BZ Mauger  P Karlsson

The big stars can bring crowds in, but I’d suggest the repetition somewhat knocks that on the head. If Emil Sayfutdinov (for example) was coming to my track once a season and I absolutely had to be there on that night to see him I’d get it. But last season he went to some away tracks three, maybe four times. It’s not so much of a novelty when the big name is back in town again in a few weeks.  This is one of the benefits of a larger league, you don’t race the same teams two to three times at home a season.  The damage is done and probably too hard to rectify in the short term but seeing the same old faces week in, week out in both divisions is a contributing (one of many) factor to the decline of the sport on the whole. 

Agreed, he found his level a few years ago, hasn't got the technical style to improve much, said this when he was at Ipswich. 

Jake Allen is no more than a 6.50-7.00 rider and has been for years and much the same as palm Toft now,no huge improvement in either of them.

Think there is improvement in his average ref Jake.

I'm not really sure why knowing the final averages a few weeks earlier we could assist when they have 5 months to pick a team tbh. Just find it strange if they don't include all the matches.