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Well he is riding better, had a good meeting at Poole recently but like Lewis Kerr will struggle in the Premiership in my view.

There’s little or no affiliation by riders to clubs. A quick look on Wikipedia at two Bees stars… Nigel Boocock, eight clubs, four of which in the latter days winding down his career. Chris Harris, 29 clubs, 16 UK, 13 Overseas. (this post is NOT about guest bookings!) My first years at Brandon, the riders were all locally-based, the furthest away were Ron and Rick in the Black Country! Fans identify with the riders, they identified with the clubs. That’s all gone now. Fly in, ride, fly out to ride for someone else.

We should count ourselves lucky that King's Lynn have actually got a clock... it's taken them a couple of years to get one on the centre, all they've got to do now is learn how to use the thing, I know time runs differently in Norfolk 😁😜

Am I surprised?

Suppose they had to make a change whilst they could. Morris will depend on how quick he can get up to speed. Etheridge can only ride the NSS so don’t think he is an improvement on Sedgmen.

No surprise, you could tell when Steady was interviewed the other day he wasn't happy with either of them but having Jye and Morris won't be much of an improvement in my view.

Brilliant days I had stopped going before Ott joined but remember Loram , Henka and Dennis Lofquist at reserve, I would have been late teens then, stood on the second bend with one of my oldest friends and his dad who drove us to meetings all over the UK. A great character we christened Nutter would spend 99% of his time in the bar and pop out for ten seconds whenever Richard Knight came round and would bellow Richard's name like a man possessed for 10-15 seconds then straight back to the bar without watching the actual race. Wild Wayne leading the war cry's, Bill Barker who should have been on the stage doing comedy wandering round selling raffle tickets, whilst asking if anyone had seen Malcolm Simmonds, Bills winter talk in's were comedy gold. The racing when Loram and Henka were involved was out of this world in those days, Henka in my opinion was a more naturally talented/better rider than T Rick when they both first came over but I guess Tony had that extra 5% of grit/determination that led to six world titles, but I've always thought for natural talent Henka and Ward are the best two riders I have ever seen on a bike. Fantastic times I would be back there again in a heartbeat.

Jye Ethridge joins Sheffield .

Ah Sheffield doing the old Hokey Cokey just before the cut off eh. As sure as night follows day.

Not surprised, he wasn't great last night for Kings Lynn either, seemed to have bike issues again, his bike was smoking in one race.

Weather in Denmark is appalling and the matches at Holsted and Fjelsted tomorrow are already postponed.

I'm sure if he saw someone discussing his height, he would be absolutely fine with it. Nobody spoke in a derogatory manner about 'body image'. Don't go looking for trouble when there isn't any...

It is a while since I have visited Perry Barr but I did used to enjoy my visits, it did produce some decent race meetings years ago.

Four points. 1. The rule covering the 2 minute warning has been specifically changed to say that riders must be ready to race within the time limit. 2. We don't have a consistent application of this rule. Did I not see a meeting report recently where 2 riders were disqualified in heat 15 for not being ready? And then clearly, on TV, we see riders pulling up to the tapes after the time clock has reached zero. 3. If riders arrive at the tapes with 30 seconds on the clock, they garden for 20 seconds and then settle to race. If they arrive with 1 minute and 45 seconds on the clock, they garden for a minute and a half. I know it's a bit more technology but can't we have a maximum of 30 seconds once all four riders have entered the "starting zone"? 4. Perhaps when the starting marshal calls riders to the tapes, they should be obliged to comply and not completely ignore him. We could ban all gardening I suppose. Maybe not, eh?

I bet there are a lot of riders heaver the Mick Lee. It does seem the trend. Too many cheeseburgers 😱😀

Lewi axed by Sheffield

It clearly wasn't working as the team was, so makes sense to throw the dice and make a couple of changes

Possibly worth the gamble. Morris may take a bit of time to get up to speed, but Sheffield almost certain to make the play offs. Not really followed his scores, but from memory, I believe Jye didn't start the season too well, but doing a bit better now.

Yes self preservation maybe in the back of his mind, he has had many injuries, some very bad, like the one he had at Peterborough.

Riders want to race when they miss the gate not get stuck on a track where it's virtually impossible to pass 😡majority of fans pay there money for entertainment & not follow the leader🙈

Can’t be much worse than Kerr and Sedgmen. Both were well under par especially at home. Thought Kerr would have been solid for us but not been the case. Etheridge can ride Owlerton better than Sedgmen and Morris is a risk but worth taking if we are going to find some form going into the playoffs

So Sheffield have sniffed out a change with Nick Morris in the hope that they go marching (powder) on for the rest of the season. Or at least until someone asks him to wee into a bottle anyway.

Nick Morris and Jye Etheridge in. Will it be an improvement?

Oh look arfwit I’ve cracked that same joke again, bore off zzzzzzz

Still boring everyone to death arfwit? Back to the championship pages, Paul fans not needed here.