Diamonds85

What's the point in a Rising Star scheme in the Premiership but not the Championship. RS in the Premiership should be any under 21 Brits, so Cairns, Rushen, Harrison, Scott etc RS in the Championship should be any under 21 Brits with a Championship average below 3.50, so Southwick, Fletcher, Vale, Norman etc And perhaps a second Rising Star in the championship who is an Under 21 Brits but with no average limit. So Rushen, Cairns, Harrison, Hodder etc. just to have more young Brits riding.

This is embarrassing

Anyone who claims that the Premiership is weaker now than it has been over the last 10 seasons just needs to look at these lineups... Aye 6 teams is crap but at least there's some decent riders about.

So, 1 Jason Doyle 8.62 2 Erik Riss 5.05 3 Danny King © 7.17 4 Kim Nilsson 4.50 5 Dan Bewley 8.56 6 William Cairns 3.00 7 Vinnie Foord RS

So if Jason Doyle and Will Cairns are heading to Ipswich, could this be the team? 1 Jason Doyle 8.62 2 3 Danny King © 7.17 4 Adam Ellis 5.98 5 Dan Bewley 8.56 6 William Cairns 3.00 7 Rising Star? RS 3.67 remaining for the number 2. Main riders who would fit that would be: Paco Castagna 3.64, Dan Gilkes 3.23, Luke Killeen 3.00, Francis Gusts (Wroclaw connection) 3.00, Slater Lightcap 3.00? Joe Thompson 3.53. I'd chose Franics Gusts personally. Then you could replace Adam Ellis with anyone up to 6.65 (Ben Cook? Bomber? Dan Thompson?) Maybe: 1 Jason Doyle 8.62 2 William Cairns 3.00 3 Danny King © 7.17 4 Ben Cook 6.62 5 Dan Bewley 8.56 6 Francis Gusts 3.00 7 Rising Star? RS Who's everyone's favourite for the rising star berth? I've seen Vinnie Foord's name banded around a lot, but surely the Premiership is far too good for him? Plenty of options open for Ipswich, even with a top 3 taking up so many of the points limit.

I do hope he stays in Britain somewhere

Or what about Francis Gusts? He'd be on a 3.00 average and he has links to Wroclaw... I know he wasn't amazing for Oxford, but surely he's only going to increase that average as he's seen every track multiple times now (Except Northampton) He's a great rider on the continent, so once he gets more settled surely he'll be better.

1 Jason Doyle 8.62 2 Mikkel Andersen 6.00 3 Danny King © 7.17 4 Kim Nilsson 4.50 5 Szymon Wozniak 6.00 6 Kyle Howarth 4.63 7 Vinnie Foord RS I know it ain't realistic but this team would walk the league

I'm surprised the Wozniak talk has died down considering, as far as I can work out, he'd come in on a 6.00 average, since he hasn't been a GP rider in 2 consecutive seasons in the last 5 seasons and doesn't have an Ekstraliga average above 6.00 but rather a 2.Ekstraliga average above 6.00? Has he signed anywhere else yet? Sweden? Denmark? He'd easily but 1.5+ points onto that average.

I'd take Jack Smith over any of the previously mentioned riders around a 3.00 (Foord, Perry etc) any day of the week. Particularly if the 'weaker' reserve is a 2.00 youngun.

The view at Altrincham was awful. Not a Storm fan but I'm so glad they're out of that dump. The black mould growing all over the place was enough to put me off 🤢

Flint is 8.25, Thompson is 7.55, Rowe is 6.39, Hodder is 3.31 and Harris is 7.93. Plus Grmek who is 3.56. Leaves 3.01. Annoyingly Jack Smith is 3.04 which would've rounded the team off nicely.

Unless the RS average is going to count towards the limit now?

Ice hockey... Now there's a proper sport. Completely taken over my life from speedway 6 or 7 years ago. Let's go Glasgow!! Even if we are rubbishe this season 😆

I hope Paco stays in the Championship somewhere. One of my all time favourite riders.