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His 2023 average beat three number ones in the league, and another number one isn’t coming back next year, so he might not be the best number one, but that is his position now tbh.

Matters less for away matches than home matches.

I like this idea. BTW, the equivalent team building average for this format would be 63.

Yeah, it’s pretty good for me. Much better than an evening. I’ll plan to come down if I can, when there’s some tasty opposition in town.

My guess is he'll be at Workington. But that's just a gut feeling, I've not been told anything.

You've still got a week or two to wait, I think.

Potentially, yes.

I'm guessing Bomber's reference this week wasn't to the Championship. I'd hope we'd have been told if he wasn't coming back. As far as I know, Glasgow know who they have for next year, so my conclusion in that everyone we haven't been told is leaving, is coming back. Seems the most logical scenario to me.

Don’t knock it till you’ve tried it.

Sadly not, despite still being on a great average. At the right track, Claus is a steal on his average.

All matches should have second halves either with NJL action, or equivalent of NDL action. Must be possible to make something like that work. Gives a chance for people who previously wouldn't have gone to an NDL match the chance to see some potential up and coming youngsters.

That’s a little unfair on Championship clubs. How many teams have been better than Glasgow over the course of the last five years or so? And that’s no disrespect to other clubs, e.g., Redcar, who have built some very entertaining and challenging teams. Even if they haven’t won the league, plenty of us would make sure we’re in town when they are. Winning can be fine margins, and so much depends on injuries. But how you go about it is very important too. Just see the NJL debacle this week for that.

Sounds more like rider changes than league changes to me.

I know this is academic as Tom's not coming back, but if we have signed/are signing Worrall for next season, he could've fitted in with this team. It looks like a long tail, but maybe that's how the league will look. I'd still be very concerned about reserve, but it would've been a decent team at home, which let's be honest, is where the money comes from.

Great idea.

If Ace could take the bulk Lee needs to lose, the two would both be set fair.

I don't know the ins and outs of it, but I guess someone outside a club could sponsor a ride according to their points. But a club can't channel money through someone else. I think the league do some kind of auditing on that. Unfortunately I can't remember where I read what Bomber said, otherwise I'd point it out. He didn't say a lot, but he did reference it at some point.

I’m sure I read something recently where Bomber mentioned £90/point, and I got the feeling that was a league-mandated ceiling.

And Ace. He'll provide some too.

Because that was what was agreed before the competition started.

The article says Harris has already been named. That's incorrect. The won't be any announcements until sometime in November. However, no one around Glasgow believes anything other than that Bomber is coming back. If the team and/or Bomber didn't intend for him to come back, I'm certain it would've been announced. I'm interested to see who we end up with. My current guess from what people say would be: Bomber, Worrall, Bailey, Hume, Borke, Complin, Pijper. Not my favourite 7, but they're all riders that others like and people seem to be interested in.

Yes. Even if there had been a rider who could've come in mid season for Lee and done better - which there wasn't - it would've been a terrible move because he was so good at getting the crowd and the kids hyped up. Not enough riders work the crowd, but he's brilliant.

Yes, I think he is. His form at the tail end of the season showed he's great value if he's got a good engine.

Signed on a 5, averaged 7. Not sure that can be seen as anything but a successful signing.

That would be a handy team with good gaps between the averages so the lineup doesn’t get messed around during the season.