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I've a feeling Jerzy Treszkowski was, technically, a Swede and riding on a Swedish license. the "proper" Pole at Swindon that year was Leonard Raba who did very little but then appeared on TV a few years later riding very well for the Polish team. Was in 1978 when all the allocated Poles came here? None of them really pulled up any trees. Boley Proch, at Reading, was probably the best, but he only came over after Blaszak was send home after being caught shop-lifting.

Whenever the 4H4A matches averages come into effect.

Doing a like-for-like change would be re-declaring. What's being said is that if the side re-declares, any rider who hasn't done 4H4A will be re-assessed.

I've no idea what average Jorgensen is on, but surely he's been declared in the King's Lynn side on their original starting average. So, once their 4H4A average comes into effect, he stays on whatever average he is on, unless they re-declare, in which case he'd be assessed with a top flight average. I'm just going on Skidder's post, where it states that riders with less than 4H4A remain on their starting average unless the side re-declares. Maybe I'm missing something, but it seems straight forward to me. As stated, his average would be re-assessed if they wanted to re-declare.

No it wasn't. Normally, when a programme over-runs, so does the recording. Clearly BT Sport doesn't do this, so in future it's something to remember to do, but it wasn't obvious at all.

No. He'd be reasssessed to a Division One average if they wished to re-declare. I'm assuming he's been brought in on his Second Division average based on King's Lynn still being on their starting averages.

I saw nothing wrong with the graphics to be honest. Maybe they were basic, but they gave out the required information and that is all that is required. Yes, so really good graphics might give a "wow" factor to the presentation if done well, but I'd rather have the basic information there than hae them try too hard and come up with some OTT graphics that become intrusive. I thought the coverage was fine, with the only negative being the panning to the winner crossing the finishing line while there was still a race for minor placings. Presentation was good. Much better to have knowledgeable interviewers than the Grand Prix interviewer who just asks everyone how they are feeling about whatever just happened.

I think Steve Worrall is brilliant. It's great to see him do so well. When he was at Swindon as a draft rider all the talk was about Garrity and Newman, but he has surpassed both by a long way.

It was the other way round. The two that had moved went straight back to the tapes and the two that stayed still hung around at the pits. As long as the 2 minutes in put on straight away I don't see a lot that can be done about it.

My main problem was that the recording ended after 2 hours 30 minutes and didn't get the final. A few times the camera panned to the race winner crossing the line while there was still a race on for 2nd and 3rd. I've noticed this in some overseas productions of the Grand Prix too. Overall, though, it was very good. Yup.

Best thing about that proposition is that the stated Swindon team would probably win it.

It seems, to me, that the quoted rule is to prevent a side holding a rider back in order to introduce him later. Tungate has since signed for Somerset and been released, which had nothing to do with Swindon, so there's no real reason for the MC not to allow such a move on the basis of that rule. I don't think they would ever block such a move, even to poor old much maligned Belle Vue Aces, unless there was a real suspicion of a side trying to pull a stroke.

I don't know the ins and outs of what is going on at King's Lynn regarding Lambert/Bailey or any injuries so just went of what is on the website. With Bailey in they can fit in Tungate, but I don't know if that is likely.

Just looking at King's Lynn. It's not clear what average Simon Lambert will be on. It looks like he is in the declared side and on 3.00 but has only had one meeting with an average of 5.60 but in on 3.00. These are the averages on the BSPA site R. Lambert 7.91 Batchelor 7.91 Holder 6.82 Huckenbeck 5.95 Rose 5.67 Porsing 4.69 S. Lambert 5.60 (3.00?) Even with S.Lambert on 3.00 it still comes to 41.95. Tungate on 5.09 instead of Porsing it comes to 42.35. Are these the correct averages? Josh Bailey (2.00) is not listed in the 1-7 on the declarations.

As others have said, it's an average. Points/Rides x 4. Heat 15 being included is one reason that top riders have averages so much lower than they used to.

I was with my 13 year old son at the stall selling tee shirts and saw Martin Ashby stood close by. "That's Martin Ashby there," I said to him. "Where?" "There. In the black leather jacket," I said. "That guy there?" he asked. "Yeah." "But he just looks like a normal guy," said the boy, somewhat suprised. "Well he isn't" I said. Not sure what he was expecting. Not a "normal guy" apparently.

There was one heat when Jason Doyle was riding slowly round the inside line and continually looking over his shoulder, but he is so good and Rye House were so poor that they still couldn't catch him up.

Since when?

Posing is on 4.69. Maybe you were looking at the average with BP? I assumed Gapmaier didn't ride because he was riding for Berwick, but when I looked up his score he wasn't even riding for them last night. So, take 2.80 off from that and add, say, 5.09 (just plucking a figure out the air there) you get 41.78. So, maybe it's lucky Ed Kennett got past Nick in the race of the night, and then Adam had a couple of poor rides late in the meeting after a really good start, including his "surprising" heat 15 nomination.

I metioned to the person next to me that I thought Nick wanted Ed to get past him.

Not a great meeting. Rye House were very poor. I got the impression from about half way through that Swindon were trying not to win by too much to keep the averages manageable.

If Rohan came in it would probably be for Gappmaier. The guy's hardly there anyway.

If he wants to make Rossiter look "stupid" then that's the best way to do it, rather than making himself look "stupid" by ranting on Facebook.

If Laswon's rants on Facebook are a reflection of his personality then I'm not surprised Rosco doesn't like him.

Saw him ride for both, although I don't think I realised the Swindon significance at the time.