Bagpuss

People getting carried away with the Mr Ped signing. He might yet prove to be a turkey.

Assuming a ‘number one’ can’t be persuaded then I expect that to be the case. Would certainly look stronger than what they finished last year with but will be reliant on the reserves scoring big every week.

Good signing on that average.

Racer X?

Absolutely, he is highly unlikely to get to their level but as tellboy says you can’t build a team full of superstars. Half decent riders are equally important.

Not really, he could quite easily win something with Redcar this year and with Lynn in the future as a number seven. You should try posting something positive for a change, would do you the world of good I’m sure.

I think Kasper will turn out to be a half decent rider, he just couldn’t ride our mega grippy track.

My guess would be that they have the majority of the team sorted but are trying to persuade somebody (Iversen/Bjerre?) to spearhead the side. Hence being unable to announce others. As for 90 minute meetings, count me in. That’s plenty and I wish Lynn meetings were that prompt.

I’m no Poole speedway lover but to be fair to them their job is to build as strong a side as they can within the points limit and rules and regs ( ) and if there is nothing to say they have to have X number of young Brits in their side then they are not obliged to do so. Also it’s their first season at this level so they probably deserve a little slack although I do acknowledge that generally they have done two fifths of very little in recent years towards youth development.

With all due respect to Doolan he is well past his best and isn’t even riding Championship speedway this year, not sure he is the way forward for anybody in the Premiership. Ayres is a very good gater and should do a decent job at the Foxhole.

It really should be five considering his World U21 performances.

We could do a lot worse.

Cook it is.

Looks very much like Cook to me. As for the Shroeck comments, from what I’ve seen they are without context so probably don’t even relate to the seventh rider.

I think Robert’s two big crashes really hampered him last year and knocked the stuffing out of him especially in the World U21. But I think he has shown in Sweden and the U21 WTC that he isn’t far off the top young Poles, they are far superior in their own country but I think that’s to be expected with the financial support (ie fast bikes) they have plus the format in the Extraliga. Will he interesting to see where Robert is at in five years time compared to Drabik, Smektala and Kubera.

Indeed, there isn’t anything revolutionary in that statement.

A lot of hopes are being pinned on the promise of a slicker surface, I really hope they stick to their word on that. Would love to see Buster widen the track too but would have thought that’s unlikely. Most importantly let’s hope there is no price rise for 2020.

Agent Lambert is doing a fantastic job and needs to stay right where he is semmers.

And to you taps

To be fair it’s a good job you guys don’t need to use your toes to count as the webs in between them must make it difficult

Nicholls at reserve is a no brainer.

Reserves.

I’m not convinced our top league is trying to be anything it’s not. The main trouble it has is only tracking seven clubs but I think everyone is well aware how far down the pecking order the UK is nowadays.

Give us some examples then, apart from the names already mentioned on the thread I can’t think of any who fit your description. By the way Kvech would be a fantastic signing.

My take on it is that you get more publicity with seven separate press releases rather than one big one. The pros and cons are for others to bicker about but that’s why they do it.