2027 - 8 Team Premiership

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21 minutes ago, Witches1998 said:

Cairns will be #6 for someone based on the article from Phil Morris saying he is getting 25% reduction and graduating the scheme 

I know, But he's far more reliable than a flaky foreign rider who's never ridden a British track as well as a CHAMP Rider on a CHAMP GSA around the 3.5 mark.

We got burnt this year with Hellstrom-Bangs and Juhl Pedersen.

With this ruling imo it makes Cairns just as important as Heat Leaders.

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26 minutes ago, TigerIain said:

It looks to me like the u21 riders (essentially your reserves) are now far more valuable than anyone else in the team. Cue u21s wanting number 1 money.

Its all well and good in Poland where there are lots of talented u21 riders, but there are much fewer in Britain and riders tend to develop later. You don't have to dig too far before you are looking at having 2026 NDL riders being asked to jump into the Premiership just to fill a quota

The problem is this scheme is even narrower than the Polish example. U21 riders in Poland can have as high an average as they want but will always graduate at 21. Here they graduate when they get to 3.50 or 4.00 instead.

I think having U21 reserves (who can have any average) like Poland works. Currently Cairns, Harrison, Scott, Rushen, Pijper, Loftus is not too bad a line up. 3 of those riders are 17 so still have a number of years ahead of them at that spot to improve. It also encourages premiership teams to have junior teams so they can find talent to bring into their team. 

I think graduating Cairns and Rushen already means they will be in Poland even more quickly!

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The fact that it isnt in the championship is mind boggling, this scheme is perfect there. It should be two in the championship and one in the premiership ideally.