Ben Alderton Posted June 30, 2011 Report Share Posted June 30, 2011 I see Brendan Johnson and Adam Portwood have replaced Richard Franklin and Danny stoneman in the Heathens line up. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
21st century heathen Posted June 30, 2011 Report Share Posted June 30, 2011 Wow didn't see that coming. I'll need time to compute before commenting further. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dekker Posted June 30, 2011 Report Share Posted June 30, 2011 Ohh big money heathens reach for the purse.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TMW Posted June 30, 2011 Report Share Posted June 30, 2011 (edited) I see Brendan Johnson and Adam Portwood have replaced Richard Franklin and Danny stoneman in the Heathens line up. Who replaces Brendan at the IOW then? Edited June 30, 2011 by TMW Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
refereerick Posted June 30, 2011 Report Share Posted June 30, 2011 Good luck to Adam Portwood The lad has come on leaps and bounds this season and with a bit of race time and patience I think he'll become a tidy reserve for the Heathens Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
heathen79 Posted June 30, 2011 Report Share Posted June 30, 2011 Ohh big money heathens reach for the purse.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JCookie Posted June 30, 2011 Report Share Posted June 30, 2011 Portwood seems like a decent enough choice being young and having potential to improve. Johnson for Franklin just seems a like-for-like change with neither going anywhere fast. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
villiers210 Posted June 30, 2011 Report Share Posted June 30, 2011 (edited) Ohh big money heathens reach for the purse.... Oh - its got nothing to do with Richard Franklin going into hospital on Saturday for a knee operation then, and we have been forced to make changes? Some people really make me laugh - if it involves Dudley - let's shout it down. 'Ommer 'Um Edited June 30, 2011 by villiers210 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
berniev123 Posted June 30, 2011 Report Share Posted June 30, 2011 Oh - its got nothing to do with Richard Franklin going into hospital on Saturday for a knee operation then, and we have been forced to make changes? Some people really make me laugh - if it involves Dudley - let's shout it down. 'Ommer 'Um I thought that too! I suppose it shows how good/big we are in Speedway ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shad176 Posted June 30, 2011 Report Share Posted June 30, 2011 Ohh big money heathens reach for the purse.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
heathen79 Posted June 30, 2011 Report Share Posted June 30, 2011 Pleased for young Brendan if he has the reputation of being a "big money" loan signing!! Also a welcome back to the Heathens as he rode for the unofficial Cradley team in 2009 when we were doing second halves. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bdjfan Posted July 1, 2011 Report Share Posted July 1, 2011 (edited) Im glad for Brendan as well, he has his break finally on the main land where he may get the chance of taking on board a few more major sponsors. Also hopefull he will have a few team mates around him that will give him advice on set up and track craft as well. Also well done JCookie for making him feel so welcome. Glad that the Dudley management dont think like you!!!! Edited July 1, 2011 by bdjfan Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TMW Posted July 1, 2011 Report Share Posted July 1, 2011 (edited) Im glad for Brendan as well, he has his break finally on the main land where he may get the chance of taking on board a few more major sponsors. Also hopefull he will have a few team mates around him that will give him advice on set up and track craft as well. Also well done JCookie for making him feel so welcome. Glad that the Dudley management dont think like you!!!! Really pleased for Brendan. Come on Brendan lad you sho em. Also pleased for Adam although I do fear that if he doesnt hit max scoring points pretty sharpish, with out nearly killing himself in the name of entertainment, he will probably join JCookies list of desperados. Why dont people just give the lads a chance. Edited July 1, 2011 by TMW Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
21st century heathen Posted July 2, 2011 Report Share Posted July 2, 2011 Right, I've given myself plenty of time to digest the news. Rich out and Brendan in first. Clearly a change of necessity and I will quickly say best wishes to Rich. I hope the injury clears up quickly and you can get back on the bike after just a few weeks on the sidelines. On paper it's pretty much like-for-like although Brendan has a slightly higher average this season. But I'm not too sure it will turn out that way in the end. Rich has been very good just lately, and even his 6 last Tue doesn't really give credit to the performance. Monmore is not the easiest track for some riders to get to grips with and I've seen nothing from Brendan to suggest he can start scoring freely straight away. It's not his fault but he doesn't have the half a season you could afford a new rider, or a rider struggling for best form, at the start of a season. The season is half over and we need to build toward a big play-off push, starting right now! Something else that's not his fault is that I think signing him disrupts our team balance. Some of our boys have new averages, Brendan does not. With him in on his start average it means Darryl moves into the top 5. I would like to believe that our side was built with keeping him at reserve all season in mind. If not it should have been. All of that said I will support him, of course, as will the rest of the Heathen's faithful. So welcome Brendan. Get out there and prove me wrong! Danny out and Adam in. I've been trying to work this one out since I saw the news break the other day. Put simply I can't. Danny was starting to look a little better and was justifying his place by outscoring his average. I admit I don't know a great deal about Adam but I don't think he's been given the 'wonderkid' tag by too many people. Again, he'll get my support but I'm disappointed for Adam. With Armo suffering a bit of a loss of form, Kyle sometimes required elsewhere, Tom not consistently at his best and losing both Royno and Rich to injury I fear we may not be the threat we could otherwise have been. But we were a long time without our own team to support so win, lose or draw I'm sure the fans will turn out and enjoy the racing. And as long as everyone is giving it absolutely everything they've got they'll get the support from the crowd. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
builderbob Posted July 2, 2011 Report Share Posted July 2, 2011 think you could go well on teusday with brendon at reserve against the team and place he rode last week, kyle goes well around the island and armo is allways good, the islanders with two new riders 1 has not a lot of experiance at speedway and the other will probably be rusty as hasnt sat astride a speedway bike since last season Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stressed Posted July 2, 2011 Report Share Posted July 2, 2011 Rider St-Ave Mat Rid Wins Sec Thi Las Pnts Bon Total Ave. Av-Bon Diff Brendan Johnson 4.31 6 24 2 5 11 6 27 4 31 5.17 4.50 0.19 National league fixtures for the Islanders so Bren should now be showing a 4.50 average. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
heathen79 Posted July 2, 2011 Report Share Posted July 2, 2011 Brendan made plenty of friends riding for Cradley as a 'second half team' in 2009 and he will fit straight into the Heathens set up. I think this will be a new lease of life for a clearly very talented young rider. I like Brendan a lot, and I think he will score well and increase his average on what he's got for the IoW, especially with a run at reserve. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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