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Can’t see it happening, so many riders on way lower averages that ride Foxhall better, got to be strong at home - if we can’t get a top rider for no.1 better off packing the team and being strong throughout than signing a rider on higher average that’s not that good around your home track! He left as a disappointing inconsistent no.5 in championship so can’t see him being our no.1 in prem! It’s is silly season after all tho so we’ll see I suppose!

Does that fit!? Surely Garcia will have to come in on a 4.00 being foreign?

Couldn’t agree more

I don’t doubt the potential Heeps has, he shown his ability at times but always seems to then take a step back - admittedly a couple times he’s been injured when flying and that’s never ideal for progress. surely there’s only so many off seasons we can say he finished better, if he can come back better prepared this time it’ll be good - he’s been coming for 8 years now.....

Maybe Nicki pedersen fancies the uk now he’s not in the GP and that’s who CL is meeting!? Dont think cam is good value even at reserve on his average, could have so many others for less!! Ben Barker, Aaron summers, Jake Allen to name a few. agree Gavan we need a top end competitor for the business end of meetings.

Can’t see Fred jakobsen not being back at Poole surely? He’s got bags of potential, why on earth bring him over last season and then bin him off!!??

I really don’t see the fascination with berge and seemingly everyone in agreement he’s a steal on his average!? Always been super inconsistent not much value in winning one race by half a lap and coming last in next two! and to be honest he’s been absolute toilet as a visiting rider at Foxhall over the last few years

Would like to hope those put in charge to manage each club are given a budget to work to based on previous years books, attendances etc. And then it’s on them to manage their clubs accordingly, otherwise surely the conflict of interest is just simply farcical beyond belief and will swiftly become an untenable situation!?

Superb around Foxhall, not really seen anyone better for a lot of years

What’s that got to do with Ipswich 2019?

Don’t think you’d get r.worrall and lawsonnin same team again would you? Big fall out at Glasgow couple of years ago

Sounds like Hawkins doesn’t necessarily get on with buster!

Is that confirmed or just a rumour?!

You can’t have it both ways, if clubs want loyalty in the manner the initial post is suggesting and first refusal a year later then riders need to be contracted and salaried, you can’t have riders being self employed and therefore if they’re injured don’t get paid etc. But then come the end of the season have absolutely no control over who they sign for and at the mercy of a club. If you want it to be this way then clubs need to sign riders onto multi year contracts with a weekly wage agreed and performance related bonuses on top of that more like in say football as an example. But there’s simply isn’t the money in the sport to do this! The original post seems to forget these guys are people trying to make a living the same as anyone else, they’re fortunate to be skilled enough at something as fun a racing motorbikes against there friends for a living but that doesn’t make them any different to anyone else and should be treated accordingly. imagine you’re subcontracted to build an extension for a bigger firm. Once the job is done you get offered to build an extension for someone else for more money than the firm you’ve done a contracted job for, would it be reasonable let alone legal for that firm to say you can’t go and build an extension for someone else because I want you to do this for less money, I’m not willing to employ you full time and pay you a salary all year round but if you don’t agree because you’ve just sub contracted on a job for me, you can’t work anywhere else in this country for 12 months!! Farcical idea isn’t it!

I guess I’m just used to knowing the team nice and early and going up to the track to get my season ticket Christmas time so just a bit eager to know the team and start looking ahead to next season!!

Superb 6 around foxhall, should be enough depth to pick some points up on the road too to be fair. without any reductions it only leaves 2.27 for last spot though so not sure who qualifies for reductions and if so would it be enough to get it up to 3 for last spot? also when I suggested a team with cook and Lawson in before someone intimated that there’s bad blood between the pair and wouldn’t likely ever see them in same side!? I have no knowledge of this so don’t know how true that may be! The silence is deafening tho just wanna know now!!

Surely with Lemon being Aussie manager, you guys will get first option on Lidsey now he’s eligible for a visa? Has to be worth a punt berge

Well if it applies to those two instead of nicholls team would still fit so still a worker!

Ok how about rory Schlein 7.92 bwd 5.27 danny king 6.36 scott nicholls 6.48 troy batchelor 7.69 nico covatti 4.70 ryan Douglas 4.08 42.5 exact! Note this is with Danny and Scott being eligible for the 2.5% reduction, I’m still not entirely sure if they are or not! would be a superb team at Foxhall and have a strong reserve pair all year

Side note, Ryan Douglas back in the uk next year 2017 champ average is 6.12 so converts to 4.08 in Prem, has always been pretty useful round Foxhall think he could certainly do a good job on that average at reserve.

Woffinden to me is probably the most skilful and talented rider in the world currently and has been the last few years - but it’s everything else that’s made him a 3 time world champ, lost count of how many times I’ve heard him say in interviews I know no one is working harder than I am off the bike to be the best he can be on the bike! All the top guys work so hard to maximise their potential and make any tiny little gain they can to help give them an edge, matej Zagar for example is a reserve in the Slovenian special forces - each winter he spends a couple of months training in the forest with them - a far cry from an Australian beach and cooler full of beer!

No worries bud easily done! Like I said for me cam just isn’t good value even at reserve on that mark! ive got nothing against the lad and still think there’s bags of untapped potential in there, but in any sport raw talent only gets you so far, attitude, application and dedication to being the best athlete you can be play just as big a part of not bigger and for me he’s had several opportunities now and time and time again come up short. To be fair I remember going to mildenhall when he first came over as a 15 year old he was instantly a revelation yet 7 years on how far has he progressed? I would say at 15/16 he looked every bit as special as Robert lambert or dan Bewley and look at where they’ve taken their careers in half the time!

Cams final prem average for wolves 2018 is listed as 4.72 and Nico at Somerset 4.70, despite being dropped before the end of the season surely cams achieved prem average from last year would still be his starting average for this year!?

Please no Heeps, he’s gotta a lot to prove before he deserves another shot at Ipswich imo, especially no we’re back in the top flight! Also surely Nico covatti would be preferrred on basically the same average!? all of the top 5 are formidable at Foxhall though

Very good to be fair, would be a good third heat leader at ipswich