Perhaps next year. I know how you feel it’s gutting when it’s your birthday and the wife forgets to make you a cake🤣

All this reminds me of Hackney 1988. Team wins the league in a class of their own. During the close season the team gets ripped apart ( funnily enough half of them go to Ipswich). Three years late Hackney closed.  

Sheffield 2023. Overall. Jack Holder            9.40 Tobiasz Musielak    9.35 Tai Woffinden          9.12 Away Tobiasz Musielak        8.50 Tai Woffinden              8.33 Jack Holder                8.00 That doesn't suggest if motivated and in a competitive team that Musielak will struggle to win heats home & away.

Scrap the Team. Pile up the Top 5 and get a Rider like Mitch McDiarmid in @ No.6.   1. T. Brennan 7.05 2. D. King 6.50 3. R. Lawson 6.81 4. N. Klindt 6.46 5. T. Musielak 6.63 6. M. McDiarmid 3.45 (5.18 divided by 1.5) 7. J. Edwards (RS) = 36.90

You can probably get away with a 6 team league, but no more than that. There’s a few that could come back in if they’ve been given enough notice namely Doyle, Becker, Ellis. But they would only help team five and Six be a bit more competitive rather then get a seventh or eighth team competing. 

I've tried to remain positive this winter but I'm now very concerned to a point where the damage could be irreversable for Mayfield tbh. Fans have hit boiling point before the season has even begun so they simply aren't going to put up with a poorly built 1-7 that gets hammered every week, Fans don't have any patience left and nobody can blame them. I get options are limited but you can still put together a better side than the one that's rumoured which would put up a better fight to nick 3rd Place. You've still got riders like Nicolai Klindt available who can score big points around King's Lynn and Leicester as well as Ipswich. What's the point in having a No.6 on a GSA around the 4.50 mark unless it's a Rider who's going to put in Leon Flint 2025 type scores every week? It goes against everything what a strength in depth side should be. It's not even a side built to win at Home if the No.6 isn't a Rider who'll score a minimum of 8-10 Points consistently around Foxhall. The blame also lies with Chris Louis if the rumoured undercooked 1-7 becomes factual.....No free pass this time.