My figures may be wrong but I have used the last Green Sheet figures and applying the 5% reduction for British riders I get a total of 37.46 for Howarth 7.57, Mountain 5.15, Lambert 5.72 Allen 7.16, Palm Toft 7.01 Ablitt 2.85 and Harrison 2.00.
Final averages show slight increase on these figures for Mountain, Lambert and Thompson so this seven just exceeds 40 points by 0.23. Mountain 4.84, Lambert 5.33, Thompson 3.35.
Surely Poole and Leicester have proven that you need 3 top heat leaders so I would start building the top 3 and work from there. Douglas a definite but Allen and Aarnio not good enough. I would like Howarth and Ellis if available. Talk on other sites is that points will go down to try and stop doubling up which would scupper everything team building wise.