Hamish McRaker

Thats a nifty team for your home track, should get the punters in. Shame you coudn't have fitted in Danny Ayres as well

Zagar?

Chris Holder?

Places pressure on Perks to do the job of the "senior reserve" now. Is he up to it??

Is Greg Hancock going to resume his riding career?

I bought a pack of frozen Mexican faggots today

Ricky Wells will probably just not be re-engaged by Poole. Jonasson was clearly just in no fit state to ride in the first place, was only a short term signing and so he can slip away, again. But will Poole have the balls to sack their two main failures, or will it be all pals again and everything forgotten? Playoffs are a fact of speedway life and they usually take place on difficult tracks, either doctored or weather-related. If a team decides to include snowflakes in it's team, they're just increasing the probability they will fail as a team at this time of the season.

Hey, leave the Tory party out of this

Nasty case of splinters in his backside caused by sitting on the fence too much. Lying on the beach probably beats the **ck out of riding for peanuts at Sheffield and going through the motions for Peterborough, although swimming in certain parts of the Med you do literally go through other peoples motions.

Kelvin Tatum assisted by Nigel Pearson is the obvious choice

Possible alternative version: "The only reasonable offer made so far, has come from a Mr K.Chapman of Norfolk, so please, please, if anyone has some spare cash and wants to prevent him from buying Sheffield speedway, get a move on otherwise we won't have any choice but to sell to him."

Playing Elton John's "Saturday Nights Alright for Fighting" over the PA a few times? In fact Eastbourne should adopt that as their main intro music.

What will Leicester do, to give Craig Cook the needle?

I guess it was down to who was representing the riders' cases, and how well their case was put.

If that's correct, surely the other riders bans have to be lifted too?

On the Eastbourne website you can find a report on the league match at home v Glasgow back in May. Accidents galore, especially by the sounds of it during the first 5 or 6 heats, plus the serious injuries suffered by Brennan in heat 12, by which time the overall incidents rate looked to have dropped. Subsequent comments by Eastbourne management were putting the fault for the successive run of defeats at that time squarely down to riders' poor on track decision-making. But I bet that match and the number of incidents, especially early on, had lingered in the minds of Cook and perhaps also other riders and they arrived at Arlington with minds already on high alert.

I would go for a letter from SCB to both clubs, strong warning, keep your riders in order, otherwise in future you will be punished as a club for bringing the sport into disrepute

Suspending these riders only causes more problems than are solved. Fines have to be the right way of dealing with it, together with appropriate levels of punishment for their clubs. To begin with, fine the riders their earnings from that match, then a percentage from a set number of matches from now onwards.

That Marshal was dumb to walk in front of a 500cc bike & rider. Eastbourne should be fined by the HSE and ordered to train their Marshals properly. The riders were also dumb and beside being brought to book for being unprofessional, probably breached SCB regulations.

Maybe Harris was on a fixed match fee whereas Douglas is paid more on a points basis?

Get Glyn Taylor back. He used to be able to fix pretty much anything.

Looked to me like Cook tried to shove the steward with his beer gut but made a poor job of it because he hasn't got one.

Is that picture of Nick Morris on the SGB website a recent one? He looks a bit on the chubby side to me.

Another Australian would be no surprise. The one at Edinburgh called Josh, or maybe an English Josh? And to spice up things up a bit, what chance of Mr Garrity being let loose at the NSS?

That "fast track" scheme used by the top league a few years ago, whatever it was called then, didn't do much to improve things because it should have been done in the second tier but presumably the promoters didn't want it because they preferred to complete their teams with foreign rubbish. Now it's clear to me that it needs to be properly re-introduced to the Championship next season, with a mixture of protected heats and the riders being fenced-off from the rest of the team in the team building/averages. You just have a maximum team building average for 1-5