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oi, im always right, just things change 😂

I don't like where I work, but I go there e everyday cos the money 😏

That's a relief! At least Lions won't finish bottom 😁

Think they'd be better off scrapping the word Development word in the title of the league or even going back to the old name of Conference League

At the end of the day we should all be grateful the fans have a speedway team to watch every other Thursday depending how the fixtures work out what with all the uncertainty over the last few months finding new owners, its gonna be a culture shock for sure not seeing Doyle and Emil round Foxhall every home match tho, we're certainly been blessed over the last 3 seasons watching them regularly, but times change as we all know and nothing lasts forever.

If it is Brennan at 1 and also a team with King as one the 3 heat leaders and your best reserve is Jenkins,, I think we can safely predict a last place finish. I've heard it said alot of times in the past,, any team is better than having no team, let's see how that statement stands up crowd level wise

Everyone complains about the lack of track time and opportunities available for prospective new riders to try speedway....... Fact Not many tracks offer opportunities, but different organisations offer these to facilitate new riders. They also give opportunities to facilitate rider improvement and enhancement. What actually happens is that their is no communication between each track when they offer these facilities and they conflict. Would it not be better that all tracks and training facilities communicate with each other so no conflict of same day activity conflict, meaning lack of numbers deem they cannot take place due to lack of number and all are cancelled due to lack of numbers?

More chance of Simon than Robert 👍🏻

Not a bad looking side in the watered down league you would hope Lambert and Tungate could put a point on each the other bar King should maintain current averages, I suppose the other question is can Brennan kick onto the next level which will be a harder step to make.

1.5

It has been 1.5 in recent seasons

No he was woeful at Foxhall over the last 2 years with Oxford

Baldyman is right. It’ll no doubt be spun that it’s been a winter of concern that the club might not even run, so be grateful you have some speedway to watch. People ain’t daft though and that won’t wash. Yes we have one of the better attendances in the UK, but the Ipswich fans won’t turn out for any old dross. The season before we dropped to the Championship around 2010/11/12? We had a dreadful team and finished bottom. It was spot the supporter on the terraces so let’s not kid ourselves that the crowd will turn out regardless. Anyway, we don’t know the team yet so we’re getting ahead of ourselves a tad. Let’s give them a chance and see what they deliver.

Yeah trying to put together a competitive side including brennan, king & Jenkins with 18.95 for the other 3 and nobody higher than a 7.05 as brennan is at 1... tricky!

OK after going through the entire thing found this section much higher which does seem to clarify the 25% only applies once so that should settle that. Guess Jenkins will be a 4.50 after all! Why this is in a different section who knows...

Berwick could have easily fitted him in but stuck with Smith

brennan is your no1. so build your teams with that in mind

Now the Aces promotion machine can really kick into gear and go to town advertising the first Premiership match against... ??????????? Not sure why the four teams so far running haven't put out a fixture list . We know all meetings will be Mondays and Thursdays so just use the blank dates left to run the Ipswich and, maybe, Northampton meetings if they do exist.... Any Mondays and Thursdays blank can be just TBC until all sorted... At the least then fans can start to plan around some dates...

A team manager would want whoever is likely to score the most points and that isn't Max Perry, he improved his average by a little last season but you would not call him up and coming, if Workington were able to fit him in then Etherington would not have a team place, would Perry beat Etherington on a regular basis, not sure he would.

When I go to the Brentwood gig I will try and get a chat with him after about what he is doing for Speedway futures. He might have some dough in the Northampton project silent partner?

If the job of the NL is to bring on future Champ riders, then riders who can't get anywhere near Lambert won't cope in the Champ. These riders should be at the lower end of the NL, not an alternative option to the Lambert signing. If the NL was weakened further, it's be much harder for rider stepping up, how do you know if you've reached Champ standard without riding against lower Champ riders? There's a reason riders don't jump straight up from the NJL or MDL to the Champ as they'd be miles off the pace, hopefully a stronger NL bridges that gap?

But the chairman INSISTS all clubs are paying the set rate of £15 a point for no.1 and £10 a point everyone else, so it must be true ! 😉

Of course its not a competition. I was commenting on how much better it looked imo, especially with the hosts questions/comments being quite succinct and brief and the fans' names and questions for everyone to see along the bottom of the screen. Each to their own I guess......

