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A huge thank you to Scunthorpe for sparing us another season of Carl Wilkinson, really a massive thanks!

:t::party::cheers:

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Could it be owt to do with that track you got up in teddy bear land? . Wilkos a racer and he will be happy to be back home on a proper speedway track. From my vantage point the STMP aint a racers track. Total trick track in my opinion.

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as a Sheffield fan who enjoys his visits to the EWR(the best race track in the country) I think that team has a solid look about it and sure you will get your excitement at home meetings whilst maybe not challenging for a play off spot, I would be happy that I am going to get my fix of exciting racing over there this season, I would take a close 46 - 44 anyday over a 60 - 30 one sided drubbing, douglas, and auty could easily put 2 points onto their average, howe and wilko could put a point on, and the unknowns at reserve should hold their assessed average if not increase them, davies may struggle to hold his, so you have a team of racers and entertainers, its time for you scorps to get behind the promotion and the team while you still have one, it took long enough to get racing back in the town.

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I love last heat deciders regardless of the result, problem as I see it is to many scunny fans yearn for the days of 06/07 when we murdered everyone at home but in fairness the racing was over 90% of the time by the first corner then it was mainly about the scunny riders playing about with each other. Prefer it as it is now when the opposition are racing as well

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I'll bet Edinburgh fans this year loved murdering all visiting teams. It won them the league. I'm surprised at you coming out with a statement like that!......I'll own up I support speedway always hoping for my team to win, can't see the point otherwise.

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I'll bet Edinburgh fans this year loved murdering all visiting teams. It won them the league. I'm surprised at you coming out with a statement like that!......I'll own up I support speedway always hoping for my team to win, can't see the point otherwise.

Seriously, I hated it. It was pleasing at first and then teams started having riders who were showing up beaten before we turned a wheel and gave up if they missed the gate.

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while winning championships is great i would much rather watch entertaining speedway, winning at home every week is important but would much rather see 46-44 every week then see big thumpings. this is why i love the ewr as it sends me home feeling entertained every week. looking forward to see what this 2015 team serves up, roll on march

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June you know me well enough and I always go hoping we will win but if we don't then never mind as long as the entertainment is high I'm satisfied. Results wise back in the day the scores were massive but in my opinion the racing wasn't as good still watch the video of Mr Dennis coming from behind to get us the 65 15 win over Newport good ride but not outstanding it lives in the memory for what it achieved rather than the quality of the race and most meeting were like that. Just my opinion

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The sport is competitive, the riders race for points. points win trophies..... excitement takes over. I'm not saying wins have to be massive. will be better this year as if I understand it right Its 3 pts a home win ( no more 2 pointers ) . That's me, can't help it, I always want to win.....and I'm used to not always getting my own way. Don't let it worry you!

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Could it be owt to do with that track you got up in teddy bear land? . Wilkos a racer and he will be happy to be back home on a proper speedway track. From my vantage point the STMP aint a racers track. Total trick track in my opinion.

Never a truer word spoke. And it is supposed to be a 'purpose built' race track Laughable!

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Never a truer word spoke. And it is supposed to be a 'purpose built' race track Laughable!

 

I don't agree. For the first couple of seasons, STMP was one of the best racing tracks in the country and only went disastrously downhill when Havelock took over (by most accounts, due to the influence of his son).

 

That descended into farce the season before last with two meetings (Newcastle was one) that were almost abandoned due to the state of the track and I heard that the SCB got involved.

 

In 2014 I saw some cracking speedway there and would say that it was one of the most improved tracks anywhere.

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I don't agree. For the first couple of seasons, STMP was one of the best racing tracks in the country and only went disastrously downhill when Havelock took over (by most accounts, due to the influence of his son).

 

That descended into farce the season before last with two meetings (Newcastle was one) that were almost abandoned due to the state of the track and I heard that the SCB got involved.

 

In 2014 I saw some cracking speedway there and would say that it was one of the most improved tracks anywhere.

Couldn't agree more, when Sheffield visited the STMP in 2013 we had an hour delay due to the area round the starting gate being too soft after no issues with weather during the day, total farce to be honest. For me the STMP was the most improved track in the Premier League, saw some brilliant racing in our 2 visits there in 2014.
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while winning championships is great i would much rather watch entertaining speedway, winning at home every week is important but would much rather see 46-44 every week then see big thumpings. this is why i love the ewr as it sends me home feeling entertained every week. looking forward to see what this 2015 team serves up, roll on march

I agree that entertainment is the most important factor of speedway but matches that end at 46-44 are not always the most exciting ones , the Scunny/Peterboro match of that score was sensational but the Somerset play off group match 46-44 was the worst meeting i have ever seen at the EWR and unfortunately i had brought along 2 newcomers with me who were not impressed

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