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Yes, but they are willing to put the effort in 8 days a week.

Hancock and Holder are yesterdays riders, would you really want either?

Maybe Len doing what he's done before and signing someone before a confirmed average, just 'assuming ' he'd come on a 2, or he knew the other six from word go and having Ledwith on a 2 or a 4 made no difference and was going to have him whatever?

Glad that's all cleared up then

I always advocated that over the last few seasons when the likes of Eastie, Kent and Birmingham were in the NL it was a perfect training ground for the likes of Brennan, Kemp, Flint and many others but there were some who said it wasn't a "development " league and costs too high, if it goes down the route it appears to be going it'll disappear and harm the prospects of future riders of the like. Hope I'm wrong!

No surprise, obviously found his level.

Can't remember the last time Eastie got a bye in the first round of the ko cup, nailed on to win it this year, with a few of the fancied runners to go out early, especially with our trick track that has such a home advantage( just want to get that in early as it's bound to come up at some point), last season was just a blip in our record of ko cups victories in all the other leagues.

If they don't know for sure it's dodgy really, and Len has history of building a team before all the facts are known and coming unstuck, although can't believe he won't be 2.00?

He'd have to be at reserve then to be lower down the order than at Eastie,(rode at No2 normally)which maybe the case?

That is an astonishing thought!

Nothing against Rob Ledwith and hope he stays safe and injury free, but it does seem strange that all the years in the NL that Kent haven't nurtured a couple youngsters (like Eastie have with Brennan and Edwards to name 2) knowing at somepoint the step up could happen. Of course if the other reserve is a talented youngster maybe some sense in it.

It does seem if people talk about Eastie being a top heavy team , we're not talking about the riders. But suppose it worked pretty well in our first season in this league, and looks likely to be better still next season.

Not sure, but sounds like something I may have missed out on in my youth?

Everyone just stop posting on it and it'll soon drop to the bottom of the page, bollocks, just added another post to it and sent it to the top.

When you see him week in, week out, he's hard not dirty. When he was at Eastie in his prime there were some astonishing races at close quarters with Jason Crump especially and with Leigh Adams, Peter Karlsson etc, the like of which I've never seen since. Never an inch given but what excitement. If he's anything like that now, enjoy it whilst you can.

Eastie fans are renowned for taking racers to their hearts and generally never put pressure on them if they have a bad patch. Think Drew will become another fans favourite, and that's why we always have a high percentage of returning riders if points allow.

Not a lot to compare it with at the moment, so we'll see when all are complete I suppose.

We are quite a positive lot at Eastie aren't we ? Just nice to see good positive posts from word go, not always the case on here at times!

Eastie are really making an effort to get younger fans in, and was noticable last year how many leaned over the fence for high fives etc with the riders on parade/victory laps. The likes of Tom and Jason are relatable to them as they don't look a lot older than some of the crowd! Having another youngster can only be good, and as Richard says some out and out racers, may not win the league, but should be some good racing with this team.

Quite a bit of room for improvements though, which is normally the key. Welcome to Drew, sure he'll thrive in the Eastie family. Unless someone in the main body has a dreadful run, Drew and Jason should be at reserve all season, which can only be a good thing for 2 young riders in this league.

The team building was the problem and the whole team didn't perform. As H has touched on if one or both had started as second strings may have been there at the end. Still, helped us out last year after Tom's dreadful injury, and we now have another team player who wants to ride for us over others.

If Tom is fully recovered and back to somewhere near the speed before his injury last year, the engine room of 2/3/4 is so much better than last year(at the start of the season)so all bodes well, whether it's Kyle at 2 or Tom, will be stronger straight away from heat 1, especially at home.

If that is the case I'd go for Wood, if it turns out to a 4 for Spiller go with him.

Because of the leagues he's ridden in Dan Spiller will probably be an assessed 4, still think it'll be him as he was made an asset earlier in the year.

Got to be Dan Spiller for me, again got to be applauded for an all British team if the final place is one of the 3.