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There is also a story going around that Motorcycle Australia (MA) have had to substantially cut funding to all Aussie Team competitions as well as to certain individuals. This is directly due to a reduction in funding to MA by the Australian Sports Commission!! MA are seeking sponsors as an alternative funding source. If I can find a decent authoratative link, I'll post it.

Thanks E I Addio, thats exactly what I was trying to say. You clearly have a better way of putting it than I do!

Your crystal ball is once again clouded over and giving out distorted info with the usual 'Brandon Bias'. Never mind eh?!

Well said Sherborne Green!! If only..........

Irrelevant to whom?? The promoters all agreed to it, with all its flaws!! I'm not trying to say that it is an accurate assessment, simply trying to understand how the list was drawn up?! This particular attempt at trying to provide some sort of 'equalisation' between 8 EL clubs, is in many ways no different to past seasons when new rules to regulate the number of heatleaders per team have been brought in eg only 2x 7+ riders; only 1 x 8+ rider etc. Whatever the new rules are for each season - and whenever they are agreed - all promoters have the same equal opportunity (other than different race nights!!) to get their fingers out and start their team-building.

A good choice - and another loan fee for Poole!!

Yes, riding 15 meetings for Leicester being the main one!!!

Just a thought, but whatever the racing format in past years, its the riders' finishing average that dictates whether he ends the season as a heat leader or a 2nd string, no matter how many meetings they may have ridden in different team positions during the season. Looking at the list, that seems to be the core of what the BSPA have done, plus adding those riders from the GP/Euro list that might be attracted to the EL eg, the KKs of this world. With the likes of Leicester now being rumoured to be offering a big contract to a former Polish GP rider, maybe if they had acted sooner (the AGM's been over for a month or more!) they could have had a stronger team in place by now?!

What you don't seem to (want to) grasp is that Dak wasn't originally too fussed about coming back to the EL or being a squad member for Rybnik in the Polish 2nd tier. However what has changed and very few expected it, is that Rybnik have gone into Poland's Extraleague as a replacement for one of the bankrupt clubs! An Extraleague contract as well as interest from 2 or 3 EL clubs (not to mention the Danish League contract!!) was enough to make him reconsider. I really don't mind if certain people choose to disbelieve what i'm saying, but that's what you get from speaking to Dak directly.

Poole don't pay silly wages but they do have quite a few decent sponsors who put packages together for certain riders. Some sponsors stick with a rider no matter who he rides for (depending on what their product/service is) eg Bjarne amongst others, but some don't and only offer the big bucks when riding for Poole.

Josh and Dak don't need them! Don't think Morris does either.

Isn't there also a new rule about if a 2nd string is missing through riding elsewhere then it can only be r/r not a guest!! Not sure what happens if both 2nd strings are missing??

From what Chris Holder earns at Poole and through Poole sponsorship, I doubt any other British club would be able to get close!! Dak's situation and change of heart has now come up on a number of threads. He was definitely going to give 2016 a miss. However he has now had 3 contract offers from Denmark, Poland and now Swindon so has changed his mind, with the full support of his family. I gather he's staying in Oz for as long as possible to help out and then coming over to Europe in late February - or possibly earlier?!

Repeating from another thread, What has changed Dak's mind and situation is somewhat unexpectedly getting contracts offered in Poland and Denmark and then Swindon!! His family have advised him to go for it!

Its the deals in Poland and Denmark as much as Swindon's that have changed Dak's mind, with the full support of his dad and family. To be fair, for a rider of Dak's ability and inconsistency, (and that's not knocking Dak) to be offered contracts in 3 countries would take a lot for any decent rider to turn down, whatever his family circumstances.

Strange that it was not only Mads that didn't do that well at Leicester!!? Maybe its a Danish thing? Or maybe its a management/motivational thing?!

Yes but Rosco did look after the Aussie U21 squad, before he became Team GB Manager!!

Bjarne was in discussions with 3 EL clubs!!

By the same token, you don't get the Chairman of the FA telling the Man City owner how to run his business. In fact all of football's Premiership clubs decide themselves what goes on in the Premiership, rather than the toothless FA having any say in the top level!! The point of this particular topic is the Heat Leader list as drawn up and agreed by those clubs within the EL. Whether fans or whoever can pick up on discrepancies with the list or the formula or who might be on or not on the list is really irrelevant. It has been agreed by all the decision makers, with all its flaws, and although someone 'independent' may well have come up with a different list or a different method of 'equalisation' after the changes of race format - that would undoubtedly have been the subject of as much derision as the current list. The independent person/body is an old chestnut which would doubtless improve things in an ideal world - but speedway isn't an ideal world and nobody has been able to come up with a truly independent person/body who would be willing or able to meet all the 'independent' criteria whilst having some working knowledge of how the sport works.

Without the 'idiots' (the promoters) running the sport, there wouldn't be a sport!!

Dak has continued to be included in the Rybnik squad from this year. Rybnik are quoted as saying 'he is still in their sights' for 2016!! He has also been included in a Danish League line up!!? I understand his family have told him to come back to UK if he gets a decent offer - as Matt Ford could do with another loan fee!! My bad.

Strange that the SS has included all 3 in their list of 'riders signed so far', in this week's issue!! Mind you, they got the Heat Leader list wrong so who knows?

So we all got it wrong!! 37 on the list so no excuses as to why every team shouldn't build to the max and keep things competitive!! Its all part of the longer term (5-year) BSPA plan for when squads and/or shared heat leader positions are introduced!!

Even though Lambert is not on the HL list - he has a higher average than Schlein so is likely to line up in one of the Stars' 3 heat leader positions!!

Am I right in thinking that new Coventry signing Woryna is still in the Rybnik Extraleague squad?!