My idea would be riders racing for Kent in the league would also race for Kent in the trophy, so no clashing of riders. Imagine if Cairns made his debut in the trophy only & guested 3 times in the league, he'd be starting on a 3.00 average this season (if only league matches count).

I'll disagree, there is an option to ride in both if another club assisted them? For example if Kent said, "we'd like to ride in both competitions to make it more worth our while, we don't want to rent a stadium for only 4 meetings a season" what's to stop Oxford for example saying, "ok in that case we'll go in the Trophy & you can take our place in the league" Maybe they didn't ask, maybe no current team thought to offer. All they would've been doing is replacing 5 home league matches for 5 home trophy matches, helping Kent & giving riders more matches. For the sake of new stand-alone teams etc I'd like to believe such a scenario would be a possibility.

I'd be happy with Roynon if there was only 3.50 available, but there's gotta be better options nearer or above 4.

I didn't realise Mark Riss had retired, just assumed he carried on racing on the Continent.

Is this in addition to Sedgmen, who was confirmed last Saturday?…….lol

I would just like to, once again, wish 'Bees' fans lots of luck in the future. You deserve your great efforts to succeed.