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.

Rumour has it that the NDL is to be reduced to a six heat mini match as a second half attraction. I do hope this is wrong for many reasons. Less rides , no time to play with set ups, slick / bald/ rutted tracks….I can go on, let’s hope I don’t have too.

Disagree. If that’s the team, it’s a cracker IMO.

I've no horse in this race but that year the league was at its weakest ever dad's army were seven great riders but all at least a decade past their best take nothing away from what they achieved, but its a similar situation to when Leicester won the prem league. The league is still pretty weak now compared to the glory years but that year in particular was dire for team strenghts.

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..