allthegearbutnaeidea

First bit I agree with 100% but I do believe that riders wages/add ons/signing on fees from what they are getting at Glasgow (and maybe other clubs) are making the whole set of riders wanting more money that just isn’t available to all clubs, but if you build a weak team you will be bottom of the league and your crowds will fall, for me it’s all about all of the clubs working together and finding the balance, first step to that is wage caps, that can either be through a teams total wage cap as per NFL or be done as follows, ROUGHLY... 6 pointer = £60pp, 4 pointer =£40pp, 9 pointer =£90pp as an eg. If all clubs can agree on them and stick to them with heavy fines if caught breaking the caps with the fine being split between the other clubs then that will go along way into saving british speedway in my opinion.

Yeah but Glasgow have literally put a statement up very recently about losing 100’s of thousands of pounds every year and how they can’t afford to do that anymore, yet are still going about the same way of poaching riders and paying far more than other teams for middle order riders. It’s not on because it is forcing all of the other clubs to stretch their budgets due to all the riders demanding that extra £5/10 per point that is un needed and is due to the fact they know how much others are getting paid. Wage caps and cutting out greedy engine tuners are a neccessity for this sport to survive and whilst their is not teams like Glasgow will continue to ruin this good sport by making themselves and all of the other clubs go into financial ruin until they close down. I appreciate what the Facenna’s have done to the stadium and to the club but I do not appreciate what they have done to the sport at all. And yes I do know some of the figures of riders wages from a couple of years ago at Glasgow and no I am not sharing them but yes they are completely over the top and yes they are a lot more than other similar riders were getting at other clubs that year.

You sure? Not what I’ve been told

What was said about Wright and Holder?

Leon has a lot of local supporters, but at the end of the day if Birmingham do come up, from what I’ve seen today they may well not be, he would have a tough decision to make as he really enjoyed his first season with them. A lot of riders dont like to ride for the ‘local’ team as it puts added pressure on them with friends coming to watch and everyone knowing you personally, it can be quite scary I can imagine, for a young lad like him.

No need to state the obvious

Right then who do we reckon will be in the team?

Why? He’ll go to whoever offers the most money surely? Like everyone else. Or he might stay at Birmingham if they’re moving up as I’m led to believe. Unless he doesn’t want to travel to home meetings.

They cant announce until the NL AGM has taken place surely?

cant really take much control, the geeza lives down south? can only do so much down there? definately need someone promoting in the town.

I wouldn’t want any of them three in my team? I’d more rather have Bewley, Proctor, NbJ or Howarth on a similar average.

Why does every team want Rasmus Jensen? No offense but I’d hope my team wasn’t interested in him.

Great news but no news on a takeover or anyone coming in to help?

Todd Kurtz has a Polish team?really?

Well Nicholls on 8.35 makes my team total 38.00 then so perfect.

How does this look Sheff fans? 1 Nicholls 8.14 2 Kennedy 4.00 3 Howarth 6.78 4 Kurtz 5.91 5 Proctor 6.96 6 Nichol 4.00 7 Kemp 2.00 37.79 with reductions to Howarth and Nicholls presuming they both rode NL? I’m sure they did.

Take it TJ wont be back on a 7.66 then? Barker at 5?

Dudek and Zmarzlik arn’t exactly big boys

Very good idea in my opinion, if done properly!

No, will be 2.

7 + 1 = 8 (somerset and 7 others) 7 x 2 = 14 (the 7 others x2) hope this helps

Really want to see NBJ back at Berwick again next season but with the club up for sale and his tremendous record as a guest at Leicester it would be a bit silly of him to not make the move, especially as he now has David Howe as a full time mechanic/advisor who lives local to Leicester as well.

Any idea when the 2018 final averages will actually come out? As the last set of greensheets was the September ones. No point trying to make teams when the averages may be wrong for some riders!

Well football will go soon after if the speedway goes so the council may want to do something about it

Wells