MattK

The requirement is that no more than 200 houses can be occupied "until a contract for the construction of the New Stadium has been entered into". The problem I see with this is that I'm sure Stadia UK can find a friendly builder who they can "enter into a contract with" safe in the knowledge that no work will ever be forthcoming. Secondly, would the council want to enter an expensive and elongated legal battle while houses are sat empty?

I'm sorry, but it would be insanity to go so far down the draft list and replace a rider who is 8th (Rose) with a rider who is 24th (Ritchings). We may a well pick and choose the best available replacement on a meeting by meeting basis as by the time Rose is fit again we'll know our playoff status.

390 car parking spaces at the new stadium. I noticed that Moredon pitch and putt has closed. This would be a much better location for the new stadium in my opinion.

Your mate need to go to Wickes and ask for a "long weight" as that's what he's in for.

Interesting comment about the new stadium. This story was from 20 March and claims "Work on the state-of-the-art venue will commence within the next 10 weeks". That was four months ago. This article from 25 June suggests that documents still need to be submitted to the council before work can start. No documents related to the stadium have been submitted to the council since February this year.

Quite simple really. Compare the two heats below: What is the difference between Doyle in Heat 13 and MJJ in Heat 16 (battling for second with Batchelor)? Nothing, they make an almost identical pass of the rider in front. What is the difference between Harris and Batchelor? Batchelor gives his rider room, whereas Harris turns left on Doyle. Heat 13: https://youtu.be/QHvfyfpAzmk?t=51m50s Heat 16: https://youtu.be/QHvfyfpAzmk?t=1h3m53s As I said, it would be interesting to know what the rules state. Maybe Harris is perfectly entitled to fall and get Doyle excluded. Maybe Batchelor should have shut the door on MJJ. Personally, I would like the advantage to be with the rider passing, rather than the rider defending.

I'd like to know what the rules say, as Doyle was in front of Harris, carrying more speed than Harris and there was definitely room until Harris turned left. As you say, riders were making "clean" passes going into turns 1 and 3, where the slower rider left room. If this continues before too long there will be no passing.

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Someone on FB suggested Sedgmen, presumably for Howarth, with isn't a bad shout IMO.

I think we have to face the fact that Kildemand doesn't want to ride a full season in Britain and move on.

Did anyone else notice how many times Doyle was out on the track supporting his team mates, when Lambert needed fuel, when Masters fell etc. I don't think I saw Bachelor once out on track helping out other Swindon riders. Doyle seems to have matured into a world class rider and a genuine leader. We should do whatever is necessary to get him back at Swindon next season.

My understanding is this... Kildemand’s temporary spell came to an end so we redeclared with Miedzinski. Miedzinski was deemed to be injured, so we reverted back to the previous declaration, which allowed us to have a guest, for Kildemand, last week. Now Miedzinski is "fit" again we have redeclared with him back in the team.

So the one armed bandit is back in the team. Or if it another administrative error?

I'm confused (doesn't take much) but by the end it the Cardiff GP the track is pretty much unridable. Therefore, how will having a pre-meeting make the track better for the actual GP next week? Alternatively, if they plan to re-lay the track before next week, doesn't that invalidate any testing of the surface done yesterday?

The other problem with Elite League averages is that the changes to the heat format means comparing side by side rider averages is increasingly problematic. For example, Rider A above can beat six opponents to achieve an average of 8, but if he rides at 1, 3 or 5 the calibre of rider's he is against will be much higher than if he was riding at 2 or 4. Another way of putting it was someone at Swindon trying to convince me that Jason Garrity is the third best rider in the league, as he has the third highest average (he was implying that Coventry were somehow "cheating" by having Garrity at reserve). I pointed out to him that Garrity, as a draft rider, only rides against other draft riders and each of the opposition secondstrings, therefore comparing his average with a secondstring or heat leader was meaningless.

Swindon always needed to drop two riders (Kildemand plus one other) in order to fit Ward in. The question is, do we drop one of Morris or Batchelor in order to satisfy the "two over 7-point" rule, or, if Batchelor's average is now below 7, we can drop one of Zengota or Howarth and keep both Morris and Batchelor.

Why should Belle Vue receive all the income from the shared events at the expense of other tracks? IMO they should get at most one shared event per season, same as any other club.

Phew. I mean DAMN. Oh, I've forgotten what we're even trying to achieve here.

Swindon still have one more meeting in June, so all is not lost.

I always assumed that we'd keep Zengota sweet, as he seems to be one of our few assets who wants to ride for us. On the other hand, maybe the club see him as one of the few assets that we can sell?

The elaborate double-bluff

Yes, you're correct Probably our best bet in the circumstances

7.5 to replace Kildemand, as we would be 0.64 under the points limit.

What about what you read on the official SGB Web site's team declarations? http://speedwaygb.co/files/downloads/e15_issue_12.pdf

What's the point in having rules? Really, what's the point?