Wolfsbane

Howarth's best days at Wolves were when he rode with Freddie. Once Lindgren didn't return, together with injuries, Kyle wasn't as effective.

Mikael

Nail. Head.

I missed that, excellent news

Klindt can, as long as he's on gate 4, otherwise, forget it!

Did anyone tell him that Swindon did and were champions?

When push comes to shove it's all about the moolah.

Oh Lord, here we go! If we go in with a 40 point team by may it'll be case of................ Help!

I'd be amazed. It would go against all historical precedent.

He better be

That's a thought that I can't get out of my mind. Your conclusion of 40.5 however would break the habit of a lifetime in speedway promoting by Adams and CVS.

I know I'm like a stuck record but why would you not want to announce a big hitter at #1, especially if it's Lindgren, before you start selling season tickets?! It doesn't make sense to me as the object is to sell more season tickets which such an announcement is bound to do.

My recollections, which may be faulty of course, is that for every 1 'we must have him on that average' riders who are a success, half a dozen prove why they had the 'bargain' average. I'm sure you're right about Becker but I've never understood why someone would purchase a season ticket before you knew what you were buying. In the case of Becker his signature would surely be more important to that decision than Schlein, Douglas, Nicol and Morris so to not have him done and dusted before 'season ticket saturday' seems remiss to me

You're not alone.

'.......the club expected to hold talks with American ace Luke Becker in the near future'. I'd have thought Becker was the one signature they'd want in the bag before starting to flog season tickets

I suspect you're correct

You would have thought the complete 1-7 would have been announced by saturday so their prospective customers knew what they were buying.

I might be making myself a hostage to fortune here but I think the Pawlicki ship has sailed.

So you don't go with the replacing Masters/Thorssell to free up points to get a big hitter at #1 theory?

So who misses out for Nicol?

If Crooks was any good Sky would have poached him long ago.

I've been hoping in vain that he'd do a book on his career with him reading the audio version

Every time I heard him say stuff like 'I got the bugger' in his Swedish/Black Country accent I couldn't help pi$$ing myself laughing

I've only been to the Cleveland for one. PK. The man's a legend

# Knocking his team mates off and blaming them. # Fighting with team mates/mechanics in the pits. Think that just about covers it.