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I can't remember.

He does deserve his place tbh, I can't deny it either. I'm keeping faith in Mayfield pulling off the Woryna deal because a 1-5 of Doyle, Kemp, King, Brennan and Woryna makes sense at this point going by rumours and projections in regards to other Clubs 1-5's. It even looks like a very well balanced 1-5 at first glance.

I'm very interested in Kemp purely due to the fact that the League will likely see the vast majority of Clubs have a weak tail or at worst very weak reserves. Kemp should be having a field day against the inexperienced riders whether they're new Rising Stars to the League or U21 Foreign Youngsters who haven't ridden a British track.

If the Club does miss out on Cairns then is it too late to pull the plug on any deal for King considering all deals would be subject to approval?

I was going to put Howarth in but I assume he's at Leicester considering Morris is rumoured for Northampton and Kemp wouldn't fit with Douglas, Fricke, D. Thompson and Masters considering the No.6 has to be a minimum 3.00 Rider. As for Belle Vue I assume the plan would be Kurtz, Bewley, B. Cook, Zischke or Rushen + a 4.00 Pointer, Cairns and a RS.

What's even worse is if we don't sign Cairns because we could be looking at King @ No.5 with a couple of riders out of their depth at reserve. With that scenario in-play, It makes the Cairns deal the top priority imo and whatever Belle Vue offer, Mayfield will have to keep upping the ante until the Aces give in even if it leaves less money to spend on the Witches engine room.

If it's a 37.00 Limit and it's not possible to get Kemp or Rushen @ No.2 then I'm not sure the Woryna route is the right option as we'd likely have a very long tail. Best case scenario's imo. Team 1 1. J. Doyle 8.62 2. A. Ellis 5.98 3. D. King 7.17 4. T. Brennan 5.76 5. R. Tungate 6.42 or M. Janowski 6.06 6. W. Cairns 3.00 7. RS = 36.95 or 36.59 Team 2 1. J. Doyle 8.62 2. D. Kemp 4.92 or C. Rushen 4.74 3. D. King 7.17 4. T. Brennan 5.76 5. K. Woryna 7.50 6. W. Cairns 3.00 7. RS = 36.97 / 36.79

That's where I've gone wrong then. I was taking them off the 2026 Rider Statistics page that's one place above the 2026 declarations. Kemp, Howarth and Rushen are all on GSA's under 4.95.

I've got the following GSA's from the SpeedwayGB site. Doyley 8.40 King 7.35 -> 7.17 after 2.5% Reduction Ellis 6.13 -> 5.98 after 2.5% Reduction Brennan 5.91 -> 5.76 after 2.5% Reduction Cairns 3.77 -> 3.00 after 25% Reduction after moving out of the Rising Star scheme. = 30.31 6.69 or 7.69 left depending on a 37.00 or 38.00 Limit.

Woryna 7.50 apparently.

Ellis for me all day long when it comes to riders on high 5 GSA's after factoring in the 2.5% British Reductions for eligble riders. Rohan will be a good signing for someone though.

With the 1 Over 8.00 rule being scrapped do we now assume that Plymouth or Workington aren't running because the Team Building rules were set for 3 Years on the basis that 9 Teams would compete in the Championship?

Must be a 37.00 limit then.

Keeping the faith in the Woryna deal, Has to be some logic attached to Tobi's departure rather than GSA related because King won't be able to cut the mustard @ No.5. Letting Musielak go for an extra 0.50 to use in the engine room wouldn't make much sense tbh because Doyle would effectively be in 2 v 1 races when it comes to Heats 13 & 15. I'd be shocked if the Top 4 isn't Doyle, Woryna, King and Brennan at this point.

Got Iversen written all over it imo. 1. T. Musielak 2. K. Thomson 3. R. Lawson (Where else does he go if it's not King's Lynn?) 4. J. Lidsey 5. N-K. Iversen 6. M. McDiarmid (U21) 7. A. Pijper (RS) (Harrison would've been announced at the weekend if he was staying imo) = 37.79