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I think they look slightly weaker than Redcar and Oxford, on a par with Glasgow and stronger than Plymouth (as all will be I suspect). Hagon the key man for me.

Don't know, don't care to be honest

I think the laughing reactions to that comment say it all. I wouldn't say there is too much to worry about.

I don't think any team will better Brum's bottom four personally. We shall see.

I would suggest Howarth will be come the end of the season, he will be much improved at Scunny after a poor season all round for Plymouth.

Below the belt and unnecessary It's possible to be 'worry about your own team' and comment on others, people are perfectly entitled to comment on any thread or subject they wish. They don't need to be sarcastically called 'experts' either just because they dare criticise your team.

Why would it be an issue out of interest?

Poole don't often get it wrong (and they may not have done this time either) but personally I feel they should have signed Hagon at number seven, gone with Lawson and the two Cooks and then fill the last three places accordingly. Straight away Redcar and Oxford look better on paper and there may be others too. However only a fool would completely write them off.

No idea, but whatever the rights and wrongs that is incredibly cringeworthy and doesn't do anyone any favours.

That's never stopped Poole before

https://britishspeedway.co.uk/miscellaneous/palin-calls-it-a-day/

I can't even recall him riding over here.

Not without changes.

I think they'll be the team to beat personally.

I'd agree with that, they should have the best bottom end apart from perhaps Oxford. They are probably finishing bottom without changes but they look competitive at least.

Agree, and the idea that Vaculik, Kubera or Michelsen will ride here while still in the GP's is fantasy.

Hopefully whoever you are referring to will ignore you up in your ivory tower and carry on the discussion as they see fit

Whatever happened to jenga?

So in other words it'll be an undiscovered wonderkid, a ringer or somebody not ready/any good.

Do we really need another round of sniping on this thread

Foreverblue is quite clearly not anti Brennan, he's just saying that in his opinion Newman and Thompson would have been better than Brennan and an untried sixteen year old, it's a fair point. Personally I think Brennan will flourish but the tail looks a bit dodgy, time will tell.

Not if you didn't buy one

I'd put Basso at 3, Iversen at 4 and Tarasenko at 5.

Absolutely. I've long said that the reason the racing is perceived to be better in tier two is purely down to the circuits. We've now lost Peterborough which was one of the better ones too, although Brum and Oxford are potentially decent. But as you say Redcar, Glasgow, Scunny and Workington are better than anything the top league can offer excluding BV which in my opinion is the best we have in the UK. We can only imagine the top riders who race over here on those best tracks......

There is more to it than averages, the Glasgow reserves have a lot more experience of Championship circuits for example. I take the general point though.