When you say "there's nothing out there"..... Do you just mean, there are none of last year's riders still unsigned to recycle? Berwick brought in Kildemand, Edinburgh have two Swedes, there are all the new Aussies like Cluff, McDiarmid and Bowes.. in short, there are plenty of riders "out there" -- a club just needs ambition and good contacts to find them......

Probably because they wanted to get stronger in heats 2,8,12,&14? As much as I want Cook as part of a strong top 4, I would not have let go of Zischke or Vuolas, so could've ended up with a team like: Troy Batchelor 8.46 Craig Cook 8.42 Tate Zischke 6.96 Annti Vuolas 6.40 Vinnie Foord 3.90 Jack Smith 3.64 Sam McGurk 2.00 Total 39.78   So would Cook / Smith / McGurk score more than Bowes / Etheridge / Hook?   I definitely wouldn't want a team with Foord starting in the top 5, I would not drop Zischke or Vuolas under any circumstances, so to create the strongest Workington team, it means either Cook or Batchelor had to go!

What an interesting photo to "choose" for that particular story 🤷‍♂️

It was Oxford.(riding for Birmingham though,which is what you might mean)

Year before when he was at Birmingham in the pairs on a soaking wet race track