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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

More?? How many managerial medals does he currently have to add to? If he wants to feel a winners medal he can have one of Marks. He can’t close the drawer containing all his Aces & Aussie medals. 😄

Fairly certain Senna Summers will be one of the 2-point reserves

I don't think that Lambert was the aim of this move (No regulation should be written with 1 rider in mind anyway) I believe this would be more looking at the likes of Cairns and Rushen - even Rowe,Kemp,Flint etc as well as any potential future 'superstars' So as and when a prospect makes it they simply cant drop the UK They will need the UK on the way up - backing,nominations etc and it is a albeit clumsy way of looking to secure their ongoing participation

Not really our thing. We have gone through an awful lot of champagne over the last five years. Tastes so so sweet. 😍

The stoking of the fire between teams has been sadly lacking in modern speedway but Ipswich’s pillage of belle vue riders has certainly awakened that, Belle Vue fans are rightly reacting to it and it’s generating a real want to attend BV v Ipswich meetings next season, on the other hand does anyone know if the other 4 teams are still running

That's a shame as I thought Klima showed some promise and was value for some improvement next season having seen all the UK tracks now. I'm sure plenty of reasons but a shame that both he and Anze, who we brought in and gave them their first full year to look at the tracks will now move on and other clubs will likely get the benefit.

That's some long tail Oxford are going to have. Very, very good top 3 but they're going to need some serious luck with improvements at the bottom end.

Freddy Holder wins the award for the rider with the most retirements during 2026. I've also included the riders with most exclusions because these things always spark my interest and i never failed to have a heart attack watching Reid Battye clipping the air fences. The Retirement Gurus: 1 Freddy Hodder 6 2 Edward Kennett 5 3 Jonas Jeppesen 4 3 Nick Morris 4 3 Nathan Ablitt 4 The Exclusion Kings: 1 Reid Battye 6 2 Mitch McDiarmid 5 3 Niklas Holm Jakobsen 4 3 Daryl Ritchings 4 3 Jordy Loftus 4

Sedgmen confirmed as not returning also so we’re in for a bit of a shake up. Maybe a couple of left field selections.

I would of thought most people are thinking of debating the posts and not the poster but then again bitter old folk with access to forums tend to be a bit sour

Sit one of those rubber head-and-torso first aid training things on a bike or sign Mario Hausl. They’d have an identical contribution.

Hausl is useless and puts in as much effort as a dead prostitute. Plus, he rarely turns up often claiming injury or other commitments.

Kylie Hayworth has signed for the Cheaters and Rhianna Ingraham has signed for the Scorpios.

Agree tigerlain,also looking forward to their visits to poole,whether it turns out to be a good team or not those heatleaders should provide some great racing on their awaydays

Don’t see his average going down has scored pretty decent at Poole over the years,his average at Poole is 5.90 62points over 42 rides.

Howarth completes a very strong spearhead for the Cheetahs, however I see the same issue as already pointed out a lot of 3 - 3 race results & in those races where none of the top 4 are involved heavy losses & if one should have a poor night then it could be curtains. I know Hagon is the name that has been thrown into the hat as the fifth rider, I'm not sure about him as I have seen him over a few seasons at a number of clubs & he seemed to get to a level but has not progressed since much like Jack Smith. I think Oxford could look at his 2026 team mate Mario Hausl he had his best return at Oxford last season (the same meeting Hodder scored big) & I think the young German on a sub 4.00 average can improve to be a solid support rider throuhout the season. So far as reserves go I feel that Fletcher is a fast improving talent & should be looking to step up the league system & as Oxford are seen to offer their own talent pool the best chance to improve the second will come from the NDL squad with Summers taking the spot ahead of Vale.

Don’t see his average going down has scored pretty decent at Poole over the years,his average at Poole is 5.90 62points over 42 rides.

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Not a problem. 15-point maximums at home, 0 points away from home.