Paulco

That's where compliments gets you now haha

Only thing about them is that their reserves look as weak as ours , but i agree their top 5 , assuming Harris doesnt ride their track the way he did at the Pairs , look impressive

Comical thing is , Craig Cook apart , our side doesn't exactly appear to be the Harlem Globetrotters of the Championship. There are stronger looking teams out there than what we appear to be . Sheffield and Edinburgh certainly do . Have they threatened speedway Armageddon assembling their septets ?

Here we go again

Time to put this nonsense to bed . Does it really matter what other fans think of our club or it's custodians . We're the ones turning up for home meetings and the occasional away ones , not them . If we're hated , so be it , i wont lose any sleep over it .

Think in all probability Cook was signed before we got hit with this ridiculous points limit . No chance of winning anything with two 2 pointers at reserve . Echos of Blackman and Campbell at the start of 2004 . I hope i'm wrong , but it looks a bit of a botched team building job . Yes it's nice to have Cook , but he cant win meetings on his own

Going to be two , two pointers at reserve in all likelihood . So unless we stumble onto a gem it's unlikely Sarjeant will be back at reserve , even with no increase in his average . Personally i would have went for Greaves , we never seen what he could bring to the team before injury struck , but he had impressed round Ashfield previously , riding against us .

Exactly . Starting at reserve last year should have enabled him to up his average quite a bit , that never happened and even less chance of it happening starting in the main body of the team , even in a watered down league .

Speedway and double standards , well who'd have thought it haha

Dont think there is , and you cant justify dropping the points limit to 38 and then increase the admission price

Is there a need for the den to be open on non speedway days anyway ?

With the league dummed down to a 38 point limit league , there will be no shortage of available number 1 candidates . Morris , Richard Lawson, Ricky Wells , Sam Masters , Richie Worrall , Lasse Bjerre to name but a few .

Paul Starke has , back at Glasgow for 2019 . And Covatti will be enjoying the sea air in Somerset

That you just realising how corrupt speedway is ? By the way , i'm on the nightshift , what's your reason for being on here at this ungodly hour lol Seriously John , take a step back . Speedway is still a fantastic spectacle to be enjoyed if you can ignore the rule bending , oneupmanship and the politics that goes on behind the scenes . 4 brave rides going at it inches apart ( well on some tracks ) , that's all you need .

Welcome back guys

Must have been down to the rider himself , maybe the travelling got too much . Because surely we should have persevered with him all things being equal .

We'll see , but most teams seem to be going down the long tail route this season as building to 38 points takes it's toll

I'm the same mate . The ridiculous points limit doesnt fill me with excitement . Even worse for you guys after being upstairs for a couple of seasons . Still it means i get to see my team racing at one of my favourite venues again , rather than make the pilgrimage as a neutral as i have done the past two years .

Well Harris is fixed up near Burnham on Sea and it wouldnt surprise me in the slightest if we went down the Cook and the dancing 4 pointers road . So if that was the intention it hasnt really worked .

Away from the nonsense for a minute or two . Other clubs are announcing signings , but nothing other than silence from the hallowed halls of Ashfield . I must confess that the ridiculous points limit doesnt fill me with enthusiasm for the new season and i worry about what will be served up in front of us because of that . The " i know something you dont know " mob will no doubt smugly post some cryptic bollocks about who we've got , happens every winter , but team building to 38 points must be a nightmare . If we have Cook it takes over 10 out of the 38 points . 6 riders for less than 28 points - seriously . We had that in the 80's with Steve Lawson and 6 of his mates keeping him company in the pits , it didnt work then and Cook cant win meetings on his own . Rumours on here from Workington alleging underhand tactics to get one of their riders with Rasmus Jensen seemingly fitting the bill ........really ? Ok he done well during Worky's glory charge in October , but he's never impressed me round Ashfield in the past - Kid Jensen would have been more competative . I'd have the engine room of last season , namely Vissing , Starke and Kerr back again , and play the numbers game from there , such as it is .

He probably had to for there to be a top flight

I heard from a reliable source that Craig Cook was given his own private Boeing 747

That's ok then , we only deal with reliable sources on here .

Yes but is it a reliable source down the bingo ?

Fear not , by page 10 on this thread it will be up to £400 a point and a 5k guarantee