NEWCASTLE DIAMONDS 2022

[Viper 126]

27 minutes ago, Winditon said:

Surely Adam Roynon is on borrowed time at Redcar. Do you think he could do a job for us at reserve in place of Congreve if Redcar let him go. What is his current average? Just a thought as not sure who is available. Can't be easy with a lack of riders available.

There is 0% chance of Adam coming in to replace George unless more changes are made to the 1-7.

Its an interesting position we find ourselves in given we have fixtures on Wednesday, Friday and Sunday this week. If we are to replace someone in our declared line up it would need BSP approval so can’t see many chances to do so this week, unless the outgoing rider is happy to race despite being moved on. In my view if we don’t get an announcement of a change tomorrow then we will most likely have to wait a little longer for a change to the side than the statement from Rob suggested. 
 

Fingers crossed the promotions hard work pays off and we do manage to strengthen the side before this weekend.

[Redtruck 60]

54 minutes ago, cinderfella said:

I'd have though making enquiries about Anders Rowe would have priority over Adam Roynon (unless all the rumours about it being a tactical retirement are true?)

Tactical retirement for who?

[Biffa 84]

If Rowe wasn’t good enough for Redcar last August, surely he can’t be good enough now

[Winditon 233]

14 minutes ago, Redtruck said:

Tactical retirement for who?

Was just a thought 

[robbieblackadder fan club 145]

I will be very surprised if there are any changes for the weekend,if there are exciting ones it could possibly tempt me back but not with the current team unfortunately 

[bigred 187]

2 hours ago, Viper said:

There is 0% chance of Adam coming in to replace George unless more changes are made to the 1-7.

Its an interesting position we find ourselves in given we have fixtures on Wednesday, Friday and Sunday this week. If we are to replace someone in our declared line up it would need BSP approval so can’t see many chances to do so this week, unless the outgoing rider is happy to race despite being moved on. In my view if we don’t get an announcement of a change tomorrow then we will most likely have to wait a little longer for a change to the side than the statement from Rob suggested. 
 

Fingers crossed the promotions hard work pays off and we do manage to strengthen the side before this weekend.

There is 0 chance off Adam returning full stop…he’s said he wouldn’t ride for granty ever again,hence why he didn’t come back this year..

[cinderfella 865]

2 hours ago, Redtruck said:

Tactical retirement for who?

There have been suggestions made on various threads that the 'retirement' would suit Leicester's busy match schedule for June as they have now been granted a guest facility for 28 days and that some guests would obviously fare better at some away tracks and maybe after a break he may come back refreshed.

 

[Redtruck 60]

7 minutes ago, cinderfella said:

There have been suggestions made on various threads that the 'retirement' would suit Leicester's busy match schedule for June as they have now been granted a guest facility for 28 days and that some guests would obviously fare better at some away tracks and maybe after a break he may come back refreshed.

 

Ah fair enough wasn’t sure if you meant Rowe or roynon 

[Tosh1218 593]

2 hours ago, bigred said:

There is 0 chance off Adam returning full stop…he’s said he wouldn’t ride for granty ever again,hence why he didn’t come back this year..

Nothing to do with Granty it’s a rider in your declared 1 to 7

[szkocjasid 3,043]

5 hours ago, Biffa said:

If Rowe wasn’t good enough for Redcar last August, surely he can’t be good enough now

But did they not drop Rowe as part of a double change to bring in Lewis Kerr? It wasn't a case of replacing him with a 4.00 man because he was underperforming.

It only matters now if he's stronger than the outgoing rider (Roynon)

[Redtruck 60]

6 hours ago, szkocjasid said:

But did they not drop Rowe as part of a double change to bring in Lewis Kerr? It wasn't a case of replacing him with a 4.00 man because he was underperforming.

It only matters now if he's stronger than the outgoing rider (Roynon)

Yeah but they could have dropped Sargent even though on the higher average was performing worse than Rowe but the way he’s spoken about by our fans seems like he had attitude problems which lead to him being replaced 

[HGould 2,213]

Rowe wants to ride more in Poland where he has offers, good contacts from a spell in 2020 and also potentially fast bikes prepared by one of the top UK tuners based over there.

If that's where he wants to focus people should respect that and he certainly doesn't have the big fish in a small bowl some UK riders suffer from and have all of their careers.

He's not going to be riding for any Friday / Saturday / Sunday track in UK on that basis and as U24 league is on a Tuesday in Poland that really narrows his CL options you'd think for a home track and he'd miss a lot of away matches.

Fait play to the kid, he's showing ambition

[SpeedwayTShirts 307]

What's happened to this big team shake up? Heading down to Oxford tomorrow mainly to watch Lee Complin, but it'd be nice to know if there's a competitive team heading down?

[cinderfella 865]

On 6/5/2022 at 10:46 AM, pablo133 said:

2 hours ago, SpeedwayTShirts said:

What's happened to this big team shake up? 

No big shake ups - the track has had the bumps and ruts smoothed out now

[Justgotmecpc 1,059]

2 hours ago, SpeedwayTShirts said:

What's happened to this big team shake up? Heading down to Oxford tomorrow mainly to watch Lee Complin, but it'd be nice to know if there's a competitive team heading down?

Unless we can bring in a fresh face or 2 in for the next 3 meetings & the rest of the campaign we need a miracle with a capital M to get anything out of the season!! But to be fair to the promotion they are trying to get the best possible riders in & remember the previous promotion done it with recruiting the 2 Danes kenni larsen & Rene Bach 

Edited June 7, 2022 by Justgotmecpc