Daniel Smith

Especially after a big dinner, proper ripe

People look at averages too simplistically. Look at the team Basso was in last season, competition within his own team wasn't of high calibre. If the team is to have Pedersen / Iversen, Tungate / Worrall & / or Holder, the standard is much greater to compete with. Then there's the opposition where other teams have also improved their quality too. I think Basso will very much struggle to maintain his near 7 average

The rule for this is very different. Foreign rider's can never dip below 4.00 at all times. The 2.5% & 25% is / should be for team building only & rolling averages determining team position. I don't think it's a complicated system

Made me chuckle my apologies "show a meeting every week or sometimes 2 meetings over 14 days"

No thanks. The World Cup should be the best available rider's a country can offer. Scrap all ideas of forcing the including youth.

Simply because it's his average. The advantage to Brennan & Belle Vue is already given with ¼ off his average. Without that advantage Belle Vue wouldn't have been able to put that team together or Brennan would have missed out completely. With that reduction, starting at reserve is also a 2nd advantage with a rider that is clearly at 2nd string level comfortably.

I actually agree, hence I'd placed him in the top 5, but apparently Mark Lemon confirmed Brennan will be starting at reserve. The 25% should be team building only.

Irrelevant, similarly to season tickets the majority of that money is spend by March 1st

Brennan is at reserve. In terms of rolling averages, it's the same as everyone else. After the first 2023 greensheets Brennan will likely move in to the top 5

Clubs can't cover their upfront costs at £20 month. This is the reason season tickets are still options & it's not for the fans benefit. The way Speedway fixtures work, offering a monthly subscription can plunge clubs into serious trouble quite quickly when working on tight budgets. IF '500' bought the subscription & the club had to cover costs, say, 2 home 3 away that month. They would normally have gotten £22,000. Under the scheme they'd receive just £10,000 to cover immediate costs of that month. In short term business, that £12,000 loss could be in surviving or closing. 2 months of similar fixtures that's £24,000 missed. Call-offs after a meetings started would add to issues if the meeting result limit isn't reached. While a good idea in principle, it would be financial suicide to clubs.

First time in a few years the Aussie Title has no Live feed we get a line-up worth subscribing to

Still a reasonable team without him though. Both Holder's, Fricke & Lidsey

Why Basso? Buster fall out with him too?

IF it's true regarding Emil I should imagine the VISA will be a hugely challenging to process

And now the Danish International Team manager

Cycle Speedway killed these teams as they offered bigger, faster tracks & entertainment

Due to mental illness he's become hugely unreliable. Easily still a 6-7 pointer witht the roght mindset, but you just don't know when he'll turn up.

Very as you'd potentially miss 12 live meetings as you'd already be at King's Lynn the same night, unless you intend on not going to Lynn when the meeting is online?? Either way, a Thurday night fan signing up to a season ticket is throwing money away. Monday night track fans have a huge advantage. Similarly, a Monday night track fan would be nuts to pay for Discovery just for Speedway.

If you're a fan of a Thursday night track, you'd be nuts to sign up the season

Like you say, it's about opinion & I don't believe it's anywhere near Sheffield. For me, NKI & Holder are done & Tungate has pretty much flopped in the UK. Peterborough will require a couple of changes later in the season to challenge imo

For me, that team looks horrid.

Absolutely, I used to do the same through my contact to Jonathan Chapman, I always shared everything. Things did literally change by the hour. Sometimes you look stupid, the next you look a genius Just how it goes but it would generally be 90% as said. There's been some on the KL thread this year chucking the team up weeks before the announcement. Nothing (with technology today) can be kept a secret no matter how hard you try. Rider's, promoter's, manager's talk, & someone always knows someone connected.

Holder, Batchelor & Lyon combination didn't end well the last time it was together

It still is. All Brits get 2.5%. All Brits graduating from the 'Rising Star' position gets 25%

100% Lynn's season really is dependent on 1 rider. He's anywhere between a 9 or 5 average, that's massive for the season. As for the 5 figure sum, I wouldn't be too concerned as that could just be £200.01