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And once again....not for the stand alone clubs. Scunny has an A team not all have that luxury. All the best to all the Stags hope Jones finds his form this years

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Ooooo you got a pimple or something? My phone changed it.

Doesn't that apply to all teams ? Doesn't absence make the heart grow stronger ?

Bit insensitive really while 2 teams have been given notice of possible closure Mildenhall & Coventry and 1 is on death row IOW. Maybe you would like Stoke to follow?

No not backtracking at all ever heard of the word ........analogy?

I agree with you both in principle. I'm just saying what I would do I'm not saying it should be done. I don't want to name riders as I don't think it's fair but there were some reserves given places last season at reserve in the PL over young British riders who may not have been had they been given a year in the NL. In other words ifMohammed won't come to the mountain but the tide is turning hopefully. If riders aren't going up from the top there is always going to be a section squeezed out.....If I'm honest I'm not the best in expressing myself in the written form so I don't blame you for missing my point

Josh Bailey and to be fair Danny Phillips unless he is classed as having ridden a season for Scunthorpe. RTD does have some experience but guesting not declared although that was questionable. I suppose it depends on what you are classing as experienced. All the best with your project and hopefully more will follow. It's to be hoped that PL take the bull by the horns to as I think that is where the problem has lay in the past PL or scrap heap and it is notoriously difficult to get a PL spot without the pressures put on reserves by underperforming foreign 2nd strings but the tide is changing. I would take it a step further and allow a certain number of foreign riders in the NL give the Brits a fair playing field could show a few of the overseas riders in a truer reflection :-)

Josh Bailey and to be fair Danny Phillips unless he is classed as having ridden a season for Scunthorpe. RTD does have some experience but guesting not declared although that was questionable. I suppose it depends on what you are classing as experienced. All the best with your project and hopefully more will follow. It's to be hoped that PL take the bull by the horns to as I think that is where the problem has lay in the past PL or scrap heap and it is notoriously difficult to get a PL spot without the pressures put on reserves by mediocre foreign 2nd strings but the tide is changing.

I had a laff !!!!!!!

Why?. Is it strip curling on there?

Wouldn't have helped Matin Knuckey or Darren Mallett

Oh ok

But confused? Have Lakeside and Poole joined the NL?

I suppose the only thing is if everyone did that then there would be the need for 54 3.00 riders. Are there that many waiting in the wings? because if there are then yes the points limit should be dropped.

Unattached riders could be signed with in the first few weeks if there are injuries (touch wood) etc. So unless the trophy is run before any League meetings that may not work either. It's a difficult one. Hopefully people will see it for what it is and want to see the standard of racing rather than the set up. A lot of Lions fans already travel to NL tracks to watch so hopefully it will take off and to be fair a trophy is a little more meaningful challenge matches, I suppose. If Lions fans want to see NL at Leicester they will turn up if they don't they wont and the promotion will get their answer.

And then ........he woke up :-)

I do see your points but then by the same token other teams will be working on bigger points limits, as their averages increase as well. Wouldn't it be better to see how it plays out?

I've said it before and i'll say it again....It's up to the other riders to step it up. After all they are looking to progress and.......they will need 'paying'

All the best to team Mountain. Sorry to bring the MDL up and yes I do. i Just wanted to make the point of needing someone to emulate and look up to.

That is because he doesn't have any kind of current record etc. and a very valuable inclusion he is to !!!

Rose is a relative newcomer. Even the development guru (joke!) RG reckons it takes 2 seasons for a rider to develop. 1st season NL 2nd NL/PL . Josh Bailey could be 'the find' of the season and they already have Alec Wright knocking at the door you can't have a whole team of rookies because they have no one to learn from. That is the sadness of the MDL anyone with any experience isn't allowed to ride in it so again no one to learn from. Mallet has shed loads to offer as does Campos and Cockle particularly about the different tracks etc and Rose will be learning from Bjerre NKI and hopefully passing that in to

Which one?

But.....it should work both ways. It's not a 1 way street

I thought the start-line girls did take the sport seriously but they appear to be on the BSF so that's my theory blown out of the water.