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Only if Hamill literally has a British passport. I don't know if he does but jubilee clip says he hasn't applied for one so therefore he can't ride NL. However Spiller can.

Ok, I didn't add onto the bottom that you can't do national champs (like when Jake Anderson was stopped from riding NL) but you can do the U21s equivalent (like BWD). Simply because it was irrelevant to the Hamill/Spiller query.

Spiller can ride NL. The eligibility is that you have to have a British passport but Len wanted to make the kids sign a paper that commits them to Team GB. That never came to fruition and is unlikely to hold any value in reality anyway.

The original plan was Ayres for Perry and Bacon R/R but Ayres had food poisoning on the day.

Fair enough. I just noticed there hadn't been a post this week and didn't expect the organisers to be so proactive!

Where can I find the riding order for Saturday to set up the updates thread please?

You nearly always come out with overly critical comments. Sometimes I wonder if you actually do want this Birmingham team to succeed.

Eagles' 2017 reserves: Tom Brennan & Alex hahahah.

So many people have complained over the last few pages over the 'protected 3.00 rider position', but for once the rulebook is explicit and it refers to a 3.00 rider in the initial declaration. It's nothing to do with interpretations and has always read like that! From a preseason point of view it makes much more sense to give these riders averages and let them move up. Otherwise you could have one taking 7 rides every week and cleaning up, when he should be naturally moving up like he would've done every other year!

Barker is entertaining and still a decent rider! Surely that's both of Rob's criteria. As to who to drop, I think it would have to be Davies. He's been inconsistent this year and not really stepped it up from last year imo.

Proctor (I assume Thomsen is a definite no), Rosen and Hall for Kerr, Sarjeant and Castagna? Or Eklof/Rosen and Morris for Kerr and Castagna (which puts Sarjeant at reserve)??

I think it's now 4.50 if you start the season with a PL team and 6.00 if you don't start the season without a PL team (so someone like Morris can stay in the NL & DU). So Bates, Nielsen etc would fall into the first category.

World U21 Team Cup semi-final.

His PL average was lower than it is now. It was around 4.2 then or something like that. He's on 5.86 now.

Bates' average is too high also and he's injured anyway.

You're probably thinking of when he guested for yourselves at BV and got 7+1 from 5.

He has a broken collarbone and dislocated shoulder.

Why specifically was he given 28 days?

He's injured, so they have no choice but to use R/R. A guest can only cover if a rider is doubling-up, a number 1 or reserve, or if there's more than one missing.

That was the Eagles' fourth league meeting so Powell's average goes to 4.57 & Knight 9.80. So unless they make a double change in the next 7 days, there's no way Andrews will be back.

They do! Mine has an expiry date and has the name of the university on it.

1. Hmm so I suppose it could be interpreted that way but no-one has done until KL. 2. Where does it say anything like that in the rule book??

With Swiderski out of the declared team, surely he's not in the actual squad (as such a spot doesn't allow him to be anyway, is not a DU rider or #8). So even though the Lakeside website talks about him being able to come back into the side, surely he can't? Unless they're planning on redeclaring every week!

Near enough. Warriors: 1. Wajtknecht (G), 2. Dugard, 3. Smart, 4. Baseby, 5. Cockle, 6. Saul & 7. Govier. Exeter: 1. Ayres, 2. Bates, 3. TBC 4. Chessell 5. Shuttleworth, 6. Atkins7. Phillips. The 7th was originally Bacon but obviously won't be now. Shuttleworth replaces Wilson-Dean as Exeter were told they can't use a PL rider.

Certainly agree with that haha. There's some exciting talent in that Colts side, especially Shanes & Bewley, to complement the Warriors septet. Whilst I'm sure Jacobs will want to put one over the Belle Vue side, with him being an Ace!