Roger Jacobs

You're absolutely splitting hairs by saying that Rew didn't hit the fence. The kickboards are part of the fence/barrier/banana whatever word you use to describe it. He quite clearly hit a solid part of the fence with a hard thud, and bounced back - that would have caused compression injuries, and he's incredibly fortunate to not have more than cracks or minor breaks.

Lambert only happened because Fricke was injured.

Whoops! Not sure where I got that from! I thought the Aces looked rather strong, LOL!

I'm thoroughly confused about the above comments regarding Brennan - I assumed he's the RS at BV for 2023? Bewley 8.91, Kurtz 8.24, Wright 5.71, Blödorn 5.45, Lindsey 5.16, Etheridge 4.76 = 38.24 so just under the 39.00 limit. Brennan is the RS, even though he starts in the main body of the team with his 5.86 Green Sheet ... EDIT: Bagpuss has put me right on my error above ... not sure why I had Etheridge in the line-up!

I thought that Hume is no longer a Rising Star? However, Mountain, even if not an RS, must be on someone's shopping list?

They would have had to bring in a guest. I still think it was a better option for the sport overall, no matter how poorly the Regulations are written.

Yes indeed! I only realised after checking the final Prem Green Sheets, and applying King's 2.5% discount. Hume has also signed, so a definite Ipswich-style flavour, even if only one of two of them will be at Ipswich in 2023 ... And ... thanks to the discounts for British riders, the Bears come in at 39.86 ... so they've benefitted by 0.65 overall. PS: Thanks to arnieg for confirming that the averages are only for team building, not for riding order - one of many odd bits of the Regs that can easily be missed.

King announced as #1 at Redcar in the Championship. With Wright and Riss it makes a decent heat leader trio for the Bears: https://britishspeedway.co.uk/championship/bears-name-full-side/

They should call it Robin B’Stards.

The right track for him is not Ipswich.

No! Another “nice bloke”, but injury prone and not full of improvement.

https://www.eadt.co.uk/sport/23158951.ipswich-witches-sign-keynan-rew-australian-under-21-champion/

The first comment, I disagree. Doyle's average is about 27%, and he scores that many of the Witches league race points, and is highly likely to continue his high average. The second comment is the problem that many agree with. For Doyle's class contribution to reduce percentage-wise in a winning team, it needs the others to improve ... while the usual suspects don't appear to have that improvement in them. On a related note, about the Oxford line-up: I had to smile when they said Heeps is on a bargain average ... 4.33 achieved at reserve ...

How do you know? So ... who is?

Clegg might have been riding for longer, but has never been given a proper opportunity in the Prem, so is hardly a rider of "vastly more" experience than Hume. I would say that Clegg has much more potential than Hume.

Hume isn't rising. He often overrides, is injury prone and is unlikely improve dramatically.

Hume is popular, but injury prone, and possibly not going much further at 26 …

Interesting idea - but why wait until September for the play-offs, based on a qualification in July? The riders could be different (at least because of injuries), and they'll be racing the Cup Final in the same time scale ...

LOL!

Lambert’s average wasn’t reassessed because the current regulations say that averages are valid up to three seasons.

The change in the calculation of the Green Sheets from 20 matches, down to 10 is the problem. A sample of 20 matches reflects consistency, whereas the smaller sample is more likely to be skewed by a couple of very good form or very poor form scores. In 2022, Lawson averaged 6.75 from 19 Prem matches. His Green Sheet from the last 10 is 7.91 ... his average from the first 9 was 5.56 ...

There are some accounts, but very little detail: https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/11808346/filing-history

After Ipswich signed Gollob on a bargain assessed average, I think they introduced a 9 for GP riders. With points limits reducing, they must have brought it down too - as they did with new non-Brits on a 5, when it used to be 6.

Leicester's matches are now at King's Lynn!

He's a very astute businessman, trying to stretch his empire nationally.