IainB

...and the other side of the story:

Don't know if this is the right topic but NORA gets a mention... the toys seem to have come out the pram at Iwade, not sure what it's all about?

It's amazing what people want to read into posts sometimes...

What have they spaffed all their Zmarzlik money on? They should contact Birmingham to ask how their £755 saved the club!

It'd be very sad if that were the case, maybe Speedway first bends just aren't for him, they can be brutal and not really comparable to many other motor sports.

It's not recent though, he was identified as doing it at the end of last year. When he shuts off going into the first bend he was invariably last he was shutting off so much, not even 2nd or 3rd and then proceeded to be the whole length of a straight behind the riders in front. Now that's okay if he wants to be the next Jack Smith or Connor Coles but if he's the next messiah as some are predicting he ain't going to get anywhere with that approach to his Speedway. His end of season form has been as bizarre as anything I've seen from a rider that I can ever recall.

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.