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Liam's not going for a team spot but hopes to be back on a bike sometime next year. Next signing announced tomorrow morning!

I just learnt after the first attempt that I couldn't do anything else at the same time haha and happy birthday (again )

When he first posted I thought he was on about Jason Bunyan!! Too many aliases to keep track off haha

It doesn't work like that in the NL though as you often have riders who make much bigger improvements that in other leagues simply as they are just starting out. So even though I expect Ellis to be the top rider in the league, there simply isn't a lot of room for him to increase his average, whereas you look lower down the order and Zach could double his average, Perks could triple his and even someone like Extance could add 2-3 points despite not being a eat leader before and how many 5pt riders do that in other leagues! Look at Greaves last season, if you had a 4pt rider outside of the reserve berth for the first time in the PL, would you expect him to finish on 7.12??

The rules state that you use the higher of your your convertered PL average or current NL average. In the case of Adam his converted PL average is higher so he takes that. As greyhoundp says, this has been confirmed by current NL promoters/team managers.

Apparently Williamson is doing a year out on his moto X instead. Atkin is like unofficially confirmed as well!

Surely they're gonna keep Sarj as he's in the EL team and I would have thought keeping Oli G makes sense seeing as he's an asset but the averages wouldn't allow him to. However Crang, Knuckey and Sarj added takes the team over the limit even with x2 3.00 men!

Lets assume he would have averaged that then so I can take second

Hardly a relief. Cradley look like they're going to walk the league instead.

Surely Somerset wouldn't have needed to ask the BSPA in the first place (whether they were misinformed or not) as they were at the AGM where they were told that Aussies were on a 7. Rob said that Scunthorpe stopped negotiations with 2 Aussies for this very reason as teams were told of the average change for this year.

I thought it might be interesting to revisit this thread and see how well we actually did! I think it is interesting that only 1 person did better than the Cradley management!! Over half of us though, including myself, were let down by Freemantle's injury and those people have a * next to their name! 1. In the End 57.45 2. MonarchsMitchy 54.26 3. 21stCenturyHeathen 53.88* 4. bolly 53.21 5. Me 53.01* 6. Steven101 51.61* 7. Frankthepug 51.60 8. Wessex Wanderer 50.43 9. ren 50.4* 10. RocketBen1 50.26* 11. greyhoundp 49.70* 12. Atticus Maximus 48.76 13. Vog 47.62*

Ben Morley

I think you'll find RTD heading your way. So with Armstrong back, I'd expect Payne, McBain and Shuttleworth to be certainties and those 5 leave 9.53 for the final 2 places. That could mean Widman and Knuckey or Andrews, or a 3 pointer and a return for Priest.

You can't double up from NL to PL if you're over 25. The same issue is affecting Bowen at Rye. It would also mean that if they do sign Mills, presumably he isn't getting a PL spot else they'd lose him and be in the same position as Stoke was this year.

But the art of having a successful team is improving your average and who's better placed than Perks to do that?

Atkin 8.14 (Buxton), O. Greenwood 9.22, Sarjeant 8.67, Webster 8.74, Clegg 8.58 (Cradley), Morley 9.06 (Kent), S. Lambert 9.14, Compton 8.95, Bates 7.68, Perry 8.21, Halsey 9.23, Wilson 9.04, Armstrong 7.94, Branford 8.53. If any of these want to return: Reade 7.70, Knight 7.62, Irving 8.17 and Morris if he does t get a PL spot.

That's not why they've ditched it as the meetings are still being run as the Gold Cup.

Mate I was 1 off because I forgot about the reserves' reductions

Well aren't you a nice guy...

Absolute quality and will win the league!

He's a 5.00. I bet Aspgren, Grajczonek and Kurtz are the final 3.

who are you thinking of Mikey?

If the EL race format is similar to last year, he'll score heavily at reserve and that'll keep his confidence high. I was basing him getting a point extra on riding at Somerset or Workington.

About a point.

You say there are better options and then mention Wells... So you'd rather have someone who lost over a point on his average last year than someone who put on over 2 points.