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Shanes will be a great 2.00 rider, is a real born racer and is genuinely one of the nicest people you'll meet! He loves playing up to the crowd (similar to Ayres) and should really have had a PL spot this season.

How have you worked that out?

My 12 Graj/Tungate Wright/Starke Worrall/Lambert Kus/Lindgren Graj/Allen Howarth/Bates Lawson/Summers Tungsten/BWD Worrall/Bach Worrall/Rose King/Sarj Auty/Douglas

Looks a decent side. A strong top 4 with some room for average improvement in it and always a handy number 6.

It was 11. So a decent amount for an average.

I agree which is why I thought he wouldnt be fit for April. Hopefully he's back sooner rather than later because he's a promising rider.

I just thought it would make the team very top heavy. Plus I expected Coles to sign.

That must mean that Mountain isn't fit for the start of the campaign unfortunately.

Taking only scores for the Warriors, Cupitt averaged 4.16 last season and 4.90 including bonus points. That's called progression from his previous scoring.

Bellego is a decent signing on that figure because he pretty consistently beat 8 point PL riders last season and was in a high 8 average at one point until a slight slump. But his PLRC performance showed that he can definitely hold his own in that company. He's a rider who's improving and signing those is how you make a decent team.

The minimum average is 2017 is a 2.00 as opposed to this years 3.00. Also Wallner technically averaged 3.83 last season but the minimum average for team building for a foreigner is 4.00.

Surely Eagles will be looking at getting Hopwood back on his low average.

As expected tbh. It looks a decent team but I doubt it'll make the play-offs, though it definitely has entertainment in it!

3 confirmed signings by Jackie Vatcher so far in Ben Wilson (8.50), James Cockle (7.35) and Chris Widman (4.45). A team I'd like to see to a 40.00 limit is: 1. Ben Wilson 8.50 2. Chris Widman 4.45 3. Nathan Stoneman 6.98 / Brendan Johnson 6.21 4. Ben Hopwood 5.83 5. James Cockle 7.35 6. Layne Cupitt 3.00 7. Tyler Govier 3.30 / Kelsey Dugard 4.28 39.41 / 39.62 There's 2 permutations in case Stoneman goes to Mildenhall or Dugard to Eastbourne. A team I'd like to see to a 38.00 limit is: 1. Ben Wilson 8.50 2. Chris Widman 4.45 3. Ben Hopwood 5.83 4. Kelsey Dugard 4.28 5. James Cockle 7.35 6. Charley Powell 4.05 7. Layne Cupitt 3.00 37.46

Yeah, Greenwood. They should do but a return to Cradley makes sense.

Looks a certainty to me.

It'll be Douglas, Auty, MPT, Wilko, Kerr, Wallner & Bailey. But Wilko is a poor signing imo.

They should sign Govier at reserve and a couple of the old guard will likely return, for example Smart, so the team should be decent enough too.

Yeah he did well in 2015, but he's still been around longer than Cupitt and are on similar averages.

All of those rode as NZ riders when commonwealth riders were allowed in the NL. BWD rode in the NL because he has partiality but they've since changed the rules that to do the NL you need a British passport, which Jade Mudgway got earlier this year.

Cupitt improved lots once he moved to Smallbrook and then you've contradicted yourself by mentioning Kirby!

Doyle apart, I don't that team would make last seasons PL play-offs!

With the current rules preventing Ash from DU then there's a bit of a gap at number 1. Williamson back?

If they get the other 5 members right then that's a play-off team.

The EL & PL clubs made the decision so then it allows them to sign riders for free rather than paying a transfer fee or loan fee to an NL side.