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Why are Kent using R/R in a challenge?!

Does Spiller have any plans to race in England again?

Yeah it's always been there. Just they ignored it for Hall. The rules said Hall was eligible for Birmingham but that's another story.

Are the reserves 17 Bates & 18 Ellis?

I can believe it was deaf ears. 1.4! That's more than I remembered tbh. It's a massive difference in speedway terms. It's Championship average x 2 or current NL average from 2012 onwards, whichever is higher.

He did. It should never have happened in the first place and how no other clubs complained for it to be officially picked up on is strange. Or they did and it fell on deaf ears. But now every other club should be allowed to build their team an extra 0.2 more (or whatever the difference in Roynon's figures are).

Is it referring to Holder in heat 13 then because he rode in heat 11?

Holder's been given a 28 day ban. What did he even do? It's Batchelor who walked out.

No wonder he was fast haha.

Thanks for the information. How Birmingham knew they needed someone when Roberts only got hurt last week is beyond me. That's crazy if the SCB wouldn't let him swap though as Whitmore has been representing MFT for well over a month now.

Whitmore for Birmingham and Dicken for Mildenhall?? They're the wrong way round if this is team speedway! Guests are bad enough but necessary but when riders have been part of the team and are now racing against that team! Anyway I thought Whitmore was covering for Woods anyway so I thought Mildenhall had booked him until he was fit.

Doubling-up, from the NL's point of view, has got worse this season with the reduced 2pt limit in the PL. There's more NL riders in the 2nd tier, which benefits the riders, but makes clashes harder to avoid. But particularly that means that more NL riders have to step up during the season (Kent have had 2) but the fixtures have already been planned then so clashes are unfortunately inevitable.

It's upto the clubs if they want to enter or not.

Their KOC semi & final pponents will be though.

Sunday evening?

The meetings should all be together, preferably at the start of the season. The South West group teams managed this, so I don't see why the South East group teams haven't tbh. Plymouth could've had a summer final with a strong crowd, but instead they're waiting to find out their opponent.

A KOC quarter-final on September 22nd. How ridiculously late! That leaves 5 weeks for the semis and final (and a possible replay) as well as the play-offs being then. Not to mention more finals in the freezing cold with the potential for rain-offs.

I agree that it's been a bit fast for him but that didn't necessarily cause his injury. Less than a year ago he didn't have any team place and then he's found himself in 2 leagues! Yep, multiple changes have to slot under the 39 limit.

Doesnt this show how the system is flawed, of benefitting under performing riders. The rider at the top of the list has been dropped!

6 weeks according to Kent, but the injury makes it sound like he'll be out for a longer time than that.

Eagles have finally found their number 6 superstar haha.

Eastbourne, BV and Mildenhall look like the top 3 sides imo. Lakeside are probably the fourth best team but they're running out of away fixtures to pick up points. Birmingham with Hampshire could nick something.

The rule was brought in after Wilson-Dean that you need a British passport to ride NL. Marson has one of these even though he's just come over from Australia.

Yeah Priest is the stand out option and started the season on an 8 point average, so is hardly shabby! Options are limited but there's options.

I didn't realise that but the point still stands as Knight is one of the league's top performers this season.