Ben91

It was a good meeting no doubt but the standard of our riders on the whole has to be a concern, ten years back or so even there were the likes of Nicholls, Loram, Screen, Havelock, Norris, Richardson and Louis etc. who were EL heat leaders or thereabouts, and people were saying our standard of rider was on the decline then.

Why would they when it's front and centre for the entirety of the interview? People like things that you don't like, you like things that other people don't like too I'm sure. Life's too short to waste time complaining about such trivial matters.

No it isnt, it's what sportspeople do to make sure their sponsors keep coming back to them, why do you think riders put their caps on the second their crash helmets come off? It's not to keep their head warm or because their hair's a mess, it's because they're covered in sponsorship. They all do it, singling out Hancock is just sour grapes.

Your full stop shouldn't have a space before it.

Imagine a bloke promoting the product that he is paid to promote... Madness.

Why would you hold off signing a rider who could help you win the league this year to try win the league next year instead... I could understand if it was first place wins the title but Eastbourne are likely to reach the play-offs where all four teams start equal again regardless of who finishes top of the table.

Meeting starts at 5.30-6pm, finishes prior to the football kick off and the Rye bar makes a killing from showing the game. Although having a pub a stones throw away may be the reason for this not being done in fairness.

Karger.

Peter Karger beat Sam Masters a few weeks back, he'll still struggle to average over two points a meeting.

Another sub-standard import, well done Redcar.

Birmingham gifted Eastbourne a point by using a guest for Bacon and R/R for Perry, would expect someone like Drury to have more sense than that.

But they want to sign Mitchell Davey...

Social media interaction is good, however it should be consistent across both popular platforms (Facebook and Twitter). Personally I very rarely check Facebook for anything other than the Rye speedway group these days. Both these bases should be covered but regular updates on the website are a must too. People need to be told things from an official source and shouldn't be expected to pick up news from Facebook, not everybody uses either platform, most people can check the official website though. I'm glad the quotes coming from "Team BMR" have stopped and that they are being made by the team manager. Glasgow are still a work in progress too, comparing us to them now doesn't make sense, either promotion could fall flat on their face yet, neither is a completed job. It strikes me that our promotion are trying to make the place self sufficient, looking to run more events at the stadium and opening a KTM(?) dealership at the stadium. The training track will bring in funds too and hopefully we'll see some riders come through that and progress into the Rockets' team in years to come. Kings Lynn would be a better measuring stick for us, they made their stadium a multi-purpose venue, cleaned up at PL level and have now moved up the the EL, I see us potentially doing something similar, although I'd happily stay PL while the EL is Elite in name only.

It's not speculation though, it's fact. Tyres are tyres and a speedway track is a speedway track, it doesn't matter how good the bloke on the bike is, if a blue groove is going to appear it's going to appear.

PL riders being more skilled will use more lines than NL riders who will stick to one line meanining more rubber on one part of the track in the NL meeting, just as we're being pedantic. 15 heats of league speedway at any level will produce a blue groove eventually around Rye.

That's not true, 15 heats of speedway is 15 heats of speedway, there'd be a blue groove still after the first meeting.

Holub, king of the loophole.

I think team building made it clear that the promotion are still new to the speedway game, seemingly expecting Rob Lambert to sign and also letting NBJ go were huge errors. The signing of Karger was also an error, it pushed Kasper into the main team and the bloke is also a dud (one race win over Masters is no justification for his signing). That said Len Silver has been guilty of plenty of huge errors on the team building front too, dropping Jason Doyle for Steve Boxall being one and not using Jason Garrity at reserve when on a four point odd average being another, not mentioning constantly coming in under the points limit. Hopefully next winter the new promotion will see where they've gone wrong and know more about what is required to build a winning speedway team. Track improvements have been top of the agenda it seems which is absolutely the right way to go, people go to speedway to watch the racing first and foremost and they are much more understanding about the rest of their surroundings being a work in progress if the racing is of a good standard. A training track being built shows the commitment to the future of speedway at Rye House and developing our own riders. There will be bumps in the road but it seems like things are moving in a good direction.

Until (although that day coming is very unlikely) clubs announce attendance figures then crowd estimates from supporters should always be taken with a pinch of salt. It's no more than opinion.

R/R for Ayres has hurt Kent today but guest options would have been slim pickings, Ben Wilson perhaps the only rider that could have scored similarly to Ayres on a lower average.

Think he's taking a break, no way we'd fit him in without dropping Morley or Branford anyway.

28, they have to race together in two heats.

Branford is guesting for Karger, it's purely incidental that he rides for the Raiders, he can't be number eight anyway as he has a PL average over three. Hunter could also be used as number eight for the meeting, though that depends on how he is after his injury at Birmingham in the week. If he isn't fit then we should be naming Priest at eight for the Redcar match, he'll be in the stadium anyway so it makes sense to name a number eight.

Yes, once Karger is in the 1-5 if he's still injured it has to be R/R (or a 3 point NL guest). Unless Lanham remains out too of course, then we would be able to use a guest for one and R/R for the other.

There has been a lot of chopping and changing at the bottom end of the Raiders team this season, to me that shows that the promotion are trying to find riders who will score more points, until then they have to carry on with what they have. Leek looks like he can score reasonably well at this level. If Couzins who was at Kent last season is still riding he could be a worth a try.