Bagpuss

This is absolutely right and the key point. There aren’t enough meetings to procrastinate over changes.

Really interesting how we all see things. I’ve got Belle Vue down as second behind Swindon with Sheffield bottom. Assuming Ipswich finish off with Holder, Wolves with Masters and Peterborough complete with Bech & Nicholls or Iversen and Ostergaard then my prediction would be: Swindon Belle Vue Ipswich Lynn Wolves Peterborough Sheffield However it’s so difficult to predict a seven team league.

Which two teams are they out of interest?

Well I wasn’t including Swindon but it could be argued that it’s not a small, tight track I guess. You could be right but we all thought that in 2018. I thought Hartel was a second string at the Foxhole? Could be wrong.

In an ideal world I’d want the same but not sure who would fit the bill on that average. Unfortunately while the rules don’t insist on British reserve(s) then teams will build as strong as they can regardless of nationality.

Proctor is obviously the key man. You pretty much know what the other six will do but if he starts the season like a train and has a year like 2018 then this team will reach the Play Offs. We always have a chance because we lose very few hope meetings.

That’s basically how I feel, his signing is a little underwhelming but am happy to give him a chance and not write him off immediately like others inevitably will. People will point to his spell at Ipswich but it was very short and he will need a whole season to show what he can do. One positive is that all bar six of Lynn’s 28 league meetings this year will be on big, fast tracks which should suit him perfectly.

The video looks suspiciously like Härtel in Germany to me.

Pickering, Jeppesen or Kvech would be lovely. Härtel not so.

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.