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gotta be a few teams evening up Adam Ellis next year

FFS !!! bloody hell. It was to start a discussion, go and brush the sand out of your underwear and have a word with yourself.

While other countries have next season already sorted, thus enabling riders to organise work / accommodation / sponsors etc … Good old England has to wait another ten days, ( which is a lot earlier than previous years ) We all know the promotors have basically sorted it out already but what do you think next year will bring ? In any normal, well run sport the season on season rules tweaking would be easy to predict but this is speedway we're talking about . thoughts ?

It's all worked out weeks in advance, it's amazing that they drag it out every year when they go on their jollies. Riders are left in limbo about the next seasons work while other countries have it sorted just after the end of the season.

Never mind the race night, what about the team ?

It's like years ago when French GP rider Christian Sarron wanted to move from 250's to 500's. Aussie rider Wayne Gardner said "all it means is that they'll throw him further up the track when he highsides"

It's more a sad indictment of the teams need to win ( and please. No rubbish about pleasing sponsors ) than the death of the NL. it's also a mockery of the English only rule. At least BWD moved here for the season, he's trading on his English grandparents but commited the year to being here.

Ellis's two visits this year 15 points and 15 points, shame he has no back up.

We can look forward to a maximun from Ellis, Kirby scoring 1+1, Tom missing the gate and whatever the guests can muster, should be a bore fest for visiting fans.

bearing in mind he'd won 3 grass track world championships and has great financial backing, it was hard not to expect him to be good .

If you gave Woofy's bike to most riders they'd score more points

The problem is if you were a local businessman who may be interested in investing, you look at social media ( where most advertising is done these days ), look at the kind of aggressive rubbish a few of the Cradley followers come out with, then decide you wouldn't want your business associated with it.

Kirby…. Buy a moto cross bike 3 guests and RR, Brummies have no chance

What clubs can afford and what clubs pay are two different things, I think JTS has a better idea than most what Ellis is paid than most posters on here . The above being one of them

Is this the one Smolinski has been working on with them too ? ( the one that's full of GroBewachter special parts)… So much for standard non tuned engines

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It must really p(ss Kelsey off being dropped and having Spiller take his rides ( last time at perry barr) every time there's a difficult match. Can't be good for the kids confidence, especially when it's your own family dumping on you from a great height.

Depends on Spillers schooling ? ( Flights must be costing Dugard's a fortune)

It should also stop some of the Cradely fans whining ( although I doubt it )

Thus putting Lakesides riders at a disadvantage as they all have to hang around waiting to find out if they have a job while other riders sort out team places. I hope for their sake Cookie doesn't drag it out and drop certain riders in the smelly stuff. (as happened last year)

Jeez, I know every club attracts its fair share of bell ends but looking at the National league thread on Facebook, why does Cradely seem to attract more than any other team? You got beaten by a better team, FOUR times this year. Get over it and stop trotting out your excuses, every team has had injuries this year and unlike Cradely ( Greaves ) they haven't just sat back and used RR. Just congratulate them and move on There was even a Cradely fan moaning that last night was a dodgy track . When your man prepared it last week you were beaten by an even greater margin. What ever happened to being gracious in defeat, there are a lot of good Cradely fans, it just seems that their obnoxious ones seem to be more vocal than in other clubs.

well done Brummies, I couldn't make it tonight but it seemed like a close match.

I read the times and the telegraph, but if i was trying to attract a younger generation of fans to an extreme sport, I wouldn't advertise it in a newspaper.

It's not really premature when Zach has announced on his Facebook page that he's out for three weeks.