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How it should have been against Kent!! If you redeclare before you've ridden 4 meetings you could fit Liam Carr in for Mason!

Regards redeclaring you either build up to the 36 limit, if you've fallen below it, or if you're above the limit you can replace a rider up to the average of the rider you are dropping ie an 8 pointer is injured so you can replace with an 8 pointer. There is no actual rules stopping you from dropping a 3 pointer for an 8 pointer but in reality in this leag there aren't many, only Compton comes to mind, 8 pointers without a team and its highty unlikely a team would drop significantly below 36 without having started with a series of 3.00 men anyway and already being close to the minimum 30 limit! Btw it's not 2H & 2A, it's simply 4 meetings.

Not true. What I put was correct. I've followed this league long enough to know! Yes that's correct! The correct formula! And as Alan points out, tactical rides count as normal points. Yep!

That isn't what Penny's saying! Can we stop this BWD vs BDJ argument now??

You've calculated them wrong and use the wrong numbers anyway. Current averages after 2 of 4 meetings look like this:Mason 12 from 5, 7 from 5 = 19 from 10 = 7.60 Andrews 9 from 4, 4 from 5 = 13 from 9 = 5.77 Owen 4 from 2 gives him an 8.00 average but he won't have completed 4 meetings when the others do anyway so will stay on 6.11 Wilson-Dean 15 from 5, 13 from 6 = 28 from 11 = 10.18 Wood 11 from 6, 1 from 5 = 12 from 11 = 4.36 Dugard 8 from 5, 5 from 3 = 13 from 8 = 6.50 Obviously this is going to change in the next 2 meetings but that gives you a team total of 46.79

Maybe because all he ever rides is Somerset and Plymouth and he barely ever does midweek meetings.

Matt Bates replaces Danny Warwick.

If that was the case I guess Extance replaces him, as with Perry in the side it would be close to the 36 pt average limit and includes only Birmingham/Cradley riders.

Why are these two riding each other in the league before the trophy? Doesn't it make more sense to put all the trophy fixtures together, either at the end of the season or the start.

Rumsey hasn't retired. If you read his statement and the article in the Cambridge News you'll see it not all how the Mildenhall statement makes it sound. As for Laurence's ability, he's been around several years now.

No BDJ would have been at 4 and BWD at reserve with Wood or Dugard at 2.

Nope, only league. Not Trophy, KOC, Gold Cup or anything else.

Why didn't King ride?

7 days after 4 league meetings.

He averaged 3.68 for Sittingbourne. He did come back the next season and rode a few meetings but got seriously injured and I can't remember if it was enough to get a real average of 3.00 or he's still 3.68. Edit: I've tried looking it up and the BSPA site has him ending 2009 still on his 3.68 average in the team declaration but he may have dropped to 3.00 and the team just not redeclared after that I suppose. I've found him riding officially in 5 league meetings that year and 4 trophy meetings. But he did ride a few meetings the season after for Plymouth but as he didn't end the season it's as if he didn't exist on the BSPA site, as this is back in the days of the NL not having published greensheets!

You're right, the sixth name is Ben Basford and final name is David Holt.

It's a lot simpler conversion! Unless you already have a PL average, when you move from NL to PL you're always a 3.00.

BDJ's average is too high. They have 5.53 to play with and I've looked and really can't see anybody on that figure! Probably the best I found was Gareth Isherwood but I don't know if he's racing still or if Gary Cottham has stopped having headaches and fancies a return. I've haven't heard his situation for a while. Of course we don't know what Kingston's personal problems are so it could be a case of use R/R for 28 days and he'll have sorted himself out.

Look at Lawson then. Phenomenal in the Elite but average to good for a PL number 1, which he won't be when Morris moves up in May anyway.

Ayres' age does make him ineligible to DU this season. However when Chapman was signed by Plymouth despite being too old to DU it went to the BSPA and it was decided he could DU as the rule isn't designed to penalise late starters and Ayres would be able to DU also as he's in a similar situation to Chapman if a PL team came calling.

Bonus points don't count towards averages so why should they count them?

No idea and Birks thought the same.

Birks was ready to go before he was told he was ineligible.

There is a rule saying that and that's why some people were questioning if Poole were allowed a guest for Grajczonek on Good Friday (but there was a different DU reason allowing them to). Also the Isle of Wight weren't allowed a facility for Bekker in 2013 when he hurt his knee in P&P, I remember we had to use Neale away to Buxton who was without a team.

No you don't have to name a number 8. But even if you did, you don't have to give him any rides. You don't have to use R/R for Ben either. The management have chosen R/R instead of a guest as they put in the press release there's no suitable guests available. I wonder what the likes of Crang (now he isn't Redcar's guest), Hopwood, Stokes or Chessell are doing as they are riders that have travelled in the past or if they've even been contacted.