IainB

He's never going to "make it" as a Speedway rider if he continues to do that

No... there was talk many years ago of a site near Wakefield? It all went quiet though as is often the case.

How do you explain the victories against Richard Lawson around Poole though?

Over and out, I'm off before all the insufferable gloating starts. Winter well, even Pirates ☠️ fans, you'll need the close season to polish all your pots 🏆🏆🏆

He's had a solid enough first full year in the CL & PL and has taken some big scalps... he seems to have developed a case of the Speedway yips with first bends at the end of the season though which must be a massive worry for anybody that he's signed for for next season. Reading back through some of the comments from a while back this has been an issue before now.

Boughen! FFS!

Boughen! What an enigma! Can't be doing with that, just no effort in his first 2 rides

... oh, have they won against all odds, well done

Just looks like he doesn't want to be there

Boughen worryingly shutting of going into the first bend again in his first ride. Fortunately it's the end of the season but he'll need to eradicate that from his game in the future.

Is it safe? Have the Poole fans gone? 🫣

Something to do with planning permission we're led to believe

Traditionally I've taken tracks that have been described as "technical" to mean, Eastbourne, Arena, Wolves, Rye House etc. Where you really have to back the bike in almost to a stand still. To a lesser extent the likes of Leicester, Coventry, Ippo, Swindon, Glasgow, Poole etc. Then there's where you pin the throttle tracks like the NSS, Sheffield, Peterborough, Somerset and the worst track of the lot Scunny! That's not to say that these tracks aren't without their nuances.

Why?

Nicholls home average at Kirky Lane in 2015 was 7.20 his home average at the NSS in 2016 was 5.61

That's no good! It's a long close season, what are we going to argue about? How about Brady Kurtz? 😂

Hmm 🤔 Scott Nicholls - is he too dangerous?

I'm not sure you need to move stands around etc. Any further remedial works would need to take place on the existing foot print of the current track (not that it will ever happen by the way), so the only real room for any manoeuvre would be to shorten the track around the kerb and/or sort the banking out.

I think you've just proved my point there that it's all about setup around the NSS, many riders I've listened to over the years have said as much. Also possibly proved by Belle Vue's less than stellar away record. When the NSS first opened it was a pretty fair race track and Aces didn't have much home advantage, as the home side have got "dialled in" over the years it's become much more of a fortress. 2 of the most technically talented riders in the UK struggle around the NSS, Scott Nicholls and Chris Harris, Harris in particular can blow hot and cold during the same meeting, looking like a World Champ one race and trailing in badly at the back next time out! You're not telling me that's because of lack of technical ability? So for me it may very well be a mechanically technical track but certainly not in respect to riding ability.

I'd say that the NSS is probably the most technical track in regards to bike setup, riding ability not so much.

I think maybe Dan would probably be toddling along doing his own thing cleaning up at the NSS if DJ Woffy hadn't have got involved in his career. Dan is a once in a generation talent... can't see that in Hagon

He'd be progressive massively until he got to a technical track... Maybe he should have signed to ride for the Cubs also to get a better handle on the Leicester track. He'd develop a far better rider on the technical Leicester track than throttle jockeying it around Belle Vue every other week

What makes you think that? Have you seen something I've missed? Other than his rather against the odds British U21 victory I've seen nothing to suggest that he won't be anything other than a Drew Kemp type. Hagon's got no real pedigree, his father wasn't particularly successful as a rider all I see is a rider being bank rolled by his dad with Martin Dugard spannering for him. At least with somebody like Boughen you can see flashes of brilliance from him and he's beaten some very big name riders very convincingly, yes he's going through a bit of a tough patch at the moment but I fully expect him to ride through this. Time will tell I suppose.

Me too.

Having said that... I do think a lot more could be done in the way of reduced admission via promotional activities etc. Last year at Leicester I remember we had a load of weeks where different local yoof sports clubs were in attendance and it appeared to be quite successful, I can't remember seeing any this year