BigRackBandit

Think your Polish rankings are spot on.

The main reason locals that I know have decided not to go regularly anymore is simply the lack of excitement - They would pay the £14.50 charge every meeting if they believed that they would see some good racing most weeks.

Do you want us to be doing this every home meeting?

A fair number Bandit fans spend alot of money travelling the country to support the Bandits, if you saw the support the Bandits received on the away tour this season, you'd realise quite alot of fans care passionately about how the Bandits do away from home. I agree with this part of your post though, nothing more exciting than watching Lee pull off stunning passes around Shielfield, which sadly not many other riders can do, which makes him special to watch around Shielfield. I'm very undecided on whether I'd retain Lee, if it were my decision to make.

How many meetings does a rider need to ride, to obtain an average? As of yesterday, Nicki Barrett has rode 4H and 4A averaging 3.87 ( I think) I've only managed to get to 3 of his meetings, anybody seen enough of him to think he might be a steal on that average for 2013?

Hopefully we prepare our track differently to their last visit as the track that night suited them perfectly.

Hate Man Utd even more now

Hope the doylems on the terracing beside the 1st bend, who celebrated Dyer's crash as if Boro won the FA Cup final have got their voices back...and before anyone else uses the cliche, I'm aware every track has their share of idiots. Piss poor performance by Berwick all round, find it hard to believe that we are persisting with Jacobsen, nice guy but does the management really expect him to score points when he's constantly last to the first bend? Surely there was better choices of guests around?, especially for Alden. Fair play to Redcar, there were up for it and gated well all night.

Ladgin'

Not been to Shielfield too often this season then? Hopefully its working out well, I'll continue to attend every week if it remains £10...before the promotion made the decision to lower the admission a few weeks ago, I had been finding it hard to motivate myself to hand over £14.50 for the on-track entertainment provided.

Michal Makovsky. Testimonials should be given after 10 years consecutively at a club..not 10 years spread over several clubs when the rider decides to turn up.

No brainer for Seb, possibly get his team promoted to the Elitserien in Sweden and pick up a big pay slip in the process. Its hardly like he's been missing near enough every other week like Pepe Franc not so long ago. Having said that, I assume Seb will be missing Redcar A next Thursday as well.

Sevco were outplayed by Rangers simply, loved cheering us on from a bar in Cardiff. Looking forward to hopefully watching a good meeting for £10 on Saturday, hopefully plenty Monarchs come doon.. A hog roast sounds coosty too

The most important thing I think, is for it to be an entertaining event, to encourage those who come on Wednesday for £8, to feel they have been sufficiently entertained so they'll continue coming fir £14.50

Same ere

I've no received my tickets yet, anyone else in the same boat?

1 Nicolas Covatti WC 7 Jarek Hampel (Vaculik) 7 Freddie Lindgren 5 Hans Andersen

I wish!

Howay Ricky Ashworth!

Delighted, wish I could have made it to the showground!

E1: G Laguta, R Fisher, G Walasek, NK Iversen E2: K Wolbert, ADryml, C Harris, C Holder

Hopefully G Laguta gets an FIM pick for 2013

Zmarzlik Bjerre Holder Sayfutdinov

More to do with the Grand Prix rider rule in Poland I think, went for the big money at Torun rather than going straight into the Gp.

Wouldn't have thought so, all he needs to do is ask, and he'll be straight in the SGP series