Najjer

So a difference of 12 extra riders - less than 1 per team. Nowhere near enough to allow for injuries and poor form or team changes. Plus your 12 extra will be reduced by the loss of GP riders like Doyle, Iversen, Vaculik etc, and then Lindgren from last year too reducing that number by even more. You say plenty of foreigners will come if asked but that hasn't been the case in the last few years. This also doesn't allow for the actual averages being correct to allow for decent teams actually being assembled. Like I said, a league with about 12 teams could work much better and fill the fixture list abit more, whilst maintaining the current standard and having plenty of riders left to choose from in the top division. Begs the question though, why didn't teams like Ipswich, Glasgow, Sheffield etc want to take the plunge?

All well and good having the right amount of riders, but that doesn't allow for having the right riders. You would end up with some teams that are stupidly weak, which in turn lowers the points limit to being a fairer leveller and again watering the product further. So yes, rider shortage does prevent one big league. Now a bigger top division of 12 or so teams is a completely different kettle of fish.

Each to their own, not racing every single week suits me down to the ground to be honest. Less fixtures also makes it more 'important' when there is a match. It can be so easy if there is fixtures every week to say "nah I'll just go next week" instead.

Thus watering down the product further.

For 7 man teams, there is not. Not without watering down the product even further.

Nowhere near enough riders allowing for injuries too for 1 big league. Most championship riders already double up into the Premiership.

It should be Somerset as he rode for us last season, assuming that's how the priority still works. I presume as we are riding on a now "off racenight" that may throw a spanner in the works.

So fixtures are now out! Excellent we have the double header still with Poole on Good Friday! Rumours are we are going to be making another signing before the start of the season - As we are in need of a new track man!

He should be at Somerset as he rode for us last year. Rubbish all the while though!

So now we've established Poole are going to win the league at a canter... I'm wondered whether people think Brady Kurtz is better than Nick Morris?

Care to expand on that?

That's obvious - there isn't enough fixtures to fill every week. However, there is no way any team should go 3/4 weeks or more without a meeting like they did last year.

Why? It makes much more sense for every team to stick to their required race night. For example if Somerset's race night will be Wednesday as expected, they should ride all home meetings on that day. When they meet other Wednesday night tracks, for example Poole, then in that week Poole will not ride a home meeting. It will be a nightmare following a team chopping and changing from mondays to Wednesday every week. It's not rocket science!

If the fixture list is compiled properly (after all these years of watching speedway it hasn't happened yet!) then not every team will be racing every Monday and every Wednesday, which will free up riders for guesting for other sides aswell as Chanpionship riders too.

Let's hope so!

I think that's exactly what it is.

Worse? Anyway it doesn't matter because my dad is bigger than your dad!

In a happy environment, on a well prepared racers track and good team unlike last year I can see Jack really prospering in 2018.

Holder won't drop his average - Fairly sure of that.

As other posters have already pointed out, Jack has said that Chris should be with him... not that Jack should be at Poole. More nonsense from PooleBolton as per usual. Jack Holder is more than happy to be at Somerset it seems, which Chris wanted too and was all set to join Doyle as the top 2 in the side until Matt Ford put the brakes on that move.

It's common knowledge that Holder wanted to be at Somerset. I'm sure there was other clubs interested too, but Matt Ford demanded a transfer fee and was refusing to loan him out. No club in the current financial climate was going to buy him especially given his unpredictability and by process of elimination he has ended up back at Poole, rather than be clubless.

I've missed something here clearly - Why all the fuss about Sundstrom? I thought Poole were holding out for someone like Milik or Madsen and they're likely to end up with Sundstrom

I believe they have been quoted in the past as saying they had lost thousands of pounds also? You can then add in other clubs from the lower divisions like Newport & Plymouth who haven't been able to make it pay.

Eastbourne, Birmingham, Lakeside in the top division all had to drop out because they couldn't afford it...

So you keep saying like a broken record.... what exactly did he say then, as you keep missing that bit of information out?