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A very sad aspect of the BSF is the loudmouths who love to insult all and sundry in the sport who are actually trying to make it work, while very conveniently hiding behind stupid false names and claiming 'freedom of speech'. When someone working in the sport and prepared to talk openly under their own name here then tackles them they then hide behind accusations of 'unprofessionalism'. Yes, this is a forum. No it doesn't give you the right to behave like a poisonous anonymous coward and squeal when someone rightly stands up for themselves and bites back. Good luck to Laurence in his new job. I had no idea he had the divine power to shut tracks though ;-)

Sometimes I wonder why I have people on ignore but they always clarify the situation at some point.

I am 100% confident both Poles will do their jobs and more. Woryna challenging for heat leader and Spanner dominant at reserve most of the time.

Fantastic from Barry...Maybe you should have a word in a few other promoters ears. You should also be one of those running the show from what I've read. I shall defo be making the effort to give your track a visit during the season from Essex

Crap Aussie title line up these days FACT

Hey that's me with added intelligence

Shinanigains? Has someone been pulling your leg ruff?

Good turnout for Jimmy with former Tigers riders and Edinburgh promoters attending. Edited to say. Sid Sheldrick ex Paisley also attended.

Yes, I understood it, as anyone who knows me will crucify.

very true, but he did beat B Kurtze, M Fricke and S Masters over 4 rounds. Credit where credits due.

Of course they didn't. Poole only lost because of Jim Lynch.

Tomorrow 9am as far as I know

1 - Poole. Look really solid. If Woryna and Holder improve their averages as expected nobody will stop them. 2 - Leicester. With the signings plus releasing Jim Lynch, they are showing that they mean to be taken seriously. Now the other teams - the ones without riders on dodgy averages. 3 - Belle Vue. Will be pretty strong again, particularly at home with Tungate rampant. What is it with him and that track? 4 - Somerset. The Doyle factor. 5 - Swindon. The lack of Doyle factor 6 - Wolverhampton - The lack of Lindgren factor 7 - Rye House. Disappointing that they never brought in a GP rider. Should have signed Andrew Silver to bring down the average age a bit. 8 - King's Lynn. Obvs.

My stance hasn't changed at all, the Chris Simpson thing should and could have been sorted years ago. People asked time and time again to help generate some atmosphere as the jingles and general presentation Chris did was more of the time than Pete York. ? is Mick doing it for the right reasons or because by doing this it gets maybe a few more through the gate. WIth the news coming out today about Jim Lynch it wouldn't surprise me to see him as co-promotor. The Leicester team looks really good and will effect people going to see Coventry who maybe we're sitting on the fence, it's going to cost my dad a £1 more to see Danny King & co! The amount of statements from and concerning the bees that have come out and I read that the past is in the past is ridiculous. we had it with him falling out with Sandhu, A few weeks ago the save Coventry bees committee and now Chris Simpson? The person who deserves the biggest apology is Colin Pratt and the way he left Coventry via a txt message. Ex employees and sponsors also show its not just people on the outside jumping on the bandwagon and to fall out with so many people and that's just the few we know about ! When does the penny drop? That said I really do hope those who do go have fun and wish the team all the best.

Hi Barry, I will take you up on that. I like your pro-active approach :-) Email to follow.

When Mauger and the Aces came to newly 'promoted' Ipswich in 1972 the traffic queue into the stadium was miles down the road. Likewise when Poole came to the Showground with Holder and Ward the crowd increased and there was a fantastic atmosphere as well. Only great riders can create that type of buzz imo...

BELLE VUE 1. Steve Worrall 6.77 2. Rohan Tungate 6.18 3. Craig Cook 8.45 4. Damian Drozdz 5.00 5. Max Fricke 7.39 6. Dan Bewley 4.71 7. Jye Etheridge 3.89 Team Total: 42.39 Remaining: 0.11 KING'S LYNN 1. Niels Iversen 9.04 2. Robert Lambert 7.38 3. Ty Proctor 5.5 4. Lewis Kerr 5.06 5. Thomas Jorgensen 5.93 6. Lewis Rose 5.25 7. Kasper Andersen 5.00 Team Total: 42.16 Remaining:0.34 LEICESTER 1. Martin Vaculik 8.00 2. Krystian Pieszczek 6.5 3. Danny King 6.66 4. Josh Bates 5.52 5. Kyle Newman 4.86 6. Hans Andersen 7.75 7. James Sarjeant 2.56 Team Total: 41.85 Remaining: 0.65 POOLE 1. Brady Kurtz 8.08 2. Josh Grajczonek 7.34 3. Kacper Woryna 4.65 4. Linus Sundstrom 7.22 5. Chris Holder 7.16 6. Mateusz Szczepaniak 4.54 7. James Shanes 2.88 Team Total: 41.87 Remaining: 0.63 RYE HOUSE 1. Krzysztof Kasprzak 6.86 2. Ben Barker 6.0 3. Eddie Kennett 6.39 4. Scott Nicholls 7.48 5. Chris Harris. 7.63 6. Stuart Robson 5.72 7. Max Clegg 2.00 Team Total: 42.08 Remaining: 0.42 SOMERSET 1. Jason Doyle 9.69 2. Jack Holder 5.82 3. Richard Lawson 6.43 4. Charles Wright 6.69 5. Bradley Wilson Dean 4.67 6. Jake Allen 5.07 7. Jonas Jeppersen 4.00 Team Total: 42.37 Remaining: 0.13 SWINDON 1. Nick Morris 8.87 2. Troy Batchelor 7.63 3. David Bellego 7.37 4. Tobiasz Musielak 7.37 5. Adam Ellis 5.56 6. Zach Wajtknecht 3.21 7. Mitchel Davey 2.00 Team Total: 42.01 Remaining: 0.49 WOLVERHAMPTON 1. Jacob Thorssell 8.64 2. Sam Masters 7.92 3. Rory Schlein 7.72 4. Kyle Howarth 6.64 5. Cameron Heeps 5.25 6. Ashley Morris 3.75 7. Nathan Greaves 2.54 Team Total: 42.46 Remaining: 0.04

