Wee Eck

Sorry - who are you talking about? I’m talking about the best speedway Premiership manager.

I’m not sure why Kings Lynn are being ignored in the predictions. They’ve got the top rider from last year plus Bomber, the fast Cook and Kvech, potentially the most exciting RS in the league and undoubtedly the best team manager. Buster seems to be a bit low key these days but there’s no doubt he runs a very successful business with everything that goes on at his track.

Why? BK was signed months ago and was never available. Looking like a Sheffield vs Belle Vue final even before the season has started. Unless it is Mayfield that are taking over Ippo and they’ve persuaded a GP rider (or 2?) to sign up for the Witches.

I am told the CL fixtures are going through the final adjustments and may be out by the weekend. PL is different as there’s still no confirmation on Ipswich and Northampton. I’m sure the drafts will have been circulated - for 5 and for 6 teams - but can’t be finalised until they know how many to plan for

I suspect the requirements for flat track protective barriers is different than for speedway

What event are KL staging?

Interesting that FIM has not homologated the polyfoam barrier but SCB licences it. I wonder why that might be?

https://glasgowtigers.co.uk/glasgow-announce-british-youth-partnership/ Maybe Ashfield can become the true National Speedway Stadium

Thank you. I don’t always agree with your views but this time I do. The NDL used to work much better but the arrival of one team who looked on it as a cash cow spoiled it for everyone. Riders who were happy at £10 a point and 10p a mile discovered a team paying £25 a point and 20p a mile and everyone wanted parity. The stand alone teams, like the Moss’s at Buxton, were driven out. And now, with Poland taking the best riders and, from next year, imposing a restriction on where they can ride, why should promoters invest in a future that won’t benefit them?

Although I usually understand your bilious attacks on Poole, though not why you make them, this one has me foxed. Garritty’s Coventry “legend” was being caught hot boxing, allegedly, in his van before a meeting and being sent home. And care homes??? I doubt the Fords would want anything to do with him

Is speedway the only motorsport in Britain, two, three or four wheeled, that pays riders as soon as they make even the lowest rung of the NDL?

27.3 - daft answer but you started it

With 5 teams in the Premiership and 9 in Championship, how’s he going to do that? I expect BV to be running with 4 Championship riders this year, so they need strong riders to back up their “top” three. There is no local Championship competition to BV - their nearest Chanpionship tracks are over 100 miles away - so a strong or weak Championship is irrelevant to their crowd levels.

The answer is surely clear - the rules say only one rider OVER 8 so whether CC is 7.99 or 8.00 is irrelevant. Workington can welcome him back……

My guess is that there will be wholesale changes in the Management Board with only one or maybe even none of the existing directors remaining. The new Chairman appointed will seem to some to be an unusual choice. And I don’t expect it to be any of the three mentioned, Phil Morris, Matt Ford or Peter Facenna