Workington 2025

[wtf]

On 12/24/2024 at 12:32 PM, Woke23 said:

This forum us a brilliant forum getting ruined by one or two muppets unfortunately. Try and have a discussion and get immature responses.

Cookie is the better rider but you never know if he's going to turn up or not. However, same can be said about batch. Good rider, not as good as Cookie, but has previous rep of spitting his dummy. Infact I'm sure he done it on occasions last season. I think it was oxford where he was pulling wheelies across the finishing line when we were getting battered and he was in third.

Year before when he was at Birmingham in the pairs on a soaking wet race track

[Fromafar]

11 minutes ago, wtf said:

Year before when he was at Birmingham in the pairs on a soaking wet race track

It was Oxford.(riding for Birmingham though,which is what you might mean)

Edited Thursday at 02:00 PM by Fromafar

[szkocjasid]

On 12/24/2024 at 10:30 AM, Midget said:

There is no doubt that cook would of been the better number 1, anyone who has any knowledge of speedway will tell you that. 

I think we could struggle in in heats 13 and 15 next year, especially away from home. 

Workington's loss is certainly berwicks gain.

 

1 hour ago, wtf said:

If that's the case and it's so obvious, it makes you wonder why the promotion chose one over the other? 

Probably because they wanted to get stronger in heats 2,8,12,&14?

As much as I want Cook as part of a strong top 4, I would not have let go of Zischke or Vuolas, so could've ended up with a team like:

Troy Batchelor 8.46

Craig Cook 8.42

Tate Zischke 6.96

Annti Vuolas 6.40

Vinnie Foord 3.90

Jack Smith 3.64

Sam McGurk 2.00

Total 39.78

 

So would Cook / Smith / McGurk score more than Bowes / Etheridge / Hook?

 

I definitely wouldn't want a team with Foord starting in the top 5, I would not drop Zischke or Vuolas under any circumstances, so to create the strongest Workington team, it means either Cook or Batchelor had to go!

[scaramanga]

At times last year batch was better than cook and 

At times cook was outstanding and batch not so good 

Personally don't think there's much in it 

On track 

Maybe batch is lot cheaper than cookie and that had a part to play in it 

Dont think the teams that bad to be honest 

[SCS]

Has anybody thought that Craig might just be a expensive rider who like people are saying let the team down. I know if he rode against us at Redcar Workington would have won. 

May be that made Workington chose Batchelor instead of Craig ?

[lewy]

13 minutes ago, SCS said:

Has anybody thought that Craig might just be a expensive rider who like people are saying let the team down. I know if he rode against us at Redcar Workington would have won. 

May be that made Workington chose Batchelor instead of Craig ?

Not really a fan of cookie but maybe he didn't turn up because of monies owed to him by Workington, difficult to be motivated when not being paid on time. Two sides to every coin!

[SCS]

He rode after our meeting so he must have been paid.

[lewy]

2 minutes ago, SCS said:

He rode after our meeting so he must have been paid.

Yes ,eventually 

[magnus]

1 hour ago, lewy said:

Not really a fan of cookie but maybe he didn't turn up because of monies owed to him by Workington, difficult to be motivated when not being paid on time. Two sides to every coin!

Same old Lewy. Is this the same unsubstantiated claim you have already made? Remember glass houses and stones don't mix. 

[scaramanga]

always such rumours in speedway

and often at workington last year tales of late payments Kept poping up 

might be something in it or just might be tales from people claiming to know whats going on 

[Neila]

26 minutes ago, magnus said:

Same old Lewy. Is this the same unsubstantiated claim you have already made? Remember glass houses and stones don't mix. 

Lewy seems to know a lot about other tracks, bit says very little about Plymouth these day 😛

[Racin Jason 72]

6 hours ago, wtf said:

If that's the case and it's so obvious, it makes you wonder why the promotion chose one over the other? 

Maybe Troy is easier to work with ? Or maybe last season it was the reserves who didn’t get enough points so the promotion have changed the balance of the team. 
tate and antti should improve further to cover the loss of cookie. 

[j2ohh]

24 minutes ago, Neila said:

Lewy seems to know a lot about other tracks, bit says very little about Plymouth these day 😛

any comments about Plymouth will be in the waste department of this form  .

[Wee Eck]

Is it a coincidence that for three years in a row, Craig has been “let go” by his previous teams? And, regardless of press releases, always for the same reason - unreliability?

Was there not a suggestion that, when Leicester signed him earlier this year it was because they knew his top league average meant they’d be able to get decent guests when he went missing? How many meetings did he end up racing for Leicester?

[Normski]

6 minutes ago, Wee Eck said:

Is it a coincidence that for three years in a row, Craig has been “let go” by his previous teams? And, regardless of press releases, always for the same reason - unreliability?

Was there not a suggestion that, when Leicester signed him earlier this year it was because they knew his top league average meant they’d be able to get decent guests when he went missing? How many meetings did he end up racing for Leicester?

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[scaramanga]

43 minutes ago, Wee Eck said:

Is it a coincidence that for three years in a row, Craig has been “let go” by his previous teams? And, regardless of press releases, always for the same reason - unreliability?

Was there not a suggestion that, when Leicester signed him earlier this year it was because they knew his top league average meant they’d be able to get decent guests when he went missing? How many meetings did he end up racing for Leicester?

But he got that place on merit 

His form at workington got him the place as dont think he started season with a top league place 

[Pinny]

It cant have been that big an issue for Cook regarding not being paid as he didn't bleat on about it and by all accounts wanted to return to Worky . Him missing meetings has became a trend over recent years has it not?

 

its well known a lot of clubs don't agree to pay weekly - riders are self employed and anyone who is self employed will know that its rare to be paid every 7 days. Some clubs do pay every week, others don't. All depends whats agreed pre season in their contracts. 
 

Do you really think Craig Cook is the type to be owed money beyond expectations and not cry about it online?

[Noelinho]

7 hours ago, Wee Eck said:

Is it a coincidence that for three years in a row, Craig has been “let go” by his previous teams? And, regardless of press releases, always for the same reason - unreliability?

Was there not a suggestion that, when Leicester signed him earlier this year it was because they knew his top league average meant they’d be able to get decent guests when he went missing? How many meetings did he end up racing for Leicester?

Not really his fault last year to be fair. The accident at Armadale was very unfortunate for all concerned.

[Woke23]

There could be a lot of reasons on why the promotion chose Troy over Cookie. I wouldn't be surprised if it was down to wages though. Workington are running on a limited budget and Mr.Bains has been very vocal about backing the team and bringing the numbers in.

I really hope speedway at Workington is here to stay for the foreseeable but it doesn't seem promising after only two seasons.

[Neila]

2 hours ago, Woke23 said:

There could be a lot of reasons on why the promotion chose Troy over Cookie. I wouldn't be surprised if it was down to wages though. Workington are running on a limited budget and Mr.Bains has been very vocal about backing the team and bringing the numbers in.

I really hope speedway at Workington is here to stay for the foreseeable but it doesn't seem promising after only two seasons.

Time to be more positive in your posts, get behind the comets and stop bitching about what if so and so signed.

We have speedway for another year get behind the team, if you can put your hand in your pocket and do some sponsorship to help the promotion out UTC