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But it's official title is 'National Development League' and it is named thus as it is meant to be the entry level league dedicated to the training and development of young home grown riders. I haven't made that up, the quote in my previous post was extracted straight from the 2015 Speedway Regulations issued by the SCB and it doesn't change because your opinion is that it is not a development league. Development does not just happen from novice level.

Was this the reason John Louis was disqualified from the British Nordic Final in 1973? I can remember JL being disqualified after getting enough points to qualify for the next round, but can't remember the exact reason now. Always thought 1973 could've been his best year in the World Championship.

Worried it will be the only trophy the Moanarchs win this season...?

Bobby Schwartz qualified from the American Final in: 1979; 1984 (both times as winner); 1986 and; 1988. He was the knocked out from the World Championship: In 1979 in the Intercontinental Final at White City on 2 points In 1984 in the Overseas Final at Belle Vue on 3 points In 1986 in the Overseas Final at Coventry on 5 points, and In 1988 in the Overseas Final at Coventry on 3 points. He did win the World Pairs in '81 and '82 and World Team Cup in '82. (1982 Carlisle tyres?) IMO, 'Boogaloo' had one of the worst riding styles of any speedway rider I've seen.

As already discussed on this Thread... 2 x home and 3 x away scheduled fixtures for Holub to attain an Established MA before Klindt's Polish fixtures start - rain-off's and re-arrangements permitting. Problem may be that the EMA is effective 7 days after the last qualifying Meeting and the home match against Peterborough on 10th April is only 3 days after the fifth match away at Sheffield.

Bought the girlfriend some of this for Christmas...

Well, in that case, the current Speedway Regulations are incorrect as they state on Page 49: "19. NATIONAL LEAGUE MEETING REGULATIONS Known as the National League, it’s official name is the National Development League to clarify that this is the entry level league dedicated to the training and development of young home grown Riders."

Reckon Auty will be looking forward to his early season trip to the OTA on 15th April.

Saturday, 7th May is the date for the 3 x SGP Qualifiers at Kings Lynn, Munkebo and Terenzano and had been announced back in November. In the circumstances, not surprising that one has been changed. (Leicester v Poole also provisionally set for this date).

Surely the NL must include an age restriction for Reserve riders in the future. Even John Louis was only 28 when he started out in speedway. Isn't the NL, the National 'Development' League? Also, doesn't that leave the Colts almost 3 points below the permitted maximum team aggregate declaration?

Of course, the current Regulations already include an NL age restriction clause, i.e. An ex PL rider declared in a NL team at the start of the season will be ineligible to remain in the NL should he join a PL team at any time, unless the PL rider is under 25 years old with a PL MA of 4.00 or below at the start of the season.

Well, he has to be eligible to ride in the NL to qualify to be a PL No. 7 in 2016, but his assessed NL average should be his latest applicable PL average multiplied by 2. I don't know what his latest PL average is, but it would more than likely to be too high for him to fit in at Stoke. Happy to be proved wrong though.

There is no cap of 3.00. The 3.00 PL average for a 2016 PL No.7 is because the 2016 PL No. 7 has to be qualified to ride in the 2016 NL and NL riders come into the PL on a 3.00 average (apart from BWD who appears to have been re-classified as a 'new' non-British rider for 2016 and been given a 5.00 assessed average. His 2015 NL season appears to have been expunged for the sake of convenience.) The 2015 Regulations state that: Riders who have ridden in the National Development League as an Amateur are ranked as Category 4 in the PL and that Cat. 4 riders attract a 3.00 assessed average. (No indication of when the 2016 Regulations will be available, but they need to be produced soon.) As I have said before, IMO, I think the BSPA have messed up here and should have worded the requirement for the 2016 PL No. 7 as: 'British, has ridden in the NL and qualifies to ride in the NL in 2016' and not as 'British and qualifies to ride in the NL'.

Clambo's post #21 states that 'most' of this unnamed rider's Polish League 1 fixtures are scheduled on a Wednesday. My post may not have made a nonsense of Clambo's whole post, and was not intended to, but it did show that out of 22 scheduled rounds, only 4 of these are shown as being on a Wednesday. In my book, 4 out of 22 is not the most. (It should be noted that some of the Polish League 1 fixtures will not take place as currently Rawicz and Opole will only race at home (and away to each other).)

