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Battle Of The Basement Sides Wolves V Favourites Leicester 17th August


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I see all the 'I hope Leicester win' lot are very quiet. :rofl:

As usual when Leicester have a chance it's because they have guests and couldn't have picked better with club asset Ash, former Wolf Ludvig and track specialist Garrity.

Stats show they scored 19 between them which I doubt the originals would have got. Lambert wouldn't get anywhere near 6, whilst Masters may well have scored 5 or 6.

Wolves were never in trouble and the lions proved they are as poor away as the are at home. However how on earth can we have allowed them to take home a point that they never looked in contention of getting?

Blackbird crashing out probably allowed the Lions to get something but yet again the (not so) fast Freddie failed to deliver the goods in the 2 big heats as his bikes looked slower with each race from heat 11 onwards. A dire start and inability to challenge in the last race gave Leicester a chance of a grab and fair play to them for grabbing the chance. They must have thought their luck all came at once in the final race as they were 8 points or more behind from heat 7 onwards.

Got to say the track was excellent tonight giving us some excellent racing and some of the lions provided some good moments too.

In the bigger scheme of things we have pulled 2 more points clear of the worst at the bottom so we now need to target 6th as a realistic aim.

Lakeside are the team we need to target although no doubt Lions fans will still be telling us how much better they are. :rofl::rofl:

 

WOLVES -

 

FREDDIE - started fast and strong and ended weak and slow. 3/5

JACOB - beaten just once. Quick. 4.5/5

RICKY - great night, his battle to deny Doyle and 3rd bend lunges were a joy to watch. Not quick enough in the 15th tho. 4/5

TOBBY - awful night, it's like he has never ridden the track struggling to turn. What is going on ?0.5/5

PK - a fairly decent nights work and would rather have had him in 15.3.5/5

LEWIS - hard to judge what difference he would have made but it's likely we would have sealed the win and chance to steal if he was fit to continue. Hopefully he is OK. 2/5

JOSH - came of age as the only reserve and his heat 12 win was superb. Battled hard and looked quick all night. 3.5/5 MOTM

 

LIONS

 

Doyle - 3 expected quality races but had an awful 1st and shouldn't be being beaten by Wells. 3.5/5

Ludvig - excellent choice of guest and did his job well. 2.5/5

Walasek - absolutely dire and just about beat Bates. Awful. 0.5/5

Wozniak - was looking forward to seeing him at Monmore but is clearly a Pole that can't ride Wolves. Or should that be another Leicester Pole that is rubbish at Wolves. 0.5/5

Swiderski - started very average but got better with each race, came into the fore in the big heats and probably gave Leicester an outside chance. 3/5

Garrity - as expected is off the bike more than he is on it, his ruthless attempt to force Fred off the inside kerb which nearly wiped out Fred and Piotr ended up with only him on the floor - rightly so- yet still felt a need to protest. 8 points is poor for him at Monmore but still a couple more points than Auty would have got. 2.5/5

Morris - yet another excellent guest showing from 'our' Ash. Very much improved this year and yet again scored more than Lambert would have got. 3.5/5

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I see all the 'I hope Leicester win' lot are very quiet. :rofl:

As usual when Leicester have a chance it's because they have guests and couldn't have picked better with club asset Ash, former Wolf Ludvig and track specialist Garrity.

Stats show they scored 19 between them which I doubt the originals would have got. Lambert wouldn't get anywhere near 6, whilst Masters may well have scored 5 or 6.

Wolves were never in trouble and the lions proved they are as poor away as the are at home. However how on earth can we have allowed them to take home a point that they never looked in contention of getting?

Blackbird crashing out probably allowed the Lions to get something but yet again the (not so) fast Freddie failed to deliver the goods in the 2 big heats as his bikes looked slower with each race from heat 11 onwards. A dire start and inability to challenge in the last race gave Leicester a chance of a grab and fair play to them for grabbing the chance. They must have thought their luck all came at once in the final race as they were 8 points or more behind from heat 7 onwards.

Got to say the track was excellent tonight giving us some excellent racing and some of the lions provided some good moments too.

In the bigger scheme of things we have pulled 2 more points clear of the worst at the bottom so we now need to target 6th as a realistic aim.

Lakeside are the team we need to target although no doubt Lions fans will still be telling us how much better they are. :rofl: :rofl:

 

WOLVES -

 

FREDDIE - started fast and strong and ended weak and slow. 3/5

JACOB - beaten just once. Quick. 4.5/5

RICKY - great night, his battle to deny Doyle and 3rd bend lunges were a joy to watch. Not quick enough in the 15th tho. 4/5

TOBBY - awful night, it's like he has never ridden the track struggling to turn. What is going on ?0.5/5

PK - a fairly decent nights work and would rather have had him in 15.3.5/5

LEWIS - hard to judge what difference he would have made but it's likely we would have sealed the win and chance to steal if he was fit to continue. Hopefully he is OK. 2/5

JOSH - came of age as the only reserve and his heat 12 win was superb. Battled hard and looked quick all night. 3.5/5 MOTM

 

LIONS

 

Doyle - 3 expected quality races but had an awful 1st and shouldn't be being beaten by Wells. 3.5/5

Ludvig - excellent choice of guest and did his job well. 2.5/5

Walasek - absolutely dire and just about beat Bates. Awful. 0.5/5

Wozniak - was looking forward to seeing him at Monmore but is clearly a Pole that can't ride Wolves. Or should that be another Leicester Pole that is rubbish at Wolves. 0.5/5

Swiderski - started very average but got better with each race, came into the fore in the big heats and probably gave Leicester an outside chance. 3/5

Garrity - as expected is off the bike more than he is on it, his ruthless attempt to force Fred off the inside kerb which nearly wiped out Fred and Piotr ended up with only him on the floor - rightly so- yet still felt a need to protest. 8 points is poor for him at Monmore but still a couple more points than Auty would have got. 2.5/5

Morris - yet another excellent guest showing from 'our' Ash. Very much improved this year and yet again scored more than Lambert would have got. 3.5/5

Pretty sure Auty would have more than 8 from 6 rides.

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Quite incredible watching how the 3-Poles struggle around Monmore. Swiderski showed his talent in his last 2-heats but the other two were nowhere to be seen. Garrity was as entertaining as ever, even tho' clearly not 100% fit. Good job for once Norrie had 3-track specialists available otherwise it could have been an absolute rout.

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Well said RF.

Auty hasn't had any memorable meetings at Monmore whereas Garrity is miles better at Wolves - with ease.

Not saying Auty is better than Garrity around Monmore, he certainly isn't. But Auty hasn't rode there as a FTR before under the current race format & i'm pretty sure under that format & the fact Blackbird was injured Auty would have at least matched Garrity's score if he'd ridden 6 times like Garrity did.

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Not saying Auty is better than Garrity around Monmore, he certainly isn't. But Auty hasn't rode there as a FTR before under the current race format & i'm pretty sure under that format & the fact Blackbird was injured Auty would have at least matched Garrity's score if he'd ridden 6 times like Garrity did.

All ifs and buts anyway isn't it. :t:

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