Brough Diamond

Granty certainly seems to be prepared take risks that others wouldn’t. Hopefully it all comes off and the Diamonds can have a decent season. Cleggy, Wrighty and Paul Starke will continue on as before. BWD, Matty and Complin could be excellent but are coming back from injury and inactivity and George is a punt in the dark. If nothing else it will be interesting to find out the result?

A certain regular commentator mentioned it a number of times on the Newcastle thread last year. I’m not involved with the promotion and personally want to see all the clubs in the league do well - hence my mention that it was ‘apparently’ the case.

The question you need to ask is “Are Oxford a new trading company?” If so you can’t get visa’s for new EU riders for 12 months (Like Poole for Basso) until you have a set of trading accounts. This is apparently what hammered Newcastle last year as quoted by others. You rely on existing riders from other clubs you want to loam them out otherwise.

Who knows, maybe they are waiting for George to confirm his British Patriality which will give us more points to play with? The press release suggested he has British Heritage. A rider might be signed but he can’t be an official signing unless the paperwork is cleared.

Tero is very close to fitting if we have around 6.5 and there are adjustments for the Eastbourne situation. Needs to sort his visa according to other threads

Spot on Enotion. There's a video on Youtube entitled ‘why speedway is failing’ by a young rider that provides an explanation to back up your comments.

That will be great, thanks Dave and looking forward to catching up

Just signed up for Sunday. This will be my first visit under the new Regulations after being double jabbed. Used to always stand and have a bit of crack with Mr and Mrs Tsunami so will just have to see if I’m in shouting distance.

Claus will be able to apply for Frontier Worker status as EU citizens who have been regularly employed or self employed in the UK can continue to do so. The 2 new lads have never worked in the UK so can’t. This would allow us to potentially sign an EU citizen who has ridden in the UK regularly. This is different to a new work permit. Was on the news at the weekend

3 riders to be announced on Look North tomorrow night. Last two at the Christmas bash. Sounds like the team is finally sorted.

Well certainly a huge change of tack and I’m only pleased we have a second recognised heatleader. Tommy and Lasse are going to have learn Brough Park quickly and make it a comfortable home. Hope we pay Robbo’s petrol to get him up for a few early season sessions. Most teams have an obvious third heat-leader, we don’t and it will be interesting to see if one of the other 3 can cement themselves in that position? Max I imagine will beat most reserves and many number 2’s at home without too much trouble. Danny was beating folk in the National League so hopefully can find some form? With any luck the sponsors are setting him up with good kit and he started to score points the last time by getting out the gate. Maybe Tommy can help him with that? There is an irony that our team last year was only running at about 38 points when Matej came in so we were at this standard anyway but the league as a whole has dumbed down to survive and keep teams open.

More chance of Bjerre (Br’er) Rabbit!

Hoping the promoters have got something up their sleeves Dave as af the moment we look to have missed the boat for the second season in a row? All obvious options have gone elsewhere and if we fill the team with the usual suspects we’ll be down near the bottom again! Most other teams have 3 established heatleaders (even Sunday teams) and we currently have one who isnt a lover of the smaller tracks. Martin said previously that riders had been in touch before last season was properly ended asking for places so I hope there are new faces in the offing. The press releases up to now suggested the riders were surprised to sign for Newcastle - hope it wasnt purely because they had nowhere else to go?

As the article on the Newcastle website describes TJ as our new number one on several occasions you can take it as read we wont be signing MPT or Riss or any other higher averaged rider. It also suggests the club know who the other riders are and probably means Ludde and Kus.

Expecting some of the 2018 team to return given home form and the paltry points limit. If all teams are going with 2 two pointers I imagine Danny Phillips will be back if his leg is up to it? A bad end of season with Scunny but we’ve tried most of the two pointers and look how that went? We will be back to 2017 when reserves were weak. With P’boro moving up I wonder if young Mr Bacon could be tempted. Seems to excel at Newcastle? Kyle Newman always welcome and must be on a depressed average if he could live with the travel? My biggest wish would be Edinburgh to send Josh Pickering down on loan but we all know that isnt going to happen.