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That’s a special signing! I’ll have to make a trip to Owlerton now. What average will he come in on?

The second option makes a stronger team than the alleged one.

NL AGM is Nov 26th.

Plymouth’s application to join the Championship has been declined.

The rumoured team is going to be correct isn’t it. Not a play-off team imo.

Buxton themselves haven’t made noises about rejoining the league, but you would’ve thought now is as good of a chance as any with Sheffield moving away from Sunday’s coinciding with Stoke closing. There’s opportunities for fans there to make Buxton their summer speedway fix before finding an alternative. But I still don’t see it, I think the repeated loss making and unjust criticism has taken its toll on the Moss family.

My original comment was based on the rumoured line-up. This season has ended. There’s no more meetings at all let alone Scunthorpe meetings.

The NL AGM might be sooner than you think this year.

Yes in terms of entertainment Ayres and Auty are top notch. I meant in terms of results and preseason optimism.

Yeah Auty will drop down to number 5 quickly but I expected Allen to push on properly this year and cement the number 1 spot but he didn’t manage it. Signing Danny was a big winner last year but he’ll be coming off the back of a fairly serious injury and won’t have the confidence boosting NL heat wins. And he really is a confidence rider! Lambert has never really got any better than a 4/5pt man so I just can’t see next year being any different despite his strong end to the season at reserve. I feel like Palin is 1 year too early which Rob has done multiple times lately. Riders like Williamson, List, Bates, Perks & Bailey originally all spring to mind who are talented but made the step up maybe a season too soon. As for Aarnio & Jorgensen, they’re effectively the new names without being new! Both useful riders on their day but neither likely to up their average much and Jorgensen had a pretty poor season at Newcastle so I hope a move back to the EWR will help him out. Aarnio has improved since his last Scorpions stint but is injury prone.

Nothing there to inspire the home faithful unfortunately.

Give him a break. His press releases are more honest than most clubs’.

Are they just rumours being recycled though seeing as there’s an empty stadium sitting there and there was genuine plans to try and get the club back in the NL this season? Or is there something substantial to this talk?

Glad I didn’t go. That would’ve spoilt it for me.

I know what you’re thinking of but I think it’s whether the meeting is set at amateur or professional level. The incident you’re referring to was a couple of years ago. But Stevie Worrall rode at Smallbrook this season in the NICE Challenge and that was an open international event.

Hope so. Gives meaningful fixtures and allows Len his weekly meetings.

I’m not surprised that Kent are applying to move up. Their an ambitious set up with a very good stadium and relatively big crowds. Their only problem might be finding international riders willing to ride that early on a Monday with the M25 to contend with too. Then cue the complaints about a blue groove track.

Substantiated rumours tonight that Kent will join the top flight. There’s going to be no team s left at this rate

Anyone got an update on Jack Smith?

So Tom Perry can manage to guest for Peterborough today, so why isn’t he in this meeting? I still think Perls is favourite but it’s not that clear cut but Kinsley & Kemp are going to be there or thereabouts. Best of luck to Morley and Verge and of course Ben is a double winner so you cannot write him off!

Congrats to Leicester on the title win.

Wallinger has put on fb that he was asked to do the NLRC and said yes but last night (!) was told that he was no longer needed.

Questions do need to be asked about why was he asked? I do not believe that every single employed NL rider was asked before him. But also questions need to be asked of Wallinger as to why he thinks he can morally take the spot when he’s unemployed and been sacked more than once this season yet there other riders with teams who are not involved.

He doesn’t have a club so he shouldn’t be in regardless of his average. But his 2019 average is 4.32 and that’s lower than Ledwith, Marson, Brooks, Priest, Spooner, Harris, Bailey, Andrews, Campos, Terry-Daley, Embleton, you get the picture...

Why are Hume, Stoneman & Wilson out? Wallinger hahahah he doesn’t even have a club!