Fromafar

That has been his attitude for a while now,just turns up for meetings in UK when he can be bothered.

What end is that

At least Smoli does his best to Promote the sport in a positive way and seems to able to attract Sponsors and comes across in aProfessional manner.Good luck to him.

It would appear there isn’t.

Terrific signing.Imo

Watching them trying to deal with the Tigers in the 1st meeting will be more interesting.Imo

Is it not the case that a lot of young British riders do not get a chance because of the senior British riders moaning that they can’t make the sport pay unless the ride in both leagues.Some would ride in all 3 if they were allowed.

Cook has never been at Top Level.

It’s still 4 laps anti-clockwise

Agree,a very positive move by the Promotion.I too hope they get the rewards for their effort.It should definately improve the entertainment on the track.

Head the Ball

What’s the latest on track alterations, has the recent bad weather held things up or are they going to plan.?

Great song,decent rendition.

Not many of them were 36 eight years ago though.

The standard has certainly declined in the top league.He will need to gate sharp to get out of the way of the like of Bates and Garrity though.

8 years away from competitive action will be his biggest problem + he is 8 years older ,everybody likes to think they are as fit as they were in body and mind.

No disrespect to Jason,but with 8pts+ to play with it shows how dire the sport has become in GB top level when they cant get some decent European or Scandinavian talent to race in UK.It will certainly be interesting to see how he fares.

Jason won’t see which way Nicki went IMO.Still if Ipswich are stumping up good money to subsidise his Euro jaunt with his son(who is going places in his sport) why turn it down.Good luck to him though.One of the greats of the sport.

Or ordering a bigger one

Nothing new in that.

He broke his leg in 2012 which set him back a bit ,to say he was going nowhere is a it harsh.He is a decent heat leader in any Team.If I remember Berwick had a chance of getting him after his 1st broken leg on a3 pt av, but never took it.

Everybody knows you can never judge a Team on paper on the track is what counts.

While they were in the same Team ,Sam Jensen rode at No 4 in all his matches Bickley never got out of reserve ,Nicol has a higher average than both of them so will have to ride at 2 or 4. Jensen is replacing Bickley at reserve is my point.On what I saw last season that is a big +.

Technically your are replacing Bickley with Sam Jensen at reserve.Thats a big difference .IMO .Nicol is replacing the No 2 or 4 slot.Wells had a bad season for various reasons still managed a decent average though ,can see him as a good signing.