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As Janowski is wearing the wrong race jacket tonight, is that not a DQ per the Zmarzlik ruling in the GP? (Aparrently a Polish official forgot to bring the race jackets for him and Pawlicki)

Tigers were always bringing Bomber back for entertainment value around Ashfield. Once the one rider over 8 came in Dan was a certainty to miss out. Also his average came from riding at 3, not 1 or 5, so there was a little bit of a risk in that, however Dan seems to have stepped up this year. Bomber's issues this year seem to be bike/engine related (not heard anything publicly re his lower than normal scoring). He has just not looked as quick as last year

It wasn't as entertaining as usual today. Track was too dry and too dusty, but there was no sign of a water tanker coming out. Given that the Tigers couldn't gate properly at all today, not giving them a decent track to race on means Tigers have only themselves to blame. Poor performance all round from the team today. On that performance Tigers deserved to get put out.

Smith has been around a while but has often been the victim of the numbers game, so maybe not as experienced as done think. Partly as he has tracks he rides well and others he really doesn't. In this line up he could be at reserve all year. If he carries on his end of '25 season form he should be fine.

My point is that you can't accept the reality that Cami Brown was the manager when Tigers won the Playoffs in 2023. You have this weird obsession for blaming him for everything that goes wrong, and crediting anyone else for things that go right for the Tigers. Then you claim everyone else is obsessed by him.

Won't be Perry, his Facebook update tonight states that he had not signed for anyone in the Championship for next season

Max Perry stated on his Facebook tonight that he is not signed up for any Championship club for 2026

I also think on a personal level he would have been disappointed with his final average and not being able to hold onto the number 5 race jacket last year.

There was some talk at the start of last season that Craig Cook had convinced Wood to change his bike frames and that had helped his riding but it didn't seem to translate into points. From what I seen he seemed to fall off a bit too often last year. Good gater, which always helps at reserve level and he does have a years experience, so could improve slightly. Personally I'm not a fan of his (especially after seeing him attack Stene Pijper after losing to him in a send half race at Ashfield). I would have went for the more experienced Jack Smith. With 2 solid second strings he would have stayed at reserve all year and could have ended the year on a 4-5 point average.

"Oxford Cheetahs team for 2026 is complete with the double signing of 𝗗𝗮𝗿𝗿𝘆𝗹 𝗥𝗶𝘁𝗰𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗴𝘀 and 𝗗𝗮𝘆𝗹𝗲 Wood" Think this team will be in contention for trophies, albeit a little bit weak at reserve, yet so were Glasgow last year and they finished top of the table. Both reserves have Championship experience from 2025, but it needs one of them at least to kick on and up their scoring.

No, but if Oxford haven't signed him, and we'll find out tomorrow who their reserve are, then it essentially confirms that he is riding for Poole before Poole announce it. I expect Rushen to be riding for Poole next year

@Paddy The Rebel You have Plymouth in as the Devils rather than the Gladiators. Either way, they've just announced Daniel Klima returning, presumably on 4.00 Poole have just announced Zach Cook on 7.34

Hard to be exact because of so many lower order Premiership team changes, but I recon that there are about 17 currently announced in the Championship next year that were not doubling up in the Premiership last year. No 2026 Premiership signings announced yet, but last year there were about 23 riders that rode Premiership without riding Championship.

Makes sense to announce Rushen tonight. Oxford announce their reserves tomorrow, and are realistically the only other team that might have signed Rushen. So if you announce Cook, leaving a 2 point hole and Oxford don't announce Rushen the it all but confirms your final rider. Cook still has that little bit of 'has he changed his mind about missing the Championship next year' mystery if they announce him last.