SteveLyric2

The FIM have to explain how/why they reached their decision of (only?) 10 months.

Was it the 'single, middle digit' wave?!

Great start for the Lions. Most teams will struggle there.

Don't let Horton know - you could be main team sponsor with that!!!!!?

Its all to do with when Poole and Swindon agreed the Jason and Magic swap deal - and then Swindon didn't use him!!

Don't really mind the design as long as they remain cleaner than the opposition's each meeting?!

Green being 'unlucky' is a traditional theatrical thing. Not sure where/when it started, but you won't find (m)any theatres or concert venues with green anywhere to be seen, even down to having no green paint in dressing rooms etc.

Indeed you did! but some clearly don't see that skill in team-building?!

Don't forget Sky don't 'sponsor' the league any more, just televise - so maybe their opinion isn't taken the same!! I thought the new 2015 racesuit regs were more about being of a specific standard of material in order to give more protection to riders, rather than stipulations about colours.

I agree that's what should happen - and this is not a dig at KL - but several clubs have the same issue. Poole, different shades of blue; Wolves, orange that appeared pink to some; Coventry, Gold/yellow in different shades. Just saying.

A 'reasonable time' applies to both then presumably?! Either way I doubt DW will issue a statement until he gets the FIM's 'full reasoning', either in a public announcement of their adjudication or in a prior notice to Darcy. Nice to see the '45 days' now being referred to as irrelevant - shame you didn't step in earlier in the thread.

He can't/won't give a statement until FIM have given their 'full reasoning' in their own statement, which according to the often quoted FIM rule should be within 45 days of the hearing, so we've got til Sunday for the FIM to issue theirs first. Then DW has 21 days to appeal or not.

Condolences to Hans and his family.

Unless an incoming rider was less expensive, eg based in UK with no flights etc to pay for!

The 1936 Olympics would have been much much worse without Jesse Owens!

Can someone please explain to me how Darcy (8.70 or higher if his scores expunged) might replace Magic (7.50)?

Shame you're not a bookie then as we might get much longer odds!!

You are assuming that every rider uses the same Kevlar manufacturer/supplier??

Surely its been the case for many seasons that any team that shows the most improvement on their starting average is likely to at least be in the play-offs if not the eventual champions.

I did read it the first time!! A bit of both really. When I spoke to him (via the interpreter/mechanic) at the end-of-season Awards night, he said he would like to come back - they all say that don't they - but it would depend on other commitments. At that stage he hadn't secured his Polish Extraleague place and of course nobody knew what the EL team-building points limit was going to be?! As for Davey, as 3rd heat leader and not having the extra responsibility of the number 1 race jacket a'la Lakeside, I reckon he will be just fine.

With changes in the Czecho league format and stepping up to the top league in Poland, Vaclav was not as keen to do the EL this year. Added to that was the fact that if MF had managed to convince him, he could have been the 3rd heat leader - a position that most Poole fans would agree he struggled with when he stepped up last year! Shame, cos I enjoyed watching him race

Finishing runner-up to Piotr Pawlicki in the World U-21s last season will do for me - and he beat Vaclav Milik into 3rd place and we know how well Vaclav did for Poole last year! Apparantly Holder, Watt and Janowski all raved about him!

Well he did ride from the season start til end June for Swindon in 2013. Just as well you're not a promoter then cos come the beginning of July, IF Poole don't/can't use him and he is still keen to do EL, then every other promoter will be having some serious talks with their respective bank managers, to bite his arm off!!

No wonder SteveBrum has gone missing!! Hope he's ok.

Your comments are always usually sometimes very welcome HS.