Boothers

Hi again everyone! As the AGM is taking place and we are expecting to hear of fixed race nights I thought I'd update the stats that I used when starting this thread. Back in August as my original post stated only 25 out of 117 Championship matches were 7 Home riders versus 7 Away riders (IE NO Rider Replacement and NO Guest riders) SINCE THEN (63 MATCHES LATER) ONLY 2 (TWO) MATCHES DID NOT CONTAIN RIDER REPLACEMENT AND/OR GUESTS. Yep, the totals for the season stand at only 27 out of 180. Whilst acknowledging that some form of coverage for injury is unfortunately required in our dangerous sport here's hoping that something can be dragged kicking and screaming from the AGM which will stop this constant Home Select v. Away Select joke that we have had inflicted on us this year.

Mmmn. Paul Starke guests for Ben Barker on Monday and 'helps' his team drop to a totally meaningless 6th in the League. Ben Barker (thought he was injured?) then guests for Jack Holder on Thursday and as 2nd top scorer 'helps' Peterborough win the Knock Out Cup.

So 5 days notice is reasonable notice?

Ha ha ha! My favourite post of all time. Jacob Bukhave/Tai Woffinden. You couldn't make it up! I just hope it pees down on the nights of our scheduled matches because no-one under any circumstances should be forced to turn out without a team. Bloody ridiculous!

Yes. Going by issue 43 of the averages. Bewley for Garrity and a 2 pointer for Ayres would come to 39.95 so assuming 40 point limit of course. We do still have 2 away fixtures to fulfil so this could change (as both are away fixtures would expect our averages to drop slightly (?) possibly giving more leeway.) PS can we please stop this inane 'your track is more dangerous than our track' garbage. All Speedway tracks are inherently dangerous - it's the nature of the sport in case you hadn't noticed!

Sums up the full state of British speedway! It's very fast going down the pan and the state of the 'banter' on here is accelerating ahead of it. Even people from other teams who's posts I've appreciated over the years have sunk to personal, unwarranted jibes against other people. Sad, sad state.

Ha ha ha. Thought you were nailed on for updates!

So tomorrow 3 weeks will have gone by and still no-one has been punished for 'selling British Speedway down the river'

Hate to see 2 teams utilising r/r. In the 'good old days' (Crikey - sound like an old man (Who said 'You are'?)) when there were enough riders to go round r/r used to be cancelled out and both sides had to promote juniors. Also whatever happened to compulsory #8's. Neither side appears to have named a #8 (just waiting to see if anyone with a bike turns up tonight?). If no #8's are named it only takes 1 unfortunate incident early in proceedings to end up with 3 or even 2 men races later on. Seasons can hinge on such minor points.

Aw gee shucks 😶😶😶

Who has been handled differently by the Redcar Promotion/Management team to any others previously. I'd say it's paying off at the moment!

Err...like to help out but basically statistically Ryan is very average around Redcar. 9 matches, 45 points for a STMP average of 4.09. He's had 8 matches here for Scunny and had 6 heat wins, so I'm afraid he must have had 2 meetings without a win. One will probably have been the 'mare of a meeting he had here (last year?) where he rode the same day that he'd arrived from Australia, ended up with 7 rides but don't know if he scored a point? Still I know what you mean, he always seems to be on the pace and in the mix and you always think he's scored the points his efforts deserved.

At what time will Vatcher announce Redcar's team?

You won me over Ben!

Yeah. I'll go along with that. Wright is a completely different rider from the one we saw previously and Proctor would probably be a different proposition if he'd been riding at the MPA (we did try to fit him in! Both would have been nice, but greedy) Stats are rubbish, but it's what I do. Passes my time and some other people seem to be interested. Just double checked anyway and there's only been 70 riders ridden more than 6 matches this year (barring guesting) so my top 20 seems a bit of a waste anyway - still keep on doing it though!

Yeah! This is what makes me laugh. People come on here at the beginning of every season bleating on about how so and so is gonna put 2 points on his average and Joe Bloggs is a certainty to put 3 on his. I (unofficially) do some stats for Redcar Speedway including the Fans Forum. One of the stats I like to produce is a list at the end of each month of the top 20 'Most Improved Riders' based on the riders season starting official MA compared to my unofficial current average. For the last 3 years or so you would have had to put 1 point (yes 1 single point) on your starting average to guarantee a place in this Top 20. This year (the year the League has been diluted down and everyone including Tom Cobbley was going to increase their average) as of the end of May (been on holiday and not quite caught up yet) then an increase of 0.75 points gets you in. Josh Bates is 20th with an increase of 0.77. People seem to have high expectations without a full grasp of the requirements. I think Proctor and Jorgensen are doing a fine job and along with the efforts of Matt Williamson I suspect you'll make the playoffs.

I'm not a fan but would give him a go. However the more important aspect of the changes at Rye is the dropping of Ellis Perks to be 'replaced' by Ben Barker. Can't be a good thing in the Redcar pits surely?

Averaged 2.81 for Redcar this season, so shouldn't be too difficult!

So as a cost saving exercise Redcar Speedway will not actually be running any more speedway meetings this year. Instead we'll phone Neil Vatcher on Thursday lunchtime and ask him what that evenings result should be. I know there are a lot of neutrals out there who think this is acceptable but please think - if this was your team would you be happy? There could be serious repercussions from this decision (already seen Facebook comments from people we can't afford to lose). What with this decision and 'I think I'll take a week off' Auty - joke sport. Zero credibility. And this isn't sour grapes - if it had been announced on Thursday night that Heat 10 had been awarded 0-5 to Glasgow a few people might have moaned a little but it would have been accepted. But no -referee states otherwise, official website states RESULT DOES NOT STAND for four days. 44 years of watching speedway and I'm questioning why I bother. Well I'm not really - 4 blokes roaring round with no brakes risking life and limb. But a serious 'sport'? Get a life!

That's not an accusation. It's a statement of fact.

OK didn't realise it was 'handicapped'. Ellis hasn't (unfortunately) had that many meetings of late either which probably doesn't help. Just wondered. No harm done

Ellis Perks can raise his average from 2.38 to 6.20 but doesn't appear here?

Whispers. "Psst! Coty, it's looking bleak. We're 8 down with 6 heats to go and it's the pivotal Heat 10. Do you think you could manage to get yourself flung 15 feet over the safety fence and feign the odd injury? Course your going to have to wipe out 4 sections of air fence on the way as well so that we can spend 40 minutes repairing that. There's an extra fiver in your wage packet it you can manage it!" FFS get real. I work as a porter at James Cook University Hospital and one of my wards is Ward 36 (TRAUMA) which is where Coty will have spent the night. I'll visit him when I'm on this afternoon and pass on Mr. Dickson's best wishes shall I?

Should be next Saturday when he should move up from 2.38 to 6.20 (!!!) So next Thursday will be Ellis' last week at reserve. Coty will drop to reserve (4 points or thereabouts). Also at the moment and if what Kevin has said that a return for Tobias is likely sometime shortly then Tobias would also return at reserve which would certainly be helpful in his recovery. Edit: Glad that David Howe's injuries don't appear to be as bad as feared!

Wasn't on an assessed 2 Simmo but an actual 2.38. Agree with everything else you've stated though!