It helps a great deal when you are not forced to make changes due to the rules, something Belle Vue have had to do year on year whereas Ipswich only once at the start of ‘26. Considering the amount of changes the witches have made when not required compared to the few The Aces have made out of necessity I cannot say continuity is a word I would associate with the witches.  There was the Covid year when Ipswich signed Jason Crump on an 8.21 average but as the season never happened it was carried over to 2021. When Louis saw his team didn’t fit he went to his cartel buddies and had Jason’s average changed to 8.00 rather than re jig his team as others had to. 😡 The only time recently that Belle Vue could have remained unchanged the cartel altered the limit forcing us into our regular change.    https://ipswichwitches.co/2020-witchesjason-crump/   https://britishspeedway.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/p21_issue_1.pdf        

Respect to Mark for the continuity, I just thought you'd make at least one more change in the 1-5 to bolster the spearhead.

Which would defeat the object of having them wouldn't it?.... If all you are doing is letting them ride against lesser riders it just says it isn't fit for purpose... If the aim is to make the top two tiers clearly different in standard, using the RS scheme in the top tier simply won't allow that to happen..

Id go for loftus as RS, although personally id scarp it all together till we have a bunch of riders that are ready, throwing these lads in this season will do more damage than good, unless they change the race format and they only face reserves and 2nd strings

Great 1 to 5, so much pressure on the reserves. If it faces the expected Poole team and other teams that are strength in depth it will be an intriguing matchup, not so much pressure on Masters and Brennan as Killeen and Howarth will certainly back them up

The jump has always been pretty big but the dropping of minimum average to 2.00 has seen a lot given places / chances that wouldn't have been if it was 3.00.  The reality is the gulf between the top at bottom at CL has been to high for a while, 10 point and 2 point riders in the same race is always going to create a big disparity...doesn't mean i know what the solution is though