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Top 5 looks very strong to me only concern would be how the racers (Covatti and Starke) handle to gaters paradise of Central Park, may be Len will invest in some shale? Kent could surprise a few Away though with that top 5. Ledwith really seems to be a "sponsors pick" and have read he came back in NDL at request of main sponsor Touch Tec. There are certainly better options as Turn Two points out, all ditched from CL in recent months who could have done a good job instead of Ledwith.

The devil will be in the detail. It could become a similar scenario to F1 where organisers try "new locations" Would do GP Speedway no harm to cement a part of the series that could be run in our winter (say late Jan and February) in Australia / NZ / USA and may be time to take Speedway to the "bike crazy" Spain and also a Far Eastern stop over. All you need is a suitable medium sized 30-40,000 capacity stadia or showground to get it on. That may even suit the Poles as could elongate the GP season and mean fewer clashes in summer when Poles may want fewer GP weekends??..so GP stretches Feb - November more like F1 and not all crammed in to May - October period.

Don't think Rye House is one of those planning to run in NDL Heard it's a northern team but don't know which one, as in north east or Scottish

Eastbourne gave us Brummies fans free entry to the rearranged League match at Arlington at end of September as compensation for having to rearrange initial staging as they had been told to rearrange a Cup match to get it in by a set deadline. Good initiative which reading all Press seems to have been instigated by Debbie Hancock and backed by the other Clubs involved.

Better idea... bin Pipe and bring in Barry Bishop, he knows the NDL inside out and also SDL and best marketing man in Speedway by miles. Let him develop a blueprint to keep standalone Clubs in business and also cater for those that want to run 2 teams. Pipe achieved exactly what is Speedway?

I still think Starke and Gilkes and a Heat Leader. Could be BW-D but could be a foreigner as you suggest as not many British options left unless King and Ellis aren't going to Poole.

If he stays fit could be a good asset but wild at times and therefore injury prone. Probably capable of 6.5 to 7 point average if staying fit and just calming down a bit.

Not necessarily. Nichol lives in UK during the season and also started with a CL Club Sheffield who sponsored his work permit. It's possible he can get approval to extend up to PL too. Becker has resided in Europe for a while and main League is Poland and his initial work permit is for a PL Club. It's possible he is not allowed to extend down in to a lower level where (DofE consider) he may take income from UK born riders unfairly. Each work permit is different and allows certain things.

Sadly very true. Shameful!

I'm guessing Starke; Wilson-Dean and Gilkes Team Nicholls Starke Heeps Bacon Wilson-Dean Gilkes Ludwith strong top 5 got to question reserve strength? impregnible at Home though

any rider out of a job in early April just wait for Debbie Hancock to call. #risky

Re Garrity, he's like Barker, start season well, have a falling out leave in bust up, few weeks off , then go somewhere else and deliver. One day some bright spark will do a deal with other Club each rider rides for and swop them mid season and have good halves of both

Would assume he'll set up a couple of bikes in UK and fly in/out of Bham/EMA on a Wednesday morning. All he has to do is turn up and ride!

THJ signed....very nice team we have for 2020.

Heeps as predicted, Bacon an interesting one. If Heeps is 3rd Heat Leader and Bacon a second string it's very solid and promising. Heeps is such a marmite performer but if he gets dialled in there at CP would be excellent 3rd heat leader and Bacon just deserves some luck and very underrated. Good signings

Plenty still about to fish for-: few decent not yet confirmed in order of my assessment of ability King / Ellis; Heeps / Starke; Barker; Mountain / Greaves; Sedgeman then as widely mentioned Morley; Wood; Bowtell;Gilkes..what about Luke Bowen? one from me out of left field...midweek track would be ideal ex Brummie..Zak Wajneckht?? (too good to not be riding in CL in 2020)

Looks stronger than starting line up in 2019, especially at second string, if Kemp ignites and Edwards/Brennan improve could win a few more Away and be play off contenders. Be hard to beat over 2 legs.

Looks strong 1-7 at home, should pick up enough points away especially up north to be more competitive overall than in 2019

Looks a strong 1-5 my only worry if a Leicester fan would be can Douglas and Perks have such a great season again and that Proctor and Howarth are full on racers and therefore injury prone. Team of entertainers though for sure!

Lawson goes well there and seems to be omitted from all Ipswich fans lists? nice 2nd string average in CL 5. something

Danny King and Ben Barker may be ??. Not much else left unattached. Would they have Grobauer back? Possible they want to start with Rowe at reserve less top heavy?

I'm only as informed as what we had to endure at Birmingham last winter in building a team by the time that most teams were staffed and options limited. I think we learned that with exception of Paco and to a degree Tero that British options that you know work best. I'm sure that Len will sort it.

it's very hard for new Clubs moving up as we found last season and we only got Adam in when we did as he was "looking for rides" as Poland hadn't worked out. In Scott Nicholls you have an outstanding start but going to be hard to follow that up with another "big name" I think?? Poole would be favourites for Adam and Danny King and most of the others over 7.5 points are retained or signed up. I thought you might get Eddie Kennett but obviously not. I think best hope is to have Scott and a "Workington style" team of solid 5 and 6 pointer and then you have strong reserves all season. Days of len "buying a title" are over i would think as you'll need to get far bigger crowds in CL to compete with Glasgow / Leicester / Somerset / Poole etc who are big payers.

Couldn't agree more about Danyon, certainly deserves a chance and would be a good reserve pairing with Paco. Was gutted he wasn't given a fair run last year, I heard Eastbourne tried to sign him after he left us but were not allowed due to his NDL Club objecting, goes to show if we don't snap him up now some other CL Club will. With Stoneman most likely to go to Somerset or back to Kent surely Danyon is a perfect no 7.

isn't he the main Promoter?