Islander15

Apparently Williamson is doing a year out on his moto X instead. Atkin is like unofficially confirmed as well!

Surely they're gonna keep Sarj as he's in the EL team and I would have thought keeping Oli G makes sense seeing as he's an asset but the averages wouldn't allow him to. However Crang, Knuckey and Sarj added takes the team over the limit even with x2 3.00 men!

Lets assume he would have averaged that then so I can take second

Hardly a relief. Cradley look like they're going to walk the league instead.

Surely Somerset wouldn't have needed to ask the BSPA in the first place (whether they were misinformed or not) as they were at the AGM where they were told that Aussies were on a 7. Rob said that Scunthorpe stopped negotiations with 2 Aussies for this very reason as teams were told of the average change for this year.

I thought it might be interesting to revisit this thread and see how well we actually did! I think it is interesting that only 1 person did better than the Cradley management!! Over half of us though, including myself, were let down by Freemantle's injury and those people have a * next to their name! 1. In the End 57.45 2. MonarchsMitchy 54.26 3. 21stCenturyHeathen 53.88* 4. bolly 53.21 5. Me 53.01* 6. Steven101 51.61* 7. Frankthepug 51.60 8. Wessex Wanderer 50.43 9. ren 50.4* 10. RocketBen1 50.26* 11. greyhoundp 49.70* 12. Atticus Maximus 48.76 13. Vog 47.62*

Ben Morley

I think you'll find RTD heading your way. So with Armstrong back, I'd expect Payne, McBain and Shuttleworth to be certainties and those 5 leave 9.53 for the final 2 places. That could mean Widman and Knuckey or Andrews, or a 3 pointer and a return for Priest.

You can't double up from NL to PL if you're over 25. The same issue is affecting Bowen at Rye. It would also mean that if they do sign Mills, presumably he isn't getting a PL spot else they'd lose him and be in the same position as Stoke was this year.

But the art of having a successful team is improving your average and who's better placed than Perks to do that?

Atkin 8.14 (Buxton), O. Greenwood 9.22, Sarjeant 8.67, Webster 8.74, Clegg 8.58 (Cradley), Morley 9.06 (Kent), S. Lambert 9.14, Compton 8.95, Bates 7.68, Perry 8.21, Halsey 9.23, Wilson 9.04, Armstrong 7.94, Branford 8.53. If any of these want to return: Reade 7.70, Knight 7.62, Irving 8.17 and Morris if he does t get a PL spot.

That's not why they've ditched it as the meetings are still being run as the Gold Cup.

Mate I was 1 off because I forgot about the reserves' reductions

Well aren't you a nice guy...

Absolute quality and will win the league!

He's a 5.00. I bet Aspgren, Grajczonek and Kurtz are the final 3.

who are you thinking of Mikey?

If the EL race format is similar to last year, he'll score heavily at reserve and that'll keep his confidence high. I was basing him getting a point extra on riding at Somerset or Workington.

About a point.

You say there are better options and then mention Wells... So you'd rather have someone who lost over a point on his average last year than someone who put on over 2 points.

That's a high averaged top 4 if Cook, Masters and Wolbert are the other 3.

From http://speedway-stats.co.uk/speedwaystats/Rider/329 in 2013 Alex averaged 8.18 at home without bonus points and 9.40 with bonus points and away he averaged 5.08 without bonus points and 5.92 with bonus points. I agree that he should go well round Scunny though.

Grajczonek, B. Kurtz, Wright, Howarth, Holder, Starke, O. Greenwood 41.77

The Sheffield thread.

A very entertaining team if not going to be a successful one. It looks weaker than Glasgow & Rye imo and I doubt Glasgow will make the play-offs. Howe: An obvious choice and reliable home and away but it remains to be seen if he can push his average over 8 having ridden nearly all of last year outside of a heat leader berth. Davies: So apparently he's a racer and you understand why Rob signed him. But the large majority of his points came from Somerset home meetings and he's missed a year. Auty: A 7 point PL rider but hopefully riding at Leicester will improve his gating. Douglas: The only one with real potential to improve in the team tbh but that puts a lot of pressure on him. I'd start him alongside Davies and let Auty ride at number 5 and he might be number 1 by the end of the year. Wilkinson: Should do ok at home and average about the same. Did Scorpions fans actually want to see him back though? Lunna: As the outsider said, the team has been built around him. Imo given that I'd be impressed if he only loses 1 point on his average, that's a poor decision. But he's apparently a racer so hopefully he at least does ok at home. Perks: Hopefully he feels no affects of his serious injury and he should do better than the last two 3.00 men signed, and that it isn't a year too early again. But if Lunna struggles to adapt suddenly Ellis has a lot of pressure on him, taking 5 rides every week.