Ben91

No reason they couldn't both go. Kasper hasn't improved, that's the name of the game when trying to build a winning team. The only thing that would save him for me over Lanham is that Kasper is our asset.

Rene Bach and Rob Branford would fit in place of Lanham and Karger.

MPT hasn't been that good this season, not sure why he's seen as the answer. That said he'd do better than Karger! I'd go for two changes personally, Karger and another out, Branford and a rider to score some points at the top end in.

Trouble is he's always going to have to fight for his points because he can't gate. Always battling/he's a nice guy, are arguments in the same vein for me. I don't particularly care, I want a bloke who can score the points. Because he's just as good around Rye and in our number one race jacket.

A half decent five pointer in the other reserve spot and we would have won last night. Lanham and Kasper should have pressure on their spots also, Lanham's done enough laps around Ipswich to be doing better than three points. Relied on Kennett going unbeaten yet again. Robbo's scored his average so no issues with his performance for me. Morley with two heat wins away from home, very good for a number seven.

Does he? Never seen anything from him to suggest he does. Seems a case of who you know not what you know as far as Cupitt is concerned.

Good to see him riding in the higher league, riders should be racing in the meetings which will help their development most.

Regardless of the tracks Stoke have been to a rider of Ben Wilson's ability and experience should be nowhere near a six point average at this level.

Rye are in the league to develop riders to progress to the Rockets in future while remaining competitive, Kent as a standalone team are in the NL to win it. Clifton has been a very good signing for them as had Thomas and Verge has clicked in to gear this season when few expected him to do so. That said if the bottom three had struggled then they would have struggled again.

Robbo's been picking up a fair few guest bookings here and there. Eddie seems to be doing just fine, I'd assume Karger and Kasper are riding in Denmark most weeks too. Which leaves Lanham, who is scoring what we could expect from him these days. The only one I'd really make a case for needing more track time and potentially benefitting from it would be Heeps. King's in the Coventry team each week, as is Sarjeant. Ritchings has been riding regularly for Birmingham, surely Risager and Covatti have continental commitments too? Kerr is getting track time for Lakeside.

People in glass houses shouldn't throw stones etc...

He's showing that he's already good enough to be a PL reserve which in itself is incredible. Beating Morley and Branford around Rye in the NL is no mean feat. Hopefully Edinburgh persist with him this year, he may well be given an EL spot at Belle Vue next year if he carries on as he is at present but he should definitely ride both NL and PL next year whatever happens on the EL front. If he does go EL in 2017 that'd stop him riding for Edinburgh you'd assume too, making him a highly sought after rider I'd imagine.

Rob Lambert.

He finished second behind Craig Cook one year, though I can't remember which or be bothered to look it up!

He's an asset of Belle Vue, they're allowed to own riders because they're an EL side.

A National League meeting at the National Speedway Stadium. The title of the place says it all, it's for the whole nation not just the oh so Elite League... Still complaining about things is always a worthwhile use of time.

It is a good rule, there's no two ways about it. Karger would have to step down but that could always happen.

The rule is in place to stop teams signing duff foreigners, as frustrating as it is as a Rye fan it's a good rule and we've fallen foul of it. The lesson is to do plenty of research when bringing a rider over. There are so many riders in this league who are still under the assessed average they first came over on, that says it all. Letting NBJ go is something we'll be frustrated about for years, that and building a team around a rider who hadn't signed a contract show there is a lot to learn for the new promotion. That said there's a better feeling around the place and the new promotion are exactly that, new. They will learn from their mistakes hopefully. Karger has to go somehow and Branford come in though, plus a change further up the order.

If the lad was signed because of what his dad did then it's a sorry state of affairs. Not enough research was done by the looks of it, his Danish scores are poor and there are riders heavily out scoring him there who struggle in the PL. that should have been enough to realise he isn't up to it. There is nobody or no rule to blame execpt the promotion for signing a duff rider.

Plenty of British riders about who could share the job with Bewley.

Both 2005 tours were great, for the northern tour we left after a Friday night home meeting against Berwick, two meetings on the Saturday, Raiders at Armadale in the afternoon and then Rockets at Berwick in the evening with Glasgow on the Sunday. Southern tour was also great as it sealed the league title at Exeter and it meant I got the Monday and Tuesday off school, bonus.

Alan's summed it up above, basically it should deter teams from signing assessed riders who they don't think will make the grade in the first place. If they sign a guy who isn't good enough they only have themselves to blame when they can't sack him because the rules don't allow it.

It's actually a really sensible rule, teams should be thinking about whether signing these assessed riders is a good idea because they can't sack them if they're duff. Unfortunately our promotion haven't done that and we've signed a rubbish import and now can't get shot of him unless he quits.

They could have used Dugard for Johnson and kept Perks too, a rider who will average much more than Compton this year.

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