Cookie your remembering the Ippo 98 team and the halycon days of the Cowboy, Siggy and Donkey by current day standards thats a decent team but it does make you realise when people say that's a good team how far the sport has fell, Ippo 98 and Cradley 84 were proper great teams.

It's nonsense isn't it?... We have averages for the riders, but we won't always use them..  When you don't use what is already there you then get subjectivity, which then, understandably, leads to questions of integrity... Riders have an average, gained by what they did, and could have gained that average in a league with a higher standard then today, or maybe weaker, we won't be able to tell, hence subjective reappraisal is done... Regardless of any time lapsed the average you last delivered should be the one you ride again on, as basically the UK end up rewarding riders for giving it a miss... The sport needs to be far, far more transparent..      

That's an interesting slant on this. If you go to Oz, do you think they'd say "A lot of Aussies have no interest in Brady (or Jason or Josh etc). He might as well be English"? I think not.

If it just over five to play with better hope Buster isn't speed dialling Castanga.

If it ends up being the side I’ll be disappointed. Given the Wroclaw tie up I’d have been expecting better than Riss & Nilsson.

If people had to wait for official announcements then you may as well close down this forum!!