Arch Stanton

So no traditional AGM this year, all rules have already been agreed, and it’s a 39 points limit for 6 riders plus A rising star. 6 team Premiership remains although “extra competitions” have been added to increase fixtures.

Do you know when this AGM is Neil? It’s either a closely guarded secret this year or they haven’t arranged a date yet!

That’s an obvious downside, but their owners are very ambitious and I wouldn’t be surprised if they decide to give it a crack.

Jungle drums have Musielek joining Glasgow, in the Premiership..

Great to see Oxford back whichever league they choose to run.

So were Danny King and Charles Wright in recent years, also “decent” riders. Being British champion doesn’t necessarily elevate you to anything more than that.

Would be interesting to know if one of those is King. If it is, then Poole will remain second tier as I just can’t see King leaving Ipswich.

Anyone know the date for the AGM?

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I’d love to see Jakub Miskowiak in the side, maybe uncle Robert could have a word. Probably very very difficult mind.

Too adventurous for us, we’ll go for the tired lazy names. Wouldn’t be at all surprised if they’ve never even heard of those names either.

Sorry, maybe I’m being particularly dense here, but none of that makes any sense to me whatsoever.

Why is it a “strong possibility”? You’ve included Hansen in most if not all of your predicted line ups, have I missed something?

Need to keep Chris Louis as the regular pundit as well by the way. Far better than anyone else.

In a league of its own it has to be said.

Terrific racing

Mondays and Thursdays it is then.

Same with Ipswich.

It was a 5-1 you got that bit right

Doyle an interesting shout. Always been loyal to British Speedway in the past, wonder if he could be tempted back to UK? More complicated these days though with Polish restrictions and travelling complications amongst other things so probably doubtful.

For some reason I had it in my mind that Klindt was replaced late on by Crump but he was replaced by Jake Allen so that emphasises my point even more! Klindt was the number 1 in that team in terms of stature and point scoring potential regardless what number he’d have started with. Klindt is like sh!t off a shovel at Foxhall that’s why a lot of us wanted him in the side. Those narrow home defeats would have been home victories with him in the side no doubt in my mind.

Yes, but that was last year, not this. Edit: It was actually the 2019 season, not the season that never was last year.

To be fair, the team building included Klindt (an Ipswich track specialist) at 1 until he dropped out on the eve of the season. We lost numerous meetings by only a handful of points, especially at home, when Crump or a guest scored only a few points. That makes all the difference in the world. Of course we’ll never fully know 100%, but if we’d had Klindt at 1 as originally planned, we’d almost certainly have far more points on the board than we currently have. I also accept the point about Panthers doing brilliantly without a recognised number 1. But it’s pretty much a rare occurrence that this happens. Look at all the league winners over the years, and 99% of them have had good solid number 1’s.