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What's the ruling behind Roynons average? I assumed it was double his finishing Championship he attained at Oxford last season? Which only makes it 6.9ish

How dare they give some young, local lads a chance, you'd almost think that's what this league is about, terrible!!

Yep

Hoping for Rhys Naylor. Him and Ben at 3 and 4 would be awesome 😄

Keeping busy as he only has Plymouth in the Championship? Trying set ups for the Championship? Could be many reasons.

Chad Wirtzfeld is from Poole. Can't think of 3 15 year olds that would make sense.

Well what's the NL team? It's appears to only be you who knows it? Were you the only one there?

The only person I've actually seen say it was announced is Lewy... which is all I need to say 😄 I'm sure it will be announced soon

Because it hasn't

And riders in the NDL can't have averages below 3.00

1. Joe Thompson 10.29 2. Kai Ward 3.58 3. Chad Wirtzfeld 5.20 4. Rhys Naylor 4.13 5. Ben Trigger 8.71 6. 3.09 7. Charlie Southwick 3.00

Chad Wirtzfeld? Arran Butcher? Charlie Southwick?

How to ruin the GP series more than it already is

I've heard that the team was announced last Friday, was it actually?

They easily have the best top 3, I think Jason Edwards is really going to have a big year next year too... Their top 4 is incredible. Jake Mulford should be solid enough at number 2, especially at home. I like their reserves, but they are just as likely to go missing away from home, particularly again teams with stronger reserves. I rate Tom Spencer quite a bit, he's never going to be world champion but he's a very solid rider and I think he'll surprise a few, always gives 110%. Anyway back to Poole. I'd be delighted to see Anders pushing mid 7s and I would love to be proven wrong and see him hit 8 too. I just wish he'd stop wearing his hats like a condom...

They are the reason that I said 'top 2' in my post 5 minutes ago. I think Redcar look very strong.

I can see by the end of the season 1. Richard Lawson 9.00-9.50 2. Tobias Thomsen 4.75-5.25 3. Zach Cook 6.75-7.25 4. Anders Rowe 6.75-7.25 5. Lewis Kerr 7.25-7.75 6. Paul Starke 3.75-4.25 7. William Cairns 4.50-5.00 Fair assessment? Of course you Poole fans will know these riders better than me.

Poole given special dispensation to use Charles Wright as he doubles up with Redcar on a 2.96 average 😆 Chad Wirtzfeld should be nowhere near the Championship... But he is local.

I don't for one second believe that Poole will finish anywhere other than in the top 2 and probably make it to the final in everything. But to say Ben Cook for Lewis Kerr is like for like and Anders Rowe will be an 8 point rider is insane. Ben Cook was pretty much in the top 5 riders last season, I think he finished 6th highest if memory serves me well, and I don't think Lewis Kerr, although a good rider, is considered one of the best in the league. And I do think Anders will have a good season next year, but he'll do very good to make it to an 8 point average.

Who's your supplier?

Rather than Poole, if the powers that be insisted on no byes in the competition therefore 8 teams were needed, they should have contacted a Danish or Polish or German team etc to see if they wanted to come and do a one off meeting over here. A Landshut select side with the likes of Huckenbeck, Smolinski, Grobauer. Or perhaps an Aussie select side with a bunch of Australian riders who don't ride in the PL. A bit of outside the box thinking. It would have made it more interesting for everyone else who isn't a poole fan.

But are young and with more opportunities will only get better. I personally hoped there would be 2 stages of NDL this year. A stronger NDL with the likes of Leciester, Belle Vue and Oxford mainly consisting of CL second strings and Reserves (give riders like Hume, Hagon and Starke more rides) And a British Development League with the likes of Kent, Edinburgh and Middlesbrough with local kids (Mark Parker, Lee Harrison, Kyran Lyden etc as reserves and second strings) just a glorified MDL with 7 rider teams basically. Set up so riders like Tom Spencer and Max James are the strongest riders in the league kinda thing.

Complete or partake in? Because 2025 will be Huckenbecks second full year in the GPs as far as I can see.

Would Kai Huckenbeck's assessed average not be 8.00? With him being a Grand Prix rider. I'd love to see Tarasenko back over here though, I think there was only going to be loads more left from him, the more he got used to riding over here.

A geographical league makes sense from a team point of view, but for a rider it would make more sense if the teams were spread all over the country in both leagues. For example there's a kid who lives in Edinburgh. His teams could be Edinburgh in the NDL and Workington in the NT rather than a north/south split where his teams would be Edinburgh and Birmingham/Kent/Plymouth etc. Less travelling for home meetings for individual riders. So it's swings and roundabouts. Although I do understand Workington's issues with travel.