Roger Jacobs

They would have had to bring in a guest. I still think it was a better option for the sport overall, no matter how poorly the Regulations are written.

Yes indeed! I only realised after checking the final Prem Green Sheets, and applying King's 2.5% discount. Hume has also signed, so a definite Ipswich-style flavour, even if only one of two of them will be at Ipswich in 2023 ... And ... thanks to the discounts for British riders, the Bears come in at 39.86 ... so they've benefitted by 0.65 overall. PS: Thanks to arnieg for confirming that the averages are only for team building, not for riding order - one of many odd bits of the Regs that can easily be missed.

King announced as #1 at Redcar in the Championship. With Wright and Riss it makes a decent heat leader trio for the Bears: https://britishspeedway.co.uk/championship/bears-name-full-side/

They should call it Robin B’Stards.

The right track for him is not Ipswich.

No! Another “nice bloke”, but injury prone and not full of improvement.

https://www.eadt.co.uk/sport/23158951.ipswich-witches-sign-keynan-rew-australian-under-21-champion/

The first comment, I disagree. Doyle's average is about 27%, and he scores that many of the Witches league race points, and is highly likely to continue his high average. The second comment is the problem that many agree with. For Doyle's class contribution to reduce percentage-wise in a winning team, it needs the others to improve ... while the usual suspects don't appear to have that improvement in them. On a related note, about the Oxford line-up: I had to smile when they said Heeps is on a bargain average ... 4.33 achieved at reserve ...

How do you know? So ... who is?

Clegg might have been riding for longer, but has never been given a proper opportunity in the Prem, so is hardly a rider of "vastly more" experience than Hume. I would say that Clegg has much more potential than Hume.

Hume isn't rising. He often overrides, is injury prone and is unlikely improve dramatically.

Hume is popular, but injury prone, and possibly not going much further at 26 …

Interesting idea - but why wait until September for the play-offs, based on a qualification in July? The riders could be different (at least because of injuries), and they'll be racing the Cup Final in the same time scale ...

LOL!

Lambert’s average wasn’t reassessed because the current regulations say that averages are valid up to three seasons.

The change in the calculation of the Green Sheets from 20 matches, down to 10 is the problem. A sample of 20 matches reflects consistency, whereas the smaller sample is more likely to be skewed by a couple of very good form or very poor form scores. In 2022, Lawson averaged 6.75 from 19 Prem matches. His Green Sheet from the last 10 is 7.91 ... his average from the first 9 was 5.56 ...

There are some accounts, but very little detail: https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/11808346/filing-history

After Ipswich signed Gollob on a bargain assessed average, I think they introduced a 9 for GP riders. With points limits reducing, they must have brought it down too - as they did with new non-Brits on a 5, when it used to be 6.

Leicester's matches are now at King's Lynn!

He's a very astute businessman, trying to stretch his empire nationally.

From Mildenhall Speedway "We head towards Friday evenings NDL Play Off Final with a very patched up side. With Ryan, James, Sam, Jack and Alex all missing we now add Josh who is having a pre op this week (we send Josh our very best wishes) and young Luke Harrison who is away. Under current rules we will line up as follows: 1. Jason Edwards 2. RR 3. Unattached 3 pointer 4. Unattached 3 pointer 5. Guest 6. Unattached 3 pointer 7. Luke Muff 8. Unattached 3 pointer We are working hard to find a guest from the clubs available to us and will inform you of the team once we sort it."

Jason Pipe on Mildenhall Speedway Club Facebook has confirmed: "If you have a guest for the home team in a double header and he does both meetings, it counts as one meeting as a guest. BUT, an unattached 3.00 rider filling in they count as 2 meetings rode in, because a 3.00 point unattached rider is NOT a guest rider."

Guy Nicholls is Ipswich through and through. Built his very impressive headquarters at Kesgrave quarry, and is now running the Tru 7 Group with many different arms: TRU Plant Trucks ‘R’ Us Tippers ‘R’ Us TRU Grab TRU Agg Tru Mix Tru Earthworks Clarke Demolition Company Ltd He drives a black Rolls Royce Cullinan ... an amazing looking vehicle.

Isn't Dudek rumoured for Leicester?

That was 2012-14 when a couple bought an old house in the middle of nowhere, then complained about the noise from the speedway (and motocross), and even noise from KC-135 Stratotankers taking off and landing at RAF Mildenhall!