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The gulf between 1 and 7 is irrelevant because they don't race each other.

Best not to make such a comment then, if you haven't seen it. For much of the match there seemed no way past at Leicester, and if Swindon riders tried to they either ended up nearly falling off or actually falling off. Not the actions of a side trying to lower averages. It was a boring match. The only thing that kept me watching was that it was Swindon. One thing speedway needs to do is ramp up the team element so it doesn't just look like blokes riding round a track.

No idea. Just bringing it up as a possibility of what he might have been talking about.

Not any more. Its being scrapped, although I'm not sure when it comes into effect. People from Australia and New Zealand are now expected to pay the NHS surcharge, the same as all others from outside the EU. Edit: Came into effect 6 April. http://www.australiantimes.co.uk/uk-immigration-introduces-nhs-surcharge-for-aussies/

It's an apostrophe, not a hyphen, and there is one in Sainsbury's. http://www.sainsburys.co.uk I don't know what Rory's problem with the NHS is, but is it possible that, being Australian, they want him to pay for treatment? I know they are toughening up on overseas people not paying to use it.

I think that had a big effect on both Nick and Troy Bachelor. It's easy for people to forget that they are human beings sometimes. When Darcy came in the whole Swindon team seemded to go on a massive high, and that was suddenly pulled away in a cruel fashion. And Troy and Nick, of course, are also Australian and friends of his too. Some people obviously get affected more than others by things like that.

Not if the updates are anything to go on there wasn't. For me, you can expect some poor meetings from Tungate and Sedgeman. It's Nick Morris that is my biggest concern because he is there as a heatleader and at the beginning of last year looked extremely good. He seems to have lost the spark that gt him selected for Australia last year. Hope he can get it back.

The reason it's hard to pass is because of the track. The reason Swindon lost was because of their gating.

He never blamed the track. He blamed his side's gating, saying it's hard to pass on this track. Last night's meeting certainly didn't do much to prove otherwise. I only recall one decent race.

Very true. And that's half the battle in terms of improving.

I think Swindon have looked reasonable here after a bad start. You could see a real effort mid-match which led to some falls and some races being stopped with us in front, then being at the back in the re-run. A bit more luck and we could have been right in it.

To be fair, you can see the effort we're putting in. But you try to pass here and you're in trouble. Long term I think this team will do ok.

Must be time for Ulamek and Klindt to start putting in those last places soon.

There really does seem to be no way past on this track.

Team colours make teams easier to identify. Team colours make riders harder to identify.

When Swindon were in the PL, the PL was MUCH more interesting than the EL. Now Swindon are in the EL, the EL is MUCH more interesting than the PL.

Is he? I thought from everything written on here that he'd quit.

Well done Leicester on signing Aaron Summers. I think everyone would have liked him back at Swindon this year had he been able to be fitted in. May not be the top heatleader you need, but a good rider to have in the side.

There's a really obvious one that nobody has mentioned yet. Rob and Tai Woffinden.

Neil Street and Jason Crump. Technically there's a generation skipped there on the Street side.

So? They never got official averages and that was made clear from the start. So it's obvious they can't use EL averages. Because they don't have one.

Regarding Buszkowski. Did Poole sign him before or after the heatleader list was drawn up? I don't believe the rules are set up to benefit Poole. Looking at SCB's post, however, I would guess that Matt Ford comes up with sugestions, knowing that they can benefit his own club, and the others go 'duh, ok' without realising it.

I remember when Reading had a very sharp team manager who knew the rule book inside out and was able to use it to Reading's advantage - often upsetting opposing teams in the process. That doesn't mean, though, that the rule book was put together for the benefit of Reading and I suspect it is the same nowadays with Poole.

Not necessarily. Just saying that as people are saying rules have been brought in to benefit Poole it would be nice to be provided with details of the actual rules and how they benefited Poole. Then the claims would have some foundation.

Draft riders didn't get an EL average so how could they use EL averages? That was decided at the start so it wasn't done to benefit Poole. Using assets is fair enough. Encourages clubs to sign. If riders using assets get a high pick in the second stage then that, maybe, is one that would benefit clubs who use their own assets, but what's to stop all other clubs doing it?