Barrow Boy 2

My Top 20 Riders on current form as at 30.07.24 are now as follows:- 01-Emil Sayfutdinov-Ipswich-1060 02-Chris Holder-Sheffield-990 03-Dan Bewley-Belle Vue-980 04-Jack Holder-Sheffield-970 05-Freddie Lindgren-Birmingham-920 06-Brady Kurtz-Belle Vue-900 07-Max Fricke-Leicester-890 08-Rohan Tungate-Oxford-880 09-Jan Kvech-Kings Lynn-870 10-Maciej Janowski-Oxford-820 11-Neils Kristian Iversen-Kings Lynn-790 12-Chris Harris-Oxford-785 13-Sam Masters-Leicester-750 14-Richard Lawson-Leicester-720 15-Ben Cook-Belle Vue=700 16-Jamon Lidsey=Belle Vue-695 17-Ben Basso-King's Lynn-690 18-Danny King-Ipswich-670 19-Ryan Douglas-Leicester-665 20-Adam Ellis-Ipswich-640

My Top 20 riders as at 30.06.24 are now as follows:- 01-Chris Harris-Glasgow-1050 02-Josh Pickering-Edinburgh-1030 03-Sam Masters-Oxford-1025 04-Scott Nicholls-Oxford-1010 05-Richard Lawson-Poole-980 06-Tom Brennan-Poole-970 07-Charles Wright-Redcar-965 08-Troy Bachelor-Workington-950 09-Rory Schlein-Berwick-940 10-Kyle Howarth-Scunthorpe-890 11-Craig Cook-Workington-880 12-Steve Worrall-Glasgow-860 13-Justin Sedgmen-Edinburgh-840 14-Dan Thompson-Plymouth-865 15-Michael Palm Toft-Scunthorpe-830 16-Jake Allen-Scunthorpe-820 17-Ben Cook-Poole-810 18-Cameron Heeps-Oxford-780 19-Jason Edwards-Redcar-775 20-Paco Castagna-Edinburgh-750

My Top 20 riders as at 30.06.24 are now as follows:- 01-Jack Holder-Sheffield-1030 02-Emil Sayfutdinov-Ipswich-1010 03-Tai Woffinden-Sheffield-990 04-Chris Holder-Sheffield-980 05-Dan Bewley-Belle Vue-950 06-Rohan Tungate-Oxford-910 07-Max Fricke-Leicester-900 08-Brady Kurtz-Belle Vue-880 09-Tom Brennan-Birmingham-820 10-Ben Cook-Belle Vue-760 11-Danny King-Ipswich-750 12-Neils Kristian Iversen-King's Lynn-730 13-Adam Ellis-Ipswich-720 14-Sam Masters-Leicester-710 15-Ryan Douglas-Leicester-705 16-Jamon Lidsey-Belle Vue-700 17-Richard Lawson-Leicester-680 18-Justin Sedgmen-Birmingham-675 19-Chris Harris-Oxford-670 20-Benjamin Basso-King's Lynn-645

Exactly.

My Top 20 Riders as at 31.5.24 are as follows:- 01-Josh Pickering-Edinburgh-1100 02-Tom Brennan-Poole-1010 03-Chris Harris-Glasgow-1000 04-Richard Lawson-Poole-980 05-Scott Nicholls-Oxford-975 06-Charles Wright-Redcar-970 07-Sam Masters-Oxford-930 08-Troy Bachelor-Workington-920 09-Justin Sedgmen-Edinburgh-850 10-Dan Thompson-Plymouth-845 11-Craig Cook-Workington-840 12-Connor Mountain-Scunthorpe-830 13-Michael Palm Toft-Scunthorpe-820 14-Ben Cook-Poole-810 15-Steve Worrall-Glasgow-790 16-Ben Barker-Plymouth-780 17-Jake Allen-Scunthorpe-775 18-Kyle Howarth-Scunthorpe-750 19-Tate Zischke-Workington-745 20-Leon Flint-Glasgow-715

My Top 20 riders as at 30.05.24 are as follows:- 01-Jason Doyle-Ipswich-1075 02-Tai Woffinden-Sheffield-1040 03-Emil Sayfutdinov-Ipswich-960 04-Jack Holder-Sheffield-955 05-Chris Holder-Sheffield-950 06-Brady Kurtz-Belle Vue-880 07-Dan Bewley-Belle Vue-875 08-Ryan Douglas-Leicester-870 09-Rohan Tungate-Oxford-830 10-Tom Brennan-Birmingham-810 11-Max Fricke-805 12-Ben Cook-Belle Vue-770 13-Richard Lawson-Leicester-760 14-Sam Masters-Leicester-755 15-Neils Kristian Iversen-King's Lynn-740 16-Jadon Lidsey-Belle Vue-735 17-Chris Harris-Oxford-700 18-Adam Ellis-Ipswich-690 19-Josh Pickering-Sheffield-675 20-Charles Wright-Oxford-650

The poor crowd was certainly due to peoples doubts that it would be on and because it was available to view for £12.99 instead of £22. I expect there will now be many future meetings poorly attended due to the cheaper stay at home option. If a family watches it at home for £12.99 they will save say £37ish per family in admission fees. The very productive 50/'50 riders raffle will also be affected. Not good.

