InTheDeepStuff

100%! He’s not a rider I’ve ever taken too and from the off season shenanigans everyone’s heard he ‘allegedly’ partakes in he can’t bring that into an already dangerous sport

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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.

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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

He’s back tomorrow for Northampton, can’t see him stopping a drubbing at Sheffield

Iversen back for the Foxes with Sedgmen in for Zagar and Hagon for Harrison

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.

Castagna might be OK at number 6 but elsewhere in the team he’s got to be carried unfortunately.

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.

On other note how long is PHB suspended for, is it the whole of May?

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).

Naughty from King which is unlike him

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

Is Buster doing the track this week at Northampton? If so doubt it’ll be as slick as last week meaning both teams on level playing field

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.

Not sure if he’d fit numbers wise, but would miss a lot of meetings with Tourn riding Fridays with Ekstraliga on that night

Based on Cammy’s comments about Simon Lambert when he’s guested for Glasgow I can see him coming in for Mario before the gets and official average, especially as Kyle and Leon have added a decent chunk to their rolling averages in 2026.

This will happen if Godfrey can get the Kemp deal over the line, there’s still points to play with after the first announced change

Can see Drew Kemp back at Scunny as one of the changes, had limited bike time for Daugavpils in Poland so far this season and would be an upgrade on what they have now.

With Zagar damaging his ankle yesterday he’s going g to be out for quite a few weeks, so maybe we might see a new face (or old returning face) in the Foxes line up in the coming meetings as can’t continue with R/R (when NKI is back) as team not strong enough

With Dan confirming he broke his collarbone last night, do we think Stewart will go down the R/R route rather than guests? Think latest averages (issue 5 26th Apr) would mean Nick Morris, Kyle Howarth and reserves cover the rides

Awkward looking crash for Dan at Leicester tonight, left track holding right arm, hopefully nothing damaged

Change will be something like Gilkes for Lambert, with Poole keeping Newman after his 28 day contract