spin king

Home is Australia to Rob Branford and where his family lives. He has already stated his preference to ride as a Brit. Whether or not he makes the grade remains to be seen, no argument that he has not done it yet, and maybe yourself and SCB could be right in that he may never. But listening to Team Managers and Promoter that have had him in their team they have all said his equipment is poor.

I would prefer to see a programme rather than the race card.

Leigh Lanham would fit into the team nicely. Would leave us with 18.21 for the remaining 4 places. Maybe throw in someone like Dakota North. That would leave us 11.66 for 3 remaining places Add Andre Compton. That would leave 7.30 for 2 remaining places Stick in Facu Albin as one of the reserves. That would leave 3.68 for the last position. Then add either Ollie Greenwood or Damien Koppe. Not a bad side I don't think.

I think with Rob Branford the talent and promise is there, the missing element is his equipment, for some unknown reason he has neverquite got any decent sponsorship. Maybe spending a season back home working hard to gt himself some decent kit and coming back over we might see the rider that does have that talent and promise.

Spot on Third Man. 10 years service deserves a meeting for Ricky Ashworth especially when you see riders Kasperzak getting a meeting. Nice to see the new owners have been sorted out, would be nice to know who the consortium is but suppose we will find out in the near future. Hopefully we can now move on and build a team to be proud of. Personally don't want to go Elite, much prefer to stay with the Premier. And I suppose its a case of dusting down trainers for a sponsored walk. Wonder who will the one to volunteer for their sponsored chest wax.

About time, even I was starting to get a bit twitchy and impatient.

I don't know, never been to a meeting where he is doing centre green duties. But he sounds a bit of a character, and I like characters and there a rare in the sport at the moment.

I have always like Marmite.

http://www.thestar.co.uk/sport/other-sports/speedway/tigers-ace-out-to-beat-injury-jinx-1-6333459 As it says in the article it was Lasse Bjerre.

Is it not about time that this Christmas Cracker meeting was put to bed. Speedway is a summer sport and that is where it should stay, I cannot for the life of me understand why anyone would want to go, I doubt that the racing is much cop, there is every chance that the weather is going to beat the meeting. I have seen photo's of people at these meetings and they look absolutely froxen, every year I have consider going to this meeting and its take me about 3 seconds to realise that its not a good idea.

Apparently that should be sorted out very soon, so we can then move upwards and onwards.

Very expensive, and I don't expect it to be the Sheffield team, but put it out to basically emphasis that there is still a raft of riders out there who could be or are available, and there is more that are possible signings that could be available. I have to admit that I am pleasantly surprised that there is so many potential signings out there for us still to go at.

Or we could go with an exceptionally top heavy top 4. (1) Stead (2) Albin (3) Roynon (4) North/ Klindt (5) Morris (6) Koppe (7) Greenwood

It is a shame that we have lost out on Lasse Bjerre. But I believe that he is a Peterborough asset and the chances were that as soon as Peterborough announced that they were running they were going to be favourites to get his name. The ownership of the club is proving to be frustrating, But Mr Machin is perfectly entitled to get as much money for the club as he can get, and with more than one interested party he will be getting as much as he can for his investment while hopefully securing a future for the club. And I am still amazed even with team filling up there are still potentially plenty of riders out there for the club to go for and still have what I think will be a competitive team for us to support. The next two signing could well be for the lower end of the team, but lets not forget the two signings are for the top end of the team so the chances are they could well be the lower end of the team that get sorted next.

Clearly, this situation has highlighted what can go wrong when its is consortium runs a club, and hopefully lesson will be or should be learnt. Each member should have clear and defined roles and responsibilities within the team. No matter what people think of Mark Lemon, the way the Plymouth promotion has gone about negotiating a deal and then reneging on the deal is very poor and makes them look highly unprofessional. Lets hope that they have learnt from the experience and learn to get their house in order.

Nick Morris posted the following statement on his Facebook page yesterday. "Big news coming gonna be some upset speedway fans but have to do what's best for myself." With only Sheffield now in a position to offer Nick Morris a place in the Premier League place. Could Nick be looking to change his Elite League team to get him a ride in the Premier League. Have young Nick in the side would leave us a tad top heavy, but with creative team building we could be looking at a team that could look like this; Simon Stead Andre Compton Adam Roynon Tero Aarnio/ Josef Tabaka Nick Morris Damien Koppe Ollie Greenwood With Ben Wilson returning back to the sport why not name him as the Sheffield number 8, with the promise if any of the lower end of the team does not perform he could come into the side.

The word is that the Bradford project is dead in the water.To be honest I am not sure whether I would want Tony Mole in the long term. In the short term he will bring stability to the club and we would be safe, but he never stays at c lub for long before he sells up. I think we would be looking for new owners within 5 years if Tony took the club on.

Be interesting to see how he goes, if he does okay I don't see him staying at that level for very long.,

Latest news from the local rag. http://www.thestar.co.uk/sport/other-sports/speedway/uncertainty-over-tigers-future-to-be-resolved-soon-1-6332006

Hope so promised me the Team Manager's job.

Heard about two or three possible buyers. (1) I a Local Consortium of business people. (2) A Foreign Investor. (3) Squall and his Dad who have allegedly had a massive win on the scratch cards. .

We don't know its a mystery.

Either would do for me. But Ashley Birks would offer us more chance to put together a more balanced team. So ideally I would hope for Rob Godfrey plumping for young Nick, and Ashley coming to Sheffield. EDIT Just look at the points left to Scunny they cannot fit Nick Morris into their team.

Sounds like an episode of Soap.

So if in theory rider has a fixture clash with his club the team in brackets get the services of that rider.