Roger Jacobs

Doyle said that if he didn’t have an operation and then allow the shoulder to heal, he might not be able to even pick up a beer as he got older …

Watling JCB is a franchise dealer - although it supplies worldwide.

So, what actually, have Ipswich done wrong - and how do you know?

Technically, the Final set of Green Sheet averages is for the current year ... it's the only set that is relevant to 2025 team building (for those who rode in 2024).

What a load of tosh! The 2024 team was clearly good enough, and injuries did ruin chances* of winning the play-offs - stated clearly by many fans, not just of the Witches. Of course, you can never say that winning the playoffs is nailed-on. Even so many favoured teams have seen their chances spoiled by injuries - it's the one aspect of play-offs that speedway is unable to cater for.

Cup and play-off fixtures don't count in the Green Sheet averages (that's because teams compete in different numbers of Cup and PO) . However, the figures shown by BluPanther are for 2024 Prem matches, which are not the Green Sheets - the Final set of which can be found on the BSPL website under "2024 Declarations".

Only a small number of riders ever become World Champ. I said that riders develop at different rates, and it's clear that some reach higher levels than others ... and of course, some don't really progress, but are happy to keep plugging away. I think Jenkins could still become a much better rider.

Riders develop at different rates ... Jenkins looks as though he could make excellent progress ...we shall see.

Thanks. I didn't realise that the riding order for the Final had already been determined.

Good candidates who didn't complete the season ...

https://speedwayupdates.proboards.com/thread/22948/sgp-challenge-pardubice-10-24?

Don't understand what you mean about Mauger? In the World Championship, you had to qualify, and your performance in one round didn't impact the next - the draw wasn't seeded. Finishing top of the League is meaningless, but the teams still have to finish in the top 4 - Leicester proved in 2023 that it's possible to get that badly wrong.

How many riders finish in the top 4 in each GP? Interestingly, I've worked out that World Runner-Up Lambert won 101,500 Euros (roughly £84,500 at current exchange rates). That might help him and his team earn a reasonable living, but it's not going to generate much of a profit. 1st

I'm not convinced that the GPs are a financial benefit to the riders - the prize money isn't life changing. The "risks his life for entertainment" trope is tired and meaningless.

Well, you need a heat winner to get a heat advantage! BV had 13, so were unlikely to lose. You could see Leicester settling for 3-3s in at least a couple of races, e.g. when Hagon got into second place - now the trick for BV at Leicester is to do similar, i.e. avoid last places.

When interviewed before that last heat, Dickson said that Douglas and Lawson wanted to ride in heat 15, which implied that none of the others did.

Port Aventura! Haven't been for a few years, so still haven't seen the enormous rollercoaster ... Dragon Khan is amazing anyway

They'd be better off riding it over two wheels 😉

At 10:30 still no mention on speedwaygb - have they forgotten it’s on?!

There's no hope of moving the shale with just a couple of rakers on each bend and an ancient tractor with a simple grading contraption on the back. That hasn't changed in years, so doesn't reflect the change in the track or the machines. Surely someone could put some thought into a grader fitted to a tractor that actually shift the shale back towards the centre/inside of the track - it needs some sort of blade at an angle, at a fixed height. Get a decent tractor (or two), with a good width of grader attached, and it/they could get around the track fairly promptly.

KL delighted again this season with another top 7 finish.

It was rather a statement of the bleeding' obvious 🤪

You don't say ... 😉

I have to say, looking at the empty seats in the grandstand and the gaps on the ack straight, that Phil Morris' commercial reasons for deciding the play-off opponents early has really worked for BV - can't imagine what the attendance would have been like without all the extra advertising and marketing they were able to do ...

That's a big increase to his Rolling average, so as well as scoring highly in recent matches, he could well have dropped a low score or two from 20 matches ago.