Alan_Jones

Dave Robinson is consistent though - he's the worst ref we've had at Rye House this season, making the same sort of stupid decisions in the Bank Holiday meeting against Plymouth.

He isn't.

Me too. It's got to be better than Sunday when he spent the afternoon all dressed up with nowhere to go as no.8. Then, in a drawn out MDL match because of a short handed team, the ref wouldn't let him practice between heats despite him being at the tapes. Instead, the tractor went out to grade the 1st bend tarmac.

Ed Kennett's hand injury has improved and he is riding but Stefan Nielsen is still unfit so Ben Morley is the guest. Mathieu Tresarrieu is also fit to ride.

Not quite. No longer a Rocket but still a King. As for your main point, the wisdom of replacing 3 points a match with 1 does escape me.

This may go some way to explaining Holder's current situation; http://twitter.com/Chris_Holder23/status/469432876283736064/photo/1

He's in the current team declaration that was issued on the 9th.

Yes they are, as listed here; http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/speedway/17839601

Simon Lambert injured a knee riding for Birmingham so James Sarjeant guests at Rye House with Ben Hopwood riding at Glasgow.

And how about that Patryk Dackarna?

I do, but pointing that out, in the interests of accuracy, doesn't mask the fact that the Poole promotion are playing to their strengths in cheating, amply aided by the BSPA MC's new unwritten phantom R/R rules.

He could have been 2 weeks ago when Smart was sacked. Smart was #14, Compton #15.

I and those around me thought the same, as did Luke, who was considerably closer.

From the Match Report PR; "the Rockets had to contend with Luke Bowen’s exclusion in Heat 10 for a start line infringement – both the Harlow Flyer’s helmet peak and his front tyre were deemed to have touched the tapes"

I'm sure they were spoilt for choice.

Since Sheffield tried and got away with it.

Nobody's saying anything that would penalise Berwick are they? IMO Sheffield put themselves in a position where they only had 6 riders. They should have gone with 6 riders and no R/R. If I were in a generous mood I'd have let them use reserves, but I'm rarely generous where rule flouting is concerned.

Pre-season, Somerset. This week, Sheffield. Next week, who knows?

But that's the problem, a lot of us seem to know the rules better than those given the responsibility of wielding them randomly.

http://www.speedwaygb.co/news.php?extend.24777 http://www.speedwaygb.co/news.php?extend.24796

The latest Team Declaration, issued on the 1st, still has Roynon in the team.

Sheffield should get the 28 day ban for withholding Roynon's services. Good to see the new promotion maintaining their high standard of professionalism.

The new averages show the wisdom of dropping some decent riders to fit in a 10 1/2 point rider that was always going to drop a point but has in fact dropped 2 points. What they don't show, due to rolling averages and the 3 point minimum, is that Simon Lambert is scoring a gnat's over 1 point per meeting. Adam Roynon could replace any of the 5 pointers and my choice, on attitude alone, would be Jason Garrity.

Correct. It's actually Benji Compton.

I think Joe Jacobs* is the only available rider now out of the picture due to Smart's drop. The big question is why the great speedway brains at Poole originally chose a rider that most people expected to be fast tracking in the wrong direction rather than a lower ranked rider with more potential. * ...but I was wrong, it's Benji Compton.