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I don't understand what you are basing these wild claims on. Pickering will be off come what may (he only signed for Scunny because he priced himself out of a place in Poland) Zack Cook will drop the Championship as part of his natural progression like dozens of other riders have done before ( e.g. Ben Cook, Tom Brennan) Dan Thompson has a real decision to make: does he want to watch speedway in Lodz or ride speedway in Edinburgh? If the latter as Lisa suggests then we haven't lost him. Masters/Lawson/Flint/Jeppesen/Wright etc ride in tier 3 so are not affected I hardly think King, Batchelor and Harris et al are going to resume their Polish careers Nor do I see the likes of Etheridge, Edwards or Sedgmen attracting Ekstraliga interest. So the sum total of riders at risk appears to be: Anders Rowe (and possibly Dan Thompson). Isn't the bigger risk that riders may drop the Premiership to protect Swedish or Danish contracts?

Plenty. But your best bet would be Mulford or Pijper. I'd stick with Edwards - but why replace the second best rising star (based on 2026 Premiership all match average exc bonus) with one who would be overmatched by all the existing Rising Stars.

The six current Rising Stars all have Championship level averages between 5.74 and 6.78. I'd say they are very well matched. I'd agree that there is not a great choice of new talent to replace riders dropping out. Mulford and Pijper look the best in the short term. It really would be better having rising stars in the Championship

Three British born riders in the top seven!

It will be restaged after the cut-off date, but will not count towards determining top 4

Probably - like football didn't exist before the Premiership (but it did)

And he kept saying it was the biggest ever stage for the World Cup. Katowice 1974 might beg to differ.

Seems to do OK in the PGE Ekstraliga, averages nearly 2 points a match more than Kurtz

Well that's understandable as Plymouth and Berwick have only had since 28 June to decide dates.

But in five years time Lambert and Bewley should be at their peak. Add in Rushen and Cairns who if all goes well will be approaching world class. Then one of Flint, Brennan and Dan Thompson could be a solid number five after another five years of solid improvement or maybe someone else will be in contention?

The main impact would be to demonstrate what a bunch of childish whingers many team managers are.

Look no further than the 1990 Reading Racers

Don't think r/r is possible, and it would have to be a 'no facility' [i.e. 75%] guest

When they cut to him it looks more like a hostage video!

No - otherwise a one day suspension would end before the following days matches. Therefore meaning a 1 day suspension would involve missing no possible meetings