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So how do people feel about a team of... Tungate Wright Hougaard Starke Grajczonek Allen Graveson To me it looks like a team that will have few 0's on the scorecard, but towards the end of meetings will find it difficult to get heat advantages. I don't know much about any of these riders since I haven't attended a meeting that wasn't a GP, SWC or at Brandon, Poole or the NSS for a few years. I have watched every meeting available on TV tough. I don't think there is much improvement in Hougaard or Grajczonek but both are experienced enough to hold their own. I don't see Wright or Graveson being match winners either, but again they should hold be solid. Tungate & Allen, need to have a good year if the Rebels are to make the play-offs.

Please stop including Zagar in plans, BV couldn't afford him last year. With massive debts it would be a mistake in 2017, he wasn't exactly the dominant #1 he should be anyway.

That Somerset team will do OK, they should be good at home. They have a chance of winning away at Belle Vue & Swndon, they wont get pulverised at Poole or Coventry, where some teams will. They will get pulverised at Rye House & Wolves, if CVS picks the right team. At Saddlebow Rd, I'm not sure.

According to Twitter you are getting C Holder in average reduction mode. Please don't.

No. We need to mock your club further for not winning the first ever Premiership. Sorry.

Bates was a good signing, should improve. King is a solid heat leader. K Bjerre is iffy he could be a bargain on that average, and has the potential to be good #1, but confidence rider L Bjerre could be a bonus Don't know much about Kerr, been and OK ELD rider from what I have seen. Garrity as a heat leader I have no doubts about is potential, its his mentality that worries me. Sarjeant. OMG WTF have the Bee's signed a rider that should be excluded twice a meeting for jumping the start?

Coventry won't make the play off with the announced team, it is pretty awful. Are you expecting K Bjerre to become a world beater?

Spent force, no bottle.

That won't fit 50 points! 1.39 over the limit, sorry. Replace Bewley with a 2 pointer and it works.

That team is solid enough, I'd take it over what Coventry have mustered in team building terms. Need to be a fair few points in front by the time heat 12 kicks in, to win a meeting though. It will struggle in 13 & 15.

Yep. Klindt will score big points from reserve, until he overtakes Newman, Holder or Kurtz in the 1-5 in the averages, at which point the cut throats will ditch him, for a more capable rider on a lower average. Expect Poole to visit Swindon, Leicester, Belle Vue early next year. I still cannot comprehend why Wolves haven't signed Klindt, or why Klindt would join Poole over Wolves, knowing he'll get dumped after 8 matches if he joins Poole.

Believe AJ has signed with a Danish club, along with his Swedish & Polish clubs that rules him out. Do you really want Holder reducing his average so he can return to Poole next year 2.5 pts lighter?

Justification for this reduction is what? It is clear that you are delirious. Hancock is 4 years older than Skornicki but about 15 times a more capable rider. Howarth was obviously signed as a required second Brit, along with Clegg. If you'd signed Harris over Thorsell you wouldn't have signed Howarth. He is hopeless around Monmore. Manzarez would be a risk worth taking. I've watched enough of Adam Skornicki at Monmore that I don't feel the need to watch it again. Soft touch. Harris would earn his pension fund at Wolves, no doubt. If Wolves wanted to dominate the league they would have offered Klindt the same money Poole did.

