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It's very hard to take your opinions seriously because you seem to be so anti Simon Lambert, suggesting extreme measures for a disappointing season (retiring), not giving any credit when someone points out he's had a good match (calling it a one-off) or basically ignoring posts which show his average has hardly dropped (which I've shown), besides there are lots of riders who have dropped their averages this year. So Simon Lambert has dropped a "whopping" 0.18 from last year's average (6.02 - 5.84) The following riders have dropped more: Sam Masters 9.47 - 9.06 Chris Harris 9.18 - 8.79 Danny King 8.63 - 7.66 Kyle Howarth 7.96 - 7.39 Ben Barker 7.61 - 6.45 Jye Etheridge 5.91 - 5.69 Jordan Jenkins 5.98 - 5.41 Kyle Newman 5.65 - 5.37 Connor Bailey 5.36 - 5.10 Jonas Knudsen 5.39 - 4.97 Henry Atkins 4.43 - 4.05 Paul Starke 4.10 - 3.51 Ace Pijper 3.25 - 3.01 So unless you're suggesting all these riders are having stinkers of a season, past their best and it's time to hang their leathers up, it appears you are singling out Lambert!

Think they know what they are doing staying Championship ,decent crowds not paying silly money to “ big names” just topping up their wages.Well run Club.

Halder is what he is, a 3.5 - 5 point rider depending on team position. He has been unlucky with injuries at times and have never taken his fitness seriously but in a sport that struggles to tke itself seriously why should he. 5 home and 5 away fixtures is barely enough to keep an amateur interested and would certainly be a hard push to convince anyone to buy equipment and take up the sport. Once the likes of Halder and co do decide its not worth the effort anymore there won't be riders to fill team places as Vatchers youth rounds over the weekend aren't full of emerging talents ready to take the places.

not a track expert by any means, but looks as though they dumped a load of water on the surface which seemed to spoil the first 4 heats. shouldn’t they try to get the moisture into the track rather than leave it on the surface? once a rider was behind they just seemed to get filled in which has meant some poor racing so far.

Brennan is a BSPA asset 100% not sure how many times I have to say this on here! Glasgow did not follow through with the purchase of him. Reference Poole going up, I think it needs to happen personally. A lot of for and against, but the landscape is completely different compared to 2019, next year the majority of GP riders we shall see back in the UK since early 2000’s, due to Sweden. Cost people say? Poole could field 5 of this years team and add the Holder Brothers for example! Magic, Nicolai and more available. I have discussed this with Danny on a number of occasions about moving up over the past few years! Race night is always discussed but for me I think that can be worked around with some Wednesday/Thursday fixtures. Profit and business wise it makes sense to sit in the championship to make the maximum amount of money, but is that the right choice? If Poole can’t sustain top flight speedway which they sat at from 1997-2019 lets not forget!I would be very concerned, looking at clubs like Birmingham with low crowds - also local derby? Oxford could be likely to drop out of the championship and Plymouth, will they continue in the championship? So that leaves our local derbys with northern sides? Business model wise that isn’t good! On another note the Championship will be weakened yet again likely in 2025 and you have to question can that be done again year on year? We are paying more for a weaker product and that happened again in 2024. let’s see but I hope the mighty Pirates return to the top table.

No, I dont think so, it would just weaken the product further and deprive fans of watching better quality riders.

Watering down the League is the biggest problem.These riders are not really Championship standard other than racing each other.

Starke's Glasgow average is higher than Leibmann's Workington average. Starke & Pijper combined have higher averages than Ivacic & Garrad. Of the two teams Workington have made the better change imo.

Leibmann was averaging 2.45 (2.82) from reserve. Pijper was averaging 2.70 (3.30) from reserve. Starke was averaging 3.38 (4.36) in the top 5. Seems a no brainer who to bring in.

Agree with others... expecting a reasonably comfortable home win, followed by a jubilant Sam Ermolenko telling everyone that the team 'clicked', just as he knew they would!

The Premiership needs Poole more than Poole needs the Premiership imo. Poole have shown they can get great crowds in the Champ as long as they race on Wednesdays. Now if Poole were allowed to move up with a Wednesday race night, then they might be interested.

Brilliant answer, why would British Speedway want to fly over foreign based riders or have to find them accomodation etc when they don't score points? I think the minimum 4.00 average for foreigners is a great rule. Go back 5/10 years and riders like Rafal Konopka, Anders Andersen, Arlo Bugeja would keep getting chances on 3.00 averages at reserve. Nothing against these guys riding in Britain, but shouldn't be taking the place of a Brit who will score as many.

Women should be on a minimum average of 1. A 4 point average is scandalous.

It was brought in to give British youngsters an advantage. Otherwise mediocre foreign riders would take their places. when signing a foreign rider you need to be certain they are of a certain quality and be better than the British options. sweden seem to have very few young Swedish riders in their league because they filled their teams up with polish riders good and bad. If there are no team places they simply disappear.

He led Laguta for 3 laps in his first, then a third, then fell trying to be a little hasty on the second bend when pinned, a race he could have won. Was superb in his ladt two leaving top riders in his wake. Really coming on big time now and taking the step to becoming a really top rider. Hope he is still at Poole next season.

Isn’t Simon suffering from shingles ? Riders like Simon are the engine rooms of teams If he scores 2 or 12 you know he has given his all.

