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Just read about travel restrictions to Germany. Anyone know if that's gonna impact Erik? Right royal pain if it does as r/r certainly won't do us any favours

If rider numbers are an issue, rather than fiddling with league structures and limiting teams, the only sensible option in my opinion would have to be 6 man teams. Double up/down should still be an option, but limited to one or two per team at most (or injury cover). Surely the powers to be should looking to start at beginning of April after the current restrictions are due to end, with some kind of small tournament for April. Leagues to start in May. If restrictions drag on past the start of April, then scrap the 'small tournament' - although that should be a last resort as riders will be in dire need of track time to get back up to speed. And they should be lobbying our parliament representative NOW so that speedway can hit the ground as soon as is possibly allowed. Crowd numbers in stadia are unlikely to be an issue going on last Octobers guidelines

SCB?

Where is it going to be built? On the centre grey or in the car park behind the stadium...?

Should we change our nickname from stars to the 'Brady Bunch'

Isn't it boring on here now we know our team?!

Out team is built to the team average allowed this season, so in theory is no stronger or weaker than any other team. All teams have strengths and weaknesses through their teams, I'm not sure there is a clear favourite at the moment. Yes it depends on how each rider goes and you would hope our top two do the business more regularly than last season. That takes the pressure off the bottom end a little, hopefully enable them to score better... If it goes pear shaped early doors then the promotion need to be more on the ball than last season when changes were made way too late. Top 4 out of 7 should be achievable, then it's anyone's guess. .

Which Friday?!

So, when do we get the final piece of the team jigsaw announced?

Beat me to it! Is he related to Ali Bongo? He might be a magic signing if that's the case!

Think that's Cookie as well, mind you I mistook Schroek for Riss the other week, so not sure I can be trusted!

Peter Schroek now saying we need to give more British youngsters a chance. I read that as we'll have a youngster at no. 7, not necessarily a very experienced one, which maybe means not Cookie....or we will be understrength before we even start

But I like the idea of 5% reduction! Would give British riders even better chance of team places. Always felt 2.5% was a bit low

Not SL please! He'll get zero points away and on a good day will pick up a few at home. I'm no expert, but he's still not mastered the art of sliding a bike round a corner. Goodness only knows how he has eke'd out a career so long

Riss did look slow towards end of season, but put that down to loss of his no.1 bike, and others not being quite as quick. I think it'll be Harris plus a suprise signing. Would give us a solid look

Basically a good shape, but do think a bit of extra width in the bends (and hence slightly shorter straights) would help.....

Wouldn't surprise me if Harris ended up being in the team, He couldn't get to grips with Foxhole and has got to be better than his current average. On his day he can put in a decent top rider score and win crucial heats

Cook arrived too late, for some reason we seemed to have nearly all our away matches in the first half of the season, so limited opportunities to get anything on the road once cook arrived. Hope there is a better spread in 2020

I'm liking the much better paced announcements this year, although would hope we'll be all done and dusted by the new year, or early new year. It's Bartosz Zmarzlik on a 7 point average

MPT is definitely the better all round rider home and away than both lewis and tj and should have been on the team sheet. Be surprised if we can fit him in now. Our loss is someone else's gain. Sentiment does not win the league

Assuming Robert Lambert returns and shows his 2018 form that'll make a big difference. That would lift the rest of the team, whether that's the same team as last year or not. The key could simply be the right no. 7

Definitely not an inspiring start, hope the next announcements are better

Broc Nichol has signed for Wolves, thought we had him signed earlier this year, so lined up for 2020. looks like a few decent sides out there being announced, wonder what inspiring options we'll be left with

True, but don't mind one at a time or all at once, but if it is one a time every couple of weeks at most so we know by early in the new year

Whatever the team next year, I just hope the announcements aren't drip fed through til March