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Was a pretty decent meeting last night, the result was never in doubt once we saw how King, Rew, Barker, Hume & Thompson were riding. My gob was smacked when I heard Chris Harris say that it was an honour to be captain of the team and it's something he takes very seriously... coming in the very next match after he decided not to ride for Leicester at Peterborough I found a bit of a p155 take! On a positive note, was easily the best crowd of the season so far, with it looking to be up there with the Saturday nights of recent seasons. I genuinely thought Ippo were going to be title contenders at the start of the season with their big guns pulling them over the line in 13 & 15, but with almost no support recently it looks like it may be a shorter season for them than I thought

Ippo... what have you done to our Joe Thompson? You've ruined him!

His home Leicester average is quite good to be fair, a genuine heat leader... away is a different matter though!

Any day now... surely

Premier Sports dabbled with it a few years ago but the commentary wasn't that great. Didn't Terry Russell have something to do with buying the TV rights for it to be shown in this country?

Not really living up to his 10 point average so far!

Think this one may come down to those rider not currently in form and who of those does the best/worst King & Morris

Woffinden is finished as a world force! That's not to say he can't regain it like Hancock did after about 15 years. Was amusing at the start when he was giving it the usual Billy Big Spuds... I don't get nervous garbage, cut to Jason Crump saying if you say you don't get nervous you're full of crap If Woffy genuinely isn't getting nervous it obviously just doesn't mean enough to him anymore. Disappointed with Dan, just showed a little lack of experience at times with a few bad choices but if he can learn from his mistakes he's going to be a consistent challenger for years to come. Well done to Leicester Lions legend Vaculik on his win

Whenever you hear the riders interviewed though they all seem to love the track. Although Scott Nicholls said on a podcast I was listening to that some riders can be scared of it. One thing's for sure that even if the riders love it that doesn't always equal great speedway racing.

And the caption on Discovery+ said it was round 3

A great speedway meeting that, in the early stages i was thinking what a competitive series it's going to be this year until the Poles finally pulled their fingers out and the cream rose to the top. Be interesting to see if that quality of racing will be carried over to tomorrow night!

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Are they queuing out of the car park to see the debut of Drew Kemp? I don't get what people say about his "attitude problem", yes he had a tiny tanty after the playoff final last year but whenever I've seen or heard him he comes across as a thoroughly decent young lad.

Are you suggesting Lenny be neutered?

7 matches in 18 months... not bad

Was never going to live up to the hype and the inevitable comparison to Emil... but a solid debut!

I'm not knocking Laguta, all I'm saying is he's been out for over a year and doesn't strike me as a naturally talented rider and he wouldn't be the first rider that wasn't that naturally gifted to become World Champion... look at Nicki Pedersen! It's still very early days in Laguta's comeback but quality will always out

Showed nothing before his World Championship win, whereas Emil had been at the top for years

I think the Stars need hauling back for a day of starting practice! I don't think I've ever seen such a poor performance from a home team out of the starts!

Mustn't forget that Laguta has not raced for a year and probably only done a few matches in Poland, it's probably fair to say he's not as naturally gifted as Emil who came back as if he'd never been away. How's Laguta been doing in Poland?

Holder didn't have a problem with it there... I think he may even have got his wagging forefinger out

Buster will be tampering with the pit gate with a big game before the start of heat 10 looking for an abandonment at this rate

Wow!

Lynn used to be such a good race track and it's purely down to the material that's being used these days.

Where's KK when you need him?