The last average I can find searching the history section of the BSPA website is from 2014 when Skornicki averaged 6.14 which should be subject to a 1.4 increase. Lindgren 10.09 Masters 8.98 Howarth 7.18 Thorsell 9.88 Skornicki 8.60 Clegg 4.34 0.934 No riders available for 0.934, lowest average is 2.00 Do tell how you are going to get away with this, it is Poole-esque. Yet that team is still rubbish compared to what Wolves should be fielding next year. Assume for some ridiculous reason that Skornicki is on 5.00. I fail to see why a Pole should be reassessed when he hasn't ridden for a few years, but I can't contemplate how Swindon have signed a new Dane on a silly average either considering the watering down. If a Pole or Swede has top flight experience in their countries league they should be 7.00 at least, a Dane I'd let off on a 6.00 if they haven't ridden outside their country. Still I fail to see how... Lindgren 10.09 Skornicki 5.00 Masters 8.98 Howarth 7.18 Thorsell 9.88 Clegg 4.34 A Rider 4.53 Is anywhere near the team Wolves should have selected Lindgren 10.09 Manzarez 5.43 Harris 9.21 Musielak 6.34, I am open to offers on improvong this selection only... Masters 8.98 Clegg 4.34 Klindt 5.42 Skornicki should be on 8.6. Last relevant EL average * 1.4 Even better, when did CVS last convince the BSPA to reduce the average of a recently injured rider, from 7+ to something allot less. Ales Dryml. And Wolves ended up recalling a rider most Wolves fans despised in Jesper B Monberg so they didn't lose the previous relegation play-off. If Skornicki is 5.00, the team selection becomes even more ridiculous.

Team solid but unspectacular, home wins the key for the Rebels. Suspect that sorted.

Brilliant stuff, a once mildly useful second string comes of of retirement, Lets give him a GP Spot. Lindgren was a teenager in 2004 and has qualified for next years GP's. Skornikci is older than me, post something relevant. How did the last time you signed an ageing rider who hadn't ridden for a few years, work out with Ronnie Correy in 2005, did Wolves make the playoffs that year?

Rebels complete Rohan Tungate 9.03 Charles Wright 6.59 Paul Starke 6.62 Patrick Hougaard 8.70 Josh Grajczonek 8.90 Jake Allen 5.96 Jan Graversen 3.83

In 2004 Wolves lost the the play-off final to Poole. That year the team was Ermolenko, Max, Howe, Nermark, Skornicki, Carillo/Lindgren, Neath/Stead. Nermark got injured quite early so Wolves operated R/R for him all year. Lindgren & Skornicki spent the season swapping between 2nd string & reserve. I can't even find a Polish 2nd Division average for Skornicki last season, did he even ride? http://sportowefakty.wp.pl/zuzel/i-liga/statystyki/2016

Because if Wolves sign him as a #6, it is another mistake. Coventry may well have a higher averaged #7, but that riders has cost the 2-ish points more in team building terms, and that shows at the top end. Skornicki had a good year, was it 2002? When ha averaged nearly 8. By 2004 he was little more than a strong reserve. He did a reasonable job as a second string when Wolves won the league in 2009. But only averaged 6.24. We're now 8 years further down the line. When did he last ride? Did he even ride in Poland last year?

NKI wont be back, Holder would just be in average reduction mode so he can ride for Poole next year, same as Kurtz. Strength in depth is the way to go for the Stars, time for Lambert to step up & be a #1. R. Lambert 8.92 Batchelor 7.36 Michelsen 8.06 Porsing 6.99 Lawson 8.22 Huckenbeck 5.14 S. Lambert 5.26

I must have missed something, no Branford?

Did I say that? I don't watch Wolves unless they are on Sky, I would have no clue what his away form is actually like. On 4.3 average having watched him on Sky I think he would be the best #7 in the league. Did Clegg not win the U18 & NL riders title last year? I'd say that shows potential. Nail in the coffin for a team, that could have won the league but for stupid decisions.

More like 15. A reasonable pass by a young Brit, you scotch at? I forgot, there are no young Brits or passes art Poole. Think Worralls bike was giving him trouble, he'd beaten Woffinden in his previous ride. Pretty sure any team in the league would take Clegg on that average, other than Lindgren it is Wolves only sensible signing.

I doubt there will be a third Brit in the Wolves 1-7 this year

I do not disagree that Throsell & Masters have more potential to improve. But if Wolves had signed Harris or Nicholls instead of Thorsell, you could have kept Masters and have not been forced to sign Howarth as a Brit, when Clegg was nailed on to be the other Birt,