mikebv

I believe you may well be right, but let's follow the corporate line....

Always the issue when you go with two "big hitters"... It all pretty much depends on them when the engine room struggles.. And that then in turn puts undue pressure on the reserves.. Rew looks like the one who Ipswich may not be able to wait for, given Riss and King are known performers at 3rd HL/SS level..

No one in double figures for the Aces.. A very solid team effort... Rowe will have the beating of most No7's, so worth a permanent spot I would say.. Mulford can then develop via the Championship and NDL..

It worked then....

Ans that is the thing isnt it... There are plenty of riders available nowadays as they dont ride anywhere else on a Monday and Thursday.. (apart from Polands rain off rescheduled meetings which dont take priority anyway) (Good luck with that, however).... The purpose of fixed race nights was supposedly to allow "top names" to come back to the UK... Teams in Peterborough's and Wolverhampton's position should be required to make a signing before running another match, or just be granted RR.. That would stop any "facilities" needing to be requested with all the usual discussion around their legality... Chris Holder has a set of Panthers kevlars for gods sake, (new colour too), so he should be at No1 for them tonight... It just makes the sport look amateurish when teams borrow off others, when plenty of riders are sat elsewhere who could take places... No signing. No meeting... Would stop a lot of what goes on that impacts the sports credibility I would suggest... And if not using the power of fixed race nights to get replacements in then you may as well all ride whenever you want...

You never know when you might need to take advantage of some of the rules and regs yourself.... Best of luck to Phil Morris....

Kurtz double figures for the Aces off six rides.. No one else getting that many. Bewley has too many rides against Emil and Doyle which will lower his score considerably, 8 or so would be my guess.. Wright good for a solid half dozen, probably no wins, but no lasts either.. For the rest? 12 - 14 points between them I would think would be a measure of their "Foxhall Level"...

Ice Hockey thrives on such incidents... In the US they became very focused on losing that image until they got a fan backlash, with the fans wanting such fights to happen, as it added to the spectacle and the intensity of the rivalries.. Speedway clubs willingly share riders with each other virtually every night so making the sport one that generates passionate rivalry will naturally be difficult to achieve, therefore a bit of personal rivalry can add to it..

Can"t go wrong with a bit of Morrissey...

Sadly each season brings the same feeling doesn't it? Each year you think and hope, "This year it will be ran properly".... And by each April end you resign yourself to thinking "Once again, it isnt"... Looks like less domestic Speedway again for me, and more international meetings.. Still. If tracks close down again this year, we can all blame the landlords, local councils, environmentalist's, and property developers for their demise.....

Similar to Becker... Who signed for them but didint ride for them because he was injured so got released from the team... However... When it was realised that the rider who didnt replace him, but rode in place of him, couldnt not, not replace him again, someone else came in for one night only, to not replace him instead.. And this was only allowed because they had brought the rider, who was still injured and still couldnt ride, back into the team to be replaced by the rider(s) who were not replacing him..

That's because when they get there they realise that the programme has Bomber in it riding for both teams...

But you cannot declare a team with a rider you know isn't available to ride... At least you couldn't... Or has that rule changed?

Benson maybe could become butler to the CEO, so at least one person could possibly explain everything that goes on.....

Watching Polish racing at weekend they had a methanol tank in the pits... Presumably so all riders use the same source? It used to happen over here didnt it? If so, why not just go back to this system? Elf n Safety?

Watch videos of "the old days" and riders hit the bends straighter than they do now with the full broadside getting pulled almost at the end of the turn so they could get wheels in line for the straight... Similar to how grasstrack riders still do it... This meant riders had room on the outside to make passes as they entered the bends with heavy dirt to be used to lock up and find grip via the outside, and throttle control used to put the power down to the track... Nowadays at many tracks, given they are so slick, the riders go in "sideways", on full gas, blocking much of the track, meaning not much room around the outside to pass.. Sheffield with the air fence in particular has suffered, as has Monmore since the second bend was reconfigured...

Agreed, and being a BHM it means the first leg score could have a lesser impact on the crowd than a non BHM would... A good call from the Aces..

Discovery must be really impressed with the way the custodians of UK Speedway run their version of the sport....

Would he have been allowed to guest again? Just one week after? And if they had redeclared with Scott in it for 28 days, isnt it then against the rules to redeclare the team again with a known injured rider (Becker) in it?

Don't the teams have to be out 48 hours before?

The rules today still allow a team to bring in a higher averaged rider to replace their "lesser rider" that is missing.. And if that rider is also a track expert at their place then "happy days"... Not worth getting too bothered about the rules given so much that takes place is contrived and cobbled together, often "in the interest of UK Speedway" if all else fails... Lambert's inclusion brought back a World Class rider who was worth watching whoever he rode for so the sport benefitted by many hundreds more turning up to watch him....

Easy win for the Witches... 52-38

But every team brings ringers in all season to make it to the play offs (eg Bomber last night instead of Scott,).. I mean Becker not Scott (cough cough)... So why should the play offs be any different... Just use the tried and trusted ringer operating model all through the season.

You put your Becker in... You take your Becker out... In, Out, In Out, then shake it all about... Etc etc etc ..

The more that gets announced early though, the more the scrutiny on here of it's legitimacy...... Best to just announce nothing and keep your head down... The beauty being of course that even if things may not appear to some to be 100% correct, your opponents will invariably need to do something similar later in the season so will hardly kick up any fuss... A 'win/win'. ..