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You also have to consider the crowd though, paying good money for some 1 lap races! They had a right a few years back, if you were losing a 5-1 & laid down for a re-run your partner started off 15m in the re-start!

I disagree, riding at number 6 gives you rides against the opposition's 1-6, plus he's had many r/r rides covering number 2 races! I don't see a great downturn coming in his form!

I guess that's more polite than saying, they're past it & should concentrate on Championship matches!

If they knew they were getting dropped they'd want to score maximums so another team signs them up!

Having heat 8 protected is pointless, unless your weakest reserve is at number 7! For example within the rules heat 8 could've consisted of Rory Schlein & Ryan Douglas vs Hans Andersen & Bjarne Pedersen / Chris Harris / Scott Nicholls! Does that heat need protecting?

I was wondering the same thing!

With all 6 Prem clubs racing a guest would have to be from the Champ?

With such a solid team, there's no reason not to use r/r for Ostergaard!

There's a few options to replace Bates: James Shanes, Dan Thompson, Alfie Bowtell, Nathan Greaves, Danyon Hume & Connor Bailey

It's easy to say with hindsight, but could've use Hans more earlier on to spread out his races! However by putting your weakest reserve at 6 & giving him the hard races (after heat 2) it limits your options for "tactical" reserve changes!

It'd be risky to hold a grudge as there's only 6 clubs to race for in the Prem!

Poor team managing?

I think it's a shame James Shane's hasn't been handed Sheffield's "rising star" berth, at his age / experience it must be his last season on the list?

Looking at the stats, Kemp is a NL rider at home & a 3rd heat leader away!

I'd go with: Home 1) Ulrich Ostergaard (r/r) 2) Chris Harris 3) Scott Nicholls 4) Michael P Toft 5) Bjarne Pedersen 6) Hans Andersen 7) Jordan Palin Away 1) Ulrich Ostergaard (r/r) 2) Michael P Toft 3) Scott Nicholls 4) Bjarne Pedersen 5) Chris Harris 6) Hans Andersen 7) Jordan Palin

My unofficial "weighted" averages Sam Masters 9.77 - 10.57 - 10.08 Jack Holder 10.67 - 8.00 - 9.56 Richard Lawson 9.85 - 8.46 - 9.31 Dan Bewley 8.71 - 9.10 - 8.98 Nick Morris 9.06 - 7.85 - 8.52 Rory Schlein 9.22 - 7.62 - 8.45 Bjarne Pedersen 8.56 - 7.30 - 8.07 Ulrich Ostergaard 8.50 - 7.58 - 8.00 Hans Andersen 8.00 - 8.00 - 8.00 Luke Becker 8.44 - 7.62 - 8.00

I think Leicester are stronger than Edinburgh. If you can beat Leicester home & away, shouldn't fear any other team!

This was an attempt at "weighted averages" for example, heat 2 in the Prem I counted for Championship aves & heat 13/15 in Champ I counted for Premiership aves!

Richard Lawson 9.20 - 9.66 - 9.36

I don't understand why number 2 is considered a tough position, to me it's no different from 3 or 4! 1&5 are the tough positions!

Surely Brennan must be able to guest for Wells, 4* equating to a 4.00 ave?

I tried to work a system for averages taking into account easier vs harder races & these are my stats: Home / Away / Overall Sam Masters 11.43 - 9.88 - 10.74 Bjarne Pedersen 9.78 - 10.80 - 10.14 Craig Cook 9.47 - 10.89 - 9.33 - 10.00 Scott Nicholls 10.20 - 9.71 - 9.92 Danny King 10.13 - 9.78 - 9.90 Nick Morris 10.36 - 9.09 - 9.73 Chris Harris 8.80 - 10.50 - 9.68 Steve Worrall 10.72 - 8.73 - 9.59 Josh Pickering 9.68 - 9.33 - 9.53 Richie Worrall 8.96 - 10.08 - 9.52

If there were riders on 8 + 5 averages available, it'd be a bad move to sign an 11.1 rider who won't hit that figure! But there wasn't many options out there!

Hurry was scoring less than 3 points a match & r/r less than 4 points a match, so Batchelor doesn't need to score 12 points a match to strengthen Kent! If he gets an 8.00 ave Kent will be stronger!

I don't feel the bottom end has considerably weakened. Even if it is weakened, as Hurry & r/r weren't scoring much, so Bachelor can match their scores & anything Mulford scores will be a bonus!