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Interesting to read about incidents years later. But I think it's safe to say Plymouth were wrong to drop Paul Starke for Nicki Glanz lol!

Dan's away ave was 4.37 (5.02) Jack's was 4.69 (5.24) Drew's was 5.20 (6.20)

Too busy trying to make out how unsafe Norra racing is to care about Scunny! Poole are fortunate to have plenty of options, Kemp, D.Thompson & Rowe look the best options. Bad news for Thomas who's had a few injuries sadly!

I agree with most of what you've said except Drew not kicking on in the last couple of seasons, as he's just put nearly 2 points in his Champ ave (which is the highest it's ever been).

Not even their second strings / top reserve? Any two from Kasprzak, Palm Toft, Jorgensen or Pickering?

Still don't understand the many anti Richie Worrall comments, especially ones like "if he doesn't perform could see himself dropped" wouldn't that be the case for every rider in the league? Anyway compare Worrall as a number 4 against other teams: Belle Vue - close to their 3rd heat leader Wright (stronger in the Champ) & far stronger than second strings Blodorn & Brennan. Ipswich - 0.3 below HL King (stronger in Champ) stronger than Riss. King's Lynn - on a par with Jorgensen / Pickering Leicester - weaker than Morris Sheffield - harder to compare as Bellego has missed Britain, but stronger than Howarth (similar in Champ though) Wolves - on a par with Douglas & S.Worrall So on the whole, don't understand why many were unhappy with the Worrall signing!

I agree completely, each team has a positive side to it imo

Jason Doyle 10.0 Dan Bewley 9.3 Nicki Pedersen 9.0 Emil Sayfutdinov 8.9 Max Fricke 8.4 Tobiasz Musielak 8.2 Brady Kurtz 8.1 Jack Holder 8.0 Sam Masters 7.9 Krzystof Kasprzak 7.8

My first thought: they mention Morris being the decision maker in terms of rulebook interpretation - it's a shame they realise the rulebook can be interpreted many ways & have to hire someone to make sense of it! Ideally you'd want a rulebook that can only be interpreted in one way? At least they mention he's in charge of making the rulebook simple & easy to follow. That should be a priority!

The one match you wouldn't want your top rider to miss tbh. At least with less fixtures in both leagues, fixture clashes are not likely.

Your logic is valid though, Redcar must have rated Shanes as stronger or they would have picked Bailey to start with. Bailey has more potential, will he find it at Redcar?

Similar standard of rider imo. One thing about Bailey is he was far stronger at home 6.31 (7.56) than he was away 3.53 (3.65). If he can learn to ride Redcar like he does Glasgow, it's a good signing!

I agree Plymouth look weaker at reserve (although Trigger may be ok at home). But expect plenty of bonus points due to big home wins. Plus their strong top end will stop big defeats away.

Can make my predictions now as no matter who Birmingham sign I'll have them down for last place. 1st Plymouth 2nd - 6th Redcar, Glasgow, Scunthorpe, Poole & Edinburgh 7th Berwick 8th Oxford 9th Birmingham I've lumped 2nd to 6th together as it makes no difference where the play-offs teams finish outside of 1st.

Depends how "deep" you look for "strength in depth" if you go to second strings Berwick have a strong top 5, whereas Oxford only have a strong top 3!

There's lots of strong looking teams & no team that I think will be well adrift, think we're in for a competitive season. Think Leicester will miss out on the top 4 though

Not sure why you're surprised Pauldoveyspeedway the majority have Wolves bottom!

Not necessarily, any loss I'm heats 13+15 can be countered in heats 12+14. That being said I think Lynn look solid from 1-6, so will have 2 good riders in every heat not involving their "RS" The team is built very similar to Peterborough's title winning team, so I expect them to do well.

As it happens often, Ipswich should have realised & posted the news the minute it happened. Probably the only way to stop Poland announcing the news early!

I've never understood that saying, I'd want my team to win every match in every competition. It'll be the same 14 riders as racing in the league match, so should be just as entertaining!

Janusz Kolodziej has to be the most "deserving" rider not to be in the GPs. 2nd in the European Championship (behind world number 2 Madsen) & near the top of the Extraliga averages. I can only assume his age & nationality went against him! Isn't that discrimination?

I disagree, some (like me) would prefer to see the top 15/16 riders in the world regardless it nationality/age etc.

The problem with that is a rider could be knocked off & injured in his last ride (finishes 8th) and the guy who knocked him off (finishing 9th) gets his semi-final spot!

If those 3 or 4 teams are very close together then the teams could be battling relegation & chasing play-off qualification at the same time!

If the choice is between Heeps & Hume (my pick) for their last rider, would anyone look at Dillon Ruml or Broc Nicol instead?