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What figure do you have for Connor Bailey? 4.43 less Brit reduction takes him to 4.32 which doesn't fit. Harris 8.75, Basso 8.52, Brennan 6.70, Pijper 2.00 and 2 @ 5.00 = 35.97, so only 4.03 left. Needs to be a 4.00 rider.

Riding at number five is no different to riding at number one. You meet the same opponents and race in heat 13. It was moving out of the easier number four position that was Bens problem in the latter meetings this season.

Indeed hence my "pay" comment.

There are large intra company payments/receipts between Tigers, Ashfield Allied, Tigers parent company , and Allied Vehicles so could possibly include notional rent.

Are you sure we don't "pay" Ashfield Allied , our parent company.

8.35 is insufficient to accommodate Harris (8.98 less Brit Reduction of 0.22 makes him 8.75). Even if Theo Pijper qualifies for a reduction his 4.32 still doesnt create enough room for the decidedly unwanted Harris. Anyone know of Theo's status?

Remember Bernie Lacrosse beating Ivan Mauger in the second half at The White City. Sadly he never repeated this form. It is to be hoped that Ace is shown the same patience as BobbyBeaton got in his first season.

Seemed to work ok for Poole this season.

May be but wasn't that a very much weakened league second time around?

Trevor Redmond rider/team manager/promoter for the Tigers in the Provincial League season but probably no one since.

And Middlesbrough too. The five non league tracks each staged a meeting in the Preliminary Round of the World Championship in 1965. Mainly contested by tracks number sixes and sevens - though Tommy Sweet man and Eric Hockaday rode in these meetings - each rider had two meetings with the top dozen or so going through to the Qualifying Rounds which were held at all BL tracks. Previously the PL tracks had staged preliminary meetings ahead of the NL rounds and this repeated this format , though it wasn't required again. Leo Ramm rode in a few second halfs at Glasgow and Cowdebeath in 1965 but never made either team. I believe he subsequently became a taxi driver in Edinburgh

Take it you're not meaning Les and Aidan Collins.

As Basso is shown as 8.52, it looks like Glasgow's last meeting at Plymouth isn't included - after all the aggravation and restaging involved !

Why does Tom have to be the next one? Wouldn't be too worried whether he's next or not as long as he's signed. Not sure that spreading the signings out over a week or so actually achieves anything. Don't think they make the local papers.

They've all been removed!

And Martin McKinna who only rode for Glasgow.

Curious that you have Basso as 8.52. Has the away meeting at Plymouth been excluded from the calculation?

From another website It seems certain that guys who ride solely in the Premiership (Doyle, Kurtz, Holder etc) wouldn't be interested in this new set up. So essentially we have all the riders in the Championship, probably around 80, to fill out 16 teams - 5 per team at a bit of a stretch. Would an NL rider be drafted in at number six?This would be a huge watering down of team strengths. Essentially 10 teams @ 42 shared among 16 teams (10 x 42 ÷16 = 27) add in an NL reserve at 2.00 and you still don't come to 30.

Not enough riders for one league plus NDL. Fortnightly only works with a fixed racenight, like in Sweden. In the Championship, it's not fortnightly, it's 6 meetings in eight weeks, 1 I four, 4 in fiive , then 1 in about six.

How about six riders in the main body get four programmed rides, one reserve gets two which gives 13 heats, plus one nominated riders heat making fourteen for the league meeting BUT with two second half races featuring both reserves and home team juniors - so reserves get four rides in total. This establishes a path for number eights and nines to get into the team and they woukd be used to replace an absent reserve.

It's got nothing to do with wanting to return to the 70s and 80s. We need to downgrade the importance of the reserve, whether in the way suggested or some other way, so that he gets replaced by your number eight and not a guest from another team, without seriously weakening your team.

October 12, 1973 in the Tigers v Reading meeting, the last BL meeting ever held in Scotland as the Tigers sold their licence to Hull that winter. Run on a match race basis with only four riders Heat 1 Wattie Robertson beat Johnny Rodgers 77.0 Rodgers replaced the programmed Jim Beresford Heat 2 George Wells beat Harry Maclean 73.4 Final George Wells beat Wattie Robertson 73.8

Lawson plus a 5.00 pointer and a 2.00 reserve looks a better alternative.

Isn't Basso 8.33? That's the figure on the BSPL site. And Brennan is given as 6.85 - 6.67 once reduction is applied. If these figures are correct then the first selection would have 4.03 to fill.