IainB

Jesus Christ! Where's the skill in that? I'd go for rock, paper, scissors ahead of the hat

That's exactly the type of thing but it needs tweaking for me as some of the Poles are rated far too high, Koldziej, Pawlicki, Janowski, Hampel, Drabik & Kubera shouldn't be anywhere near the SGP

That would be the most reliable source for riders who can ride Polish tracks, but this is a World Championship, we've seen this year with the likes of Janowski, Lampart, Pawlicki & Milik that being able to ride the Polish tracks doesn't mean guaranteed success everywhere else. Do you have a link to the list you mention?

That still comes down to "picks" though and is also country dependent, who are the 15 best riders in the world? I'm sorry to single him out as he's a top lad but Is Paco Castanga (averaging 5.98 in the CL) better than Jaimon Lidsey, Szymon Wozniak, Martin Vaculik, Luke Becker, Jacob Thorssell, Benjamin Basso, Rohan Tungate, Tom Brennan or Kim Nilsson? Who have failed to qualify, Paco qualified from Lonigo, his local track. Other riders who didn't even make it to that, well you could probably name at least 30 riders who you'd place ahead of Paco. I stress this is nothing against Paco, before all the Paco brigade start complaining, it just shows that the whole qualification process needs a shake up imo based on rider performances in different country's.

Well, that's "a" list of riders I suppose, but we may as well use @Barrow Boy 2list that he puts up. That's just the FIM's opinion and you could argue about who should and shouldn't be on it until the cows come home.

Averages don't come into effect until tomorrow though, I think?

I'm not sure assets are really still a thing are they?

Should there be a different way of qualifying for the SGP series? At the moment a lot of it seems to be based on opinion and where a riders qualification round is ridden. Is the SGP series any the poorer this season without the likes of Janowski, Dudek, Fricke & Thomsen? Judging by Janowski and Fricke's form this year, for me, no. Will the series be any the poorer next year without Woffinden? Will he get a pick again? Should he have been in it this year? Who are the top 15 riders in the world? Would Holder and Bewley be in the series if the ruskies hadn't have been thrown out or world they still be bumbling about in the qualifiers? Should the likes of Paco Castanga be 5 rides away from a SGP spot because his qualifier was ridden on his home track? Is it right that the SEC champion gets an SGP spot, a competition that is not open to non European competitors? Other sports have published world rankings (Tennis/Golf/Darts/Snooker), should Speedway do the same and base SGP qualification on these rankings? I'm not quite sure how you'd work it out, that's for somebody cleverer than me. But you could have world ranking events where you score ranking points for competing and based on your finishing position, national championships, SoN/SWC, PCMT, Czech Golden Helmet etc. Also points for league averages every month. It'll never happen of course... but it's nice to dream

Yes, I do seem to remember an incident with Blackburn

Sounds very much like Beaumont Park

Oh No! Has he got to go as well

Obviously it's never going to happen but I'll play the game... and we're working with the scraps again, so: Robert Lambert Richard Lawson Martin Vaculik Mikkel Michelsen Szymon Wozniak Simon Lambert A.N. Other (Hagon can stay, give the lad a chance) PS. don't come back and bother me with averages (unless, of course, it all fits, in which case you can praise me for assembling an amazing title contending team)

And you were absolutely spot on!

Fortunately I'm still blocked from Lions Twitter/X Maybe it should have read... Captain and ex-Wolves contingent let Lions down again as they roll over against a severely weakened Ipswich team

Perhaps it's actually Richie in disguise I wonder how long Brum will take to make an announcement? The poll has leveled up somewhat after Pawlicki shot into a seemingly unassailable lead early on. Pawlicki 47% Cook 9% Worrall 26% Lampart 18% I'm fearing for Zach Cook https://x.com/iainebrown/status/1795364872894792110?s=19

https://x.com/workycomets/status/1795870007244595284?s=19

You say that but we have lost 3 home matches so far this season.

4 heat winners, 3 of them from Lawson, against a make shift Ippo team... let down by our Wolves in sheep's clothing again. Ippo should have been there for the taking, especially on a weather effected track. Keep Lawson... bin the rest! We'll have a Birmingham scrap come Monday...

They can't get that many in then... I thought these stock car meetings were always packed to the rafters

"Son of a Batch" has just beaten our captain!

What a ride from Woffy!

But what is Batch?

They're showing King, Ellis & Doyle riding... kind of expect better from BSN

Do they open up the back straight for stock cars?

The P45 is in the printer and ready to go in the morning, don't forget you can still vote for whose name should be on it here: https://x.com/iainebrown/status/1795364872894792110?s=19