Plymouth 2027

[Paddy The Rebel]

10 minutes ago, Marky_Mark said:

Nearly a point and a half under the limit then?

Was just guna check then as I thought they had room for 6-7pts at reserve with the rumoured top 5.

[lewy]

22 minutes ago, Speedwaywinner1993 said:

Plymouth will look like this for 2027 

2027 Speedway calendar

 

 

Scott Nicholls, Tobias Thomsen, Ben Barker, Joe Thompson, Troy Batchelor, Vinnie Foord.  Then a 2 pointer to finish. 
 

tell me I’m talking utter rubbish but I’ll be here when the team gets announced to watch you eat some humble pie. 
 

it’s all about who you know and who you work with to get the inside knowledge 👍 soon as I hear of the 7th rider I will let you know 

You will be a fat **** the amount of pie you will be eating i reckon 

[Youhave2minutes]

17 minutes ago, lewy said:

You will be a fat **** the amount of pie you will be eating i reckon 

Thought Nichols had his last season in 2026

[Doners123]

49 minutes ago, Speedwaywinner1993 said:

Plymouth will look like this for 2027 

 

Scott Nicholls, Tobias Thomsen, Ben Barker, Joe Thompson, Troy Batchelor, Vinnie Foord.  Then a 2 pointer to finish. 
 

tell me I’m talking utter rubbish but I’ll be here when the team gets announced to watch you eat some humble pie. 
 

Upskill Teams

 

it’s all about who you know and who you work with to get the inside knowledge 👍 soon as I hear of the 7th rider I will let you know 

Do you prefer your pie warm or cold you’ll need two. 5/7 correct.

[Youhave2minutes]

1 minute ago, Doners123 said:

Do you prefer your pie warm or cold you’ll need two. 5/7 correct.

With custard or cream?

[Doners123]

Just now, Youhave2minutes said:

With custard or cream?they can have one with each on. 

[Paddy The Rebel]

15 minutes ago, Doners123 said:

Do you prefer your pie warm or cold you’ll need two. 5/7 correct.

I’d assume Foord not at Plymouth then,as that top 5 picks itself.

[torpointfanatic22]

On 11/9/2026 at 10:23 AM, lewy said:

Daniel klima released by plymouth 

That's a shame as I thought Klima showed some promise and was value for some improvement next season having seen all the UK tracks now. I'm sure plenty of reasons but a shame that both he and Anze, who we brought in and gave them their first full year to look at the tracks will now move on and other clubs will likely get the benefit.

[torpointfanatic22]

16 hours ago, Speedwaywinner1993 said:

Plymouth will look like this for 2027 

 

Scott Nicholls, Tobias Thomsen, Ben Barker, Joe Thompson, Troy Batchelor, Vinnie Foord.  Then a 2 pointer to finish. 
 

tell me I’m talking utter rubbish but I’ll be here when the team gets announced to watch you eat some humble pie. 
 

Upskill Teams

 

it’s all about who you know and who you work with to get the inside knowledge 👍 soon as I hear of the 7th rider I will let you know 

If true, it's a really poor side and will show that Garry has forgotten what a winning side looks like. 

Year after year we see the teams that make the playoffs or go onto win the league find a way to improve their overall team average from the start of the season to the end. Poole put over 5 points on their team average last season, Scunny over 3 points. What a shock they made the final.

In that team you have riders with massively inflated averages due to home form (Nicholls and Barker especially) and regression. We need improvers, I appreciate that's hard to come by.

Love Scotty and Barker is great at Plymouth but it's time to freshen it up. Batchelor is a shrewd move as he rides Plymouth well and Thompson is slowly getting better. Away from that I'd leave the rest. If we could get Thomsen at reserve then I'd be inclined to give him a shot but not in the main body. I don't know enough about Foord but he's been around a while and still on a 3.38 average tells me he's unlikely to all of a sudden improve massively.

I'd quite like us to take a look at a couple of lads who Oxford won't be having back in Wood and McDiarmid. I think both have improvement in their starting averages and have showed flashes at Plymouth to show they could dial in. 

 

 

 

[Marky_Mark]

It doesn’t show that Garry has forgotten how to build a winning side at all.

Garry has to work to the budget he’s given, and deal with running on a Saturday night which doesn’t suit a lot of riders.

I’m sure we can all pick a decent side but that’s playing fantasy speedway without the limitation/budgets all these managers have to work to 

[Doners123]

You’ve wrote Gary off from a team that he hasn’t even announced yet. 
 

wait and see what the team looks like and then judge. Most important thing this season is to have a team that wins as many meetings at home and try and pick up some bonus points. That gets you in to the play offs. 
 

if it is the top 5 that is above then they should be fairly strong at Plymouth. On top of this reserves if they can score 6-8 points at home which I think if it’s the potential reserves they should be able to do at home. 
 

 

[torpointfanatic22]

27 minutes ago, Marky_Mark said:

It doesn’t show that Garry has forgotten how to build a winning side at all.

Garry has to work to the budget he’s given, and deal with running on a Saturday night which doesn’t suit a lot of riders.

I’m sure we can all pick a decent side but that’s playing fantasy speedway without the limitation/budgets all these managers have to work to 

Oh of course we can, it's a bit of fun, hence we call it silly season, and if we want to all be realistic we can be, but we're fans and lots of fans will like to talk about the team they'd like without looking at the details behind it all (that's the managers job).

[torpointfanatic22]

13 minutes ago, Doners123 said:

You’ve wrote Gary off from a team that he hasn’t even announced yet. 
 

wait and see what the team looks like and then judge. Most important thing this season is to have a team that wins as many meetings at home and try and pick up some bonus points. That gets you in to the play offs. 
 

if it is the top 5 that is above then they should be fairly strong at Plymouth. On top of this reserves if they can score 6-8 points at home which I think if it’s the potential reserves they should be able to do at home. 
 

 

Perhaps I have and lets hope he brings us some great surprises.

Successful sides have a history of keeping meetings close(ish) away while winning at home.

Last season we lost two meetings at home in the league and that probably cost us a playoff spot. We also lost half our away matches by 12 or more points that cost us bonus points. The top 5 suggested is worse than what we had last season imo (and forums are all about opinions at the end of the day). We're always going to have meetings where riders have off days or we take a pasting against a very good side at their place but my view is the riders being suggested have had their day (in a number of the cases) and we need riders who can compete and win on any track and ultimately improve their averages.

Take Scotty for example, top bloke, great rider in his day and can still pull out a top performance. Brilliant at home but his away average last season was 6.52 and he was getting beat by reserves away from home, that isn't acceptable from a number one, it just isn't.