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Kerr may have ridden himself into contention

4 points from 3 Foxes riders tonight!

Kye Thomson is the only bright light in this Northamptoningham team, he'll be at number 1 when the new averages come out I'd have thought... the only thing this team is missing is Nigel Tolley's wonga 🤑

I'm pretty sure they announced over the PA that the ref was looking at a video replay.

A punch on the nose can often rectify those kind of moves 🥊

Nicolai Klindt... what an embarrassment 😳

I came in at 19:15 and there was no queue An Amalagoto... or whatever they were called? Or a Mickey Mouse watch? 😂

Doesn't help when you don't start until 7:50... a dose of British Speedway reality being served up tonight.

What are you talking about?!? I saw Mark Lemon moving oil drums around in the car park with my own 2 eyes 👀 😂

Meeting being run with the usual ruthless British Speedway efficiency! 19:40 and it ain't started!

BSN Bingo: How many times will the word "tassels" be said tonight? I'm going for 16!

Another 5hite track on Saturday for the main event then 👌

90 seconds and you'd have been fine 👍

I suspect @PhilTheAce is awaiting his full page apology in the Speedway Star 😂

He did say Phil Morris was still in post as Premiership CEO though... there's been neither sight nor sound from him since the start of the season 🤷‍♂️

Foxes to crash out of the cup... Is it too late to re-brand Northampton Lambs?

18 point max from Captain Klindt last night so that makes it 52-38... if it's not too cold 😉

Difficult to see how the Foxes win with that team!

They're doing better than I expected actually, with some close(ish) scores away without them ever really threatening to win a match. What hasn't helped them is the fragility of the league and a club's inability to cover adequately for injury, this has been shown over the last few years with the loss of Doyle x 2, Sayfutdinov, DJ Woffy etc. etc. the strength in depth of the league is just not there when one of the "big" points scorers gets injured.

I thought Kurtz was on his way during the winter the longer he wasn't announced by the Aces... I wonder if that was ever on the cards (especially with Lemon being involved)?

Ignored 👍😁

Broken ankle

That's really difficult to know isn't it... weren't they asking for people to tell them where they'd come from on socials? I saw a fair few familiar faces, riders, officials etc. And a lot of Bees and Panthers... not to mention Witches. It'll be interesting to see what the crowd is this Thursday, especially with it also being on BSN.

I think it's been really noticeable, to me at least, how things have deteriorated, in such a short space of time, since Phil Morris left his role. Already gone are the uniform way in which meetings run, the countdown to the parade mentioning all of the key sponsors, the key sponsor advertising boards and post match interviews being conducted in front of key. sponsor boards.

I think before bringing in more contrived rules... they should look at the current rules, instead of clobbering Northamptoningham with a no facility facility (absurd) for a rider that has not yet ridden they should allow a full facility especially if it can be proven the rider has actually signed a contract to ride... and if the sport is going to rely so so heavily on the guest system make sure that there are a pool of guests that are contractually obliged to guest. instead we have a system where it's totally up to the rider whether he chooses to accept the booking or not and even if he does he can change his mind at a moments notice... anyway that's getting on to a whole different subject! With Northamptoningham having around £75k on their hip after opening night they should have a bit of cash to splash... but as @paulnolan has already said the natives are restless, it's essential for any noobs to have a winning team, at least at home as they'll be lost before they come to love the subtleties of the sport after a few home losses. At the moment this is a carbon copy of Birmingham... but with crowds, but I fear they'll soon drop off and they'll be reliant on floaters, such as myself.