phillwhitewasmad

A rule ain't a rule till it's officially a rule

Looking at the list 2004 seems to of nee a productive year for riders. With at least 9 of those riders coming through Neil Vatcher's youth program, all the other years seem to have similar numbers, with the increased points limit the league is actually easier to get into for higher average riders than the last couple of years even if a team picks a 12 point rider still scope to have a decent team . would also like to know the team who was interested in joining or is it just hear say.

Fantastic post I personally believe riders should be graded at the start of the year for team allocation and should be regraded at the halfway stage of the season. With riders only being able to go up or down 1 grade regardless of the points they are averaging. exactly as you say there should never be a kyran v anders race if one is a heat leader and the other a reserve should be heat leaders v heat leaders and heat leaders v second strings. The others should then be second strings v second strings , reserve's v reserves and reserves v second strings. Riders should race the grade above or below only . Grading should be A heat leaders ,B second strings , C reserves , D reserves in first season or not achieved a 3 point real time average during previous season. D graded riders should stay at that grade all year

Are you sure as you quote what are the old rules . It's been muted that it's potentially being opened up to commonwealth riders as well

Just give the money to the save Mildenhall fund

Well you can have it from the horses mouth no big money chucked at my rider. We declined more from others for his services

Hook third at that level, and Edinburgh holding NDL to ransom if they can't use him

God looking side is that

Sonny is only just 14 so not old enough

Yep. Ours are not done by mail a little fella drops it off in his car every Thursday only late once which was a Friday since going to subscription. Brilliant service

Ours arrived as usual on time this morning

Thought Lee worked on railways so hardly full time maybe they could go when he's on strike again

Not a bad guess

No idea but hope he's not on the list was poor last time

Want to bet a £10 he's not

There's a go fund me on Mildenhall Facebook page come on people we all despair at the loss of tracks Chuck in what you can and help save another track.

Well could be a possibility

How's that then when they didn't make the playoffs this season

Play off meetings only count for riders who have not yet achieved an average. So Ashtons meetings count and Adam's don't , this was a major discussion point for a few young riders

Surely Archie Freeman is the 2 pointer after signing on a full contract

No idea if it's true but threw it in there as teams are building with 2 point riders and Ben is local and a 2 pointer

Is there a chance local lad Ben trigger could get a reserve berth

Any news for the masses come out of the management meeting

If you read the article the role is not really a leadership role

In fairness I don't feel he's doing a great job but do think he's doing the best he can with the hand he's dealt. All the clubs closing down are not his fault but the fault of poor ownership and unscrupulous other individuals or those just wanting to cash in on an asset they own . There are no improvements that have been made but don't feel this can be aimed at the individual it's more about the collective who in the main only concentrate on their individual business and not the sport in general. You can lead a horse to water but can't make it drink