Steve0

The weakening of the top league has been going on for many years but more significantly over the last 5-6 years. It has always irked me that the team that wins the league one season has to be broken up the next to be within a points limit that more suits the bottom team than the top one! For years Eastbourne was the team dragging everyone down, then Ipswich etc. Sadly that decline in standards has continued and hit a low when fast track reserves were introduced - these riders were primarily NL riders who weren’t good enough to secure a CL slot but were blooded in the PL - total madness. This was the final straw for me and I have only been to a handful of meetings since - waiting for Speedway to solve their major issue - value for money. Rather than solve that issue they continue to dilute the league, tinker with the rules (astride the bike at the gate etc) and meeting scheduling is all over the place - sometimes no meetings for weeks and then 3 in a week and appear to do nothing positive while more and more fans desert the sport - never to return! Some people will say that the fast track system was a success because it brought on some of these riders - but they would have equally progressed in the CL - the main success was in reducing costs and driving more people away from the sport. Even today there are several reserves who are out of their depth in the PL e.g. Max Clegg, Jack Smith (and Mitchell Davey before him) etc. As a sport, I am just watching the decline continue until it finally dies what has been a long and painful death. Rant over!

No one has signed for anyone. I would hope they are doing everything they can to make sure Rye House see the season out.

No thanks - maybe a few years ago but he’s on his way down

QED

Your irony isn’t lost on me!

You have a very strange view of “putting the boot in”. I thought it was very mild against what others have said

It actually started with me defending Poole - won’t bother next time!

It’s like a pack mentality on here at times! Some people seem to relish “outing” people, goading them until they get a ban and delving into their private lives. Live and let live I say and remember attack the post and not the poster.

Whether or not they are there to be had by everyone or just Poole - they were still ringers! It’s not anti-Poole and if you can’t see that they were ringers then you are dillusional. Why would Swindon want any of them - have you looked at the league table recently?

Having riders on false starting averages ARE ringers - all within the rules but ringers nonetheless! Karma when they don’t do so well though!

I know you are still on the windup but I don’t think Poole are crap - they just haven’t performed to their potential - and the team was built around reaching and exceeding their potential! It seems that good riders have turned into average riders at Poole this season - this could be partly down to the track and partly because they are just not gelling as a team. I’m not complaining because the team was built around ringers and it just hasn’t happened for them - as a team.

How many changes is that now for the 1-7 that certain Poole fans predicted to be unstoppable?

Wasn't he replaced? - in which case he is not supposed to be allowed back in the side this season. :confused:

Charles Wright and Ricky Wells in, Danny King and Kyle Newman out

Unless like for like rider changes (with same or lower average), all team re-declarations must be within the allowed team average of 42.5

Just one - Poole! Then they can get back to winning ways even with a team that is performing worse than last years (currently)

And we all get to throw this at you for the rest of the season

Your original post was on Saturday!

I must have missed that caveat on your original post

Bookmarked and throwing it back at you! You just didn’t learn from your pre-season over confidence! Maybe a learning in humility for you here!

I think a few people have jumped the gun here. What could turn out to be an innocent postponed has fuelled some people's imaginations. I think we all have to calm down and wait for an official update and not speculate what may or may not be happening.

And great weather forecast

Either you are being sarcastic or you were watching a different meeting to me. Have to say that from start to finish it was a pretty dull meeting and somehow Wolves let the Lions back into the meeting.

That would be Starry’s insistence that he wouldn’t be back on the forum and shovelit’s absence for much longer than a holiday period

Speedway definitely goes round in circles - for 4 laps a race