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It all depends how many of your riders get injured at any one time doesn't it ..... of course if you can cover with r/r and your own riders it can work well but you need luck ie the rider you lose can be covered by strong team members, you have a strong number 6 etc .....

I have known many times teams missing more than one rider. If speedway remains relatively poor and we want to keep teams reasonably level in strength I cannot think of another answer. Take Lynn in the 2018 playoff final against Poole, lose NKI to injury before the first leg and in that meeting MPT gets injured

So you have 3 injuries, your number one, 3 and 4, you have a number 8 to use, is that it then, no guests? Or could each team nominate 2 unattached riders from a lower league and you have to use them against a top of the table team with no injuries. Foregone conclusion, fan turnout halved? The way to go?

It definitely hasn't, I used to work at the Marsham Arms in front of it and go past it on each trip to Norwich.

What is the alternative if your number one or more riders are injured which often happens, go into a meeting with 4 team members and a number 8?

Because the BV rider is injured (it's a dangerous sport and to give fans value for money team strength is all important) and this guy is guesting ..... perfectly understandable! Then the spiel goes speedway is nothing like any other team sport, it's not got the money to have 'reserves' of all qualities akin to football so guest riders for top men is the way it has to be organised otherwise the team with am injured rider would 100% lose, the fans wouldn't turn up for an uncompetitive meeting, it can't survive without fans, the club would shutdown!

He ought to have his average raised to be fair to the rest of the league, 12 . It's peed me off for years that he's not thought racing in the UK important, I'm surprised he's lowering himself now, sounds like it's at huge cost though!

To use the riders you want and not just someone who fits? There's always options during the season anyway, as u know ...

Christ that takes ya back, oh that race with Parks, Louis and Rickardsson, they didn't do it justice at all, it was one of THE best races ever at Lynn! The whole production was downbeat, the music, everything, rain, that didn't do the sport any good at all! Our sport has always 'lived for today', the early promoters put meetings on in greyhound stadiums etc, riders loved racing their bikes, they loved the money to be made even more and the punters turned up in their droves, easy money all round. Everything was hunky dory. Then the rot set in, they weren't making such huge amounts of money, they had offers on land if they did own stadiums, modern times were coming. If they'd set our sport in stone like football is perhaps we wouldn't be down to a handful of stadiums but who knows? Yeah the SKY money was good but absolutely nothing like football millions, could the BSPA bought all the stadiums left with that money? What should they have done with it which would've lasted till now?

Keep up, duraglit of course!

He's exactly what it says on the tin .....

He'll shine .....

Brasso

Shouldn't be a fixture clash!

Waiting for you to win the Championship treble ...... twice

Oh how you paid the ref off you mean!

We'll just hope you'll have to eat your words m8

Sometimes he likes Wolves, sometimes he doesn't lol

I doubt anyone will have a problem with Rowe being a r/s cos that's what he would've been last year ..... he particularly likes Lynn too arghhhh

There's hope that more different riders might race here in 2023. It's easy to be an armchair promoter ........

Our clubs need to get announcing before this happens again!!!!

Give commentary a go, would help with atmosphere imo ....

Who's calculated how many riders we have in the UK who would be of high enough standard to be in one big league, how many riders could each team have? 4? 5?

Maybe the bonds need to be higher? I don't know if they are really strict about the bonds?

Erm I'd have thought that was down to the riders who had just lost their jobs surely??