Ben91

He's had more comebacks than Rocky.

Is narrow track similar to longtrack?

The team manager should take ownership of his decisions. There's no 'we' deciding the tactical, it falls squarely on the shoulders of the team manager to make that choice. It shouldn't be up to the riders to decide between themselves either. Take their opinions on board of course but ultimately Schroek should be telling them who is on the TR.

Look at the list of rider averages from last season to this, there are over 150 names on there. Of course you have to factor out names that have retired or not wanting to race over here but there are riders not on that list who would be willing to race here. In the top two leagues there are 18 teams, that is 126 team slots. So to say that there are no enough riders isn't true. Of course the lower end British riders would still be allowed to ride in the NL but if there were fixture clashes with their senior club (Premiership or Championship) then they would have to find a replacement or use R/R. But that's perhaps a subject for another time and place than the Rye 2017 thread.

Absolutely no need for doubling up this season either. More than enough riders around to have filled teams in both divisions without some riders having a club in both leagues.

There were no other meetings last night, plenty of guest options out there. Or R/R would have scored more.

Kennett is usually decent enough around Monmore, must be a reason for his Watt-esque showing. Clegg's been poor this season, hence them dropping him. The reasoning that he'd like to prove a point makes some sense but his poor form should have been good enough reason to steer clear. Bewley would have been the ideal guest. Does the eight day rule apply to meetings for a rider's own club as he was there last week? Otherwise not booking him was a big faux pas.

They've both raced at Rye House before and have been/are world class riders.

I get the impression you're not keen on Bowen Waco?

BWD makes Poole stronger. If Klindt has his gating gloves with him he could be the deciding factor.

It doesn't take a genius to work out that the club that signs the rider in the winter gets priority over the club that signs the rider during the season. I'd expect that even if the rules say otherwise that we'd have that agreement in place with Edinburgh, hence them allowing him to sign for us too. When there's a fixture clash we'll get a facility and Wells is far better than 2017 Davey Watt.

Wells signed for Edinburgh. The season started. Wells signed for Rye House. Therefore Edinburgh have priority in the event of a clash. The key bit there is underlined.

Will score more than Watt. Don't envy him the journey from Edinburgh to Hoddesdon overnight though. Good to see the promotion acting swiftly.

Worrall and Garrity's averages are too high for a straight swap and Wells is better than Barker.

Pay your way, have your say is my opinion. We're out of what was a winnable cup competition three weeks into the season, while R/R for Ellis helped Swindon, let's not forget that Watt only scored six points from eight rides. Not good enough. He's obviously in the team for Saturday, I can't see any changes being made this near to the tie. In my opinion he needs to put in an 8+ point score otherwise we should be exploring other avenues.

I could put a post on instagram saying I'm going to be world champion in 2018, doesn't make it mean a thing. Which would conveniently be against Poole! Skornicki's gone from Wolves, that's probably Schlein off the market. If Davey isn't going to turn the corner we need to act fast, there's no place for compassion in sport if you want to win.

Two days after scoring nothing for us in a home meeting.

It's a rare occurrence these days to come away from a meeting anywhere and feel like you've had value for money to be fair.

Well that's down to Holder and Lambert, not the track. Well I hope the roads aren't too slick or you won't arrive until Tuesday night. I've just got the bug back for going, if they sign Mear they won't see another penny from me until he's out of the team again. I'd actually rather see Boxall, that's how strongly I feel about it.

Holder isn't the rider he was before his injuries at Coventry a few years back imo. So because two Lynn riders underperformed and couldn't make an impression on 'lesser' opposition that makes it the worst meeting you've ever seen?

It wasn't that bad.

Watt has to be finished with us now. Simply not good enough, to be replaced by Perks (rightly so) in his last heat shows how bad he was. Ben Barker was in attendance tonight. Kennett is very good at Rye, always has been so it's not a massive surprise to see him go through the card. Holder and Lambert should have troubled him more though. My only criticism would be that he left Robbo in heat one, but Robbo held on for the 5-1 so no harm done. Speaking of Robbo it was good to see him back in the points tonight. For me though Ellis Perks' form has been the biggest positive of our step up. He can trap, he doesn't look wobbly and has been scoring well over what would be expected of a two point number seven. Bomber seemed to look off the pace in the heats he didn't gate, I think a bit more dirt might be in order to give him more opportunities to pass. All in all a positive after last week's disappointing result. Sort the Watt issue and we have a chance of the play-offs.

I'd imagine Thomas hasn't been exposed to a track like Peterborough that often. Far more 'smaller' circuits in the NL than the bigger ones like IOW and Lynn. Hopefully he has a good year, there's not been as much fanfare about him as other youngsters this season so it'd be nice to seem him put a point or two on his average.

Watt's got two meetings over this weekend to prove he can still cut the mustard imo. With no out and out number one the lions share of our points have to be shared between the top four and he's looking a shadow of the rider he was right now.

He's a better rider now than when he was last with you. He needs to have a good season somewhere in the Championship too if he has any ambitions of returning to Rye House in the Premiership next season or later this year.