CaptainAudi

Just the two points?

I wouldn't describe it Edinburgh PR in any way shape or form and the author is known to have made a few quotes up in the past to fill a column. if it is true, all Alex says he can't fit everyone in. And as far as I can see, he doesn't mention once that MC is plan B, and from reading the article the bit about the phone was from Max himself. would you rather a promoter made false promises to riders?

Was still pretty raw then, looks a much better rider now and I'm actually gutted he didn't complete enough meetings to become an edinburgh asset/gain an average, could see potential In him at the time...

Hopefully he doesn't prove to be the one that got away! Very good signing for the Bears!

Max pulled out due to illness, not injury

Most monarchs fans will have seeing Cookie high on their lists, so the number giving it a miss will be fairly small I think.. May be wrong though

I saw it mentioned somewhere yesterday (maybe on here but if I'm wrong someone can correct me) that as he's not riding for us this year, then it has nothing to do with Edinburgh, it's up to Belle Vue as they signed him first. Ridiculous if true, but then again, that's speedway!

Hope the training schools don't make him too tired....

I had completely forgotten about Belle Vue being a Friday night now, though a good reminder would be for them to ride a home meeting sometime soon...

If he did, then he would more than likely be part of a Monarchs re-shuffle than anywhere else, and that won't happen Can't see him back in this league for a good while, bit pointless to give up on Poland this early in the season when it's just getting started.

Would have been unbeaten in a league meeting anyway.... Imagine being beaten by the opposition Number 8 in heat 15 though...

Fair enough if that's true, it makes total sense anyway.. (which is strange for British Speedway!) The last sentence is also true, if only we could see the future.

The Colts first Friday night meeting is the 29th of April, so I'm guessing BV have been told that he should be replaced by Mitch (assuming that's what the plan is anyway) by that date, hence there being no fixture clashes at the moment.. Also, will BV not get priority as he is their asset, or does it not work that way in the NL?

Feel sorry for the riders primarily, Kurtz & Holder especially since they don't have a second team to fall back on after travelling to the other side of the world... Hoping all can be resolved!

Great news, hopefully everything goes smoothly and runs to schedule, can only be a good thing for speedway in the north/Scotland! Looking forward to paying a visit when it opens already!!

Sorry, I had only seen it on here that there would be no riders on it till tonight, so assumed that there had been nobody on it

The way it was told to me was that the track had actually failed its licensing inspection, so had to be fixed yesterday, but I don't know how true that actually is.....

I have heard that they knew about the problems as early as Thursday, but why were there not some riders invited to test it out after they thought that they had sorted the problems out?? Feel sorry for those who paid huge amounts to be there, I'm certainly glad I decided not to go in the end....

1. Luke Bowen (Kent - 8.52) 2. Lee Smart (IOW - 5.76) 3. Josh Bailey (Kings Lynn- 6.02) 4. Jake Knight (Eastbourne - 6.00) 5. Ellis Perks (IOW - 7.14) 6. Shelby Rutherford (Buxton - 3.50) 7. Jack Parkinson-Blackburn (Birmingham - 3.00) 39.92 if my calculations are correct..?

Ideally, I think the winner of the under 21's should be named as the reserve (unless it's lambert and he is named as a 1-4 rider, then second would be named). Unfortunately it probably won't work out that way.,..

I agree with this. Mitch is a nice guy and if he signs, I wouldn't be disappointed in having him, considering the rumoured lack of options we have who would want to come north every week. Really, he just has to score 3 points a meeting to have done his job well IMO, and I fully believe he will do that in the majority of meetings, even if it's just beating his opposite number a couple of times (he's fully capable of second in heat two aswell!) It maybe is slightly bending the rules but it's not completely breaking them. Also, as has been mentioned before, I can't see us relying on one rider and not be looking at other targets, so something else might crop up if someone changes their mind closer to the start of the season...

I think the fact that it would more than likely be BVs first home match at their new stadium would probably convince a few more than normal to travel. I do agree it wouldn't be enough to be worth it though, the fact it would be a probably be a week night would stop many people going, myself included due to work commitments. There's a good few monarchs fans that I know of going to the grand opening meeting, but doubt they would travel twice unfortunately...

Was it not Lewis Blackbird who was replaced at Lakeside when Lewis Kerr became available? Probably changed his mind again prior or after that happened

In my opinion I don't think it would have mattered when we tried to go for our 3 pointer. We would have still has the same choices left as those that are already employed by the other teams down south would never have came north anyway, even if asked in October. Most clubs will have made contact with who they wanted as soon as the ruling was announced. The only change maybe would have been ayers would maybe have came to us if we had got in before Glasgow went for him, but that's about it. That's my opinion obviously, maybe others have differing thoughts and that's fine by me.

Bridger and Kerr were confirmed on the link I saw earlier, with King down as TBC. Honestly couldn't find the link again if I tried though..