Bagpuss

No no no to Auty, never going to improve and not reliable in the slightest even though he will have the odd good meeting and be entertaining. Don't think Gino will ever be world champion but at least there is a chance he will get better. If he was number seven he looks better than anything else named or touted so far.

To be honest I may well leave it as it is now, the reason for changing to GB was that people who haven't met me assumed I was female

Quite possible that his user name has reverted back to its original guise when the forum was revamped as mine did. And it doesn't appear to be possible to change it back!

That table makes a lot of sense, good job.

I'm not convinced people take too much notice of that kind of stuff until names are released, I'm sure we've heard a lot of it before and it's not always come to pass. I do acknowledge however that a little more meat could have been put on the bones. Personally I'm happy to be patient until names are revealed in January, although I appreciate others want to know everything yesterday which I've never quite understood.

I think the winter has shown that in terms of communication the club can't keep everybody happy.......people moaned when nothing was said for ages and now people are moaning because there have been several bits of communication about what is going to happen in January.

No idea, it was a general reply to your general point.

Typical and predictable blinkered speedway fan response. I have no 'seethe' towards Edinburgh, best of luck to them and you. But these types of ringers are damaging speedway.

Best wishes to starman! We all like to get stuck in on this forum and sometimes into each other but at the end of the day we are all people with personalities, with families and unfortunately problems like these occasionally. Sometimes it takes something like this to remember that.

Which would be too low considering his experience and ability. Yet another ringer!

Without fair and proper rules and therefore a level playing field the competition is pretty pointless. And unfortunately that is the situation speedway finds itself in today. Some people can ignore all the political garbage and unfair averages and just enjoy the racing, and I feel a little bit jealous of those people. Some of us just can't and the whole thing is tainted by the ineptitude of the governing body and how some teams seem to be able to find loopholes and ringers year after year. Unfortunately many people of that mindset end up walking away.

He shouldn't come in to the Prem on a 4 anyway!

Case by case basis? Deary me, what a farce. Absolutely nothing against Edinburgh before people start getting defensive but how on earth can a rider who has been a world under 21 finalist and ridden in the Elitserien come in on anything lower than seven? The sport gets more and more shambolic by the day. No idea why there are two different font sizes!

Any of those, although I suspect we will end up with none of them.

I would call that comment a bit derogatory. I would also call posting something negative about him every single time he's mentioned an obsession. We all know you don't like him. We get it.

By all means defend your own circuit (I've seen some great stuff there as well as some absolute dross) but slagging off one of the best tracks in the country makes you look silly.

Seems like the lack of dosh around this year due to no telly deal (who'd have thunk it after years of watering down?) is resulting in few big name number ones. I wonder who we will end up with? Lambert needs to be second heat leader if he returns so somebody higher than him although can't see Buster forking out for a Iversen, Doyle or Lindgren. Somebody like Harris may not be one of the strongest number ones but he'd increase the excitement levels. Whatever happens I hope we go with strong reserves.

Which is understandable considering the product gets worse every year. Inevitable that there will be even less people willing to pay 17 or 18 quid in 2018!

In other words you can't!

I quite like it, perhaps give it a week or two before saying its sh!te? Phil has said it will run slowly initially. People do hate change

Good solid top five, like the Heeps signing and although Thorsell is unproven he looks no worse on paper to me than Morris or Kurtz. Maybe that is the standard of number ones we are going to get this year. Reserves however look weak. Wouldn't be surprised if CVS has an early change up his sleeve like last year, don't see that 1-7 being in place at the business end of the season.

True, but they are two Poles so let's see how committed they are and if their Polish clubs stick their oars in at all. I'm sure you were telling all and sundry this time last year how good Poole were going to be so your comments are best taken with a pinch of salt really.

A bit 'meh' to be honest but difficult to judge until we see some other line ups.

Absolutely SL. There has been lots of warranted criticism of the promotion but the same moans and groans ad nauseam become white noise eventually.

Whatever people think of Batchelor there is a bit of value in his average due to the lack of effort he put in at times last year.