Cook will end up there, one of if only to get the full house of Premiership clubs ridden for! If he does and rides to his ability he’s a good signing on circa 5.4 average, but there’s always the risk of his going missing for periods of the season as has been seen before.
Ones changed track (Kileen at Sheffield instead of Oxford, Cairns been at BV with Colts for 2 seasons) and one in main body of Championship team the other not got out of reserve position yet so can’t really compare points scored as not 100% comparable
Money talks, simple. Out of the initial 5 man GB squad William Cairns is the weakest with Cooper Rushen the form guy, so just shows that it’s a #ClosedShop #BoysClub.
Know Prague will be slick as and not pay to Cooper Rushen’s style but he knows how to battle and his rider/bike weight must help him out similar to Killeen
Foxes making their debut at Owlerton and with all 6 Premiership teams due to ride on Thursday night they will be left with riders without a current Premiership place to cover for Zagar and Iversen (or run R/R for one of them) and a replacement RS for Harrison. Lidsey, Klindt and Batchelor hit and miss at Sheffield, Thomson not ridden many laps around there but in good form so imagine he’ll use his full quota of rides at reserve
Sheffield have announced that they are at full strength with Chris Holder and Jye Etheridge both fit to ride. Tigers will be wanting a similar track produced as yhe Ipswich fixture as seemed more comfortable on that than what was served up for the Leicester meeting.
Can only see a dominating home win for this one with Tigers getting around the 60 point mark.
Next full averages will be issued 28th May, Glasgow if making any changes need to do it before then as Flint and Howarth have added to their starting averages so eating into any surplus points once new team averages issued.
Pretty sure as both Thursday night teams the only thing that could sway who gets the Monday was Leicester having the ‘holders card’ therefore getting first choice of race night. Can’t use the scores from the North/South tables as North section have stronger teams (in my opinion anyway).
Missing again on Friday, are we back to the usual Houdini Cook picking and choosing when he wants to ride? Been no real news on this ‘rotator cuff’ injury which has me a bit suspicious especially the way James talked about his absence over last weekend in interviews
This one has the potential to go all the way to Heat 15.
If Sheffield top 5 all don’t fire then can see another away win on the cards, as with his experience of Owlerton you’d expect Edwards to clean up at reserve with extra riding Klima doesn’t hit the ground running. Is this last chance saloon for Etheridge and Kileen? Etheridge harder to replace on such low average but likes of Mulford and Joe Thompson available as Rising Stars Kileen need to turn effort into points.