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While the ideal situation would be signing a rider who can score how you've described, Howarth's replacement wouldn't need to be as good as that, or as good as Howarth, just better than a guest on an average of 6.22 or below. For example Antti Vuolas? If Glasgow were allowed an 8 point guest for Howarth for the rest of the season, I probably wouldn't have looked for a replacement.

I believe they only get a guest up to his average for 28 days, then it's a "75% guest".

Agree with your points, although with no asset system, he could leave for another team next year. Hard to plan long term investments these days, before considering the points limit or all the best riders going to Poland.

Conspiracy theory! Maybe Oxford knew that Kennett wasn't giving his all for them, so waited for Poole to sign a replacement before bringing Riss back? Their way of not letting Kennett take advantage of them?

I'm pretty sure they won't get an extra 5% at home, as its a "no facility" guest. Also r/r isn't allowed for a "no facilty" situation, has to be a guest. Not sure why that's the case, I see no reason why they can't use r/r for 75% of the missing riders average?

If they like the rule, they'll just change it so the top 9 (or 8 if no Workington) riders get split up, one per team. I'm pretty sure 8.00 was chosen as there were 9 riders above 8. Next year could be, each team picks a number one from this list: Pickering 10.39 Lawson 9.25 Wright 9.11 Masters 9.01 Klindt 8.81 Thompson 8.72 Jeppesen 8.45 Cook 8.39 Harris 8.29 Then if Klindt & Cook don't want to race in the Champ, add Howarth (if he comes back),Nicholls & Kildemand to the list, if Nicholls retires, then Flint is next in line. Could make the rule, no-one can sign a second heat leader, till every team has a number one?

Look at the amount of complaints that were made when Belle Vue signed Robert Lambert after the cut-off date, due to Max Fricke's injury. Maybe a 7 day grace period could be allowed for injuries / retirements after 75% of fixtures are completed, in this case Glasgow would get an extra few days to replace Hausl, but have had long enough to replace Howarth.

I'd be more worried about weakening the reserve berths. Maybe look for new 8 & 4 point riders. Not easy to find anyone at this stage of the season though.

Would have to be a multiple change as Cook has a higher average than Howarth & Glasgow are over the limit.

As Howarth retired rather than got injured, they should only have a facility for 28 days, then would have to be a 75% guest. They won't want to use a 6 point guest in the play-offs.

I don't like that comment, no need for it. Does he not realise, why clubs are delighted to beat Poole? It's because they are the best, it's a tribute to Poole that opposition teams & fans are so delighted to win against them.

If it's a legal change & fits under the averages, they should just announce it "subject to management committee approval" then if it was to be refused (for no reason) the management committee have nowhere to hide (from accusations of bias)

There's a few defending Havvy on FB, but I can't see how anyone can honestly believe he made the right decisions as TM today. If Kennett wasn't in heat 15, you could assume he may have been struggling with injury (the one that keeps his Oxford average down 🫢) but once he went in heat 15, it makes the heat 14 choice look really odd.

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A rider shouldn't be dictating to a team manager, guest or not. Of course not costly for Poole with regards to the league, but for any Poole fans in attendance, they should do their best to win.