Ben91

Signing him would be a mistake, using him at Swindon as a guest was a mistake. He's a good rider to have at home but away not so much. We need to bin Wells (or Barker or Sedgmen) and sign another heatleader and a two pointer to replace Rob if we are to stand a chance of the play-offs imo.

Gives us over eight points. I worry we'll just replace Rob with Ben Morley and keep it as it is with the rest of the team.

I'd bin Wells and sign Linus Sundstrom on a 7.22 (Poole have used Lahti's last EL average so we should be able to use Linus') and a two pointer to replace Rob.

In the National League. Once bitten twice shy and he was bobbins when he guested for us on a track he's done plenty of laps on earlier in the season.

In his first spell at Rye he regularly used to do the same exiting bend two, was a thing of beauty.

This could be an absolute mauling. May end up being a busy night for Robbo.

The race jacket design is irrelevant. I was a fan of the 'traditional' design but you have to move with the times. Man Utd don't play in the same kit they had when they were founded for example. Speedway is still a sport ultimately and fans want to see a winning team. The promotion are trying to give them that whether you agree with the changes or not (I'm not convinced). Having a happy to be here attitude doesn't have a place at the highest level of a sport.

There's no loyalty in sport if you want to win ultimately.

Think it has to be a numbers thing. It's a gamble and I'll give the promotion that, however it doesn't look inspiring on the face of things. Pairing Barker with Harris looks like a foolish move as far as I'm concerned. Two racers together could cause each other grief. I'd line up: 1. Harris 2. Sedgmen 3. Barker 4. Wells 5. Nicholls 6. Branford 7. Robbo

It makes us stronger away because Eddie has been atrocious away from home. Robbo to reserve is good also. However it makes us weaker at home. Eddie's a very good rider at Rye and I have my reservations about whether Barker and Sedgmen can match the points of Eddie and Ellis at Rye House. It's better to win every week at home and not pick any points away than pick the odd point away but be in more danger of getting turned over at home and I think that's what will happen now.

Sundstrom would have been north of 11 average wise at the start of this season. It'll be two riders on 6 averages (Barker and NBJ) to push Robbo to reserve. Feel for Perks, looks good this year.

Not sure what the conversion figure is but could see Barker and NBJ in.

Nothing wrong with the graphics, they showed who was in each heat and kept the scores up to date. If they can be improved great but not a big issue. The issue was the camera following the leader and not the racing in a fair few heats, however that will hopefully be picked up on by those at BT and improved upon over time. Sporting events run over, other than those that have a specific time frame, I.E. Football and Rugby, sports such as Tennis, Cricket and Darts can all run over time, or under if they reach their conclusion quickly. I didn't think the meeting was run that slowly, I've seen far worse for certain. Annoying if you're recording it for sure but that's the nature of the beast. It's good to have racing back on TV and hope that it gets a big audience on BT each week.

I don't think anyone would complain about King getting heat 15. Of course any rider should want heat 15, it's another chance to earn points money. The wrong choice of riders was made end of.

Maybe the one who can't spot a joke is the idiot eh Steve?

Hi Tai, good to see you posting on the forum. Fancy doing a shift at Belle Vue on Monday?

Updates provided by a Belle Vue fan. These things even themselves out however and Rye should have closed out the meeting when they had the chance. King should have been given a heat 15 spot.

Czech Republic, Germany, Italy, Latvia and Slovenia all received more spots than us. Despite the sport being in a pretty poor position here these days only Poland, Sweden, Denmark and perhaps Australia should be receiving more spots than us.

Echo, echo, echo... Hadn't noticed that in fairness. That's one of King's poorest visits I'd imagine however.

I'd take King over Kurtz around Rye.

Quite right, thinking about his average being from 2010 I just doubled it and doubled it again, HT's figure is the right one! Still a lot more than he signed on...

That standard formula as I understand it is for one season only when a rider is unable to ride because he's injured. So Hurry would have been allowed one reduction from his last EL average of 3.91. I believe the reduction is eight percent so that would leave his average at 3.60. Multiply that average by four and the figure is 14.40... Richard Hall was told last year if he wanted to drop into the NL it would be on his last Conference League average from 2004. Hurry last rode in 2010 for Lakeside in the Elite League.

Surely it is in Sheffield's best interests to accept that JPB needs a break from Championship racing and sign a temporary replacement for him. He's a very good prospect and he'd probably not want to go back if they push the case for him to have a ban for withholding his services. Then another Championship club would benefit from his inevitable success in the future at that level.

Hunter is proving to be a little injury prone. Hopefully he can work past that, the potential is there. If Bowtell can continue in his recent vein of form then his scoring will back up the top three incredibly well. Then you only need a few points from the rest. The controversial Hurry signing should see you into the play-offs.

I bet Waco is delighted with Locke's signing!