Ben91

Every team started the season with seven riders. Due to injuries, poor form etc most have made one or two changes. That means quite simply that there are more than enough speedway riders today who could fill each seven man Premier League team. The standard of reserves would be slightly weaker to begin with perhaps but it would keep the poor foreign riders out of our reserve berths which is a good thing for the development of our own talent. The racenight argument is valid, our Elite League teams all race on a Monday when Sky are there, there's nothing apart from weak excuses from stopping them going to a Monday racenight each week. If the PL then runs meetings Tuesday-Sunday (only dropping one racenight nobody uses at present anyway) then there would be a way for British riders to DU and not miss any fixtures for either of their clubs.

Keep them at reserve by all means but there doesn't need to be a change to the heat format. The EL has done that and riders averages are all around 6 now because riders only race people at the same level as they already are. A track reserve would never work. For one what if there is a rider missing on both teams? Only very bad, and I'm talking not good enough for NL, riders would entertain being a track reserve because there's no guarantee of even getting a ride and there's no way that will earn them the money to live/maintain their kit. There's no need to downsize teams and there's plenty of riders to go around to make up seven man teams. R/R isn't great but sometimes it's unavoidable. What is avoidable is a team using a guest for a foreign rider who is unavailable as he's riding for his other British team.

He's quickly learn, need to have a team that can do a job on the road too. Money talks, we're crap right now but over the last decade we've been one of the more successful PL sides. We're not a small club, just need to get out of the rut we're in.

R/R is part and parcel of the sport. Facilities are being used too often in the EL and PL for riders who are riding in the other league. One solution is to make doubling up solely for Brits, another is one race night in the EL and no PL fixtures are allowed to be run on that night. There is not a shortage of riders. The suggestion to drop the points limit to between 34-36 is for the top 5 only, the reserves are drafted as in the EL. From 42.5 to 35 you are losing 7.5 points, about the points two reserves take up at the start of a season but the beauty is no more Konopkas, Maassens, Dilgers or Daveys taking up spots which could be given to British talent. If the draft riders aren't protected by a change of race format like there was in the EL there's no way he'd attain an 8+ average in his first PL year.

There's not a lack of riders there's too many racenights. Each team has had a full line up of seven since the start of the season and many have made more than one change across the year, that means there are plenty of riders to go about. Drop the points limit to somewhere between 34-36 for the top five and have a British rider only draft for reserves. Job done.

And? He was part of that team. Every point scored by a Birmingham rider counted towards them winning the title, if their top three alone had turned up every week they would have finished bottom.

If Scott is willing to pay them more than the other clubs after them then there's no reason for them not to sign for us. We've been there and done it with Morley and he's lacking on bigger tracks. Ayres I'd be interested to see, no thanks to Greenwood though. I'm in favour of a draft but I can't see it happening, if it did we might not have to put up with Maassen again.

Calpol by the litre, only the best.

It's a good team and if money is no object there's no reason it couldn't be put together.

Even though the kid is part of the team that just won the NL title...

Will never happen but: Lambert 8.38 Barker 7.55 NBJ 7.23 Holder 6.85 AN Other up to 6.35 Branford 3.14 Wajtknecht/Spiller/probably Maassen 3.00

People shouldn't tell other people what they should and shouldn't do. Oh...

Edinburgh finished top they should be Champions.

Can't quite work out how that line up has been decided. The ten number one riders are: Adam Ellis Liam Carr Darryl Ritchings (with Dan Greenwood done for the season) Max Clegg Bradley Wilson-Dean Ben Morley Jake Knight Danny Halsey Rob Branford Lee Payne The next six in the averages are then: Zach Wajknech Tom Perry Matt Williamson Kyle Hughes James Shanes Jon Armstrong Surely all the riders with averages higher than Mountain, Ayres and Owen haven't been invited and declined? Looks a good line up nonetheless!

If it isn't due out til next year surely it would be better to release it as Speedway Grand Prix 16 and have the riders for next year's series included.

Ah so the veterans Wajknecht, Wilson and Banks won the title for Birmingham then after doing many, many laps round the league circuits over their long careers.

Why didn't Eastbourne win the league then?

Woffinden, Lindgren, Michelsen and Musielak would leave just over ten points if the limit remains at 34.

Don't be silly the lights are switched off as soon as possible after meetings.

Good start would be a return to a 16 rider format. Imagine we'll see any fit Rockets (Eddie, Rob, NBJ, Danny and possibly Luke). Add in Hughes and Ayres to see how they get on against PL level opposition as I get the impression they'll be in the frame for a reserve berth next year. Give one spot to Hume, Bowtell or Hunter, perhaps a pre-meeting race off with the winner of the three added to the line up and the other two given reserve berths. That makes eight, for the others a couple of crowd pullers, Harris/Nicholls maybe and Linus would be a great addition to the line up. For the rest, riders who we are interested in for next year. But I expect a 12 rider meeting made up of a hotch potch of Rockets, Raiders and Kent riders.

Obviously never seen him round Rye House then.

Cradley are one of the teams that have actually been using their number eight when needed.

Until there's a press release from the club confirming that nobody was willing to guest at this short notice then it's all just internet speculation. When you're racing three meetings in three days you need stand by riders on hand. Who was supposed to be Dan Greenwood's replacement originally? It probably was MacDonald and that in itself is far from being good enough. Somerset and Plymouth were at Rye on Saturday night, out of all those riders only Garcia was willing to take a guest booking? Fisher takes loads of guest bookings in the north, was he asked? I'd be very surprised if we are not reprimanded for this.

Probably the highly rated duo: Local Junior Another Local-Junior.

That would be quite a shock...