Marksman

Yeah that’s correct he is 2.60 with 2.5% reduction. But don’t believe he’ll be riding speedway next season

I don’t see the rush personally, keeps the club relevant during the off season and deals to sign new riders from abroad logistically are more complex than re-signings or British riders

If he does end up there, I'd deffo take Jonatan Grahn at Northside. He's scored 58 points + 8 bp, in just 6 meetings here

Tate announced as moving on for 2027, see to sad him go. If he improves his starts could become a top rider in this league

Ignore any suggestion from Google Gemini, it’s just how their AI is trying to interpret the rule. It’s just generated words and those words are not pulled from the rulebook directly. The actual rule is in the statement, it’s pretty clear too. Inner edge where the white line starts. Hence a part of the wheels have to be touching the track to be safe

Similar thoughts to @Woke23 about the 2027 team. Klindt will be definitely a top target given how dominant he is at Northside, availability/cost a big factor as stated. I quite like Jakobsen too, so wouldn't mind if he was back at reserve. But this team fits quite well if the 40 point limit stays; Klindt 8.81 Rasmus Pedersen 5.00 Zischke 6.52 Batchelor 7.13 Vuolas 6.68 Perry 2.60 Foord 3.24 39.98

They don't count no, play offs, KO Cup and BSN semis/finals are excluded.

The biggest takeaway from this season should be the Home form, or lack of it. Every meeting we did win was far too close for comfort, often behind until the latter stages. Also finished the season with a negative points difference at Home, across all League home meetings which probably hasn't happened before in our modern era. Need to set up the team to win at home in 2027, especially when being realistic, we will probably lose the majority of away meetings no matter who is in the side, if you win all your home meetings and nick one away win, the club would be making the play offs more times than not. One rider I would 100% have back to achieve this is Antti Vuolas, he easily averaged 8.5+ in both 24/25 seasons at home. And if the points limit does drop to 38, he would be a handy signing again on his 6 point something average, even if he does struggle away. His average will be good value in a weaker league

Probably, makes no difference to the crowd. Most people will probably watch the GP's on demand anyways these days. The only time over the last 27 years we've avoided running alongside the GP's was when we had a rider in it. Running up against Workington Reds/Town at 3pm on Saturday/Sunday, is a far bigger issue in the Town IMO.

Well this probably proves that you know nothing outside your Poole bubble as he's already taken 6 rides+ in a meeting 10 times this season across PL + CL. So I would think he would know a thing or 2 about the tyres...

I don’t think you’ve read my post at all there, quite clearly said that this isn’t the case. As proved in 2018, we had a clean sweep, and the crowd levels still didn’t improve. People generally go because they like speedway and it’s a family friendly afternoon out, the number of kids attending has drastically improved from the Derwent park days

The boundary of Bournemouth literally starts 5 miles away from the track so I think it should be pretty relevant, given there's another 200k people living there. If you add the nearby towns to Workington which are further away, you'll be adding 8k (Cockermouth) 24k (Whitehaven) and 10k (Maryport) if you use the whole west coast of Cumbria. I think it's nonsense that it's to suggest Workington have low crowds, crowds are what i'd expect given our catchment area tbh. There was less at Scunthorpe on Friday night than what Workington get. Also success does not equal level of crowds either, you could argue there was less going to Derwent Park when we won the Championship treble in 2018. If Workington get 800 one meeting and Poole get 2000 for example, there is about 1 in 172 people attending Speedway on the South Coast, and 1 in 83 attending in West Cumbria, and that's covering 4 towns.

The boundary of Bournemouth literally starts 5 miles away from the track so I think it should be pretty relevant, given there's another 200k people living there. If you add the nearby towns to Workington which are further away, you'll be adding 8k (Cockermouth) 24k (Whitehaven) and 10k (Maryport) if you use the whole west coast of Cumbria. I think it's nonsense that it's to suggest Workington have low crowds, crowds are what i'd expect given our catchment area tbh. There was less at Scunthorpe on Friday night than what Workington get. Also success does not equal level of crowds either, you could argue there was less going to Derwent Park when we won the Championship treble in 2018. If Workington get 800 one meeting and Poole get 2000 for example, there is about 1 in 172 people attending Speedway on the South Coast, and 1 in 83 attending in West Cumbria, and that's covering 4 towns.

Can read the article here on the demo pages, it is really just what JD said in his interview already. https://reader.exacteditions.com/issues/157512/spread/3 John Campbell did say all the Championship promoters will do all they can to get all 9 teams back to tapes in 2027. A couple of Premiership promotors are still not aligned with the rest of the promotors it seems, no prizes for guessing who they are!

A good meeting somewhat spoiled by the unfortunate injury to Tate. Hopefully we get some good news! I think all the Comets riders dug deep today and put in a better performance then they have lately. Jeppesen seemed to find something later on in the meeting that he's been missing for weeks, looked down on pace in his first 2 rides compared to what he can produce. Drew Kemp is now also finding the fastest line around Northside, and NHJ gave us something we've been lacking at reserve, interesting that he said in his BSN interview that's he's gone away recently and decided to ride a bit more conservatively at times, instead of trying to make every overtake possible and coming off. It showed today, looked miles better.