Bagpuss

He'll get Prem offers throughout the season I'm sure, his resolve will be tested.

It's an improvement because Cook has passed his peak now for whatever reason and I'd suggest he'll struggle to reach the heights he has before again.

ie Southampton Saints developed Lallana, VvD, Clyne, Lovren, Mane etc and Liverpool bought them, that's the football food chain unfortunately.

Nicholls going to be busy

Now THAT would be funny.

Trouble is all the young talent gets hoovered up by Poland nowadays and I'd suggest both them and their Polish clubs are reluctant for them to be flying in and out of the UK and risking injury on our more technical tracks. Those riders you mention are obviously well past their best but will increase the quality of our league a bit and hopefully cut out some of the (out of hand) doubling up.

Which league is he dropping to come back to the UK?

That's the word on the street.

The point is speedway is struggling to get people through the door for many reasons, putting the price up ought to be the last thing they do. I appreciate costs are rising for clubs but just sticking the price up and hope people keep coming is poor. About time they thought out of the box, or better still explore all the space inside the box they haven't yet bothered to use!

Is that really the road we want to be going down though?

Three of those highly unlikely to ride over here I'd say and the other will only be at BV if he does. Maybe Ippo is the Prem club Rew has signed for? Difference is plenty of people will buy Malteasers at one or two pounds regardless, speedway doesn't have that luxury. Perhaps they think only the die hards are left and they would pay whatever was charged!

It suited all parties so don't really get the bickering tbh.

Jason Edwards did last year.

Yep aware of that, 'old' was part of my turn of phrase rather than meaning 'ageing'

I think how much better and professional it makes a speedway meeting/broadcast look outweighs those. Should have been compulsory long before now for all Prem & Champs teams to wear them.

Wolves.

Woooooooosssshhhhhhhhh

He obviously missed it and decided he packed in too early, or perhaps his family didn't settle down under. In any event he isn't the first rider and won't be the last to make a post retirement comeback.

Hmmmm Jorgensen on a fat old average and two weak looking reserves. And I thought Skidder said Rory was only doing a couple of meetings in Oz, d'oh

Seems its Worrall to Leicester, MPT to Lynn and Basso staying at P'boro.

And all the excitement hes brought to Glasgow, in return for a rider Glasgow didn't use. Everyone's a winner really.

Presumably Prem averages were taken into account too.

And no point keeping a rider who wants to be elsewhere. The Basso/Lawson swap is one of them that suited all four parties.

You are right but I would say its time for Tom to kick on further, he is good enough to not need RS protection. Publication of the list would be nice.