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If they can all come good at the same time it isn't a bad side but it will take a few too long to get going. Not sure anything I said isn't true though. Maybe being harsh on Magic and Wright's ability to come back from that crash but more than happy to be proved wrong!

Jenkins. Always get them mixed up

More than happy too! Sheffield are top heavy with big hitters at home that don’t do enough away. Getting Holder back after the performance in the play off at Ipswich is crazy. Would have kept Tobi personally and built around him. Belle Vue kept a decent core and Bewley needs to get back to his best over here. Mountain leaves them with a poor reserve pairing. Ipswich have strengthened with Ellis for Riss, thomas is a good signing and they could go one better than last year now Rew has had a full season. Kings Lynn will be the dark horses for me. Bags of potential with some experience to boot. leicester are built very much like wolves last year but with a proper no1 in Fricke, will do reasonably well at home but take some hidings away brum…well, we’ll see how they finish Edit-Jenkins at Ipswich, not Thomas!

Personally don't think they'll do well, the type of team that on paper looks great but cracks all over when you look at them individually, Magic, coming off the back of one of his worst season to date...which has been coming for a while. He's a spent force, will do well to get a higher average than C Holder. Harris at 42 can only be going one way as he showed at Peterborough towards the end of last year. Will have the odd great meeting but as always will take 2 months to get the set up right! Klindt, great trapper but coming off a broken neck and notoriously inconsistent before that. Tungate, who knows which one will turn up each week. Wright, horrific crash and injuries last year, will take him too long to get going. Kerr, one of the best reserves in the league with the Poles but will swap with Wright after the first set of averages. Boughen, only his second full season in the sport. Will cause a few upsets along the way but very much a development year for him.

Like clockwork

He just doesn't feel like a Glasgow signing. I hope so, he's a nice guy. But he's only gone one way over the last 4/5 seasons.

Same, on a 4 he's a great signing. Keeping Complin and signing Starke is what will see Glasgow struggle, imo.

He seems to fit the exact profile of a rider the Glasgow promotion sign...especially if there was a choice between him and Starke. Good final piece of the puzzle for Berwick

He's shown he can be unbelievably good or bad but usually in the same meeting. As a non Workington fan it feels a but of a flat signing after the promising additions and a bit of a gamble with him and Cook in the same side fingers crossed it will all work out though

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Leaves them under but surely it’ll be Roynon as the other reserve if there’s c.4 points to play with?

Silly move if you’re off to court! Typical social media age of ‘sorting things’. what ever the circumstances are for all the good he did he’s come across as a right t1t there

Wow! That’s how to build a side from pretty much scratch. Thought someone in the prem would have had a go for him

Paco on the front of the Star tomorrow - surely the next to be announced

Great signing

If it’s Shamek he finished on 6.75 when he was last here with Poole in ‘14. if it’s Piotr I think was around 7.30 in the same year. Edit-Presume you meant Lampart? If so my guess is a 5?

He's a really good signing, the rest of the team just looks a poor use of a higher limit. Getting him at reserve to start with Cook or Brennan dropping there after the first set is great, if you can get riders in to win heats 1,13 &15.Which I don't see happening from the rumours. Pawlicki and Laguta to finish would make the side look a lot different but if it is Zagar and Schlein as expected then it will be a long old season in the midlands

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God I miss those wet, baltic Sundays in Jan. How they managed to get the track to stand up to some of the conditions still baffles me to this day.

Of course he is! New baby and no sleep in a week, I had to do the maths 5 times, didn't even think to check if he was elsewhere!

Would Shamek come in on his last Poole average of 6.75? Looking at the 2024 confirmed thread, they have 22.59 left - if Shamek is 6.75 then Tarasenko 6.94 and Laguta 8.43 could fit with him. Would be one of the strongest in the league but would cost a pretty penny.

Really not the kind of side I’d associate with the new owners. Even with a lower limit Starke and Complin should never be in the same side in 2024. I was expecting a newcomer with plenty of potential on a 4 over Starke.

He did and will put on a decent show and can't knock his effort. But, he hasn't been very trustworthy to see out a full season of late From the reserves announced so far, Joe T is definitely the strongest no7! Piper, James, Hagon, Trigger, Harrison, McGurk he beats 9/10 for me. Then you will have either Bowtell, Gilkes or Dan T at reserve with him. At home they should be very hard to beat and will take some bettering away too. Agree on Rowe - just going off the rumours on here that they are the final three. The way other teams have shaped up so far, I'm not sure where else those two would go

Would see Barker and Rowe in the big heats against Harris&Worrall/ King&Wright/ Nicholls&Masters, Lawson&Brennan or the Cooks. Scary thought, especially away from home

He is but lives in Italy with his Italian wife and young family. He didn''t like travelling before the family came along so I can't see him back now. Would be a great signing on a 7 at Plymouth though. Going with Rowe, Newman and Gilkes as the last 3 with just Barker as a known HL is very risky but would mean 2 strong reserves all year - is that enough to compensate for his 13&15?