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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.

None of the 3 teams announced look great and this only looks marginally better. The trick is to find riders that improve their average and Hawkins will go well at home and he'll end up with a similar figure like usual. Tungate did really well last year and he'd do well again to retain that figure. Manzares was a find and I don't think anyone would begrudge him a year of consolidation and I think that's what will happen. So that leaves King who will probably add a point and a lot of pressure on Heeps to be the man that pushes on. The obvious man at reserve surely is Ellis, especially as he'll increase his average but for some reason it isn't Adam and I think it'll be Lanham. So rather than an up and coming rider it's someone who has been going backwards for a few years now, and the one time I saw him last season his machinery looked awfully unreliable and if he didn't gate he couldn't be bothered! If the number 7 spot is the rumoured Bates though then it's a very good signing.

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That comes to 42.73. At least you agreed that it doesn't look as ridiculous as soon have made out... At the end of the day, Somerset need a number 1 and Edinburgh need to lose points (ok, it may well be Grajczonek) and Howarth looks like he's leaving Worky and has been at Somerset before. Greenwood guested for them last year if I remember right and both of those are improving riders that are Rebels type signings. Then I had some points left and picked the best rder out there imo in Heeps, as Somerset are one of the biggest teams in the league atm after all and Heeps stalled at Ipswich last year.

1. Sam Masters 8.23 / Josh Grajczonek 8.11 2. Cameron Heeps 5.38 / Jack Holder 5.00 3. Kyle Howarth 6.57 4. Charles Wright 6.64 5. Brady Kurtz 7.54 6. Oliver Greenwood 3.12 7. Paul Starke 4.79 Total: 42.27

Freemantle's scores this year: Devon (NLKOC, away) 3 from 4 (withdrawn) Scunthorpe (NL, away) 0 from 1 (withdrawn) King's Lynn (CH, home), 7+2 from 4 Coventry (NL, away) 0 from 3 Stoke (NT, away) 1+1 from 3 (withdrawn) So that gives him an overall average of 2.93 and 3.73 with bonus points. Ok, so his scores weren't as good as I remembered greyhoundp but they're still significantly better than 1.45 hunters. At the end of the day he cleared the fence at Scunthorpe* and missed a couple of meetings with concussion, after he cleared the fence at Plymouth the meeting before* and then suffered a hand injury at Stoke! Not many riders did well against Coventry this season and it was probably his first visit to Plymouth. Greyhoundp, even if injuries meant that he never got going last year, he still did very well in 2013 with the Islanders beofre injury cut short his season again! At the end of the day, apart from when he was 15, he's never got past July with injuries. That's unfortunate! * 'Travelling at such pace, literally through the air, the 2009 250cc and 2010 500cc youth national champion a unique distinction still, found himself bouncing off the air fence and up and over the safety barrier landing on a grassy knoll.' taken from http://www.kentsportsnews.com/brandos-still-a-contender-after-crash-20-03-2014/ * Also, I don't know how to put a picture on here, but if you go on my twitter and go back 18 photos to April 3rd you'll see his crash at Scunthorpe, where his bike hit the air fence and it flung him over the safety barrier.

Wilkinson isn't going to improve his average, but if you brought back MPT it leaves little options for the second strings if Lunna is to start at reserve. Who else are assets? Like the outsider said, it's looks like the team is being built around Lunna and it remains to be seen if he'll even achieve his assessed figure! Especially when the rumoured rider was Jack Holder or Max Ruml.

The comments on Freemantle are ridiculous! Firstly after a year at Rye he signed for the Islanders where he broke his leg/thigh in the winter before he even took to the track and missed the whole season. The next year he was averaging 6.00 and 8.00 including bonus points after about 10 meetings (Cup, Trophy & 1 league meeting away from getting a real average) until he suffered a serious injury. That injury basically ended our season as we were missing him and Ellis and suddenly didn't have the reserve scoring power especially as we were replacing someone scoring a 6.00 average effectively with another 3.00! Last year he went to Kent and again was scoring well above his 3.00 average but cleared the fence at Scunthorpe and that ended his season. Now he's retired despite the fact that Eastbourne wanted to track their asset.

Having only done this in a couple of minutes, here are riders that I think would realistically sign for Glasgow: 1. Morris 8.14 2. Thomsen 5.68 3. Wolbert 6.19 4. Pijper 7.09 5. S. Worrall/Vissing 7.46/7.09 6. Berge 4.90 7. Sarjeant 3.00 And a money no object at all team: 1. Cook 9.19 2. J. Holder 5.00 3. Blackbird 6.30 4. C. Wright 6.64 5. R. Worrall 7.32 6. O. Greenwood 3.12 7. Starke 4.79 Edit: Panthers89 I must have started editing when you posted. You have Kerr's average wrong but do Brits still get an average reduction if they were in the NL within 2 years? Oh and I ignored riders already signed up, else Rose & King might have been there.

If money isn't a problem I'd have expected a better team than that. Individually they're all good riders but where is the team improvement going to come from? Only Sarjeant looks like he could put more than half a point on his average and even then it'd be his first proper PL stint from the start of the year.

Danny Warwick signs http://www.eastbourneeagles.co/news.php?extend.664.1

Yes, I think Kurtz rode in the Aussie Champs and that meant he didn't get a British reduction on his PL average which took Newport's team average over the limit. Yes, I think Kurtz rode in the Aussie Champs and that meant he didn't get a British reduction on his PL average which took Newport's team average over the limit.

They're wrong, ask Will Pottinger.

Ermm 3.96*2 = 7.92 not 6.60 but he isn't confirmed and isn't ineligible atm anyway.

Well, a promoter and a team manager have both said its against current rules.

He's over 25 so wouldn't be able to double-up.