Do yourself a favour and pop it on ignore like the rest of us. Simon Lambert was/is an excellent mentor who has a huge amount of knowledge available both technical and mechanical (though perhaps not fitness) anyone who listens and adopts any pointers he gives them will be better for it.

If they were really interested in showing the way they’d put a NDL team together instead of using this to cherry pick riders out of it for themselves.

I wouldn’t be suprised if he did

Can't imagine Lambert getting in on the 7.81 GSA. He only did 6 matches in 2023. All the other matches in that rolling average are 7 years old from 2019. I'd expect him on an assessed 8.00 as a GP rider.

I don't know. How much is a big bag of werthers originals?

Phil normally on the money eight times out of ten.

I didn't think you'd except the points money 😁

A rider to me who is going nowhere

This is true also. Point taken.

I can’t see Dudek he doesn’t like flying.

Beat me to it, was thinking the same lol

Gotta love this forum sometimes 😁

Iversen could feature you’d guess. All very Lynny isn’t it 😂

Here's a question would scottie Nicholls use 5.55 as his previous prem average with 2.5% reduction or 5.39 on a 2025 champ conversion?

Depends who said newcomer is. The problem here, is you’re giving up eight points to Belle Vue before the tapes have even risen in heat one. Probably Sheffield too.

Yes he will either be 4.61 -2.5% so 4.50 or -25% so 3.46 I read the rule that he should be 3.46 for the start of 2026

Doyle Becker Thorssell Flint Rasmus Jensen Dan Thompson Ruml Janniro etc etc

Kurtz signs

Not for Glasgow, they had no problem letting him go. Most teams could have signed him but didn't.

He must of forgotten to mention the gaurentee on top of that then, yes that must be what’s missing

Then there not ready to step up to champ, there is younger riders going out scoring 15+ then step up and can't do anything in champ because the nl is nowhere near a level to step up.

So you think it’s funny do you, parents spending £1000/s of pounds from when there kids are 8/9 years of age to maybe make a good fist of it around the age of 15, and a slim chance of getting a team spot, then after maybe 6/7/8 years of those parents losing money travelling everywhere to say a NJL fixture and the club says sorry curfew is happened or something else not tonight guys, and you still stick at it and then you get overlooked by clubs who bring in riders who just fancy coming over here and trying their luck and who as you say will turn up?(bit difficult not when you are 12,000 miles from home) ahead of you it’s no surprise when the cupboard is increasingly empty. I’m telling you that not one parent of the youth section believes that they are entitled to anything, what they want is a fair crack at it for the countless hours they have done keeping their kids racing when the easiest thing was to pack up, and without doubt attitudes like yours more parents will gradually do the latter.

very similar to when you left the forum recently no?

I'm sure Connor Mountain is thinking like that, he got dropped for Zischke the previous year when averaging above 4.00!

More than a few British youngsters will be disappointed they didn't receive similar patience......(anywhere - not a dig at Belle Vue specifically)

Loads of merits here, extra track time for the riders, extra value for money for spectators (or chance to nip to the loo etc if they don't want to watch) cost reductions for entry riders, reduced travel the list goes on..... Negatives and probably the biggest is the risk of delay/abandonment to the main meeting due to an accident in the match races. Also the standard of rider tracked needs to be looked at, there was a point when riders found their own level and progressed up accordingly but in more recent years there have been some development league riders who are incredibly wobbly and a risk to themselves and others. An "easy" fix would be an assessment of rider standard at a track post meeting. Can the rider circulate within x time of the main meeting, can they slide the bike, do they look in control? If not then its back to practice days until they can meet the level. Setting the bar lower continually for the benefit of inclusion isn't doing the sport any good.

Currently no decision is made on Luke doing the league, my personal feeling is he shouldn't do it as with the current pay scales even scoring 15 every meeting means you run at a loss and even more so when you factor in the loss of a days working wage for us both as well. But on the flip side of that with only a championship spot and the limited amount of racing that it will provide he may have to do it for bike time and to justify the huge outlay on equipment during the winter. From doing 70 plus meetings last year to probably less 35 this year is there any wonder why young riders give up.