Najjer

Yep - each signing was assigned a different squad number they had to keep. I think by the end of the season didn’t Oxford end up on 30 something? No surprise but the idea was quickly dropped at the following AGM

There is no way Musielak will do a Batchelor. He’s a better calibre of rider on the whole for starters and a hugely consistent performer nowadays. Musielak will end up as one of the highest averages riders in the league I am pretty confident.

Pretty sure that is correct - in 2008 Somerset bad Jason Doyle and Emil Kramer at 1 and 3. Kramer was the highest averaged rider but didn’t ride at no.1 at all until the following season. This is what takes me back to my point at the start of allowing managers the option of making different changes to their line up.

Isn’t that part of the tactical knowledge the team managers would need though - you could put your stronger rider at no.2 but likely to leave you weaker in heat 12 or 13 potentially.

An interesting thought after browsing various sections of the forum and seeing people suggest their potential line ups for their teams and riding order - Is it time for a change where other than the reserves, the top 5 can be placed in any order? Nowadays team managers seem to be restricted more than ever in their tactical play. Just why does the highest averaged rider need to ride at no.1? Why not have the home team declare their side and then the away team juggles their riders to the positions of their choice. Could make things abit more interesting - especially given the lack of actual star powered ‘number 1’ riders gracing our shores in both divisions.

Anyway who has been watching the Polish league will know that Musielak is the signing of the league. He should easily average over 8 points

Used to being the operative word there

Great signing in Hans. He’ll have immaculate kit and should be absolute mustard around Plymouth. No big loss in Lawson. I was never a big fan at Somerset and not entirely sure Gary May was? Always seemed to be riding absolute lawnmowers and hasn’t done much to change my opinion since.

Shane Parker, Travis McGowan and Jamie Smith…. Then more recently when Somerset signed Rory Schlein, was one of the reasons I stopped going. Edit - when we turned a championship winning side into a 2nd placed side on the verge of the start of the season when we signed Henning Loof as an injury replacement.

Jason Edwards has signed for Grudziadz U24 side

Thomas Jorgensen has joined Gdansk

Zupinski shown great promise and Torun spent a lot to get him this year but he was very disappointing. They’ve just signed Zielinski from Grudziadz who shown glimpses of being decent at times. Torun have also just announced Sajdullin, Zach Cook, Petr Chlupac and Bastian Pedersen - Nicki Pedersen’s nephew.

Apologies, I had read the translation incorrectly - got it now

Scrap that then after that last bit of news and the U24 no longer being required

Iversen and Lahti both confirmed at Lodz… one of those two or Kurtz will be missing on race day!

Agertoft, Sucheki and long tracker Romano Hummel all join Gniezno

Still waiting on news of where Iversen and Lahti are going to end up - at least one of them looks Lodz bound

First post of this thread - complete with incomings and outgoings. Same on the other thread too

He will be allowed to ride in both leagues in Britain - just the same as Ellis did Poland last year as well as Sweden and both British leagues.

He is only riding in the UK anyway, so doesn’t really effect him. He is also signed up for the Gorzow U24 team, so far from a waste of a career and a chance to actually really kick start it. Im actually disappointed Brennan hasn’t moved to Torun as rumoured and is at Lodz where he is likely to get many or any outings. At Torun he would be getting plenty in the new league.

Anders Rowe, Timi Salonen, Mathias Pollestad and Daniel Klima all sign for Gorzow

Now confirmed that both Janowski and Gusts join Wroclaw - very surprised at the signing of Gusts still going through after the foreign junior was rejected!

Just waiting on the formalities of Janowski to Wroclaw and Lambert to Torun to be confirmed and that is pretty much all Esktraliga squads closed and confirmed. Just waiting on news of Francis Gusts who so called had agreed a deal with Wroclaw but the rejection of introducing a foreign junior could well put a halt to that signing. No news as of yet

So basically “all is well here, more of the same please!” Except it’s a shocker to get rid of the rising star scheme in the championship. Although I don’t know why I’m surprised, I just don’t get it one little bit. I’ve said it many times but it should also be 6 man teams. Time and time again there is always a rider shortage so limit the number of riders needing to be found in the first place!

Yes absolutely which is abit of a joke. Apparently the idea was thought up and passed by a certain Robert Godreydowski