Najjer

Rose is, albeit not in the main body of a team yet. Schramm however is not capable of being a lot more than a 3 pointer.

Fair comment - from the big hints given already, cuts have to be made somewhere to allow for someone of Danny Kings calibre.

It's a number game, and sometimes sacrifices have to be made. I remember the Somerset promotion coming all sorts of criticsm when we chopped Sam Masters in 2012 before going on to lose the title by a single point on aggregate, and then chopping Nielsen last year which ultimately was the key to us becoming league and cup champions. Sometimes it's a risk worth taking, although I'm surprised it was Rosen to go and not Lindgren.

Ostergaard? Maybe 5/6 years ago....

Assuming it is affordable and sustainable at Premier League level, then we should welcome the idea of having British riders of that calibre doubling up like that. However, what we can't have is someone in the Premier League signing Chris Holder and then pleading poverty and being bankrupt within a year.

Your anti Poole posts are beyond boring, and actually quite desperate - Poole haven't broken any rules, as much as you keep insisting they have. I think I'm right in saying that you can only use the same guest 4 times throughout a season, has it occurred to you that Poole may use "Jog Bloggs" as a guest and rattle up some big points and they could be $hitted on from a great height when he goes and lands a full time job somewhere else in the league? Swings and roundabouts, and whilst it may seem to put Poole at an advantage on the face of it, riders won't be in favour and would much sooner plump for any other full time offers that come up if they do enough to impress.

I'm not a Berwick fan.

Try and paper over it as much as you like, but Sheffield broke the rules here. They should have had a NL guest in their side and not R/R for either Roynon or Proctor.

This one really isn't confusing, just the BSPA made a massive balls up - imagine the uproar if Sheffield win by 2 on aggregate.

Is that the advice Chris Schramm gives to youngster?

I presume a 28 days is set to follow too then, for withholding his services - however, as we well know the isn't the case and he's been stitched up well and truly by Sheffield and Ty Proctor.

What an absolute joke that is.

Hardly a bumper crowd but the car park was full, so I've seen a lot less. In answer to your question, we always prosper over the summer months crowd-wise so I can't see why this year would be any different to our previous 12 years in the Premier League.

The only rider who got in the thick of it in his final two rides was Heeps but as wide as he went, the Rebels just went that little bit wider! The score line doesn't reflect what a fantastic meeting this was, some of the races had to be seen to be believed quite frankly. However poor the Witches were, the Rebels were good, very very good in fact from 1-7. Nick Morris in a league of his own, Brady and Olly unbeaten also, as would Todd have been had Olly not fenced him sadly. Charles after needing a change of underpants when racing against Schramm, was again sublime and seems to have taken to the no.2 role like a duck to water. A special mention for Paul Starke who sadly missed out on his maximum, but was stunning and his pass on Heeps in heat 12 was out of the top drawer. Let's hope we go on and tonk Workington next weekend too!

I look forward to seeing him in the Sheffield team tomorrow night.

Give over, I was on the first turn and it was most certainly bumpy. However, bumpy or not it doesn't detract from Poole being one of the best tracks in the country for racing/entertainment.

This move hardly comes as a surprise - it was said in Josh Bates' interview after winning the Under 21s how he wanted to thank Ty Proctor for all his help blah blah blah.. so it comes as no surprise when promotor Bates introduces him at the expense of Adam Roynon because of who the family friend is. All very ironic for Proctor....

That has to be worst justification ever.

It's not, and actually irrelevant - even if Harris, King or whoever could end up with PL convertable averages, then if they are unaffordable then no one with any sense will sign them anyway.

And given Ty Proctor's form this season, I would say justified too.

Had a go? He just disagreed with my opinion

To be fair to Garritty he looked as though he was riding the nuts off the bike, but the bike seemed to be letting him down - although that didn't stop him from being completely reckless at times! What has happened to the once superb at the OTA Jason Bunyan? He was about half the track behind everyone by the time his 3 races finished! Kennett looked half decent until Allen took him to the fence in heat 11 and looked uninterested after that. Fair shout to Luke Bowen who gave it a pretty good go too! For Somerset Brady, Pontus, Olly and Josh were all superb, with more valuable points from Charles Wright who since the tail end of last year has been an inspired signing for us. Starke continues to impress and whilst Todd looked far from being quick, paid 8 wasn't a bad return at all!

I don't buy the SS so haven't seen the article, however that seems absolutely ridiculous. Imagine if Holder was to get injured now and miss some meetings for Poole, does that mean they would have to use guests/rider replacement when they have a fit Darcy Ward waiting to ride again? Like you said, I can't see any issue with the previous injured rider signing once he is fit again regardless of time frame.

As I said, we made you look a lot better than you are.

This is still a poor Plymouth side, masked by the flying Katajisto at reserve. The moment he goes I to the main body and Benko who is poor drops the reserve it will only get worse. Somerset have been somewhat inconsistent, looking world beaters at times and not so good the next - but there's no doubting last weekend we made you look a lot lot better than you actually are.