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I suspect Kentbourne wanted a 'short' season and were happy with this arrangement. Had they (or Mildenhall) wanted a longer season they could probably have reconfigured the set up to accommodate them.

But how would you get Nicholls back in without major surgery to the team?

It would mean more travelling for the riders as instead of two local (ish) home tracks riders would have one in each region.

Lee Harrison, Harrison Ryan and Joe Crewe all rode in the British under 19 so should be NDL eligible. Add Billy Budd. Fairly sure Bovingdon, Binns, Martyn and Fletcher are too young. Ryan Ingram is another rider to keep an eye on , not sure of his age though.

So basically reintroducing the old Conference League & Trophy set up. [But no doubt we'll be told it is the dawn of an exciting new era!]

A bit harsh, just behind Flint and above Gilkes. If he matches Gilkes in Championship I'm sure the Comets will be happy. I agree he doesn't look like he's set for the stellar career that Zischke could potentially have but still a worthwhile signing PS Ben Cook was 23 when he made his Poole debut. Seems to have done OK!

Given he only rode in the Croatian GP last season (and wasn't injured), semi retired seems a fairly good description.

4.08 from reserve to 5.51 mainly in the top 5 is a huge jump. You are doing Pearson a disservice.

I'm sure Aces would have given us Phil Disney as a consolation signing.

From people who can count.

Last rode in 2019 (bar the odd one-off in minor meetings)

They barely rode last winter, but Jye Etheridge and James Pearson I'd say, so I think around 4.5 would be a reasonable expectation.

Przedpelski? Henning Bager? Ilya Bondarenko?

I think that's wildly out. His last season as an under 16 rider was 2016/17. I think 2001 is more likely, which would make him 24 at the start of next season. And all the evidence I have seen suggests that Zaine is the better rider.

Barry Thomas

For the full 'Oxford feel' you'll need to replace Kvech mid-season with Simon Lambert. 😝

Clearly on decline shockingly only number one in the away averages for the entire league this season 😉

First half of 2024 averaged 4.84 (mainly at reserve) Second half averaged 6.36 (mainly at no 2)

My thoughts for the Superheat.

How does Erik Riss get to be in the top 10?

And might in turn require additional guests.

So you should be, a great prospect

And with 6 teams riding every week, how long before someone starts cancelling matches because they can't get decent guests (having only one team* to chose from) * auto correct changed this to tea machine!!!

And yet an awful lot of people take American sports seriously, despite numerous ways in which weaker teams are given a 'helping hand' (draft picks, revenue sharing, salary caps etc). Without support for weaker teams many tracks would have closed at some point in the past and in all likelihood been permanently lost to the sport, thus accelerating the sport's decline.

Many riders don't peak until 30+ these days. Cook added a whole point to his PL average in 2024 ... and a whole point to his CL average in 2024 .. and in Poland averaged more than Lindgren, Doyle, Lidsey, Michelsen and Woffinden (and was a mere 0.01 below Jack Holder) => plenty of scope for further improvement in his British scoring.