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16 minutes ago, Call me wolfie said:

Could be no better off with Zach, that's a gamble too. Finished the season at Poole with a lower average than Drew.

Anyone know what Ricky Wells average would be?

As previously the Danish kid from Berwick Knudsen worth a shout plus big friends with Flinty.

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6 hours ago, Tommy Sweetman said:

Just to erratic around Monmore,taken down the safety fence on at least a couple of occasions. 

He's erratic everywhere, and on occasions a danger to his team mates. To paraphrase the John Lewis advert "never knowingly under control"

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49 minutes ago, Beowulf said:

He's erratic everywhere, and on occasions a danger to his team mates. To paraphrase the John Lewis advert "never knowingly under control"

Or as a chap at Edinburgh said about Scott Smith 'Spurts of speed in random directions'.

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1 hour ago, Fromafar said:

He hinted that he had retired at the end of this season at Berwick.Not heard anything different since.

Wells only averaged about 5.5 for Berwick, shocking really.  Heard it was to be his last season before (Speedway) retirement.

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55 minutes ago, Wolfie456 said:

Be even funnier if Belle Vue sign him.

PTA is a tier 1 ITK to be fair so it's probably true.

Maybe CVS doesn't want to sign a new 4.00 foreigner to the league who may struggle to ride the track. So he'd rather just go with someone who's got experience on all tracks just to give the reserve berth some stability.

Last 2 years CVS has took a gamble on reserves Broc Nicol (2021) and Drew Kemp (2022) and it backfired on both occasions.

The 1-5 doesn't leave Wolves with many points to play with and Barker is by far the best option left on the table tbh.

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28 minutes ago, TTT said:

PTA is a tier 1 ITK to be fair so it's probably true.

Maybe CVS doesn't want to sign a new 4.00 foreigner to the league who may struggle to ride the track. So he'd rather just go with someone who's got experience on all tracks just to give the reserve berth some stability.

Last 2 years CVS has took a gamble on reserves Broc Nicol (2021) and Drew Kemp (2022) and it backfired on both occasions.

The 1-5 doesn't leave Wolves with many points to play with and Barker is by far the best option left on the table tbh.

We all know Barker comes with baggage and is a bit of a loose cannon at times but he's a reliable points scorer at reserve and can also do at job riding at number 2, the wheels kinda fell Ipswich's season when he got banned when he did, scored good points for the witches.

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2 hours ago, kevin bass said:

We all know Barker comes with baggage and is a bit of a loose cannon at times but he's a reliable points scorer at reserve and can also do at job riding at number 2, the wheels kinda fell Ipswich's season when he got banned when he did, scored good points for the witches.

I think the salient sentence is "when he got banned". So this is a rider that breaks rules, by inference cannot be relied upon to do what he should, and presumably would be a negative for team spirit. Not many incentives to sign him, I think.

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54 minutes ago, Beowulf said:

I think the salient sentence is "when he got banned". So this is a rider that breaks rules, by inference cannot be relied upon to do what he should, and presumably would be a negative for team spirit. Not many incentives to sign him, I think.

Plus isn't he still banned?.

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1 hour ago, Wolfie456 said:

Plus isn't he still banned?.

Finishes next March.If as some have suggested its Co-Codamol(pain killer) that he's  taken, think the ban is a bit harsh.I take it every day due to a back injury sustained at work, but then again I'm not a speedway rider.         The problem with this drug is that it contains a tiny amount of morphine.But it's definitely not a recreational drug.

 

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1 hour ago, Beowulf said:

I think the salient sentence is "when he got banned". So this is a rider that breaks rules, by inference cannot be relied upon to do what he should, and presumably would be a negative for team spirit. Not many incentives to sign him, I think.

Many good points apart from your presumptionn

Ben has many faults (some significant) and he has let people down (including himself) on a few occasions 

These are even more frustrating as on a personal level he is a likeable character and an excellent team member

I think in normal circumstances he would have burnt his bridges with the sport now after the latest transgression but speedway being speedway as it is now I expect him to be back somewhere assuming he is permitted 

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1 hour ago, dontforgetthefueltapsbruv said:

Many good points apart from your presumptionn

Ben has many faults (some significant) and he has let people down (including himself) on a few occasions 

These are even more frustrating as on a personal level he is a likeable character and an excellent team member

I think in normal circumstances he would have burnt his bridges with the sport now after the latest transgression but speedway being speedway as it is now I expect him to be back somewhere assuming he is permitted 

Great post, have always found Ben to be a 100% racer and polite and friendly even when riding for the away team, and wonder why he's not one of the first signings, but then you hear some stories which never seems to match his character. 

Always seems really popular at every club he's ridden for but then nobody wants him! Strange. 

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