Hamster00

We may all be brilliant team managers but we will never get the chance.

They have changed there tactic though last season we only started with only one rider on an average over 7 This season we have two over 7 if Jake Allens average is a 7 as guessed and we have one over 8 On the face of things we have had a change of tactic It may work but if it ain't broke don't fix it as they always say.

It's not just Edinburgh's model last year they seem to produce teams capable of winning leagues year in year out and most of the time with a similar formula We have just produced a winning formula last season and now we have changed the formula no wonder we can't find consistency from season to season and it's one reason why I fancy us to be well down this season.

Barker may improve his average slightly but I can't see much improvement I would say Berwick were the best of a bad bunch last season I reckon if you look at the two teams in the play off final there would have been some big improvements there.

I'm not saying it's a bad idea I just think it's a better idea to build the team differently build it around riders that can improve there average Edinburgh have seemed to build around Wolbert, Sedgmen and the reserves and then fit Cookie in from there rather than sign Cookie and work from there as we have done with Barker Maybe it is just my perception of how they do it.

Edinburgh build there team based on having a strong reserve and some middle order riders that can improve there average They don't just sign Cookie and go from there He was the 6th rider to put pen to paper for them this year They build from the bottom. Yeah I was just being a bit more blunt

Plymouth have built there team round Ben Barker on a few occasions and look where it has got them Absolutely nowhere.

Cookie doesn't roll he just has a 600cc engine

Switch R Worrall for S Worrall and it looks a bottom end team. He was.

I'm glad you didn't get one for him cos if you did we might as well have handed the Monarchs the PL trophy.

That better be sarcasm That team looks on a par with Rye House.

Alden is retired as far as I'm aware Stevie Worrall rode well last year for the best team in the league at a track with the biggest home advantage in the league and these days scoring points at reserve in the EL means very little considering the standard of the other reserves imo I can see Stevie Worrall losing roughly a point on his average One good season in about 4 in the PL he wouldn't be anywhere near my team.

Marek Mroz?

I'd rather have them than Worrall One swallow doesn't make a summer in his case.

Rusty Harrison and Theo Pijper are possibilities.

If that was the team I'd look forward to many a mauling.

I think Ben would be a good addition at reserve and Andre would be a solid second string that could really be an asset off the track to help a guy like Jake Allen find his feet in this league.

Now that Sheffields complete Andre Compton or Ben Wilson anyone?

He might have tried and all these past Brits have failed on the continent Kennett, King and the like so why would a team on the continent take a risk on him considering that bringing in a Brit has rarely worked in the past I'm not a massive Cookie fan but I can understand why he is back in the PL and I can understand why people are frustrated that he isn't riding on the continent but I would say it's probably more down to teams not wanting to take a risk on him rather than him not trying.

Can't blame Cook for going back to Edinburgh He seems to be another one of the King, Barker and Stead type that will be a very good PL rider and a decent EL rider It would be nice to see our Brits get a chance on the continent to improve themselves but you can't really blame any of the teams for not giving them a chance Brits on the whole seem to struggle on the continent bar a few and considering how good the young Poles, Danes and Swedes are I can understand why they don't get team places.

This promotion has put together one good team since they took over from PW yes we have had our fair share of injuries and that since then but to say they normally put together a decent team is stretching it a bit We've signed Ben Barker yes but it's the riders you put around him that make the difference in the season his average won't change massively but you need to sign riders down the order that can up there's and make you competitive I can understand the negativity we have signed 2 riders to back him up one in TJ that I can't see making his average and one in Allen that will take time to bed in to this league and when you look at some of the other teams out there and what riders are left we will be toiling imo.

Edinburgh can afford to have a struggling rider as they did with Aaron Fox last season as they always have such a strong team built around them Berwick won't have that luxury imo.

Mr Fricke is a bit special looking at Allens results he's ok I can't see him ever being a Max Fricke though.

By which time a lot of the riders left will be gone I look forward to battling Rye House and Scunny for the wooden spoon this year.

Robin may make some baffling posts at times I do agree but he has some valid points as well The signing of TJ does leave me with a few questions personally.