And what some clubs have indicated in the interim meetings during the year hasn't always matched their internal intentions...

No team assets now. Riders are all self-employed. 

Its stands to reason, as in most other sports, that the best teams last longer in competitions and therefore will play against each other more times. It amuses me that people say why are we seeing Poole / Glasgow / Redcar / Oxford / Sheffield / Ipswich / Belle Vue again. It's because they keep winning..!

Dan had set back when he broke his wrist otherwise he would have upped his average even more.He was the main man in his partnership with Flint who he guarded in a lot of their Heats.

I struggle to think of many who he won't beat? Masters and Lawson maybe, possibly Harris & Wright at a push, not much else. This is a rider who put 1.5 points on his average this year, I'd back him to comfortably beat the likes of Kemp, Worrall (if he rides), Batchelor, etc. Tom Brennan improved in a similar way at Glasgow and then averaged 9+ the season after. I think Thompson is a relatively slow burner but is going to be a very, very good rider.

Tai not riding in U.K. next year.