Bagpuss

Brother.

Have really got into Moto GP in the last few years. The Moto 3 class is incredible, there is almost too much passing! I agree with HT, speedway can be both family and extreme.

I like Tatum but could quite happily see Pearson dispensed with.

There would be no complaints from me if there were no four point foreigners in the PL. Wouldn't want Jacobs or Auty but would take Perks, would have any of them if we were a CL team though. Which is what the discussion is about after all, these lads missing out on second division spots. Why should new foreign riders get spots before all the Brits who want a place are offered one?

Exactly these. Lots if predictable OTT stuff on here but I quite like the honesty of the article. He's not saying he's not happy at Lynn, just that he thinks some time away will benefit his career and its hard to disagree. He is also bang on about the asset system. And the sponsorship bits are quite common this time of year, pretty much every rider is looking for backing. Glad he is back with the Stars, and he may well feel differently this time next year. If not he will go elsewhere with my best wishes.

I believe so, and Riss is 5.75 so going by your figures they would fit? I like Riss, seems to have something about him and should be able to improve a fair bit.

Toft 5.57? Or Andersen and Riss rather than Gino and ?????

They will have a plan B I'm sure, would probably be a solid team with a weak number one but there will be one. Better to be positive though and believe that Puk will sign.

My glass is half full. That bridge can be crossed if and when we get to it.

Source? I'm sure he will be back, along with TJ, Lewis x 2, new Danish lad and Puk if the Poles get off their high horse. So just one question mark left in that case, lots of rumours about Mandates but that would mean a team considerably under the points limit. Perhaps that is what was meant by the team being picked by a 'wider criteria' this year? Would have liked THJ on that average but I get why he divides opinion, just think starting at reserve he would have been a definite improver. Must be his choice to just do Sweden & Poland, can't believe he hasn't had at least one UK offer.

I'm not singling your club out, the discussion just happens to have developed on this thread. The article says that the CL promoters voted for this 'initiative' as a whole so they are all to blame. Usual Edinburgh defensiveness! Whether these foreigners achieve seven is neither here nor there, it stands to reason that if they are 1.8 cheaper in than they should be in the first place they are more likely to be signed and make those riders already in the 5-6 point bracket that Paul speaks of even more vulnerable, including the British ones.

......and now they are even more vulnerable due to foreigners who should be on sevens being turned into 5.2 ringers.

Big fish?

Have another look at his/her user name and take a guess.....

Just managed to watch this, thought Tai came across really well, was an entertaining show.

Even if they are good enough they have been shoved down the order by foreigners on bargain averages now.

You could well be right and I don't think he helped himself having a year out a few seasons back but if a club invested some time and effort in him he may well be able to achieve more. He showed in 2016 at Belle Vue that in the right environment he could score decent points. Just doesn't sit right with me that there are British lads struggling to get a ride yet we seem happy to make is easy for foreign riders to get team spots, the Brits need to be put first.

No doubt this brainwave that the CL promoters have had (as explained on Edinburgh thread) in getting new foreigners over here on lower averages has contributed to Jacobs packing in and Perks falling to get a spot. How many more Brits well suffer?

And no doubt this has contributed to Perks, Jacobs and any other British lads who miss out not getting a CL ride in 2018. Marvellous.

I thought that but the signing of the young Dane probably rules that out.

I appreciate that and can understand why, but it's difficult to take people seriously who flag up the bad stuff every time it happens but are nowhere to be seen when there are good things to comment on. Works in reverse as well of course.

I think the secret of being a good opinion giver is to make sure your thoughts are balanced.....people who are persistently negative (or positive) will attract criticism. Especially if they bang on and on about the same things ad nauseam. I think most of us can detect which posters are to be take notice of and which are not by their posts and how they are written.

Don't think your team will have anyone rattled unfortunately. Quietly cautious and respectful of perhaps but not rattled, certainly not away from your own patch. But speedway isn't raced on paper so you never know.

Far be it from me to defend the south coast mafia but Kurtz won every race he finished yesterday so a bit harsh to stick the boot in on him anyway.

One of those seven must be wrong as we can't possibly be going in to the season a couple of points below the limit.