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Oh right.

Good luck to our mate Jackson Andrew Smith up at Redcar in the Championship for 2019. With Redcar switching to a Friday racenight - the same night as the Colts - Jack wasn't available to us for 2019, but it's the right decision for him to push on into the higher league. We wish him well and hope to see Jack back at Belle Vue in the future, and hopefully riding for the Aces.

Good luck to our mate Jackson Andrew Smith up at Redcar in the Championship for 2019. With Redcar switching to a Friday racenight - the same night as the Colts - Jack wasn't available to us for 2019, but it's the right decision for him to push on into the higher league. We wish him well and hope to see Jack back at Belle Vue in the future, and hopefully riding for the Aces.

Seven actually. Keep up.

None of our team have to hit the ground running. Dimitri and Jiamon can settle into their first full season in the top flight and Dan and Steve can use track time early doors to build themselves up. If a few thrashing’s away result, it doesn’t matter especially to me as I won’t see them. If that results in us bringing in a ringer for the play offs then so be it. 21st century speedway guys get use to it.

Correct.

Two four point reserves if performing to average would score eight points a meeting. A four and a two would score 6.5 as the two pointer would only take three rides. It’s a net gain of half a point for team building if you follow the latter. This is just maths and not my opinion.

Lemon wanted Bjerre over Cook whereas I think we could have had both. The new rule stopping Jack riding at seven didn’t help us but we need to expect these winter rule changes to supper our plans. It could have still been done though. My heart says keep Cook in the side as he’s a passionate Ace who we’ve watch go from reserve rookie to GP man. My head says keep Cook as after a poor year he averaged nearly eight. Once he got the GP monkey off his back and signed in the CL he was back to his best. He’ll put a point on his 7.50 starting average and thats what clubs need.

Glad for Craig. Can earn some good money now. He’ll have a great year.

Wells FFS!!

Max & Ken announced.

Yeh, what is this obsession with speedway fans about fair play? Stop coming on hear spouting drivel, if you don’t like it, stop going. Oh, hang on a minute.

That appraisal is very very wrong.

Yes

If rules were correctly applied then yes but the rules are very fluid and apply differently to different clubs. Decisions makers can also easily be influenced in a sport as small as it is now. It’s small because of things like this but the bottom line is, nobody care. It’s were we are I’m afraid.

Max Dan Ken Steve Charles/Jason/MPT Josh Auty Josh Pickering or Jamon

Dan has got ten months to be fully back to his best. If we finish third from bottom we can still win the “league” in October.

You could pay a student for a week to trawl through the various social media sites such as this, where they could not only document the various ideas but also rate their popularity. This is just PR. They have no interest in what we, collectively the largest investors in the sport, have to say.

We know they are working to lessen the double up/down. When their plan works you have, say the Worrall twins, should they choose the top division averaging four rides a week over the season. When you take into account riding on bank holidays, even I’d be happy enough to let my lads off to participate in the highest level the UK can provide. I agree with your last sentence but unfortunately the powers that be didn’t.

It’s not about what people want it’s about what’s best. Any successful person/business/organisation follows this rule. The implication is that they wanted what they’ve got, a seven team league where you finish mid table and still have a chance at being “champions” and where nearly half the teams are owned by one man.

It’ll give the double up/down riders a chance to get use to riding once a week and therefore having to take a job outside speedway as we move towards the amateur league set up by 2022/23.

Amalgamation.

It’s not just the fact it’s three clubs. With such a small league that’s 43%. Wheather true or not fans will cry foul if they think any manipulation is taking place between these teams and it will be yet another reason to walk away.

Only time will prove wheather this works or not. Knowing Chapmans motives and the way he operates I’ve no doubt how it will go, not that I’ll be gloating in a year or so time. Certainly saves me a bob or two.

When he was learning his trade with the Colts he took a tumble late one wet and freezing evening. I ran over to pick him out of the fence and whilst checking he was ok for his next ride I offered him a good deal on a candle. He told me to do one, the rest is history.