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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

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.