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I seem to recall the referee made an enemy of everyone that night. I think that was the third questionable call already in the meeting.

If he'd fessed up perhaps I'd be of a different opinion, but he didn't. He lied through his nose for months and got found out, and he put a lot of people's noses out of joint. All a moot point as he's unlikely to be seen on a competitive speedway bike again.

Not in Glasgow colours.

In terms of what I'd prefer, definitely an exciting team. Winning is nice, but entertain me first. An exciting team is usually competitive at least.

I'm not sure where the Luke Harrison thing came from. I think it was thrown in to throw people off the scent because it was a little after some people had worked out the full seven. I'm happy to see Freddy back. He should improve his average next year. I didn't want to see two news reserves, and carting both over probably wasn't the best idea either. Given Freddy fits and has the higher average, I think it's the right move. Leon should be a #3 next year and our reserves should be stronger compared to this year. The question is simply how our second strings perform. They may take a little dialling in early on, but hopefully they'll be very strong come the second half of the season. This season, there were heats we knew we'd struggle in. With this team, I don't think that will be the case once they're all settled in.

We won the league with our current manager two years ago. We'll win it with him next year. Cracking team.

Bingo. Unless everything has changed, or we suddenly have six man teams, etc.

Aye, he was a proper character, chatted to everyone. We'll miss him.

I do love how Cami lives in so many people's heads. Plenty of TMs take flak for not being very good, but Cami really gets to people 😂

That's a concrete proposal.

At this point, I wouldn't place much faith in any date even if they said it was confirmed.

Yes. Early January, possibly.

None.

Possibly. I get the feeling it's not Villads (average doesn't fit), Bastian or Mikkel, which are the others people have talked about. But I don't know anything. All guesswork. Mutterings are unusually quiet.

No, I'm thinking it'll be a "new" Dane on a 5.00 average, same at #2, except from a different country.

My guess is: 1. Bomber 2. Not a Danish Rider 3. Flint 4. Danish Rider 5. Howarth 6. Hagon 7. Hodder

Can’t imagine the rest will be winning much points money. This isn’t going to be a strong team.

If it ain’t fixed, why break it more? That seems to be more what they go for…

I don't think we'll go fully British either. Hopefully we find out soon.

When you look at Oxford, no. When you look at Poole, yes. Although when it hits 10 points, that is a stretch. I would be in favour of a maximum points limit for an established rider at something like 9 points.

The rolling stats don't include fixtures after the end of April. Official team building stats should include them.

Yes, the point was, it would've been 4-5. We'd still have lost. Both riders got beaten by both Pirates, so it was irrelevant. No guarantees Bomber would've passed anyone.

Yes, because if Dan had won that Super Heat, we would've "won" the heat... by four points to five.

I don't think any of us expected to.

As I've said earlier, this is a team I'd like, though I'd be a bit sad for the teams that lost some of these riders... but here's a 7 I like anyhow. Chris Harris (9.13) Jody Scott (3.92) Leon Flint (7.13) Tate Zischke (5.76) Kyle Howarth (8.12) Sam Hagon (3.57) Jordy Loftus (2.19) Total: 39.82 (but will be lower with 2.5% reductions, which I couldn't be bothered to calculate as this team is below 40 anyway).