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Bruno you will probably lose Lee Smart but due to his PL average being over 4 rather than his NL average. I think a points limit cut is a good idea tbh. There are plenty of riders without teams floating around who could ride NL not just those in the Under-15's championship. Lower the points limit and bring through more young Brits, simples.

No, Marc is fit, rode for the Cobras over the Bank Holiday weekend. Would have done better than Newman, Garrity and Howarth for that matter too. The experience would have been fantastic for him as well. I'm sure, if fit then Jerran Hart would have been the man riding of course.

Track bashing yet again, yawn. The meeting was not brilliant, yes but the lack of smooth running was more due to the FIM referee rather than the track grading. Firstly, as parsloes has said, why let the riders back into the pits if a race has been stopped due to a tapes exclusion? Well done to the Danes, they deserved their victory. Bach looked fantastic. If we had Tai I'm sure we would have been third today, possibly second, around rye I'm pretty sure he'd have gone unbeaten in the field we saw today, that's 15 points rather than the 0 which Newman accrued. Why Robert Mear wasn't called I have no idea, he may not have a team but he is racing on the grass regularly and knows Rye very well, I'm sure he'd have done a decent job. Even Marc Owen would be a better bet than Newman at Rye, no disrespect meant to Kyle of course. Bridger was the pick of the Brits, though a little too cocky considering a lot of the riders he beat were only PL standard and he was racing for the last placed nation. Josh deserved a lot more than he scored, whilst Haines let a lot of points slip and did his gating tart credentials no harm at all. Kyle Hughes was poor, such a shame for the lad, I await the Rye excuse #234.1.2 that his first bike blew up before his first race. That'll explain his performance at least

I see we did have some heavy showers, you must have had the worst of it Rye v Scunthorpe always seems to be a cracking meeting whatever venue competition.

Don't know what part of Hoddesdon you are in but there were no rivers running down the roads... Meeting was very good, wouldn't have felt short changed if I'd paid to go tonight. Buzz Burrows is always highly entertaining, wonder whether he'd fancy being the Conras old hand next year?

Firstly, there has been absolutely no 'little englander' style postings on this thread, all have been about Mark's possible visa issues. It doesn't matter if he is from Australia, America or Outer Mongolia, if his visa does not allow him to work here, then he is an illegal rider, just as Tyson Nelson was. I highly doubt that all the Commonwealth riders in the league are racing illegally is true, that would mean a major cock up on the part of pretty much every promoter in the league plus the BSPA and even that is unlikely IMO.

To describe the result last night, in the words of David Brent: "I think there's been a rape up there!"

Rain over night by the track, pretty grey at the moment, I'll keep things updated. Not going to this one as I have other plans, should be a good meeting though.

If you had signed Hart it would be exactly the same, he is at the top of the NL and doing well enough in the PL, does he really need a NL team spot? I agree with you though Greyhoundp, you aren't the Dudley manager and it isn't a Dudley issue, you are just a fan starting a thread

So not only have we lost a club in Mildenhall, their demise has put Danny Halsey and now Tim Webster, two young Brits, out of a job. This is not a dig at Jerran Hart or Luke Priest btw, they do need to work, however Jerran is more than holding his own at Premier level, whilst Luke is probably at his level now, no doubt he could have gone further if it wasn't for his terrible injuries a few years back. Best of luck to Tim and Danny on finding new teams.

if you can remember the 50's, shadders, you have obviously aged very well!

Bit unfair on Paul, considering he has o ly had three meetings as a Rocket and didn't look bad in any of them. I hope Danny gets fixed up, I was disappointed when he wasn't named as a rocket last year which seemed to knock his confidence, whilst we should not have sold his contract as the fella has a decent future in the sport ahead of him.

Surely we could have signed Olly Rayson or Luke Priest? Whilst the Mildenhall situation is up in the air at the moment they surely would be happy to move to a club where they can race and also be paid. If not, Stokes should certainly have been promoted. Hopefully Morley makes a swift recovery.

No I didn't, the rest of that post was topic related you have a knack of censoring others posts to suit your own argument. Back on topic, it seems the long tail the Devils now have has already caused problems, I'm sure losing starke will prove to be a mistake on the devils part, however now he is at rye I'm sure we will look after him

Ah, Malcy babes, welcome back BW has been persistently moaning about Rye House and it is hard to understand his/her posts, don't you worry about me, you have your holier than thou reputation to keep up You've just sent another thread off topic too, tut tut.

Change the record, and learn to spell too. Paul has signed for the Rockets, if he has outings for the Cobras too then fair enough, he is certainly a very good NL rider.

This topic has been discussed over and over again, until a time if/when the decision is changed then have a moan then. Lots of other team try to pull a fast one or cheat, why rye have become the scapegoat for this I have no idea, It was pretty inventive of len to try and bend the rules and use Tyson, that's the old school type mangememt which won us trophies a few years back, I admit, Tysons points should really be taken off, but they haven't been so there's no argument unless there is an appeal.

Certainly unlucky for the Cobras last night, Jerran Hart scored less than Smithy would have, whilst r/r picked up 1 point, a lot less than Kyle would have scored. We also lost Ben Morley early on and that will have played a part. Magic Mason scored paid 10 from 5 rides, not bad at all, he wasn't fantastic last night but does seem to be starting to get nearer to where he was a few years back. Lee was unfortunate with an exclusion and a fall, whilst Shane Hazelden was again brilliant, he now looks so at home round Rye and ilook forward to his races. Tom stokes made a lightening start in heat two to win, whilst had the pacebut couldn't make a killer pass in his other rides, I noticed at the start he looks at the tapes rather than the magnetos on the gate, maybe that would help him, the lads certainly NL standard though.

Oh Roger, when I saw your name I knew i'd get a mention from my number 1 stalker If we did sign Paul i'd be more than happy, we'd certainly be able to help him progress whether he was riding for us, the lad can go far in speedway.

Would be good to see an American team at Rye to take on the Rockets. Although unlikely, it would be fantastic to see someone like Sudden Sam Ermolenko don the kevlars for a few meetings for the US team, I know he did/was planning to have a few match races with Ryan Fisher at Michal Makovsky's testimonial this season and he rode at Rye in Chris Neath's testimonial, looking pretty smooth in a few match races with the late Rob Woffinden and Neathy himself in one race I believe. With the 9 man formula, something along the lines of the following would be interesting: 1. Ermolenko 2. Castro 3. Kerr 4. Ingalls 5. Fisher 6. Burmeister 7. Novratil 8. Gomez 9. Abbott Of course, i'm sure any combination of riders would be good to see, the Dream Team's visit to Rye earlier this season was highly entertaining an a great meeting.

Starke can come and race for Rye if he wants we've got injury troubles ATM and I've always rated him highly, he wouldn't be held backfrom PL speedway at rye or elsewhere either if he came to Rye.

Typical really, one rule for the top two divisions, yet the 'professional' National League has it's own rules regarding missing riders.

Ah yeah, I remember now, was in the press release when he originally stepped up, Evans for Hughes then I reckon with r/r for Marc if he is unavailable, however he may want to test his fitness before the u-18s at Somerset which is on the 30th I believe...

As I said in my post, Marc Owen is also out injured, leaving us 2 guests and R/R, Hughes is not number 1, Jamie Smith is, however as we are missing 3 main team riders, two guests are allowed in addition to r/r.

With no Marc Owen already (i believe?) plus lee and Kyle at Workington, it looks like two guests and R/R, I'd like to see Barrie Evans for Kyle, Jon Armstrong for Lee and Tom Stokes as no. 8 taking the R/R rides. Queue press release proving me wrong however