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Back in the Elite league days if Matt Ford had done that against us we'd have been moaning, but true or not seems a great move by Connor to get Jack in and gives Gary a couple of weeks to practice and get machinery sorted.

Agree, and still plenty of room for improvement by both of them.

Mind you Alex most of my posts are edited as you may have noticed due to the same infliction!

On the case even quicker than I thought! They don't hang about do they? Who's Hardis, those fat fingers again?

Surely not! Can't think what you mean?

Be interesting when the first average changes come out,if Nick Phillips has broken his wrist would be good if we can get Luke Harris down at reserve, how many points that would leave to find someone to ride at 2 I'm not sure or who's left out there, as someone else has said maybe Richie if he's recovered from his break? What ever the scenario I'm sure Connor and Martin are on the case!

Great news , gives stability at the top end, will be some other changes to come in the lower order I'm sure before the latter part of the season or injury enforced ones earlier.

Seems like it was,hopefully for Easties sake otherwise it could be tougher than we would like, although I still think we'll win by at least 12.

As long as we get all the points which I'm sure we will, hope he does, think he may end up being their top scorer if he gets 9.

If he doesn't ride heat 15 that's a maximum! Did he ever stay on the bike for 4 heats in a row in a match last year?

I had heard that he was a relation, ( probably on an earlier post of yours! ) if he is Adam's father as you say must be proud and I hope they're both pleased to be at Eastie as much as we are to have them.

Just seen on the Eagles site that Adam is riding Saturday, hope he has a good meeting with no falls or anything to make his injuries worse. Jonny the Spud the man in the know called it right again!

Really hope he will be fit for Saturday,just assumed a dislocated shoulder would put him out for at least a week or so . Never underestimate a speedway rider I suppose!

Hope as you say there's nothing too serious wherever he's riding. Assuming with a dislocated shoulder he won't be riding Saturday, but I assume we can have basically any guest with the astute signing of a high points average No 1 ? Oh I've just done an Al3x200!

Don't!! We'll have another 10 pages of should he or shouldn't he be here if your not careful.

Just shows whatever way it's done can never be perfect, I suppose Eastie had such a conveyor belt of good reserves last year never gave it much thought on when the averages were done as it had little effect on the team!

I suppose I ought to have a proper read of the rules! One tries to put logic to speedway rules but I suppose having tried to do that for the last 16 years I should learn my lesson! Although it does seem odd to have your first average done on possibly 4 home meetings and your end of season average taken across the season if that's the rule.Probably will be different next year anyway I expect.

I wasn't having a go at Luke, was just thinking that 4 matches was a little short to get a true average, not sure what the implication would be if he or a rider similar had a really good run in the last month and ended up on a 10 point average, could make it harder to get a team next year if it was thought to be a falsely high average.

Fair point, I expect it'll even out throughout the season . Although whatever systems used don't think it'll have any effect on our reserves at the moment!

That seems crazy, will get rider's like Chessell on an inflated average only just short of the likes of Adam Ellis, seems too few matches to get a true average, especially as he's only done one away!

I may be wrong but if you redeclare doesn't it still have to be within the original team building total as well?

I have heard from a reliable source that Eastbourne have managed to find another buried loophole in the rules so if Adam is on a short term contract( which I sincerely hope is not the case ) we can implement the Matt Ford all leagues clause and re sign BWD because he really should have been with us this year anyway, or Lewis Bridger because he had last year off and did his promo at Arlington last week.

Phew thought I was the only one with fat fingers,don't feel so embarrassed now!

There isn't one, don't normally watch the first round of the KO cup, tend to further on through the rounds, the combination of the lack of speedway and Adam Ellis now riding for us made the decision for 3 of us to go where we might not have.