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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.

Hume's home figure of 7.04 includes bonus points. 19 of them. His GSA figure is 5.39, lower than his away figure, which surely makes him a more valuable rider, as it gives his team a better chance of an away win. Away points win prizes! Just a pity is overall average is too high.

SGP2 is an U21 competition so Basso and Brennan would be too old next year.

Would expect Bailey to be the senior reserve at number six. It'll be interesting to see who the seventh man is. Complin, Bickley or an NL graduate seem the only possibilities.

Sept 29 , 1972 at Hampden - the tragic night when Svein Kaasa was killed Heat 1 Alan Mackie, Kenny Omand, John Wilson, Harry Maclean 78.2 Heat 2 Andy Meldrum, Wattie Robertson, Jim Beresford, George Beaton fell 77.4 Final Alan Mackie, Andy Meldrum, Wattie Robertson, Kenny Omand 78.2 Will need to go up into the attic for the 1973 details of the meeting at Coatbridge

Where are the riders going to come from to allow 50 point teams? Right now the Premiership is going to have a problem finding seven extra riders to staff the addtional team (Leicester)

The simpler solution would be for both teams to track the seven they would have done had the final been raced. The simplest solution is just to forget aabout biut the whole thing!

From memory only Leicester and Redcar have Newcastle meetings in tbeir last ten meetings.

Not sure that Blodorn would be good value at an assessed average of more than eight.

League winners or play off winners? Poole have a GSA total of a bit over 42 while Leicester are well over 44 . Glasgow over 46, so not all teams would be improving their squads. Monarchs about the same figure as Poole, so keeping their big two might not be a problem. Wages limit was tried in the 80s. Don't remember it working, with sponsorship being the way around it.

Are we talking about Cami Brown? Craig Cook heat15 v Poole! Possibly other times too.

So where is Danyon going? As he's got a better away average than his home figure, I would have thought he was one to keep.