StarCrazy

Things have to change at the club that is clear to see, but will Buster let that happen. I doubt it. He is very old school and appears to be stuck in his ways. Rob looks to have taken a back seat, all we seem to hear from recently is Dale about EL matters, perhaps he is taking it over? Changing Mads for Rory was the worst decision. Yes, Rory is good, but he is coming back from another injury and perhaps he needed more time on the bike. Mads would've given more stability. But, i've no doubt that once that changed happened, any form of team spirit we had, disappeared along with our hopes of a top 4 finish. And Trees, take the rose tinted glasses off. The club is struggling. I know your now part of the supporters club and should back the team, but be realistic they are poor.

Feel for Rory after last night. Hope he'll be okay. That crash looked terrible.

Easy win for the Stars for me. I hoping by 10+. Seems ages since our last meeting, can't wait to get back to the AFA.

They should ensure that suits are there for the first meeting. It's the club that looks stupid not the riders.

Would Batch replace NBJ And the team still be in the limit? I agree about the suits. Very poor from our management. Those race shirts look terrible, it's a good job our tv meeting was called off. Its not good going on tv without suits, especially as it was the first Sky meeting.

If dropped, would he want to help out though? Presumably he wouldn't leave bikes here.

I think he has to race 5 more times for him to be an asset. Then I suppose he can be rested if everyone else was on form.

On current form I would keep the German. He's done well so far. Rory needs to up his game or was he getting his average down enough to allow Batchelor to come into the side with Niels?

I hope he will be. Big question is who goes if Niels stays?

If Troy doesn't ride then surly the club has wasted money getting him a visa.

I just feel Rory needs to concentrate on getting back on a bike rather than taking that focus away. Does anyone know if he's had any practice? Without a "number 1" we'll need him scoring big points each week.

That was on the club website last week. Hope he is given a chance to help the meeting, the Ben-Fund has gone downhill a bit in recent years. I do worry that being involved off track will effect his return, especially after coming back form such a big injury.

I agree. The news they put out yesterday was just saying that there is no news. What is the point of that? I would rather have news worth reading than constant rubbish being pushed out. If there is no news then there is no reason to tell us there is no news.

I would say the reserve position is more important. A number one can only get a max of 15 points in a meeting. A decent reserve can score 21 points with 7 rides. Plus if we get a decent reserve in, if they do go up into the top 5 we will have an equally strong reserve replacement in Rory, Mads, Robert or Troy depending on who is lowest in the averages.

Really happy with Mads coming back. We needed a bit of spark in the team last year. With him Rory and Troy we should see some great action. I've seen Nicki's name mentioned quite a bit, but why would he come back to the UK? Most big names are leaving because there are too many meetings. Plus he also put on Facebook today that he is moving back to Denmark from the UK.

They did: "Kerr was informed that the management were considering a race night change before his move to the Witches."

Taking it on face value, Buster is driving the fixed race night and moving to one of those fixed nights make sense to convince the others. I personally don't mind, quite a few of our fixtures were on Thursday's this year so it doesn't make much difference. It's a big blow to lose Lewi, he has a bright future but it sounds like he was set on racing in the Premier League. Perhaps he wanted a move away from Lynn or his race team (Evolution) wanted him at Ipswich with Danny King, who I believe is part of the same team. I really hope he will be back in 2017, Coventry look the best option for him if the King link up is what they want.

Speedball said on twitter that it is 50 years, but its not 50 seasons. I think thats what he was referring to.

Not overly upset by tonights results. It was an outside chance that Belle Vue would have lost with the form they are in. I had resigned myself to us missing out on the playoffs. I agree with some comments on here, but I think losing Rory cost us the most, at the time of his injury, he was challenging Niels for the number one spot. We've only really had one heat leader in the team since then, and you can't win away with one heat leader. I will be going on Wednesday to get behind the team, mainly Robert, Nicklas and Ashley, they have given a lot to the team this year and not really done a lot wrong for us. Come on boys, lets end with a win.

I think you have missed a week there mate. Milik left last weekend after the signing window closed. We have no option but to use guests.

Is this the same Chapman Jr who was constantly overspending someone else's money? Is that the reason he was outed? He did the same at the football club! I would like to see more entertainment off track, but surely the main event is the 15 heats. What would you like to see?

Thats a fair comment. We don'e exactly roar the place down. The odd cheer on first bend and in the start/finish straight stand is all we manage.

I agree Brian, we need to win that Elite League title.

What the riders should realise is, if they continue their lap it would help with cooling the bike down!

Injuries can't be helped, but we should have made smarter changes earlier in the season. We need to take a step back to go forward next year. Start again as they say, and build a team around Niels, Mr Consistent! When Rory left everything went flat. The riders we have, including Niels, are not interested in the fans. How many times has Niels gone round the track after he wins? I guess that is a hard sell when the riders don't want to get involved.