NeilWatson

The facility for an absent No 6 (by riding number) is a guest if not an EDR, and an EDR guest if an EDR SR Art 17.6

New green sheets are issued fortnightly for riders with an established MA. Once an EDR has completed 2 home and 2 away he gets an established MA which will be recalculated fortnightly. Riders with an assessed average will get an established MA after 4 home and 4 away, and will then be reassessed two-weekly. There will be numerous Green sheets in the early weeks of the season, but this will settle down as the reserves and assessed riders pass their milestone.

The facility available for a missing rider 4th or 5th in the averages is rider replacement only.

Wrong, twice, on the same point. Our team is built with three riders from the 'heatleader list', two EDR riders from the 'EDR list' and two other riders, with a maximum of two double-up riders in the 1-5 and a maximum of three from the HL list. Edit - total for 1-7 is 40.5 points Our team will line up for the first meeting with the three highest averaged riders at 1,3 and 5, and the next two highest averages at 2 & 4. In our case the two will be the same, but that is not necessarily the case.

I apologise, my choice of words wasn't the best.

Your humorous, positive support will be greatly missed.

We missed an opportunity to choose a rider in the EDR draft who wasn't even part of the process? How stupid of us......

If you were at the NSSC meeting last week you would know what was said, if you're relying on second-hand gossip you're pretty much guaranteed to be misled........

I'm happy to comment on factual information relating to my own Club, and put right incorrect statements made here about the Bees. That's as far as it goes.

7.37

Garrity 5.08, Bates 3.26, Sarjeant 3.00 While Aaron's average might fit, we already have our two double-up riders........

Then you would be wrong.

Not sure how you come to that conclusion. I know exactly our demographic for EL attendances, as that information was collected via the turnstiles. It was not for the Storm.

7.37 left. We now have our three heat-leaders and both double-uppers so the final signing will be a full-time EL second string.

It's implicit in a single-tier admission policy that we don't know the status of individual fans - other than them being over 16........

It's a single-tier admission policy......... Nineteen or ninety, they're a fan!

Persecution? Don't be ridiculous. We have had a single-tier admission policy for the Coventry Storm since its inception without any criticism at all, our admissions policy for 2016 simply extends this to the senior team.

Oh, not again.......:-)

It can't be a double-up rider or an EDR, nor a rider already declared to another Club. Other than that, it could be pretty much anyone.

We could be in a position to increase our declared 2016 team by 20% in the next day or so.......

Never been in the place - internet research!

Wolverhampton keeps cropping up, so let's do a comparison. Adults are £1 more expensive at Wolves Concessions will be £4 cheaper at Wolves 13-18 years pay £7 at Wolves, so either £2 or £7 more expensive at Wolves 6-12 years are £1 more expensive at Wolves It seems to me that it is pretty much impossible not to watch speedway more cheaply at Coventry in 2016 than in 2015 unless you are a solo Senior, and we simply could not offer the extensive benefits to the majority of our fans without impacting on this group to the tune of £3 per meeting. (Apologies to Wolves for using you as an example) To put this into perspective, I see that a large Cappuccino at Starbucks costs £2.95....

Full-time education confirmed by the institution, night-school or flower-arranging classes don't count!

Who mentioned the IMF? My reference is to the IFS, a completely different body.

A great deal of thought went into this revision, the following information from the highly respected IFS may be of interest: The current generation of pensioners is better off than ever before, and for the first time have incomes higher on average than the rest of the population, the director of the Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) Paul Johnson will say in giving the inaugural Pensions Management Institute annual lecture later today (18.30 Tuesday 20 Oct 2015). Johnson will set out how modelling by IFS researchers suggests that pensioners’ incomes will continue to rise for at least the next decade. However, it is unlikely that later generations will do as well. Future state pensions will be less generous on average, there has been an extraordinary fall in rates of home ownership, and, in the private sector, a collapse in membership of defined benefit occupational pension schemes. Younger generations are also likely bearing some of the cost of these generous occupational pension schemes from which they themselves will never benefit. Johnson will also use his lecture to outline some policy priorities for making state and private pensions more stable and sustainable, for example ending the so called triple lock on the state pension and bringing stability to the taxation of private pensions. Drawing on work by IFS researchers, Johnson will show how: Pensioners now have higher incomes on average than the rest of the population, once housing costs and family composition are taken into account. Pensioners’ incomes have continued to rise post-recession as the incomes of working-age households have fallen.. (Cont). No doubt there will be individuals who don't fit this general view, but our view is that a concessionary rate for seniors is no longer appropriate. We have however made a much bigger investment in making speedway more affordable for families and juniors, and the majority of the feedback I have had so far supports this action.