Hamish McRaker

C.Holder I think may be a quite complex character who can switch quickly from easy-going to awkward/difficult if something isn't right in his eyes. I imagine he can be difficult to manage, especially if the manager lacks good man-management skills. Holder seems to have got this way over the past 2-3 years and if he doesn't do something about it, nobody will want to employ him. Batchelor comes across as childish, someone who tends to blame anyone or anything except himself for his shortcomings or when the going gets tough. He would also be quite difficult to manage. Together they probably present a considerable challenge to manage, beyond the capability of the majority of speedway managers and promoters. Together they could also have a significantly negative influence on team harmony.

Would seem that K.Chapman has got some serious thinking to do, and needs to make crucial decisions within a short time. The future of Kings Lynn speedway is at stake, so he needs to get it right. No pressure.

Holder is only here because he has to be here, not because he wants to be

I suppose this is a consequence of SGP but I miss proper international test matches. With Poland now having such a dominant position, wouldn't it make sense for Sweden, Denmark and GB (and maybe Australia) to organise series of international matches, with a requirement for teams to have 50% under23 riders? Providing riders with the chance of gaining experience of this kind must be essential if these nations are to have any hope of matching the Poles? They need to co-operate

Rule 57a (subsection 3.2b) introduced for 2017 states:"Where an injury replacement is made for a rider with Ginger hair, the replacement rider must also have Ginger hair." Looks pretty much cut and blow-dried to me

.....for Lebedevs and Gomolski

You need to jettison Morris and Gapp.

Przedpelski is averaging about 4.8 for Torun this season from 5 matches. Greg Walasek (remember him?) is averaging about 5.3 from 6. Looks like Torun are preferring to use Walasek now.

Nicki Pedersen?

Natalie is great. But I get the feeling she is trying to flog a dead horse attempting to entice Nicholls to stray from the utterly banal and bleeping obvious. She is very professional in not allowing her frustration to show in that respect, unlike Perry who occasionally does. Pearson reminds me of a rather poor version of Murray Walker. His brain and mouth don't seem to be in complete synch. Tatum tries to play the James Hunt role apart from the hollering. And this thing with deliberately using the stock phrases is well past it's sellby date.

The new averages will give Leicester just over 1 point extra for rider changes. So a 7-pointer for Garrity is possible. Or a 6.14 -pointer for Bjerre. But who could be available? Especially with all the Saturday home fixtures in August.

Saw film of a World Cup final from the late 1970s the other day. On a big Polish track. England (GB?) stuck it to the Poles. What interested me was the riding style. Very much foot forward into bends 1 and 3 for the most part. Today, the riders left foot hardly touches the track. Are we back to the leg trailing era, or is it now a third era of riding style?

How very careless. Somebody has clearly slipped up with the averages engineering.

The future could be ginger

Gordon Kennett would be better than Edward. With what is available now,team changes are more like musical chairs for the sake of it. If Edward Kennett was chopped because he was struggling away from Rye House, why sign him? And as somebody has said, Garrity will probably be fit again before the August fixtures come along. Scaphoids are notoriously tricky though

It would be no surprise to me if young Mr Gomolski shows up again on the south coast before long.

How likely was Hans Andersen's mechanical failure caused by the condition of the track?

It sums up the state of the country for me. We've been taken over by flip-flop wearing antipodeans or faux Australian surfers and bloody lefty metropolitan liberals. Wouldn't surprise me to see that Grajonek walking out the pits wearing pink flip-flops, mini skirt and toe nails painted bright red next time.It's not hard to figure out why Muslims see this country as a soft target to take over, which will happen soon the way things are going.

If my vehicle breaks down and I have to use a call out mechanic, do I want some Australian bum wearing girlie flip flops to turn up? I'd tell him ( or her) to put on some proper footwear. Otherwise my stoutly booted foot would "accidentally" tread on one of his.

It's not so much the safety thing, more revulsion at seeing a bloke wearing a little pair of girlie shoes. You don't find on duty soldiers going round wearing prissy little pairs of flip flops. Man up, Grajonek and other flip floppers, let's keep standards up.

It was during the British final on Monday when I saw something which almost caused me to regurgitate my beer. Mr Grajonek who I gather was assisting a rider as part of his pits crew, sauntered out onto the track wearing a pair of flip flops on his feet. Where did he think he was? Bondi bloody beach surfers convention or somewhere? Why the blazes wasn't he wearing a pair of good sturdy, manly boots. Why wasn't he made to don something more appropriate.

I make it there's only 0.46 left to play with. So not likely you will have a new rider being brought in from outside the Uk. What would Ben Barker's average be?

Well at least it gives more choice for the R/R for Garrity. Which will probably be needed quite regularly

Who would he replace? Theres a gaping gap between Leicester and the rest of the league under these new averages. Is Newman the signing to bridge it - or have Leicester decided to just put a sticking plaster on and settle for 8th place? Sounds to me like they've decided not to bring in a new rider from outside UK and bolster the side ahead of a relegation playoff. Which, if it's versus Ipswich, should be interesting.....

Some mistake here, surely. This thread should be in the Championship section of the Forum