Belle Vue (the club not the fan base) strike me as a club who couldn't give a rubbishe about other clubs, only themselves, and look down their nose at other clubs, particularly ones not in the Premiership... we're just the common folk and they're the royalty... 🙄 something real dodgy about them imo.

His average will go down if he's at #1 rather than #4. Why would there be more pressure on him in a team that clearly won't compete, than in a team which expects to win the league? That septet will endure humiliation away from Saddlebow road almost every fixture.

My top 21 riders (weighted averages) 1. Jason Doyle - 9.95 2. Emil Sayfutdinov - 9.63 3. Tai Woffinden - 9.52 4. Jack Holder - 9.39 5. Max Fricke - 9.33 6. Brady Kurtz - 9.16 7. Freddie Lindgren - 8.91 8. Chris Holder / Dan Bewley - 8.90 10. Scott Nicholls - 8.26 11. Rohan Tungate - 8.08 12. Maciej Janowski - 7.81 13. Ryan Douglas - 7.79 14. Sam Masters - 7.71 15. Richard Lawson - 7.59 16. Ben Cook - 7.51 17. Tom Brennan - 7.30 18. Niels K Iversen - 7.25 19. Josh Pickering - 7.24 20. Luke Becker / Charles Wright - 7.13

I don’t usually spend £15 a night on food and drink though… But as I’ve already said, take the food and drink out of the equation, why should I waste 20 odd quid on a ticket and petrol on a 100 mile round trip if we had a team that clearly wasn’t capable of getting top 4 from the start and being 2-3 points under the limit?… to be capable of getting into the top 4 we need a team that is no worse than Cook Iversen Kvech Klindt Lawson Harris Boughen!! It’s as simple as that 

I expect you to eat every day.   Regardless of whether you go to speedway or not. I know I eat every day.   I don't only eat on days when I'm at a speedway meeting.

Being announced and being signed are two totally different things as Courtney is finding out.