YeOldPitGate

And that'd the issue Rob will only offer a packet of fags which is great from a sustainability point of view but equally a shame as if they dropped Ablitt and got in Vuolas they should be pretty much unbeatable at home all season barring injuries (possibly Poole aside).

Yes picking up on the lazy management quote stick with someone who's reliable but won't get any better, or try and make the effort to unearth an unpolished gem you might get 5-6 seasons out of before he leaves for Poland.

Bonkers isn't it but given a squad system will never be entertained I guess that is what we have.

That's the Rob Godfrey business model to a t Mike at least until Harry has got that deal for some Arabs based in Dubai to take over the operating model of the sport.

The thing is all three of those tracks from a fanbase point of view so long as run to a sensible budget were sustainable it was the issue of the tracks being sold for housing that did them in.

Its a shame theres not a ruling where they could just sign riders for 1-5 matches in situations like this appreciate far from ideal but better than guests as an example if the aces got Emil for three matches you can guarantee all three meeting would have crowds above the average.

Fair point but ideally you would also have a time machine to take you back to 1985-1988 when Linda was at her very best.

Maybe they will pull a rabbit out of a hat and get Beau Bailey in at the last third of the season that boy should be good for 8-9 point average in the championship or if they could get that young dane back from last year.

Hopefully the tills will be ringing

How are the crowds holding up ? if they end up averaging 1,200 - 1,500 per match would be huge result they just need to get someone in for Klindt and Batch but as ever who is there out there who's any better and will come and within budget ?

Any news on those seven figure sponsorship deals Harry is lining up or will we have to make do with more of Linda waving a used McDonalds bag around in a travel lodge room ?

Rambo Lambo ?

Christ would rather see Rambo Lambo at least he tries for the money on offer.

How long is Dan out for Phil the season or less ? and does Mark have the dollar to get another proper top liner over do you think ?

Christ there must be now less than ten of us rattling around in here.

There's also the fact most riders are simply riding more and more when I went in the mid 80's early 90's most rode one league in Britain, international and continental meetings, now some riders are in four leagues plus doubling up in UK, loads of under 21 events, European competitions, grand prix of 10-12 rounds against one off finals. The increase in bike speed most likely hasn't helped but the simple maths is the more time your on a bike the more chances sadly of bad crashes.

Plus current bunch Pickering aside will be cheap as far as riders go.

All made sense until you said the word "open the wallet" you have more chance of breaking into the deepest vault in the bank of england than said wallet.

Deffo the best of what's available who are prepared to ride here, if they can somehow keep the crowds around the 1k-1.5k level it would be worth trying to push out back end of the season for a decent rider like Lindgren or similar when Poland finish's season.

Joe's old flymo's in the garden shed ?

The old pit gate dodge gold standard for call off's lol

wants more than bartoz by all counts

He would be a good call still young and improving but we all know he won't be coming hence where looking at the scraps. Timo Lahti would be another semi decent shout but same as above minimal chance of coming over.

Rumours Maria Whitaker will be at the ko cup final with an empty used pringles tub which will contain the names of the 14 riders in it. Maria will pull the riders out one by one and that will be the riding order on the night.

As mentioned before Poole really should clean up they have one of the best riders in the league in Lawson , the two youngsters are both on massively false averages. Kerr is capable of anything from 2-21 in a night and loves Redcar, Cook is really now to good for the championship, Newman decent steady eddie rider, which leaves Bowes who when he's not riding r/r makes them even stronger. Just getting one future world class rider at reserve on a 2 point average for a half decent team should be enough to do the job barring injuries let alone snaffling two of them.