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​If it's not going to be Craig Cook at number 1, we'd be best going with Wells as number 1 and a stronger reserve pairing. 1 Craig Cook 9.83 2 Dan Bewley 3.90 3 Stuart Robson 7.09 4 Joe Jacobs 5.36 5 Ricky Wells 7.92 6 Nathan Greaves 2.32 7 Matt Williamson 3.58 Total 40.00 1 Ricky Wells 7.92 2 Max Clegg 4.23 3 Rene Bach 7.53 4 Gino Manzares 5.43 5 David Bellego 7.63 6 Tom Perry 3.67 7 Matt Williamson 3.58 Total 39.99

Those list of averages are confusing, but the Comets Management confirmed that Campton would start on 4.67 for 2017 as the lowest average has dropped to 4. Nielsen would start on 4.19, Sissis and Castagna will both be 4.

It's not that long ago from the early years of the Comets re-forming that we would take coach loads of fans and match or outnumber the number of home supporters at places like Glasgow and Newcastle on a Sunday. I would enjoy the new era bandwagon while it lasts. It's a shame that most clubs nowadays only bring a handful of supporters to an away meeting.

What are you even on about here? Being a good gater is all part of being successful, most sides would bite your hand off for that, it's hard enough as it is to pass on some of the tracks in British speedway. Also you can't really compare Jorgensen to Wells, he's much more consistent and although his rolling average dropped a far bit to 7.84 last month it's still a full point more than Jorgensen. Wells last 3 home PL scores before tonight were 23233, 33323 and 23223.

Nonsense, he's just the fastest trapper in the PL. 3 jump starts tonight? they were all perfectly good starts from sitting directly in front of the tapes. 5 point average you obviously don't see that he scores double figures pretty much everywhere he goes.

Never in doubt tonight, scunny never looked like winning a heat. 15 heat winners for the Comets not often you see that happen. Mason Campton rode well tonight, never really seen him make passes like those before around DP. Alex Davies made quite a prat of himself tonight, after seemingly moaning to the ref after sliding off on his own, decided to then try riding onto the rugby pitch and when the Marshall stopped him he pushed him and threw a punch. Then after getting booed came out for Ht14, and eventually passed Roynon on the line to finish 2nd who had slowed the race down to team ride Blacklock home, Davies went round on a lap afterwards goading and enticing the fans even further. Yes well done mate, you just finished second to Ryan Blacklock.

I think it was a decent outcome for us really could of been a lot worse especially if Tungate was riding and we didn't have a bit of luck, a 10-12 point defeat would of been better of course but our reserves are a different proposition at home, plus their reserves won't ever of rode our track before.

That petition Peterborough are sharing on twitter is rather stupid and very misleading, yes the first reason the BSPA gave of blocking the team changes was rather stupid, especially by quoting that rule. But Craig Cook himself is not being blocked from riding in the PL he is free to sign for any club not riding on a Friday night, which is officially Peterborough's race night, the same as Belle Vue. Ged Rathbone was told this by Rob Godfrey, but yet he went ahead and ditched the 2 riders first anyway and now is throwing his toys out of the pram, saying he's considering his future in the sport! Unfortunate for Craig Cook and the fans as he would be the best rider in the league again but Ged Rathbone and the club are making a massive issue out of this when he ignored what the Vice Chairman had to say to him in the first place.

Worked out rather good for the diamonds in the end, Palovaara has much more potential than Aarnio.

Yeah, rolling averages include the last 2 seasons scores. These are just the averages over 5 meetings this season.

Going by my rough calculations the current averages from 5 official matches this season are: Wells 8.52 Vissing 8.33 Hansen 7.64 Jensen 5.33 Campton 5.20 Roynon 4.63 Williamson 4.19 Not a bad start. Rasmus has the most bonus points with 9.

Derwent Park, Workington is a 5 minute walk from my house, because the track is very close to the town loads of people do just walk to the track. Can't think of many tracks that are so close to the town centre.

Good night for the Comets tonight, Edinburgh very poor apart from Riss, Wolbert and Fisher who provided good entertainment. The rest of their 4 riders scored 5 points between them! Riss is spectacular on a big track, somewhat wasted on a track like Armadale perhaps. (Joke)😛 For the Comets, all round good performance, nice to see Campton winning a couple of heats after coming back from that collarbone injury, he has his knockers on here, but is still better than quite a few other foreign riders in the PL. Think we will be strong at home again this season, away form will obviously be the key factor in how we do, hopefully better than last season!

Should be a good meeting, looking forward to the heat leader battles, will be well matched around DP. Erik Riss seems like he is ever improving and will be interesting to see how fast he goes tonight. The meeting will probably be won at the bottom end as people are saying. Matt Williamson has had some decent scores already and perhaps is one of the best No7's in the league. I'll go for 52-40.

There's 1200 seats in the Grandstand, was a healthy crowd last night, they even had to apologise for running out of race cards. Overall they did well to get the meeting done rather quickly, the track was different to usual and maybe not to Hansen's liking although he still did rather well, Vissing certainly knows the fastest way around DP, looking like a great signing.

Dan Bewley is the Comets no.8 this weekend. A season to early for him being in a PL spot i would imagine, only 16 years old too I believe.

Looking at who's available under the average limit, it could be any of these: Victor Palovaara Andre Compton Josef Franc Kalle Katajisto Anton Rosen Steen Jensen Mathieu Tresarrieu Anders Thomsen Linus Eklof Jozsef Tabaka Steve Boxall Rasmus Jensen Plenty of names, but not many that stand out. Anders Thomsen would be one, but I know he's already doing quite a few leagues. I'd for Compton or Rosen.

Does anyone know if the Aussie champs going to be streamed live online again this year? I think last year it was on that speedway gone wild website?

Josh Auty's reckless move on Kenny Ingalls at Derwent Park in 2012 was one of the worst i've seen, Ingalls hasn't rode since. There was also the incident when Auty was riding in the second half as a junior 15/16 year old and rode across the centre green into one of the start gate staff and broke his leg, i remember thinking he was uncontrollable then.

Ipswich Workington Glasgow Sheffield Peterborough Newcastle Edinburgh Plymouth Somerset Rye House Scunthorpe Berwick Redcar Impossible to predict really, but all for a bit of fun...

Andy Murray was a much deserved winner, I was in Belgium for the Davis Cup final and his appreciation of the thousands of British fans in attendance was fantastic, he was still there in the arena walking round the crowd taking pictures signing autographs etc. for more than 90 minutes after the trophy was presented. A fine example of a Sports Personality in my eyes.

The Adam Ellis situation seems strange to me, Is it possibly a case of him not wanting to ride PL, because he'd be a great signing for any club on his average. I find it hard to believe he isn't being contacted by PL promoters. Logistically I don't think a move to one of the northern clubs seems to appeal to him, maybe he has other non speedway commitments.

A very good signing to complete the team , Ty Proctor is not a rider we've seen a lot of at Derwent Park down the years, his last appearance was in 2011 when he scored 8+1 guesting for us at Number 1. Before that it's almost 7 years since he last rode against us at Derwent Park in 2009 for Redcar in a team that also included a certain Mr Stonehewer.

he's been dead about 10 year I believe!

Campton has hardly had a chance yet compared to most, his spells in Britain have been stop start due to Visa issues, and even the season he had in 2014 was stop start due to him carrying an injury from June and Comets not having a fixture for 6 weeks at one stage. The guy is only 22, and has shown his potential with great results in the National and State Championships over the last 2/3 years, no reason why he won't add to his average next year, he was averaging 6.85 in 2014 in the main body of the team up until around June when the fixture situation and an injury knock didn't exactly help.