StevePark

Oh dear. Is that the best you can do? 😞

I think, if I was a Monarchs fan, I'd just be glad that they can put a team together for 2025, bearing in mind how close they were to closing due to lack of track a few years back and the "increasing" worry, year on year, that this is the last season at Armadale.

But it is his (assessed) average now that counts, surely, so they should have the choice, IMO.

Castagna back at Edinburgh. https://x.com/EdinMonarchs/status/1869721989771894875

IMO the bubble went "pop", for most, many years ago.

Castagna confirmed, and as Captain. https://x.com/EdinMonarchs/status/1869721989771894875

Patrick. A quick look through Google and I can't see anything after 2019, so I'm guessing he has quit??

What do you want them to say .... "We've signed a bit of a dud, but hey ho" ????

He can't be less than his original assessed average, so if he was on a 4.00 he can't drop below that, no matter how many official meetings he rode in.

Don't think George Congreve has a British passport either, but he was still allowed to ride NDL in the same season as Pearson. I think (could be wrong) they allowed Commonwealth riders to ride in the NDL in that year (2023), but have since reversed that decision?

He did it a few years back with Newcastle.

12th July 2025. https://britishspeedway.co.uk/miscellaneous/scb-statement-nick-morris-3/

Well, yes, but only if Foord was willing to be the "sacrificial lamb". Perhaps he decided it wasn't worth signing, knowing he'd be dropped, so waited until a full contact from another club was offered?

Yes..... but which Michael Max ??? LOL

The "problem" is, in my opinion, there are quite a few NDL standard riders out there, it's just proving a too bigger step up to Championship level for a lot of them. I think Newcastle tried 3, maybe 4 and none of them were ready for the Championship and I include Jack Smith in that.

It was.

Sam Masters Oxford https://britishspeedway.co.uk/cab-direct-championship/masters-to-lead-cheetahs/

IMO it's how it should and indeed used to be. Top riders in the Champ at reserve in the top league (or at the very most, second strings). But, sadly, those days are long gone.

Could be. Maybe I can..... Could be.

17. Born 30 March 2007.

He had one in August 2016.

Most, if not all, ideas will have been suggested pre-meeting. Day two will be mainly just "dotting the i's and crossing the t's".

They could always be "novel" and switch the pairings between home meetings and away meetings. But, for some strange reason, teams don't seem to do that and just keep the same 1-7 in their riding positions home and away.

Probably more likely to be Keith McGhie, he's certainly been the Redcar SS "correspondent" in the past.

Barker, J Thompson, Gilkes and Bowtell will all have a reduction on those figures quoted.