SteveLyric2

He is for the moment and thats fine.

because Leicester were riding yesterday (Wednesday). and Leicester agreed to the fixture. Anyway lets hope the track prep is similar to the last couple of meetings for this potential 'banana-skin' of a fixture. Just as a reminder the Lions were leading upto heat 6 on their last visit, until the 8 5-1s kicked in!! Bellego and Allen give the Lions a bit more hope....

Wright is a 2nd string on doubling up/down duty so the Lions get a guest (Bellego). Auty is a reserve and will be replaced by someone (Starke or Allen - depending on the source of the info?) with the same or lower average.

...and 2 of those Poole v Somerset v Poole meetings can be seen live on BT on 13th and 20th August, so all viewers can judge who seems best for the play-off choices.

Starke in for Auty?! Or maybe Jake Allen?

Can you please try to make sure Bellego has a tiring night - he's guesting for Leicester on Thursday!!! ha ha.

....and he's continuing that trend in Sweden tonight!!

As has been said many times over, its not how you start its how you finish!! After his 'performance' at Wolves last night, his form goes from bad to worse in the Swedish TV meeting this evening - 0;0; replaced; so far.

Bellego can go very well but not sure pairing him with Hans is necessarily the 'Wright' solution?! UPDATE: Apologies I saw the alphabetical 1-7 (less the Auty guest) and thought it was the riding order?!

In which case they should look after Holder too then!! btw how is Hans doing at the moment?

Aah another rule change that I must have missed. Thanks. Should make the meeting a bit more competitive.

So Leicester have booked David Bellego as a guest for the missing 2nd string Charles Wright (who is 4th in the Lions averages)!! How does that work exactly?

Next 2 BT Premiership TV meetings are 13/08/18 Poole v Somerset and 20/08/18 Somerset v Poole.

probably still counting it!!!!!!!! Seriously its often announced on the REF page of the Poole website, but at the moment they are more concerned with the presentations to Bomber and Richie on Thursday. If Matt is in the office on Thursday I'll ask.

I think Leicester have been racing on an 'off-night' for several weeks!!

I understand that L-C, but it suddenly went from raising money for Bomber to why wasn't money raised for Hans when he blew an engine to Poole should have kept Hans - the latter being perhaps relevant at the beginning of the thread/season but hardly now?! Still, as i've said twice already - each to their own!

At the moment its r/r and Mark Riss booked for Jakobsen!!

Not quite sure how a discussion on setting up donations for Bomber has turned into a who was better - Andersen or Holder' debate? Poole won nothing in 2016 or 2017 when Hans was in the team. Not saying that was down to Hans or any other individual rider but it might well explain why the promotion went for a very different 1-7 this year. One thing is for certain - if Chris Holder had managed to get his visa sorted and was included in this year's Poole side - then the attendances would have shot up far earlier than they now have with Bomber! ( and I'm not a particular fan of Holder either)! Anyway almost £800 donated for Bomber so far by 53 fans - not bad for the week after the SRBF collection at Poole

Not comparing him with Holder, just don't agree that he should have been a cert for the 2018 team. As I say each to their own.

No Wright and possibly no Auty for Leicester.

Well I happen to be in the camp that doesn't agree with you about Hans - but each to their own I guess.

New averages for September will be calculated and published after 23rd August as usual. Its only team changes that can't happen after August 12/15th - unless there is a season-ending injury when the BSPA MC will make a decision based on what is best for British Speedway.

Maybe he didn't have as many fans as he and his sponsors thought he had??

Not just some Poole fans - the Bookies and a number of track pundits/reporters had Poole as firm favourites at the start of the season.

Fans at all clubs will have their favourite riders - as indeed do sponsors! If a fan wants to give something to a rider then he/she will - including in this specific case setting up a Just Giving page for Chris Harris' repairs independent of what the club or the supporters club (REF) may or may not do. (Incidentally Chris knew nothing about this until informed by another supporter and promptly offered some of his merchandise to be given to selected donors.) Clearly as at Sunday evening 50 donors feel the same about Bomber and have so far raised £758 As for Stefan yes he may well 'deserve' a collection, but by the same token he probably had some financial support from SRBF which wouldn't have been available to Bomber. I guess if some fans or sponsors feel strongly enough about Stefan or any other rider then we can expect a number of Just Giving opportunities to crop up.