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Cluff does ok at Northside he should be an option, used as a guest a couple of times to. Jackobsen i hope is back because he is surely better than his average of last year hope no other team get the benifit of that.

I like a good old rumour but I hope this one is not correct, Hook and Wood have zero chance of improving there currant average.

Perhaps I have and lets hope he brings us some great surprises. Successful sides have a history of keeping meetings close(ish) away while winning at home. Last season we lost two meetings at home in the league and that probably cost us a playoff spot. We also lost half our away matches by 12 or more points that cost us bonus points. The top 5 suggested is worse than what we had last season imo (and forums are all about opinions at the end of the day). We're always going to have meetings where riders have off days or we take a pasting against a very good side at their place but my view is the riders being suggested have had their day (in a number of the cases) and we need riders who can compete and win on any track and ultimately improve their averages. Take Scotty for example, top bloke, great rider in his day and can still pull out a top performance. Brilliant at home but his away average last season was 6.52 and he was getting beat by reserves away from home, that isn't acceptable from a number one, it just isn't.

Oh of course we can, it's a bit of fun, hence we call it silly season, and if we want to all be realistic we can be, but we're fans and lots of fans will like to talk about the team they'd like without looking at the details behind it all (that's the managers job).

You’ve wrote Gary off from a team that he hasn’t even announced yet. wait and see what the team looks like and then judge. Most important thing this season is to have a team that wins as many meetings at home and try and pick up some bonus points. That gets you in to the play offs. if it is the top 5 that is above then they should be fairly strong at Plymouth. On top of this reserves if they can score 6-8 points at home which I think if it’s the potential reserves they should be able to do at home.

Even I couldn't resist the chance to bring up Carrick the other day either. Hopefully Belle Vue play ball soon as this is what the Sport needs. Proper rivalry between the two biggest Clubs in British Speedway.

It’s pretty obvious the want to keep him onside for riding in SON.They know he would just take out another Federation’s Licence.Why not just admit they have got it wrong. er

There were rumours that Sedgeman was retiring.Dont know if that is the case though.

It doesn’t show that Garry has forgotten how to build a winning side at all. Garry has to work to the budget he’s given, and deal with running on a Saturday night which doesn’t suit a lot of riders. I’m sure we can all pick a decent side but that’s playing fantasy speedway without the limitation/budgets all these managers have to work to

I don't reckon most folk will think that at all. I have been reading Dean's Posts for a long time now. I don't agree with him some of the time, but generally his Posts make sense and I have learnt a lot about what goes on behind the scenes in Speedway from him. I hope he keeps on going. This is supposed to be a debating Forum after all. It wouldn't be very interesting if we all had the same view on every issue.

It's bloody awful as well, we had to drink snakebite at the GP's lol.

😂in all seriousness I think our win rate might start ticking up only 10 titles to catch you guys up.

Plenty more to add to what?.... If Ipswich run at their usual league title winning regularity then Paul will be not far off 90 when they win it again... 😁

Off on a slight tangent; does anyone have or contact email address for the Ipswich track photographer? If so please PM.

Off on a slight tangent; does anyone have or contact email address for the Ipswich track photographer? If so please PM.

But, like Smith, Wigg and Cox, (maybe others?), did in the past, why bother when a rider can just ride under another country's federation?..

Annie

Eddie certainly retired a lot when riding in matches that contributed to his average. Not so much while guesting for Poole.

Kennett 5 from 10 matches should make him the 'king' of this category (against 6 from 20 for Hodder)

What about Mitch McDiarmid?

The major problem at the moment is that there aren't sufficient riders to track a 7th competitive team at Premiership level certainly some form of rider control would be required. There are question marks over the viability of any return for the Eagles without factoring in a Birmingham style team

In a word, yes. My belief is BSPL was trying to force Robert to ride in UK and, until ACU stepped in, after intervention from Robert, SCB agreed. The decision was then quietly reversed….until today’s disingenuous press release which is trying to pretend that the powers that be are making an exemption for Robert.

Frederik Jakobsen leaves Vargarna and returns to Dackarna.

If true, it's a really poor side and will show that Garry has forgotten what a winning side looks like. Year after year we see the teams that make the playoffs or go onto win the league find a way to improve their overall team average from the start of the season to the end. Poole put over 5 points on their team average last season, Scunny over 3 points. What a shock they made the final. In that team you have riders with massively inflated averages due to home form (Nicholls and Barker especially) and regression. We need improvers, I appreciate that's hard to come by. Love Scotty and Barker is great at Plymouth but it's time to freshen it up. Batchelor is a shrewd move as he rides Plymouth well and Thompson is slowly getting better. Away from that I'd leave the rest. If we could get Thomsen at reserve then I'd be inclined to give him a shot but not in the main body. I don't know enough about Foord but he's been around a while and still on a 3.38 average tells me he's unlikely to all of a sudden improve massively. I'd quite like us to take a look at a couple of lads who Oxford won't be having back in Wood and McDiarmid. I think both have improvement in their starting averages and have showed flashes at Plymouth to show they could dial in.

Anyway now we have waded through the personal swipes and heard why some folk think it’s a waste of time,to those attending I look forward to seeing you on what will be a happy fun day with fellow speedway folk