Ben91

Updates provided by a Belle Vue fan. These things even themselves out however and Rye should have closed out the meeting when they had the chance. King should have been given a heat 15 spot.

Czech Republic, Germany, Italy, Latvia and Slovenia all received more spots than us. Despite the sport being in a pretty poor position here these days only Poland, Sweden, Denmark and perhaps Australia should be receiving more spots than us.

Echo, echo, echo... Hadn't noticed that in fairness. That's one of King's poorest visits I'd imagine however.

I'd take King over Kurtz around Rye.

Quite right, thinking about his average being from 2010 I just doubled it and doubled it again, HT's figure is the right one! Still a lot more than he signed on...

That standard formula as I understand it is for one season only when a rider is unable to ride because he's injured. So Hurry would have been allowed one reduction from his last EL average of 3.91. I believe the reduction is eight percent so that would leave his average at 3.60. Multiply that average by four and the figure is 14.40... Richard Hall was told last year if he wanted to drop into the NL it would be on his last Conference League average from 2004. Hurry last rode in 2010 for Lakeside in the Elite League.

Surely it is in Sheffield's best interests to accept that JPB needs a break from Championship racing and sign a temporary replacement for him. He's a very good prospect and he'd probably not want to go back if they push the case for him to have a ban for withholding his services. Then another Championship club would benefit from his inevitable success in the future at that level.

Hunter is proving to be a little injury prone. Hopefully he can work past that, the potential is there. If Bowtell can continue in his recent vein of form then his scoring will back up the top three incredibly well. Then you only need a few points from the rest. The controversial Hurry signing should see you into the play-offs.

I bet Waco is delighted with Locke's signing!

He didn't ride in the NL though. Two meetings in and Hurry is already showing that the figure he was given is too low.

Not sure on this one. Hopefully more meetings will help his scores for us though.

Paying for announcing riders before the points limit was announced.

Because without averages the sport would end up being a free for all and then only the more affluent clubs would survive. If you want more clubs to go to the wall then by all means advocate teams signing whoever they want to fill their 1-7.

Fake news.

Not a one track pony but generally goes better on the smaller circuits. Can't remember him being quite as bad away from home as he has been this season in the top flight though. Cost an away point by two heatleaders not weighing in again it could be argued.

Not being rude Gustix but most people who are interested in Rye House will check the Rye House website regularly or the speedwaygb website where they will see pretty much every press release from every club on a daily basis.

He's averaging under four away from home this season though.

I hope the other NL clubs, the IOW in particular, are appealing this. Why should Hurry get an assessed average when Harland Cook who hasn't raced for just as long isn't allowed to ride on a three point average. Hurry has an EL average which should be converted to give him a NL figure or at the very least he should be coming in on an average which means he could only sign in place of Morley or Wajknecht.

Always seemed an odd fit to me when he went to Swindon. Never been a big track rider.

He seems better at home than he has been for the last couple of seasons in the second tier but his away performances haven't been those of a heatleader, which he is in this league. He's averaging sub-four away from home at present, that's not good enough. An improvement in Eddie's away form may well see us do better on the road but none of our top three have covered themselves in glory on our trips away this far. Then we might end up challenging for a play-off spot. Half the league qualify after all.

The season is relatively young and Branford is riding to roughly his average. Can't see any issue at all. He'll only improve.

Two home wins.

All in reasonably good form in the Championship however. Lawson is on a par with Tungate at least, the same goes for Kerr and Starke, while Heeps is a big improvement on Graversen. The changes make you stronger without a doubt.

He's had more comebacks than Rocky.

Is narrow track similar to longtrack?