allthegearbutnaeidea

Heeps signed

Well that was a good guess

BWD and Berge?

Oh I don’t think so really, the 4-5 pointers will be the ones finding it hard to get team places due to the 38 point limit now.

So that press release is insinuating that there will be 12 teams in the league? Despite there only being Eastbourne who have said they are looking to move up? 15 home meetings (11 league, 3 shield, 1 cup) where as I thought it would be 14 (10 league, 3 shield, 1 cup) So the question is, is Birmingham coming up afterall despite them saying the riders were wanting too much? Because Kent have just signed a rider to their NL team.

Mind mr honest John, you post some good stuff about the ins and outs of Speedway but my god do you slaver on.

Funny. If it’s to be a ‘new look’ team you can’t exactly put last years riders in it can you, so I’ve went for riders without a club so far that have gone well around Redcar previously on a low budget.

My guess for the team MPT Wright Wajtknecht/Shanes Bacon MBA Stewart Greaves

Well who do you think the the new number 1/signings will be Redcar fans? Seen as though it’s apparently a ‘new look’ team

Mind he doesn’t live in berwick anymore, lives down near Cambridge these days.

wells andersen sedgmen pickering palovaara lawson 2 pointer 37.93

brilliant

not got a team place in Polska as far as I’m aware? All Polish teams are signed up.

Schlein got one! And dont you play the ‘he’s British’ card ahahaha it’s in the AGM notes as all riders who progressed through the NL.

Spud should get 2.5% so spud, nbj, jye, doolan, theo, coty, leon for me.

Mind Summers gets a reduction from his Buxton days, puts him on 7.00 I think which gives you a bit more to play with. Do we think Gapp will be back?

Got to remember the points limit is down 4.5 points Taffy, that team looks ok to me and at the end of the day, we’re running. What average would Garcia come in on?

McDonald min yi ken

Ronald?

Cheers guys

Your owner has just threatened to pull the plug due to losses yet still seems to apparently be paying way over the odds for riders? I wouldn’t be pis*ing my self laughing, I’d just be pis*ed off because once the Facenna’s go it will be back to where you guys was before they saved the club just with a nicer stadium. Or no club at all?

Well if you know then that is fair enough, as I don’t actually know, just been told off several people recently that he still owns some of it and that the Courtney’s were buying it off him bit by bit. Probably one man that started a rumour.

Well because Scunthorpe wanted the other 3 more?! Pretty obvious to me? If it was a 42.5 limit you would of had all of them in the team but couldn’t fit them all in with the 38 limit.

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.