If Nilsson is 4.5 then give Ippo the title now!! 😀

IF Nilsson is on 4.5, didn't other team's have the opportunity to tempt him over?

It wouldn't be a shock would it??. Obviously nothing has been confirmed yet, however, it does look like a current GP rider is being assessed as just 50% better than a RS... A quite ludicrous situation, however, as with so many things they do, they paint themselves into a corner by over complicating things, and end up adding more and more additions for what is, after all, just a team sport... If only they spent as much time promoting and marketing the sport as they do writing, and rewriting, rules and regs...  

Said on the King press release more in the coming days and weeks so they’re obviously going to spread out the announcements. Probably get another during the week. 

Any predictions for the team line up next season??

Oxford are the stronger top 3, what progress Flint, Thompson and Kileen do or don't make will determine who is the stronger top 4. The big question is what back up can these clubs give their top 4? Big pressure on the top 4 to deliver heat wins unless they can find a bottom 3 to punch above their weight. Both could lose a lot of 5-1s in heats 2 and 8, putting pressure on their 3 and 4 pairing to deliver heat advantages to get them in position to win in heats 13 and 15. I suspect that both are too top heavy to win the playoffs.