Lampart's GSA is 4.00. Nicholls is 8.38. Hardly a like for like.

I'm with you on this because if teams raced on preferred nights the likes of Sayfutdinov, Holder, Bewley etc may not be able to ride in England which would be a shame. I have longed for the dwindling number of tracks to be all in just the one league though but it would reduce the quality. Difficult. So I too do not have the answer.

Agree that the team finishing top of the league be League Champions. How about replacing the Play Offs with an end of season K/O cup?

By using all riders actual 2023 averages (not GSA rolling averages) it comes out as follows:- 1-Ipswich-48.50 2-Sheffield-47.84 3-Leicester-46.91 4-King's Lynn-46.87 5-Belle Vue-46.77 6-Oxford-46.64 7-Birmingham-43.51 For Oxford I have given Janowski an average similar to Sayfutdinov & Doyle. For Tungate his most current BPL average which I'm sure he will improve and I fully expect Boughan to improve. I would therefore think that Oxford will finish much higher.

Now that the BNL teams average has been increased by 0.25 to allow Max Perry to compete would Leicester have included him had this been done earlier?

And because it is a weaker league most riders will improve their starting averages. To date there are just 5 riders who will start on an average over 7.

Joe Thompson has now signed for Plymouth who I understand are to race on Saturdays as will The Cubs.

I hope you are correct but Max Perry has already said he cannot continue with the Cubs presumeably because of what Flagrag thought would be happening.

But Flagrag said that only one NDL rider may also be allowed to ride in The BCL. Hence Max Perry not being allowed to ride for the Cubs because he has signed for Poole if Joe Thompson remains a Cub.

Max James has now signed for BCL Edinburgh. Does this prevent him from riding for the Cubs as well.

Nothing about this on either Poole's or Leicester's sites

How about Max Perry-7.75 Tom Spencer-5.78 Max James-5.70 George Congreve-5.60 Mickey Simpson-4.23 Vinny Foord-3.51 Connor King-3.39 Total-35.96

Leicester will first chance to retain Drew Kemp. All BPL teams are allowed to retain their 2023 rider if they and the rider wishes do they not?

Oxford have already confirmed they will be continuing in next season's NDL making them members of all 3 leagues.

My Top 20 Riders At the end of last season including riders who for various reasons were unable to be there at the end are as follows:- 01-Henry Atkins-Oxford-1070 02-Jordon Jenkins-Oxford-1065 03-Connor Bailey-Workington-1050 04-Dan Thompson-Leicester-1025 05-Joe Thompson-Leicester-1000 06-Alfie Bowtell-Mildenhall-980 07-Max Clegg-Edinburgh-970 08-Ashton Boughen-Leicester-960 09-Jacob Hook-Edinburgh-950 10-James Pearson-Belle Vue-910 11-Nathan Ablitt-Kent-905 12-Jack Smith-Belle Vue-880 13-Ben Morley-Kent-875 14-Sam Hagon-Belle Vue-860 15-Adam Roynon-Edinburgh-850 16-Max Perry-Leicester-845 17-Luke Killeen-Oxford-815 18-Lee Complin-Mildenhall-795 19-Connor Coles-Berwick-770 20-Ryan Kinsley-Oxford-760

You are correct but Harris leaving did not help.

As this is my last list I have included those riders who for various reasons were not actually riding at the end who I have not included before. 01-Ryan Douglas-Scunthorpe-1040 02-Sam Masters-Oxford-1035 03-Chris Harris-Glasgow-1030 04-Josh Pickering-Edinburgh-1010 05-Benjamin Basso-Glasgow-1000 06-Charles Wright-Redcar-995 07-Danny KIng-Redcar-960 08-Craig Cook-Edinburgh-950 09-Richard Lawson-Poole-945 10-Kyle Howarth-Plymouth-940 11-Vadim Tarasenko-Glasgow-935 12-Rory Shlein-Berwick-905 13-Richie Worrall-Plymouth-900 14-Steve Worrall-Poole-895 15-Scott Nicholls-Oxford-880 16-Lewis Kerr-Oxford-870 17-Leon Flint-Berwick-820 18-Tom Brennan-Glasgow-805 19-Ben Barker-Plymouth-800 20-Nick Morris-Birmingham-795

When it was decided that this fixture would be played it was ruled that Leicester would have to provide a team of BCL standards up to a 40 point limit based on start of the season averages. This is a joke as Poole's riders having topped the league would have obviously increased .They have in fact risen to a combined average of 45/46 wheras Leicester's selected riders only amount to the agreed 40. How is this fare?