Shadders Posted July 31, 2016 Report Share Posted July 31, 2016 Just considering Tungate further, it's a long time since I have seen such a 'clean' gater. He stays absolutely still at the start and is truly electrifying to the first bend. Especially off gate 4 at the OTA. Josh talks regularly about how light Rohan is and how he uses this to his advantage. Certainly shifts his body weight much further forward than most riders. He was lucky to escape injury trying a suicidal pass between Robbo and the fence in heat four. Didn't look too happy with the decision. Anyone know why the Somerset team manager was up at the refs box after that heat? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
New era Panthers Posted July 31, 2016 Report Share Posted July 31, 2016 He sure does. There hasn't been many people that have beaten Kennett around Rye this year, let alone twice in one night. Ostergaard did it twice in the league match for Panthers at Rye House this season Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shadders Posted July 31, 2016 Report Share Posted July 31, 2016 There hasn't been many people that have beaten Kennett around Rye this year, let alone twice in one night. Returning the favour from when Kennett beat him twice at the OTA in June Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
waco Posted July 31, 2016 Author Report Share Posted July 31, 2016 (edited) 5 hours to run the two meetings ,,what a drag ..Rockets middle order,poor,out gated all day... Ed ,robbo,and Ben all solid scores. Rob.Branford battled and was worth more than his 4 points Somerset though were strong from top to bottom and deserved winners.. Edited July 31, 2016 by waco 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pob Posted July 31, 2016 Report Share Posted July 31, 2016 Just considering Tungate further, it's a long time since I have seen such a 'clean' gater. He stays absolutely still at the start and is truly electrifying to the first bend. Especially off gate 4 at the OTA. Josh talks regularly about how light Rohan is and how he uses this to his advantage. Certainly shifts his body weight much further forward than most riders. We'll he's changed his tune from last season then at foxhall. He didn't earn the name rolling Rohan for nothing . Think he was getting warned to stay still at the start nearly every meeting . Must have been working hard over the winter on it . 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GWC Posted July 31, 2016 Report Share Posted July 31, 2016 Considering the Somerset team are mostly Elite riders I think Rye can feel a bit hard done by especially taking on the top team with a huge gap in home meetings. Once again a double header produced a super sick track that didn't suite home riders - Likke especially. Tungate takes after his name Tun-gate! Reminded me of Eric Gunderson in his hey day! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shadders Posted July 31, 2016 Report Share Posted July 31, 2016 Considering the Somerset team are mostly Elite riders I think Rye can feel a bit hard done by especially taking on the top team with a huge gap in home meetings. Once again a double header produced a super sick track that didn't suite home riders - Likke especially. Never enjoyed double headers. Thank the Lord we only have one more left this year. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JmeRay Posted August 1, 2016 Report Share Posted August 1, 2016 Meeting too stop start to be enjoyable for me. The track didn't look in great shape. No home meeting for five weeks didn't help the home team get in the groove, but in truth Somerset were the better all round side and deserved the win. No work done on the stadium in the mid season break either. I was surprised that I didn't notice improvements in the stadium considering we hadn't ridden there for five weeks. Even the junior track seems to have remained the same. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
idh Posted August 1, 2016 Report Share Posted August 1, 2016 Considering the Somerset team are mostly Elite riders I think Rye can feel a bit hard done by especially taking on the top team with a huge gap in home meetings. Once again a double header produced a super sick track that didn't suite home riders - Likke especially. Tungate takes after his name Tun-gate! Reminded me of Eric Gunderson in his hey day! how can you say Somerset team are mostly Elite riders. three are definitely not :- BWD; ZW; Jake Allen that's half the team; Somerset took a gamble on all three. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shadders Posted August 1, 2016 Report Share Posted August 1, 2016 how can you say Somerset team are mostly Elite riders. three are definitely not :- BWD; ZW; Jake Allen that's half the team; Somerset took a gamble on all three. BWD and ZW a gamble? Do me a favour. You don't watch NL racing obviously. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EnglishRoundabout Posted August 1, 2016 Report Share Posted August 1, 2016 Considering the Somerset team are mostly Elite riders I think Rye can feel a bit hard done by especially taking on the top team with a huge gap in home meetings. Once again a double header produced a super sick track that didn't suite home riders - Likke especially. Tungate takes after his name Tun-gate! Reminded me of Eric Gunderson in his hey day! Swindon fans watching Tungate and Wright in the EL will certainly regard them as PL riders though. Perhaps less so Gracijonek, although he has had a poorish season in the EL so far. I agree with idh in that BWD and Zach were both gambles (as was Jake Allen). The step up from NL racing to PL is significant and the need for them to achieve averages of 3.00 is vital. So far BWD has done this easily, but not so Zach. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Najjer Posted August 1, 2016 Report Share Posted August 1, 2016 BWD and ZW a gamble? Do me a favour. You don't watch NL racing obviously. I didn't see many clubs queuing up when BWD got saddled with a 5.00 average. 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
idh Posted August 1, 2016 Report Share Posted August 1, 2016 To be fair they gambled with 3 riders who had no or limited PL experience not many clubs would have done that Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bigcatdiary Posted August 1, 2016 Report Share Posted August 1, 2016 To be fair they gambled with 3 riders who had no or limited PL experience not many clubs would have done that As has been explained before it wasn't so much a gamble but a decision made after May did his homework. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GWC Posted August 1, 2016 Report Share Posted August 1, 2016 (edited) To be fair they gambled with 3 riders who had no or limited PL experience not many clubs would have done thatAs Shad's stated there was no gamble with BWD he was always going to average 5 and Allen was better developed rider since he couldn't get into the Berwick team a few years ago.I'm pretty sure a lot of clubs would have liked those two,certainly Rye did! Would also say that Rob Suttleworth was impressive and gives notion to the number of good young riders there are in the National league who should be getting more chance in the Premier. As much as we like a strong Premier it is holding up these guys development I feel. Edited August 1, 2016 by GWC Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ben91 Posted August 1, 2016 Report Share Posted August 1, 2016 This Somerset side looked pretty poor on paper at the start of the year. A move has done Tungate good by the looks of things. Allen and BWD were definitely gambles in my eyes, again they've paid off so far. Fair play to the Rebels, they're gonna take some stopping. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
allthegearbutnaeidea Posted August 1, 2016 Report Share Posted August 1, 2016 I would of prefered both BWD and Allen over Mellgren at Berwick, we nearly signed Allen a couple of years ago but he was given a 7 point average if I remember correctly. I followed BWD last season in the NL and would of certainly taken him on a 5 point average. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Najjer Posted August 1, 2016 Report Share Posted August 1, 2016 It's hilarious the amount of people saying now how many of them predicted BWD was going to average 5.00. At the time when we signed him nearly every man and his dog said he was a poor signing on that average. How wrong they all were! 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RHayes Posted August 1, 2016 Report Share Posted August 1, 2016 It's hilarious the amount of people saying now how many of them predicted BWD was going to average 5.00. At the time when we signed him nearly every man and his dog said he was a poor signing on that average. How wrong they all were! We've been fortunate that BWD and Allen have turned out to be steals. Both are well on the way to adding at least 1 and 2 pts to their averages by the end of the year. Maybe even this month, seen as we have 11 fixtures! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Statman Posted August 1, 2016 Report Share Posted August 1, 2016 (edited) He was lucky to escape injury trying a suicidal pass between Robbo and the fence in heat four. Didn't look too happy with the decision. Anyone know why the Somerset team manager was up at the refs box after that heat? I thought it was because he thought he'd won the £80 raffle draw....... Was nice to meet up with you again yesterday Shads Edited August 1, 2016 by Statman 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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