Steve0

What rule is this?

Never heard that before!

It does seem dodgy as many (including myself) have said. But he may actually be genuinely ill. I think it balances up the teams again and Swindon may now even have a chance of winning! For a team built around a top 2 and both to be out would have made it even more unbalanced but good luck to the best team on their win tonight!

No dodgy illness - I have it on good authority (OK I've made it up) that Dany was round Rosco's last night for tea and he came down with a severe stomach bug afterwards - although everyone else in the Rossiter household is absolutely fine

Yes I can (class him as one of the greats). I would also class Leigh Adams as one of the greats too and he sadly didn't become world champion either but both great nonetheless.

I strongly disagree - DW#43 was the most naturally gifted speedway rider I have had the pleasure to watch - he is indeed up there with the greats in this sport.

I agree that the rules should be followed as it would set a bad precedent if it were overruled - no exceptions! Ironically though he was injured while riding for his Championship side and the only option open to Swindon is R/R - so Swindon suffer as a result whilst Berwick can have a guest for him - doesn't seem fair!

Not great at all - he has only raised his average by almost 1 point (from the reserve berth)!! What were you hoping for - a heat leader to replace him?

Looks like I was wrong in my prediction - BV looking stronger at this early stage.

I think Poole will win this and BV will leave without a league point.

I think you were the only one questioning its credibility

Is he agreeing with me? Can't say I knew that or even care because he is part of the problem being a member of the BSPA that allowed this situation to arise - year on year!

I have no problem with Wolves because they picked an improving side that isn't far off the 50 point mark they started with when the ridiculous multiplier was used - fair play to them that they picked a team of improvers. However, as I said previously, it has always been the case that struggling teams have very little options to improve within a stupid points limit and that's just how it is and doesn't look like getting changed. Also bear in mind that there appears to be a smaller pot from which to select replacements because fewer riders want to ride in the UK so it means options to strengthen are limited and then when you consider that a lot ride in two leagues in the UK, it reduces their availability too. It seems the BSPA are happy to build teams to an arbitrary limit and then to let improving teams pull away from the pack with the rest unable to compete on a level playing field because they can only strengthen to a much lower limit than the improving teams - which just cements the gap! In the meantime, the non-improving teams lose more and more supporters most of which manage to break the habit of attending to see whatever dross is put out and stop going altogether. This isn't sour grapes because it looks like there are limited or no options for Swindon to strengthen (although I believe that Rohan for Dany would have been the change to allow Swindon to challenge for the playoffs) because I accept that it has always been this way but it can't be right that the following pack have more limited options to strengthen than the leaders - where is the fairness in that? If teams were allowed to strengthen to the highest averaged team level then that would be fair because it is still a fair competition but to have teams building to 42 points when one team has a near 49 point average is just plain stupid - but that's British speedway for you and helps keep the costs down. Any other sport would increase the limit but speedway chooses to dumb it down so much so that crowd levels continue to fall.

That's a pretty cr@p deal!

Sadly this has always been the case and teams need to make the right signings at the start of the year. The logical thing to do would be to allow all teams to strengthen up to the highest average team which would be fairer but it always seems to be the case that teams at the bottom end of the averages are severely restricted when making changes. This has been talked to death on here in the past and the current lesson is to make a better job in putting together your initial team to start the season.

Yes -Sedgmen's average is too high if making a straight swap with Dany It would be harsh on BWD - the only one worth considering replacing is Dany (IMHO). With Ellis at reserve, the team should do better.

They do indeed have the highest total but it's not as high as you put though.

I like Sedgmen and he can be a match winner as he showed last night - if only he could find some consistency to move him forward. I thought Tungate was a cert for Swindon so I hope Rosco has a plan because we couldn't even fit Sedgmen in to the team because his average is the best part of a point higher than Tungate. Mind you what rider wouldn't jump at the chance to ride at the NSS each week (Scott Nicholls excepted).

With the new averages, the difference in team strengths are showing: Belle Vue 43.96 Kings Lynn 43.24 Leicester 39.3 Poole 43.31 (or 44.75 with KK) Rye House 41.22 Somerset 42.72 (or 43.71 with PH) Swindon 40.98 Wolves 48.48 May as well give the trophy to Wolves now and be done with it

Well he was better than both Nicholls and Harris - both ex-SGP riders - so clearly not as far down as those two "reliable" Brits #justsaying

I'm sure that back in the days when KL first started there weren't any issues with the sun. It's a summer sport and not unusual to have sun in the summer - or is it?

He was entertaining but I thought Richard Lawson, Steve Worrall and Craig Cook were more entertaining. Its great to see someone like Steve do so well and is one of the success stories of the ill-conceived draft system that later wasn't a draft system. I did, however, think that with Swindon looking to strengthen and Tungate the most likely candidate, sadly there would be no way he (Ben Barker) would ride for Swindon this year - unless Rosco wants a bad atmosphere in the pits for the rest of the year!

Just as well its not at the NSS or he wouldn't get many points. Come to think of it, he still won't get many points

That's very bad news for Doyley (and his teams) hope he has a speedy recovery

I'm not surprised Leicester are a poor side - even after the changes they have made. I was surprised when some (quite a lot actually) said that the original Leicester line-up looked good. Anyway still between the Lions and Rebels for the wooden spoon