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5 minutes ago, rebelwonderkid said:

Imo not happy with Holder as I can't see Wrighty returning now and he needs to fix his attitude but will still support him. Could possibly see Chris joining now with Lambert allowing Allen and BWD starting at reserve. 5.97 left and the best rider around that average for me is Erik Riss. So could possibly see

1. Robert Lambert

2. Chris Holder

3. Richard Lawson 

4. Jack Holder 

5. Erik Riss

6. Jake Allen 

7. Bradley Wilson Dean

very strong looking team would have the best 2 reserves in the league for sure.

Lambert and Holder a good a top two as there could be. Can one of Holder , Lawson and Riss step up. Riss has looked so good everytime ive seen him at Foxhall

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52 minutes ago, Buttons said:

How about

Doyle 9.69 

Holder C. ,7.15

Holder J .  5.82

Wright 6.69

Jake 5.07

Lawson 6.43    

Ano.     = 40.85

Or Killer on a 9.instead of Doyle. or Lambert instead of Holder C.

 

 

 

That’s the best team I’ve seen on here but probably way too expensive to assemble. If cost effective teams are the order of the day I wouldn’t be surprised to see Starkey return.

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1 hour ago, Buttons said:

How about

Doyle 9.69 

Holder C. ,7.15

Holder J .  5.82

Wright 6.69

Jake 5.07

Lawson 6.43    

Ano.     = 40.85

Or Killer on a 9.instead of Doyle. or Lambert instead of Holder C.

 

 

 

You couldn’t accommodate a 2 pointer for the #7 so won’t be that team

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3 minutes ago, Gavan said:

Woffinden has genuine reasons not to ride here.

Lambert is nowhere near Tai's level so no idea why he isnt doing Britain

Maybe using the FB comment/post to see if anyone out there prepared to pay him enough money to stay in UK during next 2 weeks. Cant see any other reason to post the comment he did and invite comments.

Cant see how this guy feels that his career will step up with 12 matches in POL LGE 2 if they don't make the play offs and 14 in SWE again if they don't make play offs.

Maybe another one who thinks he is worth a lot more than British Speedway can offer in salary. Similar with maybe C.Holder who I heard had been offered as a 7 point man a pay deal rather than a 9 point plus man that he used to be when on top of his game.

As for Lambert, why not just post he will not be racing in UK rather than tell people he plans to make an announcement in next 2 weeks. I think this is his way of  fishing for a good paying UK deal. I could be wrong of course.

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10 minutes ago, Bagpuss said:

Will be interesting to hear his reasons but wouldn't blame any rider for opting out of our badly run, amateurish league set up.

I don't disagree but the loss of potentially 50 meetings if you take the Prem/Champ less the Swed meetings as he already rode the POL 2nd Div, how is his experience going to improve with so many less meetings ??

Maybe he feels that as the young Poles are improving without all those extra meetings then maybe he considers himself at a similar level and doesn't need all the travelling around UK. Problem is he is not a Drabik /Smektala or Woryna so he isn't at their level currently imo.

Suppose he could sign in Denmark to take up some of the slack as riders can use the same bikes over the 2 Countries as they are now connected via road/bridge and you can do SWE Tue and DK Wed.

No doubt we will hear more on his reasons in the coming  2 weeks (if a super deal isn't thrown his way to stay in UK).

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14 minutes ago, Bagpuss said:

Will be interesting to hear his reasons but wouldn't blame any rider for opting out of our badly run, amateurish league set up.

I can only see this as a matter of money and absolutely nothing to do with the league set up. Indeed, if he was perfectly happy about not riding here he wouldn't have posted on facebook in the way that he has - he's trying to drum up interest from fans, sponsors etc to get them to back his case.

While I am saddened to see a brilliant young rider - more so because he is British - not riding in our leagues, better that than give in to unreasonable demands. In this case, for me, British speedway promoters deserve a lot of credit.

 

 

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7 minutes ago, Bagpuss said:

Absolutely, IF he is demanding a king's ransom then it's good that nobody has bowed to that.

Maybe he realises that next season he'll probably be in the top 5 of the averages, thus one of the leagues star men. Why shouldn't he be paid for that?

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2 minutes ago, lisa-colette said:

Because he isn't that now? Think he's been hanging around with a certain Poole asset too long!! :o:D

With his continued improvement and 5 or 6 of the guys above him in the averages not riding here it's not unfeasible

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