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The SCB really need to look into this.

The averages would fit for a change next month if Poole preferred Jenkins / Fredriksen / Battye to Bowes. Think Berwick would be most likely to drop Fredriksen.

Whole Poole are massive favourites with Bowes in the team, won't be quite as dominant when he goes to reserve. I still expect them to win the treble, if they can get past Berwick. In the past they've strengthened up already strong teams, that's why I'm surprised Bowes is still there.

Think Poole are favourites, especially if using r/r for Bowes, with strong looking reserves.

Riders will want to earn money, so won't like being told not to guest. From a Berwick perspective, they could hope more regular racing will help keep the riders on form. There's so many guests these days, riders racing for one team, then against them the next day doesn't shock me.

Can't be any more expensive that running with Wright, King & Riss last year. It's not obvious who to drop if trying to fit in Wright & Klindt, some are so inconsistent it's hard to judge who to keep.

I'd imagine after turning his season around at Berwick, Jenkins would want to stay?

The points limit would stop that happening, unless of course they allowed a squad system? Could be beneficial for certain riders who don't want to commit to a full seasons matches over here?

How could that ever work? Only 5 GP standard riders willing to ride in Britain so you ban them all?

Withholding his services & a 28 day ban then?

I think Berwick will be the happier of the 2 teams, but would still fancy Poole to progress if they had a full strength team at Berwick. I'm a bit surprised Poole have stuck with Bowes for so long, normally quick to make changes.

I don't think a rider can miss a match due to riding abroad & then not ride abroad, so surely it'd have to count as an injury causing him to miss the Poole match?

To defend Oxford here, they signed two 2 point something reserves, so can't expect too much of them, although Wood has done far better than expected. But he's been more up & down recently. For me their biggest issues are at the top of the team, Masters & Rowe down on last year's form & potential trump card Riss missing a lot of the season. Also thought McDiarmid would've improved more in his second season. As for Jenkins, in hindsight he may have done better than Kennett, but why would Oxford have signed a rider averaging below 4 in 2026 to replace a heat leader?

can't imagine any scenario where Jenkins doesn't stay at Berwick

But it was acceptable for the paying public to lose out when Klindt didn't turn up for Plymouth last year, or when riders are "banned" for being ill / non-speedway injury, Rushen for example after being injured because he didn't declare the injury when he crashed. In these situations the paying public losing out doesn't bother the powers that be. Although my hope would be, that Lawson / Poole knowing there's no facility would lead to him racing for Poole! If you're cool with facilities here, we'll have to agree to disagree.

Workington don't have a team match on Saturday. Looks like they've picked the best date for a benefit meeting. In general as there's a lot less fixtures, should be easier for clubs to avoid missing riders for overseas meetings.

Still don't think it's right, while nobody likes rider missing matches, it's more understandable when it's an away Danish rider at Poole or Oxford & can't be avoided. But in this case, Lawson must expect Poole to get extra matches in all the competitions & be aware rain-offs can happen. To me, his agreement with a Danish team should be "I'll ride when Poole don't have a fixture", if they don't agree - don't sign for them. If he's really desperate to ride in Denmark, don't sign for a Wednesday club! From Berwick's point of view, they shouldn't sign a rider who would miss Saturday meetings, one of the reasons why Kemp left. I feel this is a situation where a facility shouldn't be allowed.

I'm a very keen speedway fan, but I've seen very little about Mildenhall, especially upcoming meetings. I'd suggest they need to advertise better, especially on free social media platforms.

I think I would prefer to keep Allen over Edwards if making a double change. But who's the best 2 pointer available, feel like they'd be signing someone very unlikely to beat any opposition riders. Plus Wright, may not get back to his previous form straight away.? I think an Allen / Lambert or Edwards / Lambert combination would score more than Wright & a 2 pointer.

While some may feel Garrity had paid his debt to society, I wouldn't want him at my track if I was a promoter & I wouldn't attend a meeting in which he was riding.

On defence of MPT, what do you expect from a 6 point rider racing in the difficult number 5 position? You can't magically declare he should be an 8 point rider, just because he's the second heat leader. I'm sure Scunthorpe & MPT hoped for a little improvement, rather than holding his average, but what 6 point rider is gonna come in & score points as their back up to Pickering? If a heat leader was available, should've signed him after Pickering's average dropped and before Ingram's average rose. So blame the management for not having a second heat leader, rather than a "second string" having to ride "out of position".

I would say "in hindsight bad decision to drop Jenkins for Lambert" You mention Lambert scoring 13 points in 4 meetings, but Jenkins scored 7 points in his last 4 meetings before being dropped! Could Redcar fans more more annoyed at the rider saying "why didn't you do that for us" rather than at the management for replacing him?

Need to be honest here, Jenkins was having a terrible time at Redcar averaging 3.52 (4.48). For a rider signed on a 6+ average, even Jenkins's biggest fans would have to admit it was a disastrous start to the season. Had he been showing his Berwick form, he'd be a heat leader & not dropped. There was always a chance he would find form at reserve, but he wouldn't have dropped down in June, could Redcar afford to wait another month? I wouldn't have preferred Lambert to Jenkins pre-season, but at the time of the change can understand the move. I don't think Lambert is scoring any less for Redcar than Jenkins was.

I'll give credit to Kemp for trying to further his career, leaving the Champ to try & make it in Poland / Latvia. His return also shows there's a safety net, any heat leader who leaves the Champ, will almost certainly find a team spot when they want to return due to lack of heat leaders.

Well done to the Brits who qualified 🙂