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And with an horrendous attitude. You keep banging on and on and on about Auty but I believe his CL average is too high to replace either of our injured riders.

He would do a great job if he fits but I was under the impression his average is too high

So realistically we are looking at Josh Pickering, Ben Morley or Emil Grondal from the Championship without going down the route of youngsters who would be out of their depth or down roads we've been before ie Simon Lambert and Carl Wilkinson to replace Kasper. Very little around with which to replace Lewis unfortunately, looks like R/R could be the best bet for the time being. On top of that lets hope Proctor's withdrawal at Berwick last night was nothing too serious.

What's the conversion from CL to PL?

If we are looking at both sides of the argument then one could say that there wouldn't be rumours if it wasn't for Chinese Whispers on internet forums.....in the case of Iversen last week the fact that MPT had already been declared as absent and NKI not mentioned should have been enough to confirm his presence whatever the tittle tattle was doing the rounds. Football clubs don't comment on speculation in what is a far more professional sport and speedway clubs shouldn't need to quash rumours every five minutes either. That said I accept that the club could communicate more and that a short statement could have nipped it all in the bud but they shouldn't always have to do that.

Great final.

As dull as Hancock is I can understand his inclusion, however there are at least two Danes who could/should have been picked ahead of Pedersen.

Mr Ped didn't qualify.

Agreed but he is still a shadow of his former self. Can't stand the bloke or the way he rides but he is a multi world champion and that ought to be the memory we all have of him (as well as knocking people off).

Much better from Cook.

Cook just looks completely devoid of any confidence or self belief. Really sad to see as if he was on the top of his game he would at least be mixing it and picking up some points. Pedersen should retire gracefully from the GP's, not up to it on a regular basis any more.

All depends on whether other dates can be found really. The crowds will inevitably be significantly down, can tracks afford the financial hit?

Despite all that baloney I'm sure he went where the money was best.

Whoops.

lucifer Sam is a speedway administrator so I'd put my mortgage on him being right.

Me too. Would be a very welcome gesture of good will to offer people with tickets free admission.

I would put money on all the original Danes (and Lambert's Danish contract) being signed when the FRN was still going to be Thursday.

There was a meeting in the late nineties against Ipswich which didn't finish until nearly midnight IIRC!

My point is quite simple, some are saying Buster should have called it off when only the ref has that power.

Was going to say surely the referee is the only one who can abandon a meeting?

Best wishes to Lewis and Kasper. One of those nights that speedway throws up occasionally, can understand the frustration of people who were there but don't really see what else could have been done. Star Lady sums it up best I would say, nobody thought it would all take so long.

He's the latest in a long line of chairmen who have failed, don't think it matters who is in charge when so many others contribute to the pool of ideas and get to vote on them.

With NKI back to something like his best and Proctor at reserve this ought to be a comfy home win, would be nice if Kasper could get amongst the points too.

Well bugger me......

No self righteous step here (the irony ) just providing a bit of balance to the thread. The club have released a press release naming him in the team, until such a time that we are told differently then there have been no lies or hoodwinking or anything similar. If he doesn't ride then they will deserve everything they get on this forum and beyond.