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Emigrate to Poland

No Vinnie Foord. Replaced by Kenzie Cossey. That's a big hole in the Steelers team.

Butcher rode on the Island Tuesday. Didn't look 100% and withdrew from his last ride in some discomfort.

And by pretty well any metric he's the best under 21 rider in the world bar Przyjemski. And he's still got a couple of more years as an under 21 rider

Consistent with past years Berwick (given the modest size of their fanbase) are clearly the biggest dicks in this arena.

That struck me too at the start of the season. But perhaps that would have been seen as so blatant that there would have been a risk of retaliation (for example by including play-off scores in GSA calculations)

I left at 10.05 and it was still going on

I think it's the FIM Europe under 19 final he's going to be racing in. [Hungary, Finland, Latvia and Norway are all represented. No Brits qualified]

Becker scored 11 from 5 in Sweden last night, beating all of Lejonen top 5 (Madsen, MJJ, Nilsson, Chugunov and Drabik) - encouraging for Lions.

He wasn't a guest for Workington

The rider on it?

Until Peter Schroeck brings his tactical nouse to the table

He's actually seventh [of seven] in 2025 averages for all official fixtures http://www.gbspeedway.com/2025/teamstats.php?mc1=f&mc2=ta&mc3=av&mc4=Oxford Cheetahs&team=Oxford Cheetahs&league=B&comp=All&avtype=av&reload=Y#mobile_stats

Make it interesting, book Vinnie as a guest

The problem with that approach is that most riders in that position would simply walk away from Britain deciding it isn't worth the hassle. I'm pretty sure Ben Cook, Tungate and Gusts to take the most obvious recent offenders would all take that approach.

Earliest I can find is (interesting team names): 2 June 2018 Gillman Zielona Gora 38 Zaine Kennedy…………………. 2 4 3 FX – – 9 Fraser Bowes…………………… 0 1 1* 6 0 1* 9+2 Declan Knowles……………….. 1 0 R 2 1 – 4 Declan Kennedy………………. FX 2 1* 2 3 2 10+1 Rider replacement……………. Aaron Jackson…………………. 1 1 1* 2 1 – 6+1 Dayle Wood…………………….. 0 0 0 0 – – 0 Edinburgh Monarchs 57 Justin Sedgmen……………….. 3 3 3 3 – – 12 Kane Lawrence………………… 1 1 1* 0 R – 3+1 Robert Medson………………… 2* 2* 2 2* 1 – 9+3 Ben Cook………………………… 3 3 3 1* 2 3 15+1 Rider replacement……………. Matt Pickering………………….. 3 3 R 3 3 0 12 Arlo Bugeja………………………. 2* 2* 2 0 – – 6+2 He also rode for 'Swindon' and 'Leszno' in meetings at Gillman that winter..

Given that these days riders often peak in their 30s and that 3 or 4 years ago the concensus seemed to be that Brady Kurtz had 'reached his level' I think that is a brave statement.(

From an Oxford perspective he's helping quite a lot! 😉

I'm here. Haven't done one this season!

Apart from Dan Thompson only Sedgmen and Batchelor have a higher average than Worrall. I can't imagine they didn't ask Dan and if he turned them down who else is there? Toft? Vuolas? Given his past record at Leicester I would certainly have considered Seddgy though.

Wildcards for Polish rounds are usually from the staging track's team, so Kowalski or Krawczyk would have been viable alternatives.

Below Fricke, Kubera, MJJ But above: Lambert, Bewley, Lindgren

Even if he has he's deserved them. Nine times as many GP wins as Harris. 5th last year. Bronze in 2023.

I think it works like this: Rules state that for an unauthorised absence the replacement is a no facility guest [ i.e. 75% guest]. That is the default position. What a club may then do is declare the rider to be withholding his services and only then do they become eligible for a 100% full fat guest, and as a consequence at that point the rider receives a ban.