I agree with this and think that they have missed a trick here in not limiting the 3.00 PL rider to at least an age restriction (say, under 25 at the start of the season), or for the rider to have at least ridden in the NL before, not just to be qualified to ride in it. Surely the idea is to help nurture young British riders that have, or are riding in the NL, and to provide a pathway into the PL, but with the regulation being worded simply as 'a British rider who qualifies to ride in the NL' doesn't do that and will allow a team to bring in a rider who has never ridden in the NL before.

Well, they are branding themselves as the 'Jawa JRM Factory Race Team' and have announced Danny as their official Test Rider on their engine development programme, working closely with the Race Team and team riders Lewis Kerr and Bridger, so it looks like it is going to happen but I've not heard anything official yet. I'm guessing they are working closely with Speedway Service Ltd with their Jawa association. I wonder if Revolution Speedway will become more involved also in SGP and SEC sometime in the future.

I simply posted that Jason had been riding regularly since his Invitational Meeting on Boxing Day and anyway I was a Stars supporter in 1982 - not missing a single meeting home or away Good Luck with the search for a No.1. I hope the change of race-night transpires to be worthwhile. I know a few people who won't be travelling up from Suffolk for Stars' home meeting now and will be getting their EL fix at Arena on Fridays instead.

You're right S4K, the Danyon Hume signing would have been brought about through the Danny King connection and I wouldn't be surprised to see Danyon recruited to the Revolution Speedway Pro Race Team in time, but it does revive memories of the old Witches / Brummies 1970's link for some of us older fans. With Chris Louis interest in and involvement with the development of young British riders, hopefully this will be the start of many such link-ups in the future. (The release of the 2016 NL fixtures seems to have been delayed, as they were due out before the end of January, but it looks as if Darryl and Danyon's first outing for the Brummies will be at home to Stoke in the NT on Good Friday, 25th March.)

I thought that the 2015 Regulations for the PL allowed a facility of a Guest, or Rider Replacement, for: an absent No. 1; an absent PL Double-Up Rider; an absent Elite Draft Rider or; an absent Reserve. If the absent rider did not fall under any of these classifications, then RR had to be used - unless there was more than one missing rider in the team's 1 to 5, when 1 x RR facility should be used and Guests for all others. The EL has introduced a regulation for 2016 that RR has to be used for an absent rider who is 4th or 5th in the team's averages, to reduce the number of guest riders used, but I can't see that this applies to the PL. Straightforward really...

Was just thinking the same thing, of the days when Mick Hines, Mike Lanham, Ted Howgego used to ride for the Brummies. I realise that Darryl Ritchings is a Swindon asset, but with him and Hume in the Birmingham team, it will give Witches fans an interest in the NL side this year and somewhat revives the old link between the two clubs.

As you say HKP, and with both Ritchings and Hume in the Brummies side it re-activates the old link that used to exist between the two clubs and will provide Witches fans with some interest in the NL this season.

Jason turned 40 in August last year and has been riding regularly in Australia since Boxing Day. He won all his qualifying heats in the Tex MacDonald Cup at Kurri Kurri on Sunday, before losing out in the 'A' Final to Rohan Tungate, and is taking part in the D-Dub #43 Cup (benefit meeting for Darcy Ward) at the North Brisbane Junior Motorcycle Club on Saturday. EDIT: to add clip of JC winning Heat 1 of his Invitational Cup at Kurri, passing Sam Masters, with Rohan Tungate and Mason Campton in third and fourth: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4PTx66pkFVk

Polish League 1 fixtures show 16 x Sunday, 4 x Wednesday, 1 x Monday (28th March) and 1 x Friday (5th August) sets of fixtures for their 22 rounds.

Copied over from the NZ Speedway thread. Canterbury Comets 53 v 21 Southland Outlaws.

Thanks Ja-Jacek, but these results were being posted in the 'New Zealand Solo League' thread: http://www.speedway-forum.co.uk/forums/index.php?showtopic=80703&p=2714568