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Agree which is why I’d move heaven and earth to bring Ellis back too. We’ll still need another heatleader to back up Doyle though, King isn’t it. King is still excellent around Foxhall so absolutely fine as third heatleader, but is his 7.32 average too high for a third heatleader? Probably. You could still go Doyle, King, Ellis and another heatleader, but the fifth member of the top five will probably have to be a sitting duck. Doyle King Ellis Brennan +1 We could actually really do with Cairns as the number 6 three pointer to save points for the top five.

I wouldn't swap Doyley for any other HL in this League tbh. If we want to challenge you guys then we have to adopt the Belle Vue formula in building a side that will win very heavily at Home.

I imagine the difficulty with indoor meetings is finding a venue, after Braintree they did run a couple at an equestrian place up near Chris Walkers but as far as I know none since. The 4TT is a good idea, don't know if anybody has done team racing but would be interesting to see how it was received.

Reduction will be more if compound interest formula is used, almost 40%

Harrison has had to cope with riding at no.5 for Scunny for much of the season, so not too bad for a young rider.

Crackers!

Personally I'd go with Joe Thompson rather than Anders Rowe and have Anze Grmek/Jordy Loftus/Niklas Holm Jakobsen/Ryan Ingram instead of Smith/Foord.

'Returning British Professionals: Returning British professionals can apply for an 8% reduction in their starting average for every season they have missed out of the sport, helping them secure team places.' so 8+8+8+8+2.5% = 34.5% 4.80 - 34.5% = 3.14. 1 Leon Flint 8.25 2 Freddy Hodder 3.31 3 Chris Harris © 7.93 4 Anders Rowe 6.39 5 Dan Thompson 7.55 6 James Shanes 3.14 7 Smith/Foord Is that how it works?

So, James Shane's last Championship average was 4.80 for Birmingham in 2022. What reductions would be be entitled to? The standard 2.5% Brit reduction, but also 8% for missing more than a season? A bit like Ablitt for Scunthorpe last season, except he only 'missed' one season. Or is it 8% for each season he's missed? If his average is low enough Glasgow could go with: 1 Leon Flint 8.25 2 James Shanes ???? 3 Chris Harris © 7.93 4 Anders Rowe 6.39 5 Dan Thompson 7.55 6 Freddy Hodder 3.31 7 Jack Smith 3.04 It would have to be lower than 3.53. If not, you could swap Jack Smith for a 2.00er (Harry Fletcher? Senna Summers?) and Shane's average will surely fit then. It would ensure that strong top 4 with a solid enough bottom 3. Jack Smith may never be better than a Championship reserve, but he'll be fine down at number 7 and has had 5 point averages in the past, Freddy is Freddy and I feel like James Shanes could really increase whatever average he's given and he's good mates with Bomber from the longtrack.

Cairns average isn’t good value? I’m shocked at some of the comments about Cairns surely he should be one of the first names on the team sheet! 6 and a half point average in his first year, comfortably outperforming Rushen, and you and others see his average as “poor value”? I don’t get it. He’s 17 years old! There’s another point on that 6 and a half this time next year.

Whoosh!

1 Charles Wright © 8.68 2 Jake Mulford 5.13 3 Jason Edwards 6.28 4 Jody Scott 6.00 5 Danny King 7.76 6 Ace Pijper 4.15 7 Charlie Southwick 2.00 40.00

Not distinctly average at all, still a young lad learning his trade and one of the UK’s brightest young prospects! Plenty more to come from him next season

Jody Scott's been out in Poland practicing at Torun!!

Well known by yourself. The previous season i admit there were issues. This season, nothing.

What? Nobody's?😂

The California State Speedway Championship Final at the tapes (inside - outside): Broc Nicol, Slater Lightcap, Billy Janniro, Austin Novratil. The finishing order was Nicol, Lightcap, Novratil, Janniro.

Absolutely.

Can't find a link for it out of interest who were the top four ?

I agree it can be as good as any speedway meeting but the hurdle to get over is that most speedway followers prefer team racing and hence few tracks now host individual meetings. It is competitive sport and really would be good if tracks held shared events with speedway and flat track on the billing. One other thought, how about flat track riders getting together to form teams and compete in say 4TT in addition to the individual meetings. It also lends itself well to indoor meetings, many many years back an indoor meeting was held in Braintree and the racing was great.

Simon lambert has been told he isn’t in the plans for next season

Nilsson wouldn’t be a number one. But could be an astute signing. I think it’s going to be Doyle musielak and king as our top 3

Hasn't it always been the premiership and Championship agree their rules and the development league is announced completely separately?

If they had Put me in charge of the whole national league like i should of been 13 years ago and we would never have got in to the non entity it has become today, unfortunately thst ship has sailed for me now

So … according to this BSPL statement, the AGM has been postponed, and it doesn’t decide anything anyway! The most worrying thing is the number of teams: “The AGM itself does not directly determine the structure of the sport for the following season as discussions regarding 2027 and beyond have been taking place for some time, and both Premiership and Championship clubs continue to work to formalise arrangements.” both Premiership and Championship clubs - there’s only two!?