Shadders

Crowds have more than halved since the 2005-2007 glory days. You can't put it all down to the economy. I don't buy all the no passing at Rye crap, it was the same back then and attendances were over 1,000 most weeks. I want to see a winning team and I suspect most would want the same

They tried that in 2006, but abandoned the idea mid way through the season as a couple of teams had really good reserves (Boxall at Rye, Armstrong at Mildenhall)

Hopefully the BSPA conference will encourage the use of British riders at reserve.

I was thinking along the lines of cherry picking the best Kent riders for the Raiders

Does anyone know if Silver is still going to have any involvement at Kent?

Only banking I know of is on the second bend. Pretty much flat everywhere else

Rye House have declared Edward Kennett, so that reduces the chance of us signing Danny King. Rye House have never gone into a season top heavy in recent times

You'd certainly notice if that had been removed

Interesting. The lighting needed to be improved and the move back to BH Monday meetings is welcome. Happy to see Edward back and I must admit I'm surprised to see Jason return. I hope he gives the Rockets 100%. I hope that they don't wait too long for Nelson to sort his visa out, otherwise we'll be scrambling around looking for a replacement like last time. A positive start to team building.

Don't forget the excellent company

Wait until they visit your track

A club with a great history, but let down by some of their supporters, who frankly are a disgrace.

You'd be nuts not to sign Stead

Been down to the stadium a few times over the past week, no sign of any of the rumoured development work. All very quiet, too quiet for my liking.

Faster certainly, but most races over by the 3rd bend Sums it up nicely I prefer that description

Means sod all if he doesn't want to ride for Glasgow

That's certainly the case with Ross Brady. An 8 point rider before he suffered a terrible head injury. When we signed him I was optomistic, but he had clearly lost his bottle, shutting off half way down the straights. In hindsight I'm ashamed of how he was treated by some Rockets fans.

Have you lost your spectacles?

Back in the mid 80's when I first watched speedway a second tier heat number 1 would be a reserve in the top tier, that's how strong the BL was then.

I think you'll see Olly in the Rockets side next year

In those days a NL heat leader would be a reserve in the BL. Now EL sides are using PL reserves.

I'm partial to Rich's Farmhouse

The cider helps

That is the priority

Travelled three times to Somerset to see the Rockets score 26, 28 & 20 points. If we'd been there a fourth time I'd have gone again. I guess that makes me a mug too!