KO'd By The Toon

Hmm an interesting night on Saturday to say the least! Plenty of action before the meeting with Uncle Len receiving a decidedly mixed reaction from the terrace when he tried to explain the nature of Jason Doyle's departure. One thing is for sure though, fighting back in public rarely wins any friends. If the arrangement was as stated and nothing else was on then fair enough but in these days of Facebook Twitter etc its important to get that message out to start with and not leave fans days to speculate and make up their own stories. Its a long way from 1971 when you could rely on the fact that Speedway Star and the local paper only came out once a week so you had plenty of time to get your story straight. Now if you decide one night to have a sausage instead of your traditional fish and chips it can be on twitter before the chips have come out of the oil!

A KO'ing by The Toon was fairly predictable after the 39-39 at home which once again saw our reserves let us down. Little Ben is a lovely lad who is polite enough to shake your hand every time you interview him but for his own sake the time has come for him to take time out. It can't do your confidence any good constantly coming away with less than a handful of points and we must have reached the stage that if its allowed to continue he may never achieve what we hope he is capable of. As for Nelson well in the words of Forest Gump "you never know what you're going to get". Unfortunately for the lad though the poor performances are outweighing the promising ones about 4 to 1 at the moment. On Saturday he looked totally bemused when he fell on the first bend and the crowd yelled at him to get off the track as Luke was leading Stuart Robson. On the subject of the 747 he may have his critics but you can't fault the lad for effort and personally I'm glad to see him back in form.

Predictably someone has snapped up Jason Doyle, Newport's gain will almost certainly be our loss, all we can do is wish him good luck and say thanks for getting us out of an almighty hole at the start of the season. Who knows what we'll get from the returning Steve Boxall Sunday's performance looked promising but he'll have to get back to his 2007 form pretty quick to calm down the fans I've not seen an atmosphere like Saturday's since the last days of the Russell Empire!