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I'm the same. I've not watched a single GP this year and not bothering with Cardiff this year either as regardless of atmosphere and occasion, it's not as good as watching my own team ride.

More misinformation and complete nonsense. Only about 10 years behind... 🙄

Nope - I was at Glastonbury so didn't go to the speedway FYI.

As I've posted elsewhere it's becoming pretty obvious the Somerset management realised they couldn't cover Hougaard with RR so signed somebody who would be missing more often than not so then we have a choice of guest. Plus Palm Toft is pretty handy at Poole isn't he who I think we are at fairly shortly? I've also posted elsewhere about squads being implemented in the Premiership too next season. Double uppers should be able to have the option of sharing one team place so when riders like Kerr for example is riding for his championship side, we could of called on whoever his double up partner would be. This is how it used to be years ago and means you can at least continue an association of our squad, even if it means team must then be 6 riders instead of 7 riders at one time, instead of having a bunch of randomers turning up week on week. It still baffles me why guests are allowed instead of RR being used too.

Allegedly on a very powerful engine brought over from Poland for that meeting. It all started so well for him this season, beating Doyley in his first race carrying on from being our rider of the season last year but never got anywhere near those heights. Reknowned for his gating, he barely managed to make a decent start all season and really struggled. Such a shame as I'd have him back at Somerset as he has a lot more to offer than he shown us this year as proved last year - no good if his form from early this year continues though.

I couldn't agree with this post more. From the outside looking in the track has looked in the best shape I can remember for many a year. We've been served up some fantastic racing this year, the type of stuff that wouldn't be possible regardless of the calibre of rider on an 'atrocious' track.

Have a look at IDH's brilliant photo album here: http://ihitchcock.zenfolio.com/somerset_v_kings_lynn?fpciidx=51 The last photo is from heat 14 I believe. Can't see any dust clouds there that's for sure! If you also look at the first few you can actually see how heavily watered the track was!

It was always going to come back and bite us on the ass when the averages changed. We would never of been able to carry Rohan on his 9+ average since he was released but at the same time he was always going to be a steal once his average dropped. I had always hoped we would reintroduce him once the new averages came into play, ideally for Heeps now, but looks like that isn't going to happen sadly.

I thought Tungate's average was 5.09 from his 4H 4A so how has he ended up on 4.something??

Dust bowl... give it a rest. There was no dust at all last week and the track had been heavily watered.

Exactly that. Hopefully squads are an option so teams can sign two riders to share one position if needed to avoid all of the missing riders and guests at every match - even if that means dropping to 6 man teams.

Me too - I've used Somerset and Glasgow averages and can't work out how he's ended up on 7.80!

Or when he top scored 2 weeks earlier against Belle Vue....

I see Richard Lawson moves to no.1 with the new averages now out. Palm-Toft missing again much to the upset of some Rebels fans on facebook I see. It's pretty obvious now that when the management knew Hougaard was injured, they knew we couldn't go on and use R/R so signed someone who was going to be missing so we had a pick of guests all the time. Smart on one hand but daft at the same time as nobody wants to see a team of guests every week regardless of how good they are. Think Heeps will struggle in the main body of the side.... Tungate still free??? I seen that too, which I thought was interesting. I however don't buy the speedway star so not sure what the gripe is.

Can you not see that that makes it even worse - that it was messed up last season and they've managed to make the same mistakes again this year?

Couldn't disagree more. The referee got a load of stock from fans where I was stood for 'getting it wrong' but he didn't get anything wrong. Lewis Rose had the same amount of time to get to the meeting as everyone else did, regardless of traffic. Everyone else made it in good time and he didn't. Simple. You wouldn't catch Chelsea delaying a football match against United because Wayne Rooney was stuck in traffic 🙄 As it turned out, they bought in the brilliant Kai Huckenbeck and the rest is history....

Moving up a league hasn't got masses to do with it, other than the World Cup week. There is still nearly just as many fixtures in total - however the fixture list seems to have been put together by Starman or something as it is awful right across the board.

I've already answered that in my post that you've quoted. Because he was performing poorly. Nothing to do with averages like you stated in your previous post which is incorrect.

How does it? There was no need to drop Newman because of averages at all. He was dropped because he had been performing poorly.

Excellent write up as usual ER and pretty much spot on the money... except for the Kurtz/Holder incident in my view. The way I saw it was that the correct call was made. Holder got to the bend first before Kurtz went up on the grass, got out of shape and plowed straight through Holder's front wheel. Pretty fair to say though Holder wasn't very happy about it! I thought for the Rebels Lawson was brilliant. Don't think he's had a bad match since signing for us yet. Quite a likeable sort of rider too so brilliant stuff from him. I see there is abit of a debate about Kerr developing and I don't think he's done enough yet. Doesn't look very quick and even when he makes the gate is passed relatively easily. Tungate back for Kerr anyone? 6 points from R/R probably didn't help but both our reserves were pretty poor. Allen was a million miles from the rider who top scored against Belle Vue and Branford was pathetic. Fair play to Kings Lynn who looked a very good side. 3 heat leaders all firing and a reserve scoring at will was always going to be hard to beat. Huckenbeck was even better than the earlier match in the season though.

Rebels to edge it by 4 points.

We've ridden quite a few matches since he left, where he would of been stuck at no.1 and scoring very little. Richard Lawson who replaced him has piled up the points since replacing him.

Strengthens them somewhat - as he has easily been the worst visitor to the OTA so far this season.

Kurtz and Branford in for Palm-Toft and Heeps whilst also operating R/R for Wright. Liam Carr guests at no.7 for Kings Lynn.

You'd have thought he would revert to his previous average, before the multiplier was used.