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Doesn't open on anyone's computer. It's just gibberish.

Maybe Stanley Unwin could?

Wrong again. The Belle Vue company directors are William Anthony Rice and Robin Simon Southwell. They're the people responsible for the club. But in more interesting matters, Blodorn looks like a decent signing. Good to see a young newcomer coming to British Speedway. He seems to be quite a prospect.

Lots of us like to read about old riders. And the biographies of this random set of old riders are a mere click away. Nice and neatly stored here:- http://www.speedwaymuseumonline.co.uk/riders profiles.html Easy to read for everyone. What people get fed up with is someone stupidly cutting and pasting every word from every page of a website onto here. All it needed was the original link to http://www.speedwaymuseumonline.co.uk/riders profiles.html in one post. And then people could read all they want and discuss any memories to their hearts content. And the stupid cutting and pasting isn't done through ignorance or lack of knowledge. The perpetrator has been told enough times. It's purely done to be disruptive.

Well, I googled "people who went to speedway in 1946" and it brought up this Indian version of wikipedia See Here

And there aren't 40,994 members of this forum. Viewers of this thread are the same few dozen people over and over again. Whereas visitors to Wimbledon speedway stadium were millions of people over many decades. What was the point of the comparison?

Oxford are a new track opening, starting from scratch in the NDL Belle Vue opened a new track in 2016 and started an NDL team from scratch. Did you feel equally insulted when they threw in a 16-year-old non-speedway rider who had never taken part in the British Youth series and had never even raced a competitive second-half junior league race?

Jamie Halder and Sam Woolley complete the Kent team.

I've got the same figures as you. With a couple of 3.00, they'd be at 40.99. So over the limit. Averages are reduced by 8% if a rider has missed a full year due to injury. Stoneman missed 2021 and Hopwood missed 2019 and 2021. Not sure if either or both riders were missing due to injury, but if we give them the benefit of the doubt and say they were both injured and couldn't ride, and give them both 8% reduction, then Stoneman becomes 7.56 and Hopwood 6.59, and it would fit.

Kent sign Joe Alcock and Chris Watts

Great minds think alike. Oxford Cheetahs and Oxford Chargers. I quite like that. Much better than every feline nicknamed club calling their junior side "Cubs".

As long as you realise your mistake, you've learnt something.

Again, someone is pulling your plonker. All speedway clubs are small entities, so they don't have to file a P&L account with companies house. They only have to file micro accounts which are just an abbreviated balance sheet, and don't show any P&L information.

LOL. If someone is telling you that a speedway club has lost over £1.1 million in two years, they're pulling your plonker. And if they had, I don't think they'd be telling every keyboard fan. I'd suggest the only people with sight of the club p&L account are the two owners and their accountants. So unless your insider info has come from them, I think you've been had.

But we already know the rider in question was Mike Bessent.

No, those weren't the boots. Similar, but different colour. The white part in your photo was Royal blue, and the dark part from in your photo was white. And I don't think the rider in your photo is Mike Bessent either!

Is that what Mark Lemon told you?

The whole Belle Vue talking to Woffinden thing has been a wind-up, but look how many people he got believing it

Yes. Pretty sure Mason Watson completes the team. They'll be 2 points under the limit, but I seem to remember Belle Vue going more than 2.5 points under the limit the year they discovered Dan Bewley, and that worked out alright!

Any clues from Oxford fans as to who might be in the NDL team? Also wouldn't they be better with a different nickname? Leicester already have Cubs. Do we have to double up on nicknames in a league of just 8 teams?

It'll be documented in the rule book, but that's not available to us online yet. (Don't know whether officials have the rule book - I presume so - I was told about the no.8s by an official). You do seem to be confusing 2 separate things though. You're confusing "No.8" (a secondary rising star to cover for a missing rising star in the Premiership ), with the "AR" (additional rider) which may be named by a team using R/R in any league. The "AR" (additional rider) rule has been around a long time. (See regulation 12.4.3g, 12.4.3h and 13.6.2f). For 2021 a team using R/R can name an "AR" to cover any of the R/R rides. In the Premiership an "AR" has to be a Championship rider 3.00 or less. In the Championship the AR has to be a National League rider. In the National League the AR needs to be an unattached 3.00. People sometimes colloquially call the "AR" a No.8. But the actual title is "Additional Rider" and it's nothing to do with the Rising Star scheme.

Yes. Every team has to name a No.8 If the rising star gets injured (as Josh Bates at Sheffield last year) or quits (as Tom Bacon at Wolves last year) then the No.8 steps into his place. It stops teams using a "horses-for-courses" guest, as they already have a stand-in in place.

Are Berwick going to go 2 points under the limit? 1 Kyle Bickley 8.75 2 Greg Blair 7.57 3 Luke Crang 6.41 4 Kieran Douglas 4.18 5 Ben Rathbone 4.00 6 Mason Watson 3.91 7 Ace Pijper 3.00 37.82 If not, who misses out from Crang, Rathbone and Watson? Danny Phillips to replace Crang?

Not very encouraging news for Vinnie Foord, if he's being booted out in July

Yes, It's you that needs to do the homework You've included a link to Leicester's signing of Max Perry (who is eligible to race for the Lion Cubs after his 15th birthday in April). This of course has no connection to the question asked on this thread about Max James' 15th birthday in July.