Bagpuss

Same in 2022. One hopes it will be in 2023 too!

Ambition TV money Fed up with 60+ home wins Getting the best riders possible racing there Exposure for sponsors Not saying everything in the Prem garden is rosy but is it 'failing' any more than the second tier?

Billy Sanders' nephew apparently, he lasted three meetings at the start of 2010. Awful.

I raise you Ricky Wallace.

Quite possible that I'm remembering racing better than actually occurred but at the time Loram and Henka were two of the most exciting riders in the league/ world and the track was prepared with proper shale so I'd imagine it was pretty good, and of course fuller terraces and close meetings meant better atmospheres. Would agree about the panto villains too.

Was gonna say, lots of trying to choose which heat leader to release but maybe more than one of them might have something else lined up.

Peterborough I think?

Quite a difference in age and experience between Hume and Rowe so you'd expect Hume to be ahead, however Rowe is a conundrum, he's done quite well in Poland but can't seem to do anything in the UK after a great debut season for Somerset and doesn't seem able to settle anywhere. The ability is there, maybe its a lack of belief. Hopefully he can find the right club over here and establish himself.

As good as winning trophies in the noughties was I preferred the eighties and nineties when we weren't very good but the racing was often immense. Remember last heat deciders most weeks with Loram and Gustafsson trying to save the meeting in heat 15 when neither could gate for toffee, would love things to be like that again. So personally I'd say racing over winning.

I absolutely think he can improve on 4.59, he'd got into a rut at Lynn for whatever reason and he should be able to put a point on that riding elsewhere, as his Sheffield scores would suggest.

The track early and late in the season was very good this year, the LC meetings in April when Pickering was on fire and then the Belle Vue and Leicester/Poole matches at the end were entertaining. It's the summer months when there is too much shale and its well watered and grippy that its follow the leader....I've heard that all the businesses on the industrial estate behind the stadium get the hump in the summer when their premises get covered in dust so perhaps that's why, but if it was prepared less grippy through the whole season it'd be one if the best tracks in the country.

That's if it is gate n go.......prep might change if ownership of promotion does.

No team would or should.

Holder is way past his best, think he would do well to average 8 over here nowadays personally.

It depends with Josh how badly he wants a midweek track and how much money he might be offered to ride elsewhere.

Piotr rode for Wolves? Must have been Shamek.

Whereas I'd say that if he's chosen to have a second child he wants his head tested

It's the way in American football is it not? Anyway I agree, don't think it's a draft.

I think the idea of Lynn's rumoured side is to emulate P'boro's class of 2021 with six riders who could all be number one or ride at reserve, think that was the idea last season but for various reasons it didn't work out. If KK had been signed as say third heat leader in a top heavy side with weak reserves that's a different ball game but in a rock solid side I think he'll be fine. We shall see!

I'm not sure anyone thinks it's a 'good idea'..... @PhilTheAce summed it up perfectly when he said its a gamble but one probably worth taking.

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Jakobsen starts at reserve. MPT and Jorgensen to complete the top five if you believe the rumours.

Maybe, maybe not. Klindt will have a good season I reckon given the chance to settle in properly. Need Pickering to kick on, reckon he's got it in him. Other than Doyle, Bewley and perhaps Fricke there's nothing to be scared of in heats 13 & 15 anywhere.

Personally I prefer a solid team to a top heavy one. Like any line up you need riders to improve or get back to what they once were of course.

Pretty sure he knows very well, it's the snideness of the posts which is the worst thing.