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After a long delay to fix the air fence panels, Oxford certainly getting the following heats run promptly. Wish we could do this as Glasgow. Could have done with watering the track while the fence was being repaired, although is this allowed in the current H&S regime?

Quite agree with you Fromafar , we certainly shouldn't go for the fixed Mon/Thurs race nights. A combined league will have a lower standard than the current Championship so don't know how fans of Premiership sides will react to that.

Our expectations in recent years have often been unrealistic. Some reckoned Nowak would achieve a 7.00 average but didn't seem to understand that riding at two, partnering Chris Harris, he would need to score 7+3 in most meetings. Right now his GSA is 5.50 while his CMA is 6.90 - figuers from the BSPL site. Fully accept that his riding doesnt have the same zest as previously but let's keep our expectations in check.

If we go to a combined league next year, will we retain the Monday/Thursday fixed race nights. Don't think that would be popular with some Championship sides. If we don't then I can't see any Premiership riders who aren't riding in the Championship this year - guys like Kurtz, Lidsey, Ellis, Doyle at al - riding in the UK next year. So we're essentially dividing up the riders in the Championship's nine teams among however many teams want to join the new combined league. Rider control looks both inevitable and necessary. Points limit could be as low as 30!

I think that Harris, Nowak and Vissing were always in the plan for 2023 and when Brennan and Basso were confirmed, the 40 point limit meant there were only six points left and neither Hume nor Bailey could be fitted in. Pijper on 2.00 and a 4.00 rider was the only fit available. Whether Complin was always the first choice as the 4.00 is uncertain.

Quite understandable but weather forecasts are now beginning to impact on attendances and often they are well off the mark

We had Plymouth and Birmingham last week though Plymouth was rained off. No date for that has been fixed but we could do it the night before we go to Poole for our league meeting at the end of August. In the past we rode on Thursday night's to let southern teams do Glasgow/ Edinburgh/ Berwick tours though this is no .longer possible Thursday's are reserved as a Premiership night. Plymouth had Edinburgh and Berwick this weekend - both rained off. Are tours jinxed? It certainly seems that way.

Not sure the promotion had a grand plan for him as he was intially without a track. Isn't Redcar fairly similar to Ashfield, round and banked? Might have been better to go to a different type of track had it been possible.

All three and peak holiday time, being the Fair weekend. Better than the Brit Junior turn out but still not great. Twenty two heats and few home based riders so substantial travelling expenses. Can't see how this meeting can have broken even.

Banding is far too blunt a tool, with riders with the highest average in each band being the most sought after. Don't think GP riders would be involved in the one "big" league, just riders who would only ride in Britain. Unless the league has the same fixed race nights as the Premiership.

Not necessary as he wont get the eight league meetings required o get a "proper" average, so would still start 2024 on an assessed figure.

The 2019 loss was 98k but that was after Allied Vehicles subsidy of £182k, so £280 k shortfall. Capital investment is depreciated over the exoected life of the asset so each year bears part of the capital cost. Any word on the turn three stand?

Would suggest that's well understated. The subsidy has been two or three times that amount in the years prior to lockdown and is no longer shown in the abbreviated accounts.

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The problem is that with current H&S regulations the kids games and the mascot "act" can't take place while the tractor is going round. This makes for a long and rather boring interval

Do the Danes ride on Tuesdays?

Do the Danes ride on Tuesdays?

Agree with you that team managers often have little impact on meetings. As you say this year's team seems well up for it, but not sure that has always been the case in the past. Cami is in an invidious position not being a promoter or owner so has little "carrot" and no "stick".

I think BSN plan for each Championship team to have two home league meetings streamed this year. As our league meeting against Poole is no longer on the list, will BSN cover our league meetings against Plymouth and Berwick or does the Brit U21 event count as one of them?

Not convinced Connor is doing much better at Redcar than he would have done at Ashfield this year. Nowak and Vissing seemed too good to pass up on with 5.00 averages.Would we have a better balanced side with Harris, Nowak, Vissing, Hume, Basso , Bailey and Pijper? Perhaps but it would be a brave move to release Brennan, though he does seem to have plateaued this year.

Don't believe the team manager makes the "hire and fire decisons" and reckon he plays a minor role in team selection each year. This stuff is way above his pay grade.

BSPL site shows him to have had five meetings, though only four for the Tigers. Not sure how this is arrived at. His average is shown as 3.62 being 19 points from 21 rides, so 6 from one meeting and 4 in the rest would take him to a 4.00 figure, assuming four rides in each.

Surely it depends on how they score in these meetings. If the July cut off is around the 23rd, then we have four meetings to be counted - Redcar (H), Plymouth (A), Birmingham (A) and Oxford (A) and possibly Oxford (H) if it is rearranged in July.

Let's hope it's not a repeat of last year! Interesting that Edinburgh ran four heats on Friday and are letting supporters who attended in to a following meeting for £4 - ie a refund of £16+! Quite a difference from Glasgows measly £4 discount albeit they managed six races.

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