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1 hour ago, STEVEHOLS54 said:

Also for the Track*rat.

So it would be okay to lay ourselves bare to those teams who have stacked their top 5 like Leic/Redcar just because we have decided (partly due to circumstances), to go down the strength in depth route and we are still 0.97 under the official team limit. Don't forget we have 3 riders on 4 and 1 just over.

There are plenty of young Brits signed up in this league and it may well be that those who have not made it so far, find there way into teams as they may start to empty some of these riders as the season progresses and with the first GSA's end May. Let's see how loyal some of these teams stay to the young Brits if results not going as they want.

Why the name calling? Just because I don't like all things Paul. Carry on writing the massive posts when one line would do you boring man zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz.

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2 hours ago, STEVEHOLS54 said:

Maybe you misread my post and Clive's reply (as he wants full name disclosure).

I think Clive is implying that we could have a young Brit already in our own team i.e Stefan Nielsen at reserve come end of May and first GSA sheets.

Can Stef Nielsen still be considered to be "young" ?

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This sort of situation is where second halves used to be so good. They would give the likes of Bowtell and Hume that chance to take on the Aussie newcomers and lay claim to the team places (and vice versa). So would opening up the NDL to first-time Australians provide such an opportunity for the Brits to prove their mettle  by beating them and prove they are worth putting into the CL teams at the expense of the incumbent Aussies?

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18 minutes ago, Hamish McRaker said:

This sort of situation is where second halves used to be so good. They would give the likes of Bowtell and Hume that chance to take on the Aussie newcomers and lay claim to the team places (and vice versa). So would opening up the NDL to first-time Australians provide such an opportunity for the Brits to prove their mettle  by beating them and prove they are worth putting into the CL teams at the expense of the incumbent Aussies?

years gone by poole was always good for second halves but then there was lots of young lads racing speedway bikes. those days have long gone . 

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1 hour ago, Trackrat said:

Why the name calling? Just because I don't like all things Paul. Carry on writing the massive posts when one line would do you boring man zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz.

Whoops made a typo. Apologies it should have been a P not a *.

Happy to engage in sensible debate with any forum user but not with somebody who deliberately incites a negative response with their constant digs & jibes at anything Poole.

Feel free to carry on with it as you usually do and I am happy as a Poole Supporter to engage with supporters/fans who genuinely have a decent point or opinion positive or negative to make.

Happy to continue to bore you and maybe with luck you will stop looking in ;)

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3 hours ago, STEVEHOLS54 said:

Maybe you misread my post and Clive's reply (as he wants full name disclosure).

I think Clive is implying that we could have a young Brit already in our own team i.e Stefan Nielsen at reserve come end of May and first GSA sheets.

I expect Nielsen to up his average, can't see him dropping to reserve!

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3 minutes ago, szkocjasid said:

I expect Nielsen to up his average, can't see him dropping to reserve!

Let's hope so as it will be proof that we did good in signing a still young Brit.

Happy to see the 3 Aussies rotate in and out of reserve. Keleher MAY be the surprise package so Nielsen could still drift in there even if he ups his av a bit. 

Suppose it will partly come down to IF our reserves (or at least one of them) racks up plenty of points and ends up maybe with a high av come end of May. Will hopefully make healthy competition. Happy to see riders of the calibre of Josh Mac/Keleher & Nielsen drift in and out of reserve with Cook. Either combo will still be decent at reserve against most teams reserves (as currently advertised).

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20 minutes ago, STEVEHOLS54 said:

Whoops made a typo. Apologies it should have been a P not a *.

Happy to engage in sensible debate with any forum user but not with somebody who deliberately incites a negative response with their constant digs & jibes at anything Poole.

Feel free to carry on with it as you usually do and I am happy as a Poole Supporter to engage with supporters/fans who genuinely have a decent point or opinion positive or negative to make.

Happy to continue to bore you and maybe with luck you will stop looking in ;)

Thanks Bumhols54 (sorry typo) for your permission, can't be bothered to read the rest i need to stay awake zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

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3 minutes ago, GWC said:

It’s not your age these days it’s about fitness and whether you can do the miles needed to get experience.

Having great equipment helps a bit too.

I think Rob Ledwith will agree with you on that ;).

Never say never.

My point with Nielsen is he is still young and if you take out all the time he spent out with major injuries he is arguably speedway wise even younger.

he has shown flashes and if you can keep him fit he can indeed improve.

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I thought the whole idea of Visa's (in general not just speedway) was that to qualify for one. You had to be highly qualified and that your not taking a job from an equally qualified native?

I know this applies in many sectors, how do the Visa's work for speedway riders? I ve seen it quoted that different riders have different conditions etc.

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8 minutes ago, Trackrat said:

Thanks Bumhols54 (sorry typo) for your permission, can't be bothered to read the rest i need to stay awake zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

For those not in the know. I found a way to ignore certain posters. What a relief to have such a facility on the Forum which pleased to say I have activated my first ignore poster :)

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5 minutes ago, STEVEHOLS54 said:

For those not in the know. I found a way to ignore certain posters. What a relief to have such a facility on the Forum which pleased to say I have activated my first ignore poster :)

Whoops forgot to highlight what i wanted to ignore from said poster. Decided to block it all.

Thanks to said poster for reminding me as never used the facility before :neutral:

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21 hours ago, STEVEHOLS54 said:

I think Rob Ledwith will agree with you on that ;).

Never say never.

My point with Nielsen is he is still young and if you take out all the time he spent out with major injuries he is arguably speedway wise even younger.

he has shown flashes and if you can keep him fit he can indeed improve.

I have a lot of time for Stefan, definitely bags of ability , rode very well for Poole before and if he could stay injury free could have a very good season.

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