Hamish McRaker

Has Gollob made a miraculous recovery?

Awful. What stunningly sad news. RIP

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?

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

If Wolves are keen to avoid upsetting, or developing Nicol, presumably as they see him figuring in future years, isn't there a bit of a snag with that? I'm presuming that Nicol is an "asset" of Sheffield, and so in future seasons he could be included in their team, regardless of any "investment" Wolves have made in developing him. Unless Wolves have or are about to pay a transfer fee to Sheffield?

I certainly wouldn't advocate signing the both of them!

Am I right in saying that Nathan Greaves and Danyon Hume are not yet announced by any Championship team?

Looking at those "ten years ago" pictures of various riders, on the SGB web page, the main changes seem to be addition of facial hair. From being smart and clean-cut looking, some of them now have more resemblance to bin-men on their days off. If you can grow a proper beard, like Nicolai Klindt, then by all means go for it. But too many of the others ought to buy a razor and use it.

He's brawny and certainly has more timber these days, compared to the flat-race jockeys like Tungate who can just hang off the bike. If he moved to the USA, Scott Nicholls could go on riding and winning for many a year!

Iversen? More likely to be 2021, after he finally gets the heave-ho from the Grand Prix. You don't want to have him this year anyways, would struggle to average over 7

Will Wolves make a pre-season change and replace Nicol with Nicholls?

Due to the strict time limit imposed on parking at Leicester, and to help meet anticipated demand levels, free parking will be available at both Peterborough and Sheffield speedway stadia, with free shuttle buses provided to and from Leicester.

What Wolves are doing is akin to a mother who gives birth to a child but buys a double baby buggy and uses it as a way of "incentivising" the child to behave itself.

With your Sheffield connection, some personal tuition from Nicki Pedersen could be just the job?

Who will be the Lions captain? There is no obvious choice. If either of the Thompson boys has to miss a match or two through injury, will the Lions have a 2-pointer up their sleeve ready to stand in?

Thats a nifty team for your home track, should get the punters in. Shame you coudn't have fitted in Danny Ayres as well

Zagar?

Chris Holder?

Places pressure on Perks to do the job of the "senior reserve" now. Is he up to it??

Is Greg Hancock going to resume his riding career?

I bought a pack of frozen Mexican faggots today

Ricky Wells will probably just not be re-engaged by Poole. Jonasson was clearly just in no fit state to ride in the first place, was only a short term signing and so he can slip away, again. But will Poole have the balls to sack their two main failures, or will it be all pals again and everything forgotten? Playoffs are a fact of speedway life and they usually take place on difficult tracks, either doctored or weather-related. If a team decides to include snowflakes in it's team, they're just increasing the probability they will fail as a team at this time of the season.

Hey, leave the Tory party out of this

Nasty case of splinters in his backside caused by sitting on the fence too much. Lying on the beach probably beats the **ck out of riding for peanuts at Sheffield and going through the motions for Peterborough, although swimming in certain parts of the Med you do literally go through other peoples motions.

Kelvin Tatum assisted by Nigel Pearson is the obvious choice