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We have never been better off with rider replacement and won't be this time either. I simply want to watch a team with seven riders, we always get caught out generally having to commit reserves to six rides each with little scope to cover for injuries, tape exclusions or just general replacement of poorly performing riders.

Robert Mear quits....so what changed between him signing and now? Welcome back RR i fear.

I was thinking the very same thing tonight while watching Somerset v Edinburgh. There seems to be some skill being used in selecting a well matched meeting from the PL while half the problems in the EL matches seem to be the mismatched meetings they chose to show. I was down at Somerset to support Rye House and the meeting was rubbish but they chose to show Edinburgh a much more evenly matched meeting. Similarly the choice of Newcastle at Berwick. I honestly believe that sky may well go down the route of a cheaper show next season from the PL as they have done with other sports, as far as Ipswich and Rye House being slated Leicester is slated far more and generally by the home fans. Lets see how Leicester v Glasgow would fare on the telly

So far this season i have seen twenty odd meetings spread over the three leagues and GP and i would say that this meeting was the most enjoyable by far. the track looked pretty good and the racing decent. charles Wright had a particularly good meeting. Yes the bottom end of the Kent team is weak but that will only improve. Hour and a quarter done and dusted how Other tracks could learn from this. Congratulations on the meeting. The NL at Mildenhall has been my favourite venue over my Team Rye House and my local track Lakeside more meetings like this and Kent will be right up there

While i agree about the presentation etc the bottom line is that two things really matter. The racing and a winning team. With Garrity in the team we have both without him we have neither. By the time he returns we will be an embarrassment in the league and the only thing left will be a shot at the KO Cup, never a great competition for us but a Final would be a decent achievement but to do that we need to ditch one of the reserves who at the moment are just not at the races.

what i would say is that some rye fans have got their wish. Back in the good old days of match bonus points we were thumping most teams by thirty points at rye. There were cries of i'm bored with the big wins. Well for certain the days of big wins are long gone replaced by the big defeats such as the ones at somerset. I had planned on visits to places like berwick, Scunthorpe worky and newcastle but its no fun when we are so crap. Amazing how the interest in our season is hanging on when Garrity will be back. The moment he was injured the interest waned

only one s in busybody

Having taken a while i thought the track had just got back to being a decent race strip, how wrong i was after last nights farce,the dust was back right from heat one and with pretty decent riders unable to get round the second bend it makes you wonder. I know the track at Kent looked a bit thin perhaps some material was packed up and shipped there. Robert Mear no bike to ride in heat fifteen pretty much summed up what i expected to get from him, often happens rider drops a league and misunderstands whats needed for the PL. such promise from Nelson and Lykke seems to have stalled so very little to be positive about. The place is crying out for an experienced ex rider to come in and manage the team affairs. If RR is the chosen path for Olly then i think enough is enough

Broken arm for Olly wonder how long before Adam Roynon gets a call, assuming he is still without a club in the PL

Back to Rye House

Well after years of foolishly supporting Len Silver i think i have seen the light. We left the National Motor Museum at Beaulieu to watch that load of trpie last night at Somerset and wasted a load of money in the process Olly Allen woke up after the meeting was well lost, had an awful start. 5/10 for effort Andres Mellgren dodgy first ride then was excellent. Silly mistake for the tape touching but was that fast that he could have beat Doyle all night 8/10 Jason Bunyan started real fast with plenty of effort but tailed off may still be unfit 6/10 Robert Mear...why bother, not at the races, when he did gate looked like he was riding a dog 1/10 Tyson Nelson track made for him seemed to be trying too hard intitially then just evaporated and rode like novice 2/10 Kasper Lykke seemed fast enough but one race apart he was never on the right part of the track at the right time 3/10 Simon Lambert, no way is the boy fit (that i know) on a track where he should score well he was way too tentative 2/10 John Samford...mr motivator gave the black and white to Allen who looked poor in his first race, no surprise when he trailed in a poor last. I know he comes cheap but why bother with a team manager Len Silver far too much on your plate, too much interest in Kent while he obviously feels Rye will bob along on its own A win against Plymouth on the cards as they will be understrength but never haver have i been so disgusted in an away performance, well not for a long time anyway.

