Najjer

I've followed Somerset from the Conference League, into the Premier League and now into the Premiership. The Conference League was by far the worst standard of racing and entertainment.

This is what I don't get with speedway fans, they just don't make sense - All I keep reading is how the product has been watered down so much and now we have people claiming they want the likes of Morris, Nicholls, Lawson, Harris, Worrall etc stopped from doubling up and replaced with National league riders. It's like banging your head against a brick wall!

I'd agree with that too. Somerset has without doubt been built to hold their own at home, which is something we struggled to do at times last season and lost a few meetings in the crucial final heats. I seem to remember we lost to Kings Lynn, Swindon and Wolves early doors last year by a few points simply because we didn't have a real no.1. Hopefully with Doyle in the team that should now be sorted. I've no doubt we will get murdered at a few places away from home mind. Who knows what the young Dane will do too, I know literally nothing about him so he could be good, he could be shocking.

Makes perfect sense to me, and quite interesting to see actually. It's no surprise Poole clearly start as favourites.

If as has been rumoured that Richard Lawson must ride for Lakeside on Good Friday, do we get a choice of having a guest or is it rider replacement? I've lost track over the last few years on what the rules are on replacements now. It always used to be guest for your no.1 and rider replacement for anybody else.

I have pretty much every channel on my Sky Q subscription. I've just done a deal for my second year after the price rose from £40 in my first year to nearly £100! I rang them up and said "I want to leave" and I now pay £56 a month. That also includes multi room, movies, sports, HD etc. The only thing I don't have is BT sports.

Pretty sure there is also a rule that stops Grand Prix riders from competing in the second divsion.

Can't make it up, riders even missing fitness sessions due to 'fixture' clashes!! Did Kings Lynn have rider replacement in operation?

Much as everybody has said, a great servant to the club through every promotion and will be sorely missed I'm sure by the current promotion too.

Joke if you ask me. How a 2nd division fixture takes priority over the top division should never happen for a fixture that's in the calendar from the start of the year.

Why? Surely the U.K. take priority now?

I've heard the same. A great shame as Ez 9 times out of 10 (and even that is potentially doing him a disservice) the track he served up was superb. Lets just hope we don't end up with the ploughed field or motorcross style tracks we had when Ez last left.

So a difference of 12 extra riders - less than 1 per team. Nowhere near enough to allow for injuries and poor form or team changes. Plus your 12 extra will be reduced by the loss of GP riders like Doyle, Iversen, Vaculik etc, and then Lindgren from last year too reducing that number by even more. You say plenty of foreigners will come if asked but that hasn't been the case in the last few years. This also doesn't allow for the actual averages being correct to allow for decent teams actually being assembled. Like I said, a league with about 12 teams could work much better and fill the fixture list abit more, whilst maintaining the current standard and having plenty of riders left to choose from in the top division. Begs the question though, why didn't teams like Ipswich, Glasgow, Sheffield etc want to take the plunge?

All well and good having the right amount of riders, but that doesn't allow for having the right riders. You would end up with some teams that are stupidly weak, which in turn lowers the points limit to being a fairer leveller and again watering the product further. So yes, rider shortage does prevent one big league. Now a bigger top division of 12 or so teams is a completely different kettle of fish.

Each to their own, not racing every single week suits me down to the ground to be honest. Less fixtures also makes it more 'important' when there is a match. It can be so easy if there is fixtures every week to say "nah I'll just go next week" instead.

Thus watering down the product further.

For 7 man teams, there is not. Not without watering down the product even further.

Nowhere near enough riders allowing for injuries too for 1 big league. Most championship riders already double up into the Premiership.

It should be Somerset as he rode for us last season, assuming that's how the priority still works. I presume as we are riding on a now "off racenight" that may throw a spanner in the works.

So fixtures are now out! Excellent we have the double header still with Poole on Good Friday! Rumours are we are going to be making another signing before the start of the season - As we are in need of a new track man!

He should be at Somerset as he rode for us last year. Rubbish all the while though!

So now we've established Poole are going to win the league at a canter... I'm wondered whether people think Brady Kurtz is better than Nick Morris?

Care to expand on that?

That's obvious - there isn't enough fixtures to fill every week. However, there is no way any team should go 3/4 weeks or more without a meeting like they did last year.

Why? It makes much more sense for every team to stick to their required race night. For example if Somerset's race night will be Wednesday as expected, they should ride all home meetings on that day. When they meet other Wednesday night tracks, for example Poole, then in that week Poole will not ride a home meeting. It will be a nightmare following a team chopping and changing from mondays to Wednesday every week. It's not rocket science!