Ben91

I'd say he's nailed on to complete the Potters side, which looks pretty decent IMO. Definitely improved last season and can see him doing the same in 2015.

There are more three pointers around him though and given his experience he should be expected to do well against his completely raw counterparts.

Adam Ellis in place of Allen would leave 3.99.

Just falls into the same category of helping another team's rider develop and therefore is a bad idea IMO. Chris Mills may be an option as a number one, local and not fixed up with a PL side. A top 3 of him, Hopwood and Chessell would be competitive.

Been around a long while, looks a poor signing being totally honest. He's been around a long time and never progressed beyond third tier reserve appearances and second halves. A bad workman blames his tools and all that.

Harris is a better rider than Neale and will average more than him this season IMO. Will probably average more than Mogridge too for that matter.

Something which is highly unlikely to happen IMO. His best bet could well be to sign for the Raiders and take any Rockets reserve bookings which may well come his way. That being said I'd hope if the Rockets were short at reserve for any reason they'd either use a PL guest as they're entitled to for either reserve this year or give Danny Ayres a shot as we should be looking towards him for a PL reserve berth in 2016 IMO.

Don't think we'll struggle to field a team above the minimum without having to use someone else's asset/helping to develop a rider for another club tbh. If his performances for Peterborough at Rye turned out to be match winners and he was racing at Rye regularly as a Raider then yes it would be better to not have him. The Raiders are our second team and about development of our own riders not in the league to win at all costs. I could be wrong but saw that Benji was selling some kit on Facebook as he was taking a break. Would take him as the Raiders number one, not a Rye asset granted but don't think he'll progress much further in the sport and it would be good to have one experienced head in the line up.

Compton taking some time out I heard.

I doubt we'll ever see Bunyan as a Rye rider at any level again after last season. Can't see us using Greenwood, would like to think, however it probably wasn't the case, we made an offer for him to race as a Rocket again this season and assuming that if we did he has turned us down. A cracking prospect but why help develop a rider for another club to prosper? We'll have away meetings at Berwick and Workington on Saturday nights, they will more than likely be filled with Raiders meetings. Then expect a few other Saturday night race nights when the Rockets don't have a home meeting too. Bank Holiday Monday double headers are to return too.

Cheers Jayne, rules Luke out for certain then. Considering he's riding for Coventry in the EL and Glasgow in the PL I doubt he'd want to sandwich a Saturday night at Rye between to two. Plus he's not our asset and we wouldn't see any long term benefit from using him so I highly doubt it.

I was under that impression however Len has stated in the press he intends to use Luke, granted Andrew is in sole control of the Raiders now so may have his own plans. Haven't seen anything to suggest he will be allowed to obviously but then getting information about rule changes etc is usually harder than drawing blood from a stone.

Can see Chessell as a Rye asset and I believe Hopwood is a Rye asset too for that matter. Not sure what the Bowen situation is but if he can ride then we may see a top three of Bowen, Hopwood and Chessell with 4 training school graduates taking the remaining slots. Watts and Sheppard seem likely inclusions.

True that! Remember Matej Zagar seemingly always going missing when Reading were in town too, maybe he didn't like the track either. Funny he should be riding for Belle Vue these days!

There's definitely a good rider in Kasper, really only added his name to my post to stop anyone from making a "but you're happy to track one yourself" jibe. If he was on a 7 for next year though no-one would be going near him, same for a fair few overseas imports for that matter.

You never had the pleasure of Chris Johnson's spell as a Raider in 2005 then!

Not that there is a standout tier of British Speedway for Glasgow to operate in.

Ouch. Better 3 point options out there than Dilger out there and closer to home too. Don't agree with these foreign riders being rubbish and getting a 3 point average for their troubles. Their figure should never go below what they were initially assessed on. If that was the case there'd be 4/5 PL teams having to track young Brits at reserve in 2015 off the top of my head. Instead we'll be seeing Dilger, Konopka, Palovaara, Lykke and Covatti etc at reserve picking up experience that our own riders should be getting.

Why make an announcement to announce another announcement? Why not just announce what you are announcing you are going to announce instead of the first announcement?

Danno Verge announced on the BSPA twitter.

Until Charles Wright becomes a PL number one and wins a PLRC I'd say they were wrong. Agree that Charles did look set to go further then his brother though and has been a slow burner but finally looks like he's getting towards where people thought he may go. Finish the 5 named so far with Nielsen and Henry and it is a solid if unspectacular line up. Similar feel to Hull's side from 2004, no out and out top man but strong throughout the order. Kerr has improved season on season, there's nothing to suggest he won't continue to do so. If Rose can kick on and the top 5 pull their weight you could be looking at a title challenge again.

Matt Wethers, guaranteed to hit/improve on his average back at Armadale. The Monarchs could have an awfully long tail this season. Can see one of the 3 pointers getting binned once Riss gets a new average.

Why should he have been on a lower average than a rider from Poland, Sweden or Denmark in the first place? And how long is a piece of string?

I doubt he'd have been allowed to! Can't beat evenings like that. Fwiw I reckon Johnson is a decent signing for Eastbourne. They appear to have taken a more strength in depth approach to things and with Warwick and Owen alongside him he'll have good support. He's still young and could well be a slow burner. I'd rather see Johnson than an old stager take a NL spot. Will be interesting to see how Eastbourne complete their 7.

Just playing devils advocate here but how does an average speedway fan relate to Brendan Johnson any more than they do with any other rider?