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6.89 left I think. TJ was 6.39 and we were 0.50 under the limit. Not sure who is available at this late stage, tough blow for the team and TJ.

I’m not saying she’s going to be great or maintain her average, but the narrative that she’s depriving a male rider of a team place to the detriment of the sport, I don’t agree with.

Just checked Liebmanns times when she rode some races against Katie Gordon at Redcar last year. 57.6 58.1 57.5 58.0 Ashton Boughen won the 500 cc event that day and his times were (2 wins) 56.6 58.2 Maybe she just couldn’t work out how to ride Edinburgh on her first visit? Not uncommon.

Looks a pretty well balanced team this year. Hopefully a better year for Bandits fans.

This is my favourite so far. North to south, in order.

While I’m happy with Redcars team and think they will finish in the playoffs, I would be surprised if they finished top. Say the same thing every season that visiting teams enjoy riding at Redcar too much to make us favourites for anything. Think it’s a pretty even league with only Plymouth looking significantly weaker than the rest.

Well done to the Comets, putting a very interesting team together and the introduction of a female rider into the league will give the team (and the sport in general) a publicity boost.

Its normally a 2 minute warning, not 2 hours! Been a long wait for Comets fans, feel the lack of even a statement from the club these last few weeks has added to the uncertainty (just an outsiders view). Hopefully a competitive team can still be sorted.

Thats fair enough, already think the team looks better than last years. All teams need to be competitive at home, very dispiriting to lose a few home matches.

I think he said he wanted to keep his Saturdays free for travel, if he got any rides in Poland.

Comment from Connor Bailey when he was announced for Redcar tonight is that Workington riding on a Saturday was one of the reasons he chose Redcar.

Trigger happy they call it! You did a good job to be fair

Good of Ben Trigger to change his name to feel more at home in the Middlesbrough Tigers line up.

Pretty much the team I expected to be honest. Gavin Parr did say they thought they had a rider but he signed somewhere else (think we all know who that is) but not a bad looking team in a weaker league. Few riders coming back from injury is obviously a concern but hopefully they’ll be ok. If Bailey, Edwards and Mulford can push on should be a decent season.

Australia bound apparently.

I think I saw a comment somewhere that said Hume could be a GP rider if speedway didn’t have bends. Can certainly gate but I found it very frustrating watching him last year due to his inconsistency , but that might just be me.

Riss back at Edinburgh must be a possibility surely?

Yes that’s fair, but he wouldn’t be coming in on an inflated average and expected to ride like a number 1.

Must admit I was expecting Flint in the Bears team next year, but it seems like the same as last year that we have lost out to teams who can offer more money. Kerr a good signing for Berwick I think.

Thats the team I’m thinking. 3 riders coming back from injury is a concern but I don’t think it’ll be too far away from what is going to be announced.

Where this comes from is a mystery? It’s like the changing of the seasons and the tides of the sea….

That’s what I thought too, apart from Hodder.

Bailey and TJ in place of Riss and Hume? Does Bailey get 2.5% reduction?

That makes more sense but still seems risky.

Now it’s officially official - how is it going to work running 2 teams? Are they seriously expecting supporters to attend twice a week? Genuinely hope it works but seems very risky.