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You should've seen him at Brandon last year. In his rides im not sure he completed a full lap combined!

I pay £18 to watch CCFC and Wasps at the Ricoh Arena, £18 at Brandon would seem steep to a general sports fan compared to that.

With some on the heatleader list averaging under and just over 6 it wont take much for them to drop a little more and some reserves averaging over 6 after 4 meetings. Garrity and Newman averaged over 7 at reserve last season I believe.

Horton has a plan! Suggested this would be the case a couple of months back regarding the heatleader list and the Woryna signing.

Larsen may be involved in the SGP and SEC qualifiers? Would almost certainly miss a few home meetings if that's the case. Having said that id still sign him if there was any chance.

Larsen should've been a priority for Coventry too, I get the feeling he isn't keen on a full British season.

Maybe Sweden? In Britain he'd be classed as one if he had rode here recently. I just scan results from abroad and always seems to score well in Poland and Sweden. No surprise he is doing well but those names show how well he actually did last season. Just checked he was number one at the end of the season.

I think Larsen should be considered a number 1, he's a much better rider than he was when he was last riding here. King's Lynn will have a decent side if they sign him.

Ive heard they have placed a large order of Yellow and Black paint to make us feel at home.

There is a real possibility that someone like Danny King can drop into a reserve role after a few matches using this system. You cant tell me that he wouldnt clean up and score double figures, the points and wage compared to him and Bates would be huge. You could say the same with Lindgren even in a 2nd string role. Surely if they were saving money they'd keep the draft rider in the reserve positions? The previous format would stop this and make it more difficult for draft rider to move up, top 5 to move down and if one did move down would have a much more difficult set of heats than is the case now. Some draft riders will average 7+ while at reserve and we've seen heatleaders average 5 with this format. It will happen.

We thought British Speedway was a farce....

Now that the top 5 can drop into reserve I dont see how it would save money.

Yep its certainly not needed in 2016.

It would work if Bees were regular visitors to Wasps games and Wasps were banned from Brandon! I think links with other clubs can work especially on presentation and getting the sport/club noticed. That is one thing that annoys me most. It cannot be difficult to put some advertising out and about the city, In Coventry you'd hardly know we had a speedway team. They do attend the odd local event and the advert at showcase cinema was good to see. I even offered on the FB page a year or 2 back to put a poster at my work where over 400 people work. Didnt get a response.

But it wouldn't matter as they'd have started in the reserve position and get a new average after 4 meetings anyway. They'd be comparable to the other draft riders who would also had inflated averages

Coventry Bees seem to announce link ups often but not sure about the benefits. They announced a link up with Wasps a while back so hopeful of something happening there as Wasps make the matchday entertaining before and after matches with decent size crowds. Hopefully Bees can participate in Wasps family fun zones they do before matchdays.

But they could have simply increased the points limit to compensate and use what ever average they did achieve in 2015.

Can we change the rules so we can have an extra double up rider? We could sign Simon Stead then 😉. Just shows how ridiculous changing team building rules would be.

Of course id prefer my side to he competitive but it'll only be my clubs fault if they wasn't. Cant just add a fundamental rule in team building just because some have messed it up.

Kurtz may struggle early on especially with new away tracks but I'm sure he will soon get to grips with the EL.

Leicester will be miles worse. Cant see them having a genuine heatleader!

If a rule change is implemented just weeks before a season then that would be me pretty much done with the sport even if my side gain an advantage from it.

Only the tier 2 riders stay in the reserve position from what we have read/heard from various promoters.

Now though we will get foreign riders in a reserve position with protected heats after the 1st set of averages.

We are going to have similar chats about the same issues next winter as it seems the format is staying the same. Even the BSPA notices the imbalance hence the heatleader list. I just dont understand why we cannot now go back to the old format now one reserve can move up and vice versa.