With Gilkes off to Poole, how about?
Sam Masters - 10.09
Anders Rowe - 7.38
Mitchell McDiarmid - 5.18
Luke Killeen - 5.15
Connor Bailey - 4.97
Cameron Heeps - 4.93
Darryl Ritchings - 2.29
Total - 39.99
Plenty of development league / trophy riders to choose from, Senna Summers from their NDL side for starters?
Wouldn't be as strong as Rushen or Ritchings, but he's probably the next Oxford "junior" in line to step up?
Edit: thought we were in the Oxford page for a minute, whoops!
I don't know why you'd think that, great number one, potentially the strongest reserve in the league, 5 riders who can realistically up their averages.
Who would you swap out to be stronger then?
How about?
Peter Kildemand - 8.05
Drew Kemp - 7.88
Nick Morris - 6.86
Francis Gusts - 5.49
Alfie Bowtell - 4.65
Simon Lambert - 4.48
Max Perry - 2.29
Total - 39.70
How about bringing back a couple of former Monarchs?
Dan Thompson - 8.50
Justin Sedgmen - 7.34
Kye Thomson - 5.93
Lasse Fredriksen - 5.49
Jonatan Grahn - 5.30
Cameron Heeps - 4.93
Jordy Loftus - 2.14
Total - 39.63
Harrison was very good at home, not so great away being honest.
Has scored well at Workington, so should help with the home wins. If he can improve away, then could put plenty on his average.
Like you say not many options close to 3.74, Adam Roynon? Connor Coles? Mitchell Cluff?
If Monarchs went for a lower 3 pointer, could go with Palovaara instead of Castagna?
While the team doesn't have the second heat leader strength of last year, it does have 3 "3rd heat leaders" so the 3/4 pairing should be strong. Very decent reserves, especially of they carry on improving.
Hard to judge till we see other teams complete, but see no reason they can't fight for the title.