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And with 14 Robert Lambert's you wouldn't get a meeting until late August.

2025: 322 meetings 2004: 1095 meetings All-time high- 1300 in 1978. Sobering stats.

Pretty much, including appearances from the likes of Sam Hagon. As far as past seasons go there has been no impediment to entering more than one state. I think one year a Tasmanian Championship was held [in Victoria] purely to manufacture work permit places.

Over last 3 seasons Bewley has averaged 6.08 over 10 matches at Foxhall. That is substantially worse than any other Premiership track [I think 7.50 at Birmingham is his next lowest]

They started 2025 0.94 below, so yes they might well start that far below next year.

Or at 7.76 a typical number one in an amalgamated league

Can I interest you in Kacper Mania?

Been done already, the German Bundesliga has run with two teams (although it has now expanded by a massive 50% to three)

They didn't.

Although I can see the rider who is 9th in the averages with a match to go having a couple of EFs in that match to get his average down to 10th.

Would it be so promoters doing early team building have certainty about riders averages? [Which would suggest a fairly high degree of confidence about next season's league format.]

That would imply somebody is making it up as they go along. ... so business as usual then!

Aren't all rules 'made up'?

First four will I think be in most people's list. But my fifth nomination would be: Nikolai Klindt [when not at Plymouth]

Issue 26 does not include matches after 23 Sept so Worky v Berwick needs to be added.

I'm sure that's what Jem Doncaster and the Witches fans thought at the Oxford leg of the 1985 KO Cup final. My all-time favourite rider, but 'most stylish' might be a bit of a stretch, there was always a hint of unpredictability about his riding which is probably the antithesis of 'stylishness'.

Doesn't Cairns have UK commitments on Friday and Sunday?

But maybe what he really needs right now is to improve his gating, so that might just be the perfect choice for him. 🙃

Although Denmark manage to have six teams in their play-offs from a seven team league. So it's feasable (but still very unsatisfactory)

But 8% is the long standing practice

From gbspeedway.com Rowe averaged 1.8 more af no 3 while Zac Cook averaged 0.7 more.

Standard reduction for rider missing a complete season due to injury

Wouldn't Tai get 8% discount taking him to 7.97?

Injured early in 2024 and hasn't ridden since.

The crowd was over 400 that day. From what I know of crowd levels the one that really stands out is Berwick.