No way will Len Silver replace any of the top four when Jason gets back. Robert is a temp replacement plain and simple. Luke Bowen fit to ride around mid July but i be surprised to see him back unless there are any further injuries

Ref got it right

Justice done, well done Rockets minus the two Jasons hopefully one day soon we'll be back to full strength. Thats two Tigers teMs dispatched from the KO Cup, both woeful teams has to be said

Opening meeting at Kent

Photos from today

Individual Handicap meeing Rye House 4th May 2013 https://secure.flickr.com/photos/harryward/sets/72157633406829255/

Agree with Shadders. If there was ever a done deal it is the one that will see him at Rye Alongside Garrity Nelson Lykke And Mellgren in 2014. Nothing to gain from the NL he needs to be riding against his betters to continue his rapid improvement. Many knock Len Silver but there are reasons the likes of Woffinden Sundstrom and Kennett chose Rye House to further their careers and contrary to opinion it has little to do with cash. One season at PL maybe enough but i hope it's two

Re Sheffield May 11th i think this is a shocking decision, this is a competition we could do well in but with Garrity missing especially given his current form any replacement will be inadequate. More so than with Glasgow we truly need a big lead to defend. I just can't understand it unless the was some sort of cut off date for the next round to be run which compelled us to run.

Bang on, i have a few Tigers fans friends who agree the Promotion has done really well especially given the bleak outlook this year. But as you say much of the important stuff is done on track. I thought the Tigers would do well this year given what looks to be a a decent enough top three. Bager what we saw of him anyway seems to be a shadow of his former self and in my mind you might as well have local junior for the future in the team. I'm sure the Aussies will come good but Joe looks to be in a bit of a decline too so it may be a long season. Grieves looked down on power and wright was ok when gating and woeful otherwise. I hope it turns around as the promotion seem good.

Any team with wright screen grieves and bager as a top four should get at the very least 40 pts every match. Heat Leaders were rubbish. Joe screen made to look a novice by jason garrity. I feel for the few Tigers supporters i saw tonight. I'm sure this team don't come cheap and the new promotion who are doing all the right things deserve better. Well done to the Rockets, lets hope we are back to full strength before the league gets fully underway

Know what you mean about the Tigers but i can't see the Rockets managing such a big home win. If we insist on carrying one reserve and play the hit and miss game with RR then we could struggle to get a big win. Not one of Joe's favourite tracks but if he has a big meeting it could be close. I'd be happy with a ten point lead in the hopes that Allen Mellgren Nelson and Garrity score well and that Lykke has one of his very good meetings. A good tie in prospect.

http://www.worldspeedway.com/artman/publish/article_22921.shtml Completely ambiguos statement from Chris Louis on the postponement. No thought or care for the public at all. Rob Godfrey doesn't know what he is talking about, Chris Loiuis does as he rode for twenty years at a hundred different tracks but he wasn't fussed if it was on or not. Well Mr Louis i am sure that the fans who took time off work and wasted petrol on their journey from Scunthorpe weren't very happy. Then again i doubt Mr Lous has never had to pay to watch speedway in his life. Last night is one of the reasons speedway is in a downward spiral. Shame on Ipswich Speedway

Steve it is all about opinions but the constant jibes about the Rye track is tiresome. Having seen racing at every track that is currently running i love my weekly jaunts to Rye since i started watching there in 76. I love trips to most tracks but there are some namely Lakeside (5mins from where i live) belle Vue wolverhampton where i just can't be bothered. I don't go on and on about them as they all have followings that love their speedway at those tracks. But there are the few on here some of whom have probably never been to Hoddesdon who jump on the bandwagon. As shadders says he has given up defending Rye House but when the barage of critical comments come from suffolk it seems a bit strong. There is some great speedway to be seen around the country and that includes Rye House, the time of dust, no dirt, one racing line etc etc that led to DRY House is long gone. Just because a team can't win there is no excuse to slate the track. As i said before stick a good team with decent racers on it like Somerset are this year and good racing will appear.