YerRopes

It would be funnier if Fat Maud made the call and he then went to Ipswich or Eastbourne - the teams that perhaps need a bit of extra help with their team building....

So oncemore, it is OK for Poole to get riders on manipulated low averages - but out of order if anyone else does it !

At the end of the day, if any rider has not had his average re-assessed due to lack of meetings I can't really see a problem - all clubs do it. More of a problem re team building is Poole getting Darcy, Artur, Watt and Madsen on low averages which helped them to the top of the league prior to the play-offs. In the same vein we have Janowski on 5.00 for next season, when he has already proved to be far better than that. In order to have a competitive league, it would nice if such anomolies were not allowed ! Although it would be complicated, perhaps a riders average should be calculated on his top 75% rides and increase the team building average by 25% to compensate - this would hopefully prevent Poole at Swindon last year and Glasgow at Edinburgh this year. Additionally, although I would like to see the points limit for next season set by the average of the team that came top of the league (Poole), perhaps it should be for cost reasons, the average of the fifth team....if the team building average remains as it is for next year, the EL gets watered down even further. You just have to look at the Swedish League to see that there are heats where anyone can win, over here, it is too often two races. Finally, there must be some sort of squad system introduced, too many meetings include six man teams and/or guests which has caused me to miss a few meetings this year (more than I would have liked).. That's all...