Celina dropped from the Comets, thanks Celina for all your efforts , good luck in the future .

Sums up British League Speedway.

He's an Aussie, fully committed to British speedway . Poole Wednesday, Leicester Thursday, Glasgow Friday, Workington Saturday, Poland Sunday, Birmingham Monday

I don't think he can, which is a very stupid rule imo. Surely a club using an unattached rider is better than using one from a rival team?

OMG ... everyone knows its Eastbourne Eagles

Because you need to engage your brain cell before typing perhaps ? The sport has always had its ‘ back up ‘ riders who were never going to be world beaters but are the backbone of the sport and are essential back up to the ‘ stars ‘. Halder has scored in every meeting and is as solid a second string as you will find in the NDL.

On paper Birmingham should get 50, but they've been so awful this year, it wouldn't surprise me if they didn't reach 40.

I don't think they will do it unless they allowed to do Weds or they think the crowd would be the same for a Thursday.

Ah, yes, I did the maths too early in the morning and confused myself. Hard to see who could fit there. Personally, I’d love to see Glasgow sign Rowe with Worrall out.

I thought it was the Isle of Wight.!!!

Just waiting on the Weasel to decide which riders he wants Leicester to invite, get a haircut and be ready to have all the photographs taken stating he was the driving force in the project.

Very well put sir

You call it an opinion do you.....more like destructive criticism.

Birmingham are bottom, what did people expect against a decent Belle Vue team. Brummies have good riders but clearly aren’t on it this year. 44-46 isn’t a score to be embarrassed about. They got beat by the better team on the night. Kurtz was on one, sometimes just have to take your hat off to the other team. I’m glad that Birmingham could return next year. More teams staying in speedway is better for the sport.

Subject to fitness. As for Barker let's hope he uses the same 'lawn mower' engine as the weekend!!

Pirates fans were treated to seeing some real speedway on a real speedway track on Friday..............must have been a novel experience for them, how excited they all were to see bikes passing each other. I'd bet there was more passing and racing in one heat last Friday than we'll see in the entire meeting on Wednesday. Going back to Winboring Road must be tough, really tough..............zzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

Should there be a rule on the number of Premiership riders in a Championship side.

Ive never been convinced that Ace is championship standard, has has just been made to look like he is due to the watering down. There are other riders coming through but definitely not enough to go round. Even the last batch has seen riders struggle to adapt to CL life like Hodder and James and they featured in a tougher NL than the next crop will

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I agree with all of that, except why would Poole put themselves at greater financial risk again. (Fingers burned badly in 2019!) Unless 2025 was known to be their last season at Poole Stadium and they had some quirky idea of going out in a blaze of glory?!! AND THAT AIN'T HAPPENING!

Signed for Workington.

Nope. They dropped Nicolai Klindt and signed Erik Riss. It was a direct replacement. Craig Cook was signed as an injury replacement for Lewis Kerr, who then returned once the 28 days were up.

I get signing them in on a 4 to encourage the inclusion of British riders what I dont agree with is the fact they can't drop below 4. What they've done now is basically put any chance of anyone signing Celina for 2025 as improbable. If they want to encourage more British youngsters coming through do the same as the Poles and make the reserves British only. .

Anyone who saw Manzares at the SON knows that would be a poor move. The press release says the release of Celina is to allow for strengthening to help the Comets make the playoffs. I don’t see a Glasgow reject and a rider who hasn’t raced in UK for several years doing that. Comets were riding high due to a rejuvenated Cook and Tate hugely exceeding his average. They’re well over the building limit so need to be looking for like for like replacements - another 4 pointer and someone close to Tate’s 7.36

So Ben Cook rode at workington yesterday and lezno today Good on him shows others can ride Saturday in UK then travel

Ben Cook scored 9(5) 2, 1, N, 3, 3 for Leszno today in their 47-43 win over Wroclaw https://ekstraliga.pl/en/se/match/4850 Well done Ben

No such rule. If the race is stopped after an incident on the first bend it's due to an unsatisfactory start.

Even more difficult to bother..... The play offs will probably have teams made up of all and sundry, and that is perfectly fitting as to get there each would no doubt have had "some help" from their "supposed" competitors.... But they will also get decent crowds which, at the end of the day, is the only thing that matters...

I have to say Glasgow is the most professional club I have visited, was made very welcome from the promotion to the bar staff. Will definitely return

Mr Barrie runs things at Berwick on a Saturday, or at least he thinks he does.

Halder is a 5 point second string, why would he be relied on for a good points haul? That's the job of Mulford & Trigger at the top of the team.

You know nothing about the Management Plans at Glasgow so your comments are just unnecessary.

Everyone on he having a dig at Lambo’s form this season ? ,a fact which might bear interest is he has suffered with pneumonia recently and that has affected his form

Not much to write about over here is there? Could run a competition to keep interest maybe? "Who did Bomber guest for this week?" "Who is Scott guesting for next week? First Prize? A season ticket at Birmingham... Second Prize? Two season tickets!!!! I do like the international news as, to be honest, I watch more of overseas speedway than the UK version of the sport.. Until the play offs obviously, I turn up then... The Speedway Star for me is still an excellent "window" into the sport for anyone maybe only finding out about Speedway.. A shame UK Speedway cannot maintain such high standards to match the magazine..