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Not necessarily. Craig Cook on 4.92 is making more and more sense to me. A risk sure because of his reliability with his health issues but on that figure that risk is minimal. Cook at 2 with Doyle will still enable us to sign another heatleader on an average of just over 7 if Riss is also returning. Other than Cook, I don’t see another 5 pointer worth signing unless it’s a newcomer from abroad.

6.41 is certainly a better figure than the 7.76 he started with 12 months ago. Sensible to bring him back on that figure.

Probably be one of the returnees. I’ll go for Riss.

You have two of the biggest improvers there though. Jakobsen and Pickering are on false averages. Pickering was averaging nearly 8 at one point.

Next signing tomorrow morning.

He sounds absolutely ecstatic

His home average is pretty poor. Maybe the Poole track doesn’t suit him?

Why? There’s a rather unsavoury witch hunt going on over in the championship threads over young Drew which is a bit out of order. Absolutely fine not to rate a rider, I don’t rate Zach Cook for example, but some of the stuff being said about Kemp is rotten.

Not convinced with that signing at all. The lad finished with a lower average than Kemp in the Championship. After the reserves being their achilles heel this year I thought they’d have built with a strong reserve at 6 this time but obviously not.

Me too.

Probably tomorrow morning I’d say.

Was going to say exactly that. Using the time it takes as a reason not to get an e ticket is a dreadful excuse.

I’d actually take a punt on Allen on a 4.00 and chuck him in at 2 ONLY if we then went and signed a top heat leader to support Doyle. We’re gonna need a low averaged rider or even two in the main 1-5 if we’re to add strength up top so why not Allen.

Rew just seems to have enough on his plate with plenty going on and flying in and out of the country. Not quite sure if adding Championship fixtures on top appeals all that much. Could well be wrong but we’ll see.

Didn’t Rew have a bad injury though that would almost certainly have slowed down his development? How long was he out for? I genuinely have no idea.

Couldn’t agree more I noticed that too. Always had plenty of time after meetings with the kids taking photos and signing autographs and came across as very kind.

His form did tail off towards the end of the season and because of the way they now calculate the averages it dropped his average back down to the 5 and a half mark which he started on. He was averaging mid to high 6’s most of the season. Another example of the way these daft averages now work is Josh Pickering. Was averaging high 7’s at one point but after a few weeks of his scores dropping off towards the end he’s now on an average of just over 6. Anyone signing Batch on 5 and half is NOT getting a poor signing. Anyone claiming otherwise is blinkered by their dislike of him.

Seriously though who cares? Nobody has to socialize with him

By the sounds of it on the Ipswich site he seems pretty busy already. Let’s see

A Chris Holder sized hole… Sorry Flapps

Stop annoying Flappy you lot!

4.00 confirmed in the Ipswich Star.

It’s Simon Lambert.

Well we can all write Badge off as an ITK