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How about we look at a longer period like the whole of 2022. Official fixtures exc bonus Rider M R Pts BP Tot Av inc BP Av no BP Sam Masters 26 131 322 14 336 10.26 9.83 Ryan Douglas 20 110 264 7 271 9.85 9.60 Richard Lawson 37 177 408 28 436 9.85 9.22 Nick Morris 32 137 308 9 317 9.26 8.99 Josh Pickering 31 156 344 22 366 9.38 8.82 Erik Riss 26 125 274 18 292 9.34 8.77 Chris Harris 23 124 272 10 282 9.10 8.77 Kyle Howarth 31 150 328 17 345 9.20 8.75 Richie Worrall 34 165 357 15 372 9.02 8.65 Danny King 37 164 352 23 375 9.15 8.59 3rd over the whole season - sounds like a no 1 to me

From 1 Sept ( Inc 1 guest appearance):- 9.93 [exc bonus] Edit - figure corrected

1. Luke Becker (3,3,3,3,3) 152. Billy Janniro (3,3,2,3,2) 13———————————3. Aaron Fox (2,1 ,3,2,3) 114. Max Ruml (T,3,3,2,2) 105. Dillon Ruml (2,1,2,1,3) 96. Russell Green (2,2,2) ,1,2) 97. Austin Novratil (3,2,W,3,0) 88. Alex Martin (1,2,2,0,3) 89. Broc Nicol (T,2,3,2) ,1) 810. Gino Manzares (3,3,W,D,-) 611. Slater Lightcap (2,0,1,3,0) 612. Charlie Trana (1,1,1,2,1 ) 613. Eddie Castro (0,1,0,1,2) 414. Wilbur Hancock (1,0,1,1,1) 415. Jonathan Oakden (1,0,0,0,1) 216. Justin Almon (0,0,0,-,-) 017. Joey Donaldson (D,0) 018. Rudy Laurer (0) 0

Is that the one that takes 2.5% or the one that takes 25% commission?

Depends which reduction 2.5% yes 8% no So the correct answer is that it'll be whatever the rulebook says, so we are going to be waiting another month ir two for a definitive answer.

Tate Z is looking more and more like the must have signing for any Championship team looking for a rider on an assessed average.

Add to that his home/away street wasn't great [10.30/7.77]

Because it relates to the opening up of unexplored continental America in 19th century. Going east would land you in the Atlatic ocean. Going west would make you an early settler in what is now the Western United States. An earlier derrivation equates dieing with the setting of the sun and of course the sun sets in the west. While left field probably owes it's origins to baseball, it is hard to see what distinguishes left from right.

Cough cough High Beech

Against an extraordinarily weak Plymouth team. He also had 10 rides for the Cheetahs failing to score, so I think it is fair to say the jury's out.

Blodorn is by far the better prospect, but is 3 years younger, hence Brennan's apparent superiority.

More to the point he's signed for Njudungarna in the Allsvenskan. And what day of the week are Allsvenskan matches?

4th in US championship - should be OK for visa?

Fingers crossed. The Facebook Post gives off a very positive feel of a realistic and practical project. Do we know who's behind it?

I largely agree with your assessment, but given his age, relative inexperience and improvement to date I would expect Ablitt to overtake most of these in 2023. So I'd go with a strong no 6 and Ablitt.

So I imagined him winning the FIM Youth Gold Trophy did I? Of course he was a prospect. (And he undoubtedly has failed to live up to early expectations)

2021 his GSA included 13 from 5 at Eastbourne that got knocked off at end of season hence the drop in his final GSA for that season..

Well I hope he's putting in the hours and getting paid the market rate. Otherwise some unkind individuals might think it a ruse to get round the regulations on signing on fees.

With Plymouth not running I'd look to seeing Ben Trigger return. Max James must be a highly likely addition and I'd be happy to see all of the others return bar Dan who has outgrown the league.

Hard to see any partnership with football working. Unless you go below tier 5 it would be a very unequal partnership, and football fans expect to be near the action so having a speedway track between them and the racing is likely to be unpopular. Speedway tied itself to greyhound racing for 50+ years and that has been fraught with problems as greyhounds declined. A stadium that would meet with Cov City's requirements would cost north of £20 million. Who's going to come up with speedway's share of that (either up front or via stratospheric rents?)

But I think we can safely say neither will be no 1 at Ipswich

King does NOT get a deduction when determining riding order ( only for team building), so he is no 1 rather than Riss.

Kemp 20/15 vs Cook 23/14. So adjusting for that only increases Zach's superiority.

All official fixtures in 2022, inc bonus: Zach Cook 7.11 [2021 - 4.81] Drew Kemp 6.03 Not sure why so many people are seeing this as a poor signing.

Probably an artefact of Zach being at reserve while Ben was in the top 5. For me the most telling stat is that Zach has the better away average.