Shadders

According to Nelsons Twitter page, his last Tweet on April 7th stated he was looking for his visa application to be accepted in June!

I've got a hunch you're not far off the mark me lord and that he's shelved his plans to race over here... The visa application story could be just a smokescreen he used to buy some time while weighing up his options. He may have had some partner pressure to stay in Australia. Who wants to travel half way round the world with a toddler to live in a caravan at a speedway track away from family and friends?

Personally I prefer to spend my hard earned money following the Rockets away from home. He is the curent NL Riders champion which suggests he is better than the vast majority of the NL boys

5.18 with bonus points, 4.47 without

Wish I hadn't asked now!!

Waco is 100% correct. This USA side look well out of their depth and will be lambs to the slaughter, especially with Ritche and JasonG in the Raiders side... Even if I wasn't out on a works do on Saturday I'd not turn up to watch this. I've been to a couple of these USA touring meetings and they were entertaining, but not with side's this weak. He's a PL second string riding on an NL reserves bikes

Do we still have to be within the 42.5 limit if we redeclare?

You had me worried there!!

He lost around a quarter of his weekly audience when Doyle left last year, the same could easily happen if Anders is let go.

11+1 last year from memory... Well impressed with him so far. My fear is that it'll be only for a short while.

I'm not the best at keeping up with other sides scores/averages etc...

Very impressed with Anders, nothing like what I was expecting... I thought we'd signed a 5 point reserve!

If I knew why he did what he did to Berwick last year I could attempt an answer!

You're going on his Newport form though. What about if he puts in the kind of efforts he did for the Bandits?

She's a babe!!

Gawd knows what the farmers are spraying the fields with out there

Well hopefully he can keep his average high enough for the Rockets to use a decent guest for him when we come up to Berwick!

it's not as if he wasn't trying at Somerset and Leicester, just his gating wasn't sharp enough.

I'd love to know thought that Ritchie wasn't gonna be the weak link... Are you sure you have the right team?

Looks to me like Chas may have the same mindset that he had when racing for Berwick last year. Strange that he totally upped his game when he signed for Newport... Just a theory, but perhaps Berwick and Rye House offered him guaranteed money (as I know Len does for all the rest of the side) plus money on top for extra points gained, whilst Newport were offering a different deal with less guaranteed and more money per point? I don't see Jordan as a number one, so we could have to rely on Chas to sort himself out and start riding like he did for the Wasps last year!

Going on previous experiences no!

I've not warmed to Chas yet, he needs to sort out his gating... I hope he's not doing a Berwick on us... Anders looks to be a fine signing, nothing like I was expecting... We have to find a way of keeping him, but I'm not hopeful after last years Doyle/Boxall scandal!

Forecast looks terrible... Odds on that this will be rained off.

Three old guys retired and weren't replaced... A few guys go sick and the whole place goes down the toilet!!

21 hours overtime last week!!