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Yeah he’s fit for the new season.

I wouldn’t be surprised to see JPB lead the team and the likes of Greenwood, Halder, Dwyer, Phillips and a 3.00 newbie be the majority of the rest of the team.

Cradley take riders from the Southern section. It’s nothing new.

Any guesses on the 1-7?

Surely every club should be starting at Easter to take advantage of the holiday crowds and the fact that there’s more fixtures this year.

Tbf Rowe wasn’t a ‘find’ in that everyone knew he would be good when he turned 15. Riders like BWD and Brooks have been a bit more random signings.

How can people say Jacobs isn’t good enough?! It’s the fact he did well and his average went up that he struggled to get a ride, like Greaves in the Championship this year.

Best top flight side Leicester have built!

Would Drozdz be 5.00 though?

Hardly! Cupitt was struggling in 2016 but Taididnt get him a place at IOW where he turned it around and did very well which got him his move to Birmingham.

You only need one of the pair to be useful at home though and score 5/6 from 5 rides regularly to give yourself a fighting chance in an aggregate meeting. At home in a league meeting, the top 4 will win most meetings on their own and when going away to poorer sides you only need someone at the bottom end to kick on.

Some people have unrealistic expectations! It might not look like a Birmingham side of 2015 or 2016 but it's not bottom half either as you say. They've even managed to find a guaranteed average improver in that top 3 with Hume. Then with Walker, Flint and Cupitt (presumably) in the side they always have a decent reserve.

Bound to ride for Laurence Rogers again?

Govier’s packed it in.

Do we have any factual news for this thread?

They'll have riders lined up/signed and a few are predictable. But they’re just not announced yet.

Extance is a decent rider. He’s just been extremely unfortunate with injuries.

Will Pottinger is your new team manager! You wanted someone tactically astute and I think you’ve found one.

I agree due to their lack of heat winners.

Good to see Doyley still in British speedway.

What's this Danish lad like?

Probably the best top 3 in the league but it’s relying on improvements from the bottom 4. Also surely Davey will miss a fair few home meetings with Weds being a Premiership race night.

Hunters posed that question to point out that the post he quoted won’t happen! Hunters doesn’t think he’ll drop to reserve.

It's a decent looking side as proved by their end to the 2017 season. It's clearly built with a strong reserve in ind and 3 solid heat leaders could work better than a stand out number 1 seeing as there's even less genuine heat leaders in the league this year which gives Harris, Nicholls and KK all a fair chance of winning multiple races most meetings.

Bacon has a higher average than JPB. Hume + JPB would give the most points to play with.