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there will be a cut off point for heat leaders in the averages, no way will someone with a higher average than a heat leader be a second string rider.

wouldn't pick Roynon either, the poor lad can't go a few weeks without breaking himself in some way

you'd think so, but you have to count the cost of having 2 or 3 bikes over here then paying a team of mechanics based here as well. then the added risk of injury, which you could argue the injury he sustained at Eastbourne in 2014 ultimately cost him the world title that year. suddenly that add on isn't very appealing

one thing about this FTR rider moving up into main body of team once they get an average, what happens to the rider in the main body that they replace ? do they go into the reserve spot ? weren't FTR riders on a set amount of money per point ? does this change once they go into main body of the team

shorter distance for Adams to walk to

anything on the 2016 team ?

popcorn ?

where has all this Tai will only ride for Wolves stuff come from ? I haven't seen that in any articles anywhere, what I have seen is Pete Adams saying that he is happy to still help and support Tai in GP's while he isn't riding over here but that if Tai rides elsewhere in the UK then PA will stop helping him in GP's. that doesn't mean Tai will only ride for Wolves, he'll ride for who pays him best. that is if he wants to ride over here

then we'll take a nice loan fee for the current world champion

if he was signed I wouldn't bother trying to get into the play offs, bottler of the highest order

by his management or the organisers ?

the key to next year is to not sign a rider before the rules on team building are set. that way we won't be lumbered with another under performing rider in the wrong position like we were with Thorssell

just speculating here but the fact the promotion are asking for donations to pay for the fines from the SCB would point to there being no money to bring in a replacement for anyone in the team.

those figures are ok if you are looking at a set of second strings. the fact that 3 of those are for heat leaders is just plain embarassing

I don't know he manages to be in the commentary position and up Darcy Ward's ar$e at the same time quite a lot.

I'd take Pedersen back at Wolves but I think hell would have to freeze over first for both sides to agree on that one

the problem we have which I think was mentioned on the Coventry vs wolves thread is the loyalty to the asset base that CVS and Adams have always had. the team is usually put together with as many of our assets as possible. this was never really a problem 6 or 7 years ago as we had a variety of assets to choose from. problem being now is that the asset base hasn't really changed, all riders have gotten older and the only worthwhile additions to this asset base in the last 8 years are Tai and Piotr who we aren't using because they don't want to ride here.

have just quickly looked back through the updates site and found the 2009 scores when he was a Bees rider. a home average of around 2.15 is what he ended the season with. that was with majority of meetings at reserve as well. looking at the meetings whilst he's been a wolves rider his scores are higher, in 6 meetings he's scored the following: 2011 - 3+1 at reserve 2012 - 7 and 7+1 in main body 2013 - 9 2014 - 6+1 2015 - 8+2 admittedly his scores have improved since he left but I can't say those are the scores of a track specialist

I'd be looking at scores and record at the track before calling someone a track specialist.

I'm a big Wells fan but even for me that is over exaggerating at it's best

could argue that these 2 when picked were picked at the right time because they went on and won the title in the wildcard year. the problem with the wildcard is that a lot of the time it has been done so that there are enough from a certain nation involved. where Harris is concerned and Lindgren to a certain extent they both received wildcards when they didn't deserve them but they were at that time the better option from that nation.

you could argue that the regular racing has helped Lambert progress this year, he won't need to double up for much longer after this season. however riders like Cook will as they've found there level

the next problem will come next season, we'll no doubt have Lindgren on a nice low average for his talent but we'll have Ricky on a high average (unless we can get him into a heat leader role where his scores will drop a little) but will Lindgren want to ride over here next season. Jacob shouldn't have been signed until we knew the points limit for team building. His overall average for this season is only a little bit higher than Tobiasz's average 5.05 (4.68 GSA) compared to 5.03 (4.34 GSA). these 2 started the season as heat leaders. add to this Lindgren's average for this season also 7.09 (6.36 GSA) the team we built has only performed in the second string positions and little else we are stuck in a vicious cycle though where the 2 riders performing this season will be saddled with unattractive averages for next season which would cause the same issues again with team building.

that's the problem with the team we've built. There is nobody out there to replace Lindgren as poor as he is at the moment that wants to ride in UK. PK and Ricky are solid scorers for us, so no issue there. dropping Tobiasz defeats the whole point of signing him in the first place, better to stick with him that way we have an asset that is happy to come back in the future. Jacob's average at start of the season I believe was a mistake to sign him on as it restricted us in other signings we could have made. he's done nothing to prove this theory wrong although he appears to be putting more points on board now. But if drop him you have to drop someone else as one change in second string isn't going to turn this team around.

what happens when you race Poole, does Ward ride like Bjarne used to against them