YeOldPitGate

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.

Whats going on with Drew Kemp I though he had signed for Berwick but he's turning out for monachs on same night as Berwich riding ?

So difficult as we all know Tungate is another one who isn't interested 50% of the time so you then have a possible top four of Klindt, Tungate, Lidsey and Batch who could get 40 between them one week and 12-20 the next but as ever who is there half decent to help out.

Agreed Mike its another big speedway conundrum there's zero incentive to move up but equally the championship need the premiership to limp on to subsidise the wages of the legion of double uppers.

I would think crowds would hold up or improve this year given they have two of the very best English youngsters at reserve both of who are banging in the points weekly.

Guess we can rule it out ever happening on point one alone, unless Harry has an ace up his sleeve when did he start last Nov and so far we have had Linda Lusadi in a travel lodge room pulling team names out of what looked like a used McDonalds bag.

Imagine the scenes inside the command caravan.

I'm rolling in the aisles sadly but 100% spot on.

Does anyone know if the new investors are coming in to shore up the speedway side of things or if they are shoring up the stadium ? I'm hoping the latter as I seem to remember if speedway had to pick up the full rent per meeting minus the dogs it was an eye watering number so hopefully if the they are helping refinance the stadium that situation has been avoided. Interested if anyone knows the score Bojangles seems close to Oxford so might have an insight.

Ben Cook is a strange one has had some really good meetings and you think he's ready to step up then dire, agreed McDairmid would be a better option than Sedgeman at least he's young and might improve. I did think Ben would develop into the better rider out of the Cook brothers but now Zach looks the one who might one day sneak into the gp scene.

Sedgemen as a replacement that's like having to decide to cut off your left or right foot with a rusty breadknife he won't be any better than paco, he's 7 point man in the championship and purely a trapper very rarely overtakes.

They certainly have the funds to tempt someone decent over for the last third of the season if needed.

They will need to get a really good ringer to stop your team someone like Beau Bailey or a dane on a par with that young lad they had lost year Nagel or whatever his name was, a 4 pointer who was closer to 8 by year end.