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6 hours ago, Ben91 said:

Adams is always the one that springs to mind for me. Probably the last rider to retire who should have won one but didn’t unless I’m missing someone glaringly obvious. 

Hans Andersen is another. Was the best in the world in 2006 but only got the second half of the GP series when Rickardsson packed it in. 

A massive digression from the thread there, apologies. 

Andersen was also pretty good at the start of the next year from memory when he did get a permanent spot until his engine went bang at Peterborough one night and he was never quite the same again

Tommy Knudsen is the other one often referenced... but if you look at Andreas Jonsson's GP record, he really should have done a lot better in terms of a seasons rostrum and the ultimate prize

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6 minutes ago, LagutaRacingFan said:

Laguta is a world champion, show him some respect.

I know you’re just a troll and I shouldn’t rise to it but Laguta has absolutely taken the P1$$ out of British speedway this year, turned up as and when he feels like, more than one occasion frankly he should’ve been handed a 28 day ban for withholding his services. Talented throttle jockey don’t get me wrong but his commitment to British speedway has no comparison to Emil and he’s shown the British fans a lack of respect imo

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1 hour ago, LagutaRacingFan said:

Laguta is a world champion, show him some respect.

Perhaps Laguta's club in Poland kept him on a short leash whereas Emil's cut him a lot more slack - which probably worked to mutual advantage? Also Emil had the advantage of being here from the beginning of the season, compared to Laguta

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10 hours ago, Hamish McRaker said:

Perhaps Laguta's club in Poland kept him on a short leash whereas Emil's cut him a lot more slack - which probably worked to mutual advantage? Also Emil had the advantage of being here from the beginning of the season, compared to Laguta

Somebody on here ITK said a few weeks ago that every time Laguta didn't ride here it was because Wroclaw told him not to.

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I was really against Sayfutinov coming before the start of the season down to ( through no fault of his own) being Russian and still not sure whether it's right to allow Russia and Russian's back into the civilised world at the moment including sport, my view and know not everyone will agree.

But......disregarding that the man has won me over with his riding and attitude to British speedway, even Scott Nicholls had his arm round him after the semi final at Belle Vue.... Hope he comes back next year if there's a good enough league for him to come back to, although I fear not.

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9 minutes ago, Arch Stanton said:

Lovely words from him. You could tell how much he was enjoying it here every week. At no point throughout the season did you ever feel he wasn’t enjoying it or didn’t really want to be here like you get with so many others. 

And for us some fantastic entertainment - was pleased to be there the night he broke the track record.

as sign of his stature is how popular he proved at other tracks despite usually beating all the home heat leaders. 
 

 

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