Bagpuss

Hallelujah! About time.

Surely until everything is finalised nothing will be said? And I expect it all takes longer than people think.

Quite, but if Lynn had kept their 1-7 from last season then MPT wouldn't be joining! If it was a straight choice between the two then going by their averages I think Lynn have chosen the right one.

Which makes it nothing more than a pre season challenge unfortunately. Rew, Dan T and Ablitt completing Poole then presumably.

Is he?

Not sure on the points but I'd have been happy to keep those two also if possible, although in mitigation I'd say Worrall was a bit disappointing when not at reserve and Lawson's average is a bit too high at 7.71. Very happy to have MPT back but Kasprzak is obviously a massive risk. The key to the team for 2023 is obviously Jakobsen, big things are expected and in theory there should always be a very good reserve, although that was the idea last year. But others will have to improve their averages too. 1-5 needs to be rock solid every week.

Always makes a difference when a rider races a track weekly rather than occasionally, Lawson is good enough and experienced enough to adapt to anywhere as a home rider. Essentially Lynn's side looks like MPT & KK for Lawson & Worrall, will need someone to step up and replace Richard's scoring.....Pickering you would think is that man.

Good luck to him, he has been excellent for us over the last two seasons, especially 2021 when we were awful and he scored well regardless. Think on 7.71 he would have been a gamble with a few decent riders returning to the UK for 2023 but we may end up regretting his absence, who knows.

Awesome

Same in 2022. One hopes it will be in 2023 too!

Ambition TV money Fed up with 60+ home wins Getting the best riders possible racing there Exposure for sponsors Not saying everything in the Prem garden is rosy but is it 'failing' any more than the second tier?

Billy Sanders' nephew apparently, he lasted three meetings at the start of 2010. Awful.

I raise you Ricky Wallace.

Quite possible that I'm remembering racing better than actually occurred but at the time Loram and Henka were two of the most exciting riders in the league/ world and the track was prepared with proper shale so I'd imagine it was pretty good, and of course fuller terraces and close meetings meant better atmospheres. Would agree about the panto villains too.

Was gonna say, lots of trying to choose which heat leader to release but maybe more than one of them might have something else lined up.

Peterborough I think?

Quite a difference in age and experience between Hume and Rowe so you'd expect Hume to be ahead, however Rowe is a conundrum, he's done quite well in Poland but can't seem to do anything in the UK after a great debut season for Somerset and doesn't seem able to settle anywhere. The ability is there, maybe its a lack of belief. Hopefully he can find the right club over here and establish himself.

As good as winning trophies in the noughties was I preferred the eighties and nineties when we weren't very good but the racing was often immense. Remember last heat deciders most weeks with Loram and Gustafsson trying to save the meeting in heat 15 when neither could gate for toffee, would love things to be like that again. So personally I'd say racing over winning.

I absolutely think he can improve on 4.59, he'd got into a rut at Lynn for whatever reason and he should be able to put a point on that riding elsewhere, as his Sheffield scores would suggest.

The track early and late in the season was very good this year, the LC meetings in April when Pickering was on fire and then the Belle Vue and Leicester/Poole matches at the end were entertaining. It's the summer months when there is too much shale and its well watered and grippy that its follow the leader....I've heard that all the businesses on the industrial estate behind the stadium get the hump in the summer when their premises get covered in dust so perhaps that's why, but if it was prepared less grippy through the whole season it'd be one if the best tracks in the country.

That's if it is gate n go.......prep might change if ownership of promotion does.

No team would or should.

Holder is way past his best, think he would do well to average 8 over here nowadays personally.

It depends with Josh how badly he wants a midweek track and how much money he might be offered to ride elsewhere.

Piotr rode for Wolves? Must have been Shamek.