7.26 was his established average from Poole. He rode 7 meetings. Given Clegg was given a 2.00 average based on 4 matches for Wolves in 2017 I assume that Richie's would be too. 7.26

Fixtures out tomorrow (Wednesday)!!

I bet WK can't wait to cheer Ludde on again it has been a fair while!!!!

Well said Rob , i agree totally.

Really hope it’s not ludvig! I just can’t see him getting any better! He has reached his level I think a change of track will do him good

I will do.

That was over 10 years ago jenga

The Coventry riders might have had something to do with it (not to mention the Poole ones!).

5 of the 2017 side are still riding. The Robins won most matches when Doyle was not riding & so that is not an issue. Batch will provide a more balanced team as both him & Morris are good team riders, whereas Doyle just looks after himself. It's probable that there will be a reserve change at some point but I'm happy with the Swindon line-up, whereas Poole are full of "maybes". Riders that do well in Poland are not always as successful over here. It depends very much on how well they adapt to the variety of tracks in the UK. The season will tell it's tale in October.

Definitely hope Bristol can run from Swindon this season and create more opportunities for developing riders plus add a little value for money (in some peoples eyes). I don't think Somerset are as keen on running development league sides as they once were and have seen the Exeter SDL side relocate to Plymouth for the 2018 season.

Thats brills... please let me know when you do as it will be great to meet you and have a chat all the best

Nope, it’s not anti-Belle Vue, it’s just that only Poole sign brilliant Poles! Let them carry on polishing their turds

Simon Stead makes perfect sense.... Fairly local, Knows the Bates/Machin promotion, Also was heavily involved in the Vaculik deal...

Both have improved massively since those days, Woryna will be at least a 7 by the end of the season in my opinion.

5.50 on earth.

1. Leicester 2.Poole 3.Belle Vue 4.Somerset 5.Swindon 6.Rye House 7.Kings Lynn 8.Wolverhampton Can See everything changing again a month into the season with multiple changes

Maybe if Lambert was starting off as a reserve I could see him upping his average by a point , but it looks like he will probably start at #2 . So like yourself I can't see where an improvement in any of the 5 already signed is going to come from which also may include the final 2 signed .Bearing in mind if we should sign Nicholls, who would expect him to carry his average of 9.72 through the season or add anything to it. That's why I think if this is plan A , then when new averages are issued look out for plan B to kick in. Never have I felt so underwhelmed or been less enthusiastic about the start of a new season.

You could say that about a few riders tbf.

Kus + wet track = o points , if Newcastle fans are so keen on him then sign him yourselves, bad influence on everything.

If it is Kus, it will be a major step back - very little progression in him - if any, if it is him - and he is the second heat leader, we will get some huge pastings away from home, and only avoid them at home due to the strong reserves and hopefully MBA and Stewart dialling themselves in to the MPA... for me that team puts too much pressure on Barker - hopefully the rumours are wrong...

Fords being a nob

Let's hope the Poles like a motocross track as a home circuit.

So

Time now for Shanes to ask for £1,000 a point or get off to Belle Vue.

Now where have we heard that before.

I just hope that the authorities do not end up going to electric bikes as if it is as boring as Formula E motor racing the sport will die very quickly.

No! Part of the attraction of the CL is the arrival of young Aussies with potential to progress to greater things. Would the likes of Doyle, Fricke, Tungate, Masters, etc. have ever graced the CL if there was such a restriction in place when they arrived as promising raw youngsters? As usual with some "Brits First" posters on here, they claim that our Antipodean friends are taking the bread out of the mouths of mediocre locals. Fact is that in 2017 this "deluge" of young Aussie invaders totaled one, yes one!, namely Josh Pickering whose performances home & away were appreciated by Monarchs fans. As the visa entrance criteria has already been reduced from top 4 to 3 in State Titles, which as things stand , will prevent new Oz U-21 Champ, Jaimon Lidsey from appearing here in 2018, I would prefer that the previous quota was reinstated, which I believe, would allow Lidsey to be considered.

havnt read all the posts but people arent seriously saying ward was a better rider than mauger are they ???

Just one meeting? Have you forgotten qualifying rounds plus those what you call ‘just one meeting’ we’re like pressure cookers...go give your head a wobble

Cracking team imo. Could possibly win everywhere apart from Wolves and a shame they won't be coming to the Showground, looks box office .....

For me this should be a watershed moment for people who ru(i)n our great sport. When a young British talent who 2 seasons ago could be seen whacking round the NSS beating all manor of genuine international level riders on sky sports, who ups his average and is able to compete at Elite level has to miss a season due to his high average, punishing the lad for developing and improving. And a season later faced with the same fate decides to hang up his boots. Something is seriously amiss with the way the sport is being run.

Most British riders can’t compete with foreigners in terms of equipment as sponsorship seems so hard to come by in the UK. Until a foreign rider turns up that that is and then his bike will be covered in British sponsors. Sigh