StevePark

Misses next weeks meeting due to concussion (Twitter & Facebook confirm).

You know that for a fact do you? Last night shows that Newcastle aren't far away. To get within a point of one of the unbeaten teams in the PL this year was a damn good effort. I thought neither side deserved to lose and a draw may have been a more apt result. Just my opinion of course.

To be quite honest, I don't think it really matters who's in the main body and who's at reserve, as whoever is at reserve should score an absolute s**t load of points, not just tomorrow but for the next month.

Proctor's average has now been ammended on the BSPA Greensheet list as 9.22. http://www.speedwaygb.co/14issues/pl14_issue14.pdf

Think it goes to the next tenth (5.350, 5.351 etc.) otherwise they have to choose.

After 4 home and 4 away matches (I think!)

We (well me, anyway) welcome Chris and his battling displays to Newcastle. Feel a bit sorry for Dan G., but, hopefully his time will come in the future.

Chris has now signed for Newcastle, replacing Dan Greenwood.

On a similar theme, Jonathan Swales won the Conference League (Third Division?) Riders Championship on an upright. He was the only rider in the field to ride one that night.

It depends on what those poor scores are replacing, though. If the points they are replacing are also poor, his average might not drop.

It's a pity that Ipswich fans (so far) can't give any credit to Newcastle, who I thought battled well and deserved to get something out of the meeting, especially when the odds are against them, but, hey ho! Let's hope we can carry this victory through to next week (it's only Edinburgh, after all!! ).

I'm pretty sure they will announce who, when they get official confirmation from the BSPA that the change(s) are OK.

That depends on if anyone else increases their average though! What Kingy might lose will be offset by any improvement (goes without saying depends on if riders up their average or drop their average across all 6 of them).

Now that it has been publicly announced that they have let him go, surely it has to be re-declared for Thursday?

I'm guessing that, because when Newcastle asked him to guest and they declared the team for tomorrow, he was in a team, then, yes, he can.

You build to the limit you currently have (42.90 in Workington's case), so if it is a straight replacement it is up to 3.05, Chris's current average.

Chris Mills has been told by the Comets Management tonight, that his services are no longer required. A replacement signing is "to be announced in the next couple of days." http://www.workingtoncomets.co/news/article.asp?id=100295

Chris Mills axed by Workington tonight.

So, ignoring the late withdrawal of Luke Crang, let's see who (PL) is eligible. Kasper Lykke (3.92), Oliver Greenwood (3.70), Joe Jacobs (3.37), Rafal Konopka (3.00) and, er, that's it from last night's availability. For future reference, others who qualify as PL reserve guests, who were unavailable last night: Liam Carr (3.00), Josh Bates (3.00), Paul Starke (3.63), Chris Mills (3.05),Roland Benko (3.24) Matt Williamson (3.00) and, of course Luke Crang (3.00).

Why a NL guest for Schrammy? OK, we may be limited for choice, but we can have a PL guest (up to an average of 4) to replace him, as we did on Sunday with Berwick reserve Liam Carr.

Oh yea of little faith.... Easy away win.... now where did I put those tablets....

Firstly, I hope Lewis Rose is OK after his nasty looking tumble. Secondly, well done Redcar on there thoroughly deserved victory. Thirdly, (some/many) Newcastle fans wanted an 'out and out number one' and got that. The only way to do that was by dropping two of the top 5 and bringing in a 3 pointer as well. You could argue until the cows come home which two, but I don't think it would have made an awful lot of difference (maybe Robbo apart). It's a gamble by the Newcastle promotion, but nearly everyone said 'changes had to be made' so rather than sit on their tails they made a change.

Someone posted earlier this week that Liam Carr was guesting Schrammy (Don't know if this is correct or not, though).

A bit of both, I expect, looking at the pics posted on Facebook. Looking forward to seeing the new-look 1-7 in action tomorrow. Redcar will be smarting from their hammering at Somerset last night, but I'm sure the Diamonds will be up for it.

A bit like us then! Good away point for the Diamonds. Onwards and upwards from here.