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A bit like changing the times of the Olympics to suit N America and buggar the rest of the world.

Any chance of getting Woffinden back now he's going to be doing buggar all in Poland/Sweden ?

Is he related to Harris ?

Because most of them are standing in the dole queue over here.

I can't be bothered to read all the posts and if somebody has already asked this I apologise, how can Max Clegg ride for both Cradley and Wolves both designated Monday night tracks. Or is there another rule for FTR.

Perhaps he'l find you in it.

I can't understand the attraction of signing Thorsell over Wells. Wells home average is far superior to Thorsell's whilst hardly any difference away,

Yes against a team as bad if not worse than ours.

Pity Lindgren can't ride like this for us.

Why would another club pay money for Lindgren. Wolverhampton is the only track he can ride reasonably. He very rarely scores double figures on other tracks, it is not only this year in 2013 i'm pretty sure he only scored double figures once ( excluding double point rides ).

Perhaps paying just points money ( instead of guarenteed minimum points whatever they score) might bring there confidence back , also might stop all riders coasting round at the back when in last.

When has stating the obvious truth been turning on a rider. I did say that i thought PK had been a great servant to the club, but you must be able to see he is nowhere near the rider he was, his performances for Lakeside all season Monday night and last night in Sweden points to the obvious. You must also remember most of these bad performances are on tracks he has ridden for years.

The main ( possibly the only one ) problem this season has been the dire points return of Tai ( I notice 12 points Sunday and 11 tonight ). If he had scored to his average I doubt we would have lost a match at home. I presume the only reason Tai is knackered on a Monday is caused by the size of his pay packet. I can't understand the thinking of releasing Ricky Wells who is improving season on season and replacing him with a far from vintage PK, the timing of this move is ridiculous as we haven't been realistic play off candidates for weeks. If this move was made with qualifying for the play offs in mind then surely it would have been better to give Tai his wish and release him from something he obviously doesn't want to do and brought in two better quality riders I don't know who but I'm sure Matt Ford wouldn't have made these sort of changes. I could understand these changes better if it was done with 2015 in mind but hopefully this is not the case. PK has been a great servant to this club but is now well past his best, but if this is going to be the criteria for next years team then we are likely to end up with a 1-5 of Peter Karlsson Michael Max Adam Skornicki Sam Ermolenko Ronnie Correy The only reason I can see for bringing PK back is to hopefully put a few on the gate, but after last night's performance the opposite is likely to happen.

Why the fascination of having to ride abroad to improve riders, Harris seems to be going backwards ( both in ability and on the track ) despite riding abroad 2/3 times a week, others have ridden overseas and not improved a great deal. Most of our top riders in the past only rode abroad on a Sunday and that in grasstrack or longtrack . Why do we keep hearing the excuse for being behind most other nations is the fact that all these young Poles,Swedes,Danes,Australians etc come over here to complete there speedway education by riding different types of track. If this is the case does that mean our young riders are generally poor ( financially or in ability ) or are they too thick to embrace the education of riding the same tracks that are improving all these youngsters from other countries.

I imagine a high percentage of EL riders ride in the pl or lower

You say you would be a part-time supporter if there was no EL. but surely what we are watching now isn't much better than what we would be watching if there was a combined league. At Wolves we have 2 EL riders ( although the way Woffy is riding for us for whatever reason it is possibly 1 EL rider ) 3 PL riders ( and not particularly top PL riders ) and 2 NL riders. Taking a balanced view on the above we might be better off with 7 PL riders in a PL league.

I am a 57 year old Wolves supporter and I think he looks awful with all the tattoos and earings etc, but as long as he appeals to the younger generation and gets them through the turnstiles does it really matter.

More than likely referring to Skorniki

Thats because most of them are over here.

Is that am or pm

Whilst the tac sub rule now can add a possible 6 points to a teams score (why not restrict this to away teams only) what p's me off more is a reserve having 7 rides every meeting they are a reserve and scoring God knows how many points and at times replacing heat leaders. I know this could be put down to good team building but why not restrict reserves to there programmed rides and any as cover fo an injured rider not one out of form as it was intentioned.

Most of us going to meetings now have been going for years whilst the EL has been watered down mainly with overseas riders who are'nt much better than the British lads who can't get a ride in the EL and therefore would continue to turn up with British riders "watering" the EL down. Any newcomers to the sport would'nt be put off by this because they would'nt know any different. The arguement that some riders would be half a lap behind does'nt hold water as that is happening now, even a few heats in the GP's have riders tailed off but nobody notices the guy tootling around at the back if the leading 2/3 are providing a close fought battle at the front.

Open to change when told by Matt.

If EL promoters receive £100k sky money which seems to be the general consensus on here, then running 14 meetings a year would cost in the region of £36,400 per season in rent and first aid leaving £63,600 for other expenses. Those expenses would'nt get anywhere near this sum so a fair amount of £63k would be left for riders expenses, add to this entrance money, programmes and sponsorship. We need to employ riders that are committed to the EL and living in this country ( I think a lot of riders live in this country anyway during the season ) thus cutting out expensive flights, if they want to ride in Poland/Sweden then let them pay for flights both ways or the riders to contribute towards them Why don't clubs employ a mechanic or two to look after all there riders bikes, they could even clean them after the meeting because the riders would only need them in this country ( obviously a different system would have to be put into place for doubling up riders ) the club could then buy there own van to transport them and the riders could use there own cars as 99% of the working populace have to. This would'nt cost any more than now as clubs are already paying out for mechanics and vans for some riders.