Rider Change for PLRC-An Opinion
Posted 17/09/04

Its the worst kept secret in Scottish speedway at the moment that Rory Schlein will be riding in the PLRC for Edinburgh on Sunday.

As Frede Schott is still listed in all the official announcements presumably his injury/illness will develop over the next 24 hours to allow Schlein to take his place.

Rory will definately be one of the favourites once it is confirmed he is riding and is one that Shane will have to watch. It will probably be a bigger surprise if Rory is not in the final.

This definately makes the field stronger and Shanes task harder but looking at the wider picture surely it is better for speedway as a whole that as strong as possible a field is assembled for such an event.

Instead of teams having to engineer injury/illness/other commitment, surely teams should be allowed to nominate any one of their top three for this event and stop the annual game of manipulating the rider qualifying.

Hey you never know the paying public might then get to know what is REALLY going on, which is probably why it will never happen.

Last year is an ideal example. At least James Grieves had the gall to appear but it would no doubt have strengthened the meeting if Glasgow had been able to nominate George Stancl instead.