If Northampton don't happen the might be a few riders without a team, Ipswich can't fit in Brennan, King, Rew, Lawson, Wright, Becker plus an out and out No1.

I agree they were both on a downward spiral. However Doyle has had 2 bad injuries in recent seasons & Emil for some reason really struggled with his engines last year. The biggest loss is their presence in the pits & interaction with the supporters. Lambert may well out score them but he doesn’t come across as a team player in the same way as those other 2.    Woffy I think will struggle to get to a 8 pt average.

Nobody expects him to do that.    Lawson and Charles Wright are earmarked for Northampton. 

I am not an Ipswich supporter though it is now my nearest track, though at the moment not nearest team but I suspect the fact that Richard Lawson, Danny King and Charles Wright have not been announced anywhere yet they may well be the engine room of an Ipswich team to be announced soon as I cannot believe that no other team would not want these riders unless they were committed elsewhere.  I know a lot of Ipswich supporters do not like Danny King but they are the idiots that expect him to be beating the number ones of the opposition, Danny is not a number one but a reliable three or four who has never let Ipswich down. 

Looking at the rider averages for each of the last three seasons on the BSPL website, there is a clear downward trajectory of Doyle and Sayfutdinov which suggests losing them isn’t quite the blow it first seems Doyle 2023- 9.88 GSA 9.24 2024- 10.00 GSA 9.29 (only seven meetings due to season ending injury in May) 2025- 8.69 GSA 7.91 Sayfutdinov 2023- 10.73 GSA 10.07 2024- 9.52 GSA 9.01 2025- 8.75 GSA 8.07 Now you wouldn’t refuse either back, but those stats suggest age and injury has caught up with them. Doyle hasn’t looked the same rider since that season ending crash at Lynn in 2024 and it’s quite an eye opener to see Emil averaging TWO points less last season than his first season here. ironically we finally ended up winning the title when they both had their poorest seasons by some distance!

It’s difficult to imagine that with the contacts and influence Mayfield undoubtedly has in the sport right now, that they don’t announce their purchase of a Premiership club with an eye catching number 1 signing. They’ll get one of the GP boys in surely.