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I honestly don't think the Birmingham team is THAT bad, it's just I don't see much improvement likely in the team, while Morris is almost certain to drop his average. As well as Pearson needing to put 1.5 on his 2022 average to reach his 4.00 mark. Hopefully Birmingham will have enough in the tank to win 46-44 at home to keep the fans happy.

Not really Dan's home 5.73 (6.64) vs away 4.37 (5.02) is reasonably close. Compare that to Joe at home 5.62 (6.64) vs away 1.94 (2.71) who did get a team spot. Sadly it's the likes of Kemp & Dan T doing too well that has cost them a team spot.

I can see 8 clubs fighting for the 6 play-off spots, unfortunately for Brummies fans, your team is the only one I see as not being in contention!

Berwick are the only Champ team racing on a Saturday & no senior teams race on a Sunday, so there should be very few issues with rider availability on weekends.

You mention averages for new commonwealth riders, but what about riders who are not new to the Britain, Hook & Pearson for example?

I did notice that, certainly hope the weather plays ball & we don't have to run on till the end of October again.

I certainly hope KOC & BSN fixtures are raced while there are plenty of spare dates. No excuse for all the finals to be in October again (that wouldn't surprise me lol)

Very useful racing in the NL as well or the fixture list would look very empty

I'd certainly have used Kemp ahead of Mulford at Belle Vue. While Mulford is promising he's still only a 2.00 Champ rider, compared to Kemp being 5+

The problem is what do you do with these riders the following season? I'll use Edinburgh for an example, in 2015 they signed Clegg & Branford on 3.00 aves (lowest available). They both upped to about 3.50. In 2016 each team had to sign a 3.00 rider, so Edinburgh had to drop one of the two riders who had just improved from 3 to 3.5!

The problem is Kemp has a higher average than the riders you mentioned. If he had a poorer season (as many think he had) he may have got their team spots!

I agree, I don't think Wolves are a bad side. I was replying to your first comment about Zach needing to hit the ground running this year. For me Wolves strength is their solid top 5 & RS

He could well be the weakest number 6 in the league (of signed riders) so don't think Wolves can expect much from him. If Cook can reach his 4.00 assessed ave, he'll have done well for me.

I'd say Jason Doyle, Jack Holder, Ipswich fans, Sheffield fans, Lublin fans, Krosno fans, Aussie fans, I could go on

Not sure I agree with that rule, as most of the Brits who are missing out all have averages above 4.00. I know there has to be a cut off somewhere, but you could get a 4.01 Brit getting dropped for a 3.99 Brit?

I'm previous years the Pairs (& fours) have been held as a one-off event, so unless it was held on a Championship track, 3 legs spreads out the home advantage. I probably would've suggested every track host a round, except clubs in the NL, as they already have more fixtures?

Bowtell at Plymouth 7.33 (8.83) was a heat leader. Bowtell away from home 2.43 (2.57) was a weak reserve. Hopefully for Birmingham's sake he can ride Perry Barr well.

Think you'll be surprised by Complin, I'm expecting him to up his average this year

You probably are lol!

FIVE year plans get dropped after one season, so there's no reason to believe a 2 year plan would be any different

Batchelor is better than Cook at the moment, so would strengthen Peterborough. I'm the future I'm sure Cook will improve but I'm not sure he'd overtake Batchelor in 2023.

Can't see that happening tbh. With rolling averages going back to 20 matches, it would take a while for Andersen's average to drop, I'd also say Cook could average about 4.7/4.8 (below Hans current ave).

Don't understand the anti James Shanes comments by many, anyway I can only see Redcar riders upping their averages, so can't imagine how they would be able to bring in Dan T for Shanes!

Someone obviously read my post about how confusing it looked & decided to fix it. Not sure how a "professional" sport would have proof read it first. I do notice in the Championship section it still mentions dropping the matches down to 10.

As RoundTheBoards says, if he's allowed to represent GB should be a 2.00 Champ or 3.00 NL rider, not sure how he gets a 4.50 average?