pandorum Posted July 25, 2012 Report Share Posted July 25, 2012 (edited) It would be a waste if the line up of GB was filled with the usual suspects instead of a few young newcomers. Roynon and Cook deserve a chance and surely Auty. The Worrall's would also have been in contention. Perhaps the start of something useful for Team GB. Well done to Poole for maybe starting the ball rolling. Now we need test matches at both NL and PL level and the senior team to do as Chris Harris suggests and tour Poland,Sweden etc as well as some positive discrimination for GB riders here. Give our riders a chance to learn and maybe, just maybe we will do more than just make up the numbers in SWC. Edited July 25, 2012 by pandorum Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LagutaRacingFan Posted July 25, 2012 Report Share Posted July 25, 2012 My Team GB Line Up  1. Kennett 2. Allen 3. Roynon 4. Nicholls 5. Richard Lawson 6. Woffinden 7. Harris Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mdmc82 Posted July 25, 2012 Report Share Posted July 25, 2012 My Team GB Line Up  1. Kennett 2. Allen 3. Roynon 4. Nicholls 5. Richard Lawson 6. Woffinden 7. Harris  take it you want australia to win. kennetts form isnt great at the moment and allen and lawson are even worse. I realised reading your threads that you seem fairly new to speedway Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bomo1 Posted July 25, 2012 Author Report Share Posted July 25, 2012 Team GB is:- Â 1.Barker 2.Bridger 3.Harris 4.Kennett 5.King 6.Nicholls 7.Woffinden Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The White Knight Posted July 25, 2012 Report Share Posted July 25, 2012 Rumour has it this is the Aussie team: 1: Chris Holder 2: Rory Schlein 3: Darcy Ward 4: Troy Batchelor 5: Davey Watt 6: Jason Doyle 7: Cameron Woodward  What - no Crump. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LagutaRacingFan Posted July 25, 2012 Report Share Posted July 25, 2012 Team GB is:-  1.Barker 2.Bridger 3.Harris 4.Kennett 5.King 6.Nicholls 7.Woffinden  Is this some sort of master plan putting our best riders at reserve for 7 rides? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bomo1 Posted July 25, 2012 Author Report Share Posted July 25, 2012 What - no Crump. Â Well would you ride with a recently repaired collarbone - if you didn't have to?! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The White Knight Posted July 25, 2012 Report Share Posted July 25, 2012 Well would you ride with a recently repaired collarbone - if you didn't have to?! Â Ooops - sorry - I forgot about that. I Posted on impulse - never a good idea. Apologies. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LagutaRacingFan Posted July 25, 2012 Report Share Posted July 25, 2012 Even if Crump was fit, He wasn't going to ride. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mdmc82 Posted July 25, 2012 Report Share Posted July 25, 2012 Team GB is:-  1.Barker 2.Bridger 3.Harris 4.Kennett 5.King 6.Nicholls 7.Woffinden  Where did u see this? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TrueBee Posted July 25, 2012 Report Share Posted July 25, 2012 Team GB is:- Â 1.Barker 2.Bridger 3.Harris 4.Kennett 5.King 6.Nicholls 7.Woffinden Shame Auty and Roynon haven't been given a chance. They'd certainly perform better than some of the selected riders. We just test and try the ones that have previously failed. I don't see how including Nicholls will help for the future either! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brandonbee48 Posted July 25, 2012 Report Share Posted July 25, 2012 Shame Auty and Roynon haven't been given a chance. They'd certainly perform better than some of the selected riders. We just test and try the ones that have previously failed. I don't see how including Nicholls will help for the future either! Â Totally agree about Roynan and Auty. This line-up is called "short-term thinking" which is totally alien to the way British speedway operates. Regards. Alan. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brummie Kev Posted July 25, 2012 Report Share Posted July 25, 2012 Team GB is:-  1.Barker 2.Bridger 3.Harris 4.Kennett 5.King 6.Nicholls 7.Woffinden  What a joke if that is the team!! , why no Josh Auty or Adam Roynon. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mdmc82 Posted July 25, 2012 Report Share Posted July 25, 2012 Please can you provide the link where the team has been confirmed? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TrueBee Posted July 25, 2012 Report Share Posted July 25, 2012 Please can you provide the link where the team has been confirmed? It hasn't but Bomo confirming it is pretty reliable considering Middlo picks the side and it's at Wimbourne Road. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bomo1 Posted July 26, 2012 Author Report Share Posted July 26, 2012 It was posted on the Poole forum yesterday by the forum administrator who is also Poole's PR man, just after Lemo announced the Aussie team on Facebook. Middlo confirmed it in interview on Centre green last evening. Â Hope thats ok for everyone. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mdmc82 Posted July 26, 2012 Report Share Posted July 26, 2012 Really suprised riders like bridger, kennett and barker have been picked over auty and roynon who are in better form. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The White Knight Posted July 26, 2012 Report Share Posted July 26, 2012 Really suprised riders like bridger, kennett and barker have been picked over auty and roynon who are in better form. Â I agree - we need to be more forward looking. I would have given Auty and Roynon a place - as much as anything for the experience. Personally - I don't think TeamGB will win this Meeting. It would have been a great chance for the above mentioned Riders to get sight and feel of the International level that they are aspiring to achieve. Â Missed opportunity - I think. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CUFC_Brummie Posted July 26, 2012 Report Share Posted July 26, 2012 (edited) Can't understand it. For the World Cup, I understood their decision, small teams, big stage, may have been a bit too soon, but it's matches like this where we need to be blooding some youngsters. 7 man teams rather than 4 mean that there's enough scope for someone to have an off night and for it not to have a massive hinderence on the outcome, exactly the sort of scenario we need for our young guys, where they can get the experience without having too much reliance on them having to score massive points. Â We'd all like to beat the Aussies but the reality is they're well ahead of us, it's no shock if we lose, and with it being a test match where the result isn't quite so important, we should've been using this, as well as a couple of other similar matches on the continent, to be putting these youngsters into a position where they get the experience required so that come next year's World Cup, they'd be ready to be thrown in there. Now it doesn't look like that will be the case, and I can already hazard a good guess that the team next year will be very similar if not identical to this year's, with an identical outcome. Edited July 26, 2012 by CUFC_Brummie 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bagpuss Posted July 27, 2012 Report Share Posted July 27, 2012 Where are Auty, Roynon and Cook? Dear me. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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