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By the sound of it any rider that has never ridden in the pl or ever had over 3 ave if they did A few good riders to pick from http://speedwaygb.co/files/downloads/nl15_issue_24.pdf

Is it not any NL rider that has not had a ave over 3 in the pl that able to take number 7 spot there us a helava lot if decent riders in the NL it's just about getting the right one if you think max Clegg and James Sargent came in this year as 3 pointers look at them now

Stewart told me the very same today and he has been quite supprized with some of the names of the top riders that are asking him We even have a open practice this Sunday with 12 NL riders coming for it they think they must be in with a chance of our number 7 position or sussing the track out

Think max Clegg rob Branford have both stepped up this year as max said in his interview after final he has learned so much from the likes of cookie and Sam masters sedgy and if your willing to listen to these guys you will improve

Have been told that If they have a pl ave over 3 they can't be #7 so we will need around 21 NL riders between elite and PL with clubs that own riders having first choice of there rider so think Liam Carr will be Berwicks and Danny Phillips will be at Peterborough

REPORT FOR THE MEETING Yesterday saw the 2015 NJL Riders Championship take place at The Peugeot Ashfield Stadium Glasgow. From the original line up we lost Luke Ruddick who discovered bike problems during the warm up with reserve Northsides Kev Whelan stepping in. Heat 1 had the first mishap of the day with Josh Embleton flipping his bike doing a practice start on the back straight. He then failed to beat the 2 minutes. Ht 2 saw Ben Basford fall while leading but remounted to secure a point as George Rothery threw a chain. The next incident was heat 4 with Rothery taking a tumble and Kev Whelan laying down to try and avoid the fallen rider. Both riders were ruled out from the rest of the meeting George with broken fingers and Kev with damaged machinery. In between the mishaps there were a few good races in particular a tussle between Smith and McKenna in Heat 1 and a tremendous pass by MacDonald on Douglas in Heat 6. The scores after the qualifying heats were Josh Embleton 3 Blair Smith 5 Ryan MacDonald 9 Luke Mckenna 3 Kev Whelan 3 Ben Basford 7 George Rothery 0 Kieran Douglas 5 The final was initially led by Ben Basford with MacDonald doing the chasing when Basford suddenly slowed going in to the first bend in lap 2. The chasing MacDonald took avoiding action that caused him to slide off with the race being stopped. It was then discovered that Ben had slowed when he saw the red brake lights of a van leaving the stadium. The referee ordered a rerun with all 4 riders. MacDonald gated next time round and stayed in front till the chequered flag. Final result 1st Ryan MacDonald 2nd Ben Basford 3rd Kieran Douglas 4th Blair Smith Once again thank you to Glasgow speedway for allowing this to go ahead and to track photographer Ian Adam for the photograph.

Good team management by Somerset putting Luke chessals in HT 13 for his third ride giving Jensen and worrell HT 14 which won the match great meeting

Eastbourne and Birmingham both moved to NL this year and there crowds are well up and have made money from what I am told the racing is really good and berwick would or could have 3/4 locals in their team can't get any better publicity than that really or is it something about having 7 Brits each team give them a decent team and the crowds will come

At 17 it should really be a hobby along side a full time job like it used to be years ago when nearly every rider had a full time job and worked there speedway around it, it's now become a full time job for most riders now so they demand top wages for it

Glasgow staying PL

Had seen that Kieran was named as reserve and now been overlooked not nice for the lad what was the case for naming him as reserve for the meeting then not giving him a chance at his local track and someone else for the locals to shout for

Sure it is Ryan blacklock in for max Clegg

Young local lad kerion Douglas should be in now that's 3 real locals to cheers for

The thing is do the promotors really promote it right these days looking at Glasgow now changed days since last year every social media sight has info regards results next matches riders they are even on trip adviser it needs to be put out there for people to see and there attendances have about tripled and there 3 hospitality cabins are pretty much full every week it needs to be marketed right

It's always on till it's off at Armadale lol got its own mini climate

Ricky wells and Arron summers

Qualifying was postponed yesterday dew to heavy rain and will be on today

Don't think you get a lot of traveling support in NL but think there would be less to pay out no flights big points money or vans etc and it's still speedway and it would keep the door opened rather than have to close it

Would they not be better going NL , Eastbourne did it this year and have had better crowds than they did in the elite league and from what you read it's affordable and the racing seems to be better

He is a Eastbourne asset

Would like it to be adam Ellis

Pretty sure john also bought 2 new full chassis at the start of the year as well as 2 new engines and being a number 1 you need pretty good equipment even to ride in the NL normal blow ups big or small end bearings going can be fixed pretty easy but when you have to basically chuck most of the main parts in the bin with johns first blow up the the rod broke only after 13 heats and then went throught casings also went throught the barrel and cracked it and the piston flipped and went into the head and done the valves not much left after that ,and when you start the season your hoping to make enough throught the year to recoup what you spend at the start but most never do and his van also chucked it a month back and had to get another one also ,you don't do this sport at NL level to make money you do it for the love and the adrenalin rush for 1 minute every race only a racer will know about that

The tracks looks ten times times better than last year anybody can see that