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Ranking who I think are the top "rising stars" 1-6: Tom Brennan, Connor Mountain, Leon Flint, James Shanes, Jordan Palin, Alfie Bowtell 7-12: Dan Thompson, Drew Kemp, Anders Rowe, Jack Thomas, Connor Bailey, Dan Gilkes. Enough talent for 2 x "rising stars" in Prem teams?

They needed to do it at least a week ago tbh!

1) is there a shortage of reserve riders currently, I wasn't aware of this? 2) regardless no rider would choose to share a spot with one team if another offered them a full time berth!

If it's based on the 1st Jan, Alfie Bowtell is still a rising star!

I believe Plymouth now have 8.58 or 7.81 remaining for the final rider (depending if Eastbourne's matches are removed from rolling aves) Ryan Douglas would be my choice!

Years ago riders could share a team berth, rule may have been dropped - but hasn't been announced! It's the same with doubling up, used to be 2 riders sharing a spot, then one rider only needed, but never announced 2 riders COULDN'T still share the team spot. I'm sure both Mulford & Ablitt would prefer a full season of Champ racing, but if no one else came in for them, may settle for half the matches?

The rules seemed to be based around Josh Bates fitting in: Under 25, or less than 3 seasons experience Prem ave below 5.50 (Bates was 5.20) Champ ave below 6.50 (Bates was 6.35) Riders like Luke Crang, Greg Blair & Tom Bacon qualified to due experience not age. Bates, Hume & Bowtell all turn 25 before next season starts. Of course the rules could've been changed without telling the fans?

I'm sure Danyon Hume is too old to be a rising star in 2022

Perhaps Mulford & Ablitt could both race in the NDL team & share a team spot in the Champ?

But that doesn't explain why Leon Flint & Jordan Palin carried on scoring well after moving into the top 5! Their form suggest the jump up from reserve isn't so hard?

If Birmingham have to race 20 meetings to make the rent pay, perhaps they could go though in every round of the KOC regardless of score & get a place in the play-offs regardless of league position? Wouldn't be the worst rule made in Speedway lol

How is Dan's average "inflated" because he spent half the season at reserve, but Joe's average isn't when he spent the whole season at reserve? Besides Dan's good scores came from the harder number 6 position, so the jump to second string shouldn't slow him down much! I'm not sure why his scoring tailed off so much?

If that's true Poole should offer him less money, he can't go back to Plymouth!

Because Morris is better now.

I don't think it's possible for any rider on a 2.00 Ave to be "any good" otherwise they wouldn't be a 2.00 rider! It's very possible to have a 2.00 rider who is very promising & likely to become "good" such as Mulford who averaged over 8 in his first full NL season

That's the Extraliga rules not letting them ride in multiple countries not Wroclaw's

Jason Edwards, Nathan Ablitt, Jake Mulford

My thoughts entirely, seems very negative to believe a team with no riders signed yet, won't beat a team with no riders signed yet!

James Sarjeant (4.16) would be my pick to complete that team!

As Ellis had a good year for Sheffield, it will be difficult for him to up his average! That's the only reason not to bring him back, which is a fault of speedway - doing well so losing your team spot!

Looks like title contenders

It's a forum, predictions, realistic or not are allowed!

Given Allen has a higher Champ ave than Palm-Toft, I'd be hoping he could bring that form into the Prem if signed?

While that makes sense, for Kennett the reverse could have happened, he was lucky to find a team spot I feel! Also what if the Craig Cook / track staff incident has happened this year? Could Cook ask to get the fine he paid back as the match "didn't happen"?

I get your point, but the points scored counted towards the averages till the season ended! So how can the matches count for averages then but not now? I know it's simpler to remove the matches after the season ends, but technically if they don't count should have been removed immediately!