Cliffeboy

My first meeting of the season and really enjoyed it. Always good to meet up with Statto, Womble and all the rest not forgetting Shadders and Sid from Rye.I thought Somerset were very impressive ,Nick, Pontus and Brady were all worthy heat leaders and todd, Charlie and paul were all in the mix throughout.I was a bit disappointed with Rye, only Eddie got me off my seat, Boxall tried hard but in the end was second best to the Rebels top three, and Bowen gave it 100% as usual, but too late. Bunyan, Tress, Lambert and Garrity were (for the home side aswell) quite poor. I had some great banter with some home supporters who made us quite welcome and invited me back (as I live in the Watford area) for a match that does not involve the Rebels to stand with them, which was great.

Just got in and can`t believe that we have failed again in heat 15, hopefully that`s it now for the rest of the season and we can bring a few of these last heaters home. Like the remarks about Nick costing us, utter rubbish, he was brilliant last night at Rye ,skipper at 21 and team riding Todd home in two heats,think he will do for me.We need to get Olly back r/r is hard work.Good performance again by the Rebels (another 40 points)just failed at the last.

Looks like the Rebels will be without Olly Allen, big loss around Rye.

Sorry, thought Summers was at 1, bit round the wrong way old chap,it was Somerset who were missing a rider for the whole match.Great performance from Wrighty.

Ha ha I like this idea of pitching each rider against their opposite number, did you do a similar thing for the home fixture where you nicked a 5-1 in the final heat when Fisher nearly put Allen in the stands. I don`t think we are arrogant , but if we are who cares for this season, cos we are the Champions.

I will be there, traditional first meeting for me lol.

Well done Somerset on picking up the first silverware of the season winning both legs.Doyley and the rest of the 2013 team will be well chuffed.

Another year, but the same record DB,I thought you said it was a good match last night,most unlike you lol.

I think we are capable of making the play offs this time round, Worky,Ippo and P/Boro are the stand out teams for me, with Newcastle and Berwick as spoilers.

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I`m guessing Todd has the same parents....,as for the mechanic maybe, it might be he is just quicker than most.

Oh dear.

Swedy mate,you know the usual suspects will be whinging about Brady all season.In a league that has been stripped of most of the GP guys shouldn`t we all be celebrating what could be the emerging of another great talent.For what it`s worth I stand by my original comment roughly that any of the other teams would have ripped his (Brady`s)hand of to get him in their teams.How good was Darcy that first season at KL,if memory serves me right I think he too started on a 5 at reserve.The whingers will now say "But he didn`t do some meetings in the Danish League", does it really make that much difference.....

Unfortunately DB would cheer on a team of dead cats if he thought they could beat the Rebels lol

Tough opener for the new look Rebels, I have a feeling this will be very close with the Diamonds edging the result over the two legs.Brady is listed on the updates site as starting so as it is a chance of another trophy I think it is worth a go with him.I think "home" advantage will count as nothing in this one.Safe journey down for the travelling geordies and no injuries please.

Early doors AO,, Nick started slow last season as I recall, he is quality and will be one of the top guys again this year imo. Good early showings by young Brady aswell,I can see him adding two points to his average.

Poo

Max for Josh, 7 or 8 for Kyle and maybe the same for Kalle, should be a good opener.

We will see this season if Nick Morris is no Jason Doyle,maybe Josh will have a good meeting against us,one thing is for sure the OTA faithful will give him a big cheer regardless,not sure where you saw the thing about Wrighty`s head tbh.Apparantly Worky are early season favs with a lot of people for the title as we were last year,well we walked the walk let`s see if you can.I have to say that I feel we do not have the strength in depth side that we had last term, but I will love it if we get good results against you lot................bring it on.ha ha

I really hope he does as he was going great guns for you until he got injured,although not so clever for Plymouth, however it remains to be seen if they will stick with him if the scores do not happen.For my part I hope he gets back to where he was at that time.

Don`t you mean the lift off button DB

I also feel a bit sorry for Proctor but this is the reality of Speedway in this country.I think you will find that most of the riders realize they will be replaced if they are not producing the goods. I know Ty has not even ridden for the Rebels yet,but early form has been poor from a bloke who is at No1 for the reigning champs and also replacing a Somerset legend. It`s a very tough gig even if you are on song.The success of Speedway at any track is reliant on bums on seats and you can guarantee more of them if your team is winning, so a successful promotion ( in my eyes ) must put together the best team it can to achieve that success.I`m afraid hurting a person`s feelings in the bigger picture does not come in to it.A rider from another team will have a bad start or get injured and Ty may be offered a place with them,so do we feel sorry for them,probably, but we understand why the promotion make the change.It is all swings and roundabouts. On the subject of changes, The Rebels were struggling at reserve last season, Gary replaced the popular Neilsen with Wright which caused uproar on here, unfair blah blah,Wrighty turned out to be superb and without him I not sure we would have finished where we did.

Was it not also about the amount of matches Nick would miss the reason they went with Proctor ? If you read the Rebels press release on their site this has now been resolved. From start to finish the only person not kicking up a fuss is Nick himself.Does this sound like a person who feels he has been treated badly, don`t think so. I hope he and Ty have a great season.

Somerset`s P and P going on today so I will imagine we will find out later. Bad luck on Proctor but in reality it was a no brainer to bring Nick back.He is now the No1 so we can have guests for him now when he is away rather than R/R. There may be even more surprises on the way as the Rebels now have a few more bits of points to play with.

Snore