40.88?

Can't help but feel sorry for Len Silver ( don't seem to be able to do anything to please fans ) Like the promotion at Scunny he's trying to give youngsters a chance and find future riders for his prem team. Now I know not everybody is like me who loves this level of racing but I have nothing but admiration for all who runs the AM meetings. Riders of all ages, I don't consider riders in their twenties old. Some start in their late teens but because of the expense and lack of training it takes a long time to get to NL level. At least Len is giving you a PL team as well. Luke Chessell is/was a Scunny asset and Ive watched him racing he's a good prospect I hope you get behind him! GO LUKE YOU SHOW EM!

Can't wait for this meeting to get our season started. I think Scorpions will get the win. As its a Kenny Smith memorial trophy I hope the winner is a SCORPION! roll on Friday!