Would it not be the trophy they'd enter though? Apparently the NDL sides are happy with the amount of meetings they get so any new teams had to enter the Trophy. No difference, except location of opponents obviously.

Agree to a certain extent but any new foreign rider on an assessed 5.00 will need to hit the ground running. Please no Dayle at reserve

The way I read the post, sounded like he chose to leave rather than Edinburgh couldn't fit him in.

Rubbish! He was crap well before he became ill! He should've been dumped instead of Cook!

Chris Harris whilst replacing Tai at  the NSS was beaten by Dan & Brady twice and it’s not too much of a stretch to suggest that would be the case with Tai should he have been there. The only question mark is the race where Norick beat Chris. At Owlerton Chris top scored with 12+1.    Having our reserve take Bens final ride in 14 in the 2nd leg definitely weakened us as it’s crazy to think he was any kind of replacement for the stars new number 1. Though not a speedway injury, losing Connor Bailey was also a blow we had to work through but taking the bigger picture view, there’s more to life than speedway and I back his decision to do what is best for him long term. 

We often celebrate how lucky we were in 2023. Losing Charles to injury due to our play off jinx saw us covering a rider who had scored paid 19 that year at Foxhall only to get 3 from his rides.  We still only missed out in the last half of a glorious final heat.  I best play the lottery with luck like that.