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I hope enough riders do refuse to agree to Poland's demands, but don't see it happening tbh.

1 other league restrictions, are for the Extraliga (1&2) riders could double up & race in the 3rd tier in Poland.

I'll argue he's better than that, got a 3.94 average from number 6, but agree there must be better guest options out there. Eddie Kennett perhaps? From a financial point of view, a heavy away loss means less points money to pay out & it won't hurt their next home crowd, as there's only Charges meetings left. Not saying i'd agree with that tactic (if that was the plan), but could understand it.

Pleased for Northampton to get another win tonight

Ref got that decision wrong with Etheridge & Cook

That makes no sense, if Riss didn't want to ride for Oxford, he simply wouldn't have said yes to a return.

I don't think it's crazy, Poland will do what suits them best. It's up to the riders to say no, if they feel they won't get enough racing doing Prem, U24 & having the occasional Extrakiga ride.

I'm enjoying tonight's match. Graphics are good & help keep up with the top 2/6.

You could say the same for multiple wild cards, every season. I'm more likely to support an Aussie (or Yank) getting a wild card at a Polish round as they have so many.

That's surprising since Workington have very few matches left (3).

Totally agree

Some riders will have to think hard about Poland next season. For example if Brennan doesn't get picked in the team at Bydgoszcz, he'd only have Premiership racing to keep him busy. I believe he'd get paid well to sit in the pits as the number 8/16 (if he's still young enough), but is that best for his career? Maybe more riders will chose the Polish 3rd tier, or pick SWE & DEN along with GB? Not an issue for the top riders, who'll know they are in the team each week.

Guessing Poole had a different team manager tonight? Rushen being taken out of a ride for an in-form reserve.

While I agree the Lynn team doesn't fit the Young or Development moniker, as long as they are giving developing riders more National League outings than Belle Vue, Sheffield, Ipswich, Northampton, Poole, Glasgow, Scunthorpe, Berwick, Plymouth & Workington, then I refuse to criticise them!

Where did you see that? I've not seen it anywhere?

In normal circumstances, they'd revert back to a previous declaration of a new signing got injured before debuting. Even though Kennett was only a temp replacement, should be allowed to revert back to him. I'd guess Oxford would only be allowed a "75% guest" (5.67) so not greatly higher than Kennett's average.

I think Riss needs to give up on British Speedway. Potentially race in countries that have squad systems & individual meetings? Or treat Speedway like a hobby, when he's feeling well enough to do it? If it is the end of his career, as sad as it is, there have been riders with far worse endings. He may even be able to stay in the sport, working off track?

While the ideal situation would be signing a rider who can score how you've described, Howarth's replacement wouldn't need to be as good as that, or as good as Howarth, just better than a guest on an average of 6.22 or below. For example Antti Vuolas? If Glasgow were allowed an 8 point guest for Howarth for the rest of the season, I probably wouldn't have looked for a replacement.

I believe they only get a guest up to his average for 28 days, then it's a "75% guest".

Agree with your points, although with no asset system, he could leave for another team next year. Hard to plan long term investments these days, before considering the points limit or all the best riders going to Poland.

Conspiracy theory! Maybe Oxford knew that Kennett wasn't giving his all for them, so waited for Poole to sign a replacement before bringing Riss back? Their way of not letting Kennett take advantage of them?

I'm pretty sure they won't get an extra 5% at home, as its a "no facility" guest. Also r/r isn't allowed for a "no facilty" situation, has to be a guest. Not sure why that's the case, I see no reason why they can't use r/r for 75% of the missing riders average?

If they like the rule, they'll just change it so the top 9 (or 8 if no Workington) riders get split up, one per team. I'm pretty sure 8.00 was chosen as there were 9 riders above 8. Next year could be, each team picks a number one from this list: Pickering 10.39 Lawson 9.25 Wright 9.11 Masters 9.01 Klindt 8.81 Thompson 8.72 Jeppesen 8.45 Cook 8.39 Harris 8.29 Then if Klindt & Cook don't want to race in the Champ, add Howarth (if he comes back),Nicholls & Kildemand to the list, if Nicholls retires, then Flint is next in line. Could make the rule, no-one can sign a second heat leader, till every team has a number one?

Look at the amount of complaints that were made when Belle Vue signed Robert Lambert after the cut-off date, due to Max Fricke's injury. Maybe a 7 day grace period could be allowed for injuries / retirements after 75% of fixtures are completed, in this case Glasgow would get an extra few days to replace Hausl, but have had long enough to replace Howarth.

I'd be more worried about weakening the reserve berths. Maybe look for new 8 & 4 point riders. Not easy to find anyone at this stage of the season though.