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Wolves could string a bit of a suprise hear with a point gained too late as Wolves will be much better using a guest in their final few meetings and hope to finish higher than sixth of seven,

Kings Lynn will choose Belle Vue as they know only RR can cover Dan Bewley and know Lambert can go there and be untouched. However they shouldn't write off Belle Vue and can see them getting through. Poole will beat Somerset and set up a final with Belle Vue finishing at Wimbourne Road in a tight finish but going to Poole

12 (TWELVE) league matches from March to September and they have to hold a second double header against the same team. must have been busy with KO Cup matches as they have reached the semi finals having got through ONE round already.

There wont be too many missing as a team containing a rider that rides in Poland can arrange their fixture at a Sunday track to be when they have weeks off otherwise guest or RR or reserve. One be league may not be ideal solution for a few teams but for the majority it will help the sport get a more secure foundation than it has now I have heard of one big club that looks to be losing their track in the winter and two others in grave danger of walking the plank

Wolves can't get anything away and Swindon the same. Kings Lynn, Somerset, Poole and Belle Vue can start planning their tactics and while Aces will miss Dan Bewley, at least he has moved to fourth in their averages so Tungate, Worrall and two reserves can take his rides. Poole in the final against ?

Masters 9+1, Thorssell 7, Howarth 6, Morris 6, Anderson 2, Sarjeant 1 At this rate they could enter the Championship without making any changes

Wolves haven't traveled well and it's not going to start now so easy win for Aces who could hit 60 but 54-36 about right.

Top four look sorted now with Swindon, Wolves and Leicester ending their season by the first week of September. With the loss of the Rye House meetings and no play offs, what savings have fans from these clubs made by getting season tickets.

Hasn't Russell sold many of his shares in Swindon recently ? Did hear that planning permission for the stadium was unlikely and they were likely to be moved out rather than building up the current stadium. Will there be another Farewell meeting if it does ?

So you can add Shawn Moran Longtrack to that but most of these riders weren't at the club when won the titles. If you include past honours then Wolves have Olsen, Nielsen, Eriksen, Schwartz, Sigalos, Ermolenko, Correy, Karlsson, Max, Loram, Woffinden, Pawlicki, Petersen, Cribb, Iversen, .... Could go on and I'm sure others would add more than this at Belle Vue or Cradley

Schlein 8.54 Cook 8.16 Fricke 8.04 Doyle is low enough to cover at home but Rory now declared fit for next week

LOOKING AT WHAT WE HAVE AND NEED There are eleven tracks in the Championship and those 77 riders have combined averages of 465.12. In the Premiership there is just 13 riders you could look at being here next year that are not involved in the Championship (not inc Doyle) and they average 121.50 using assessed averages. You then have Lewis Kerr, Josh Bates and Lasse Bjerre to add plus possibly Kenneth Bjerre and Peter Kildemand making a total of roughly 623.00 for 93 riders. If you are going with one main league and adding Rye House back into the league you need 133 riders for seven man teams and 114 for six rider teams. So you are looking at finding either 40 new riders for seven man teams or 21 for six man teams. So either way, where do you find the missing riders. Well we have so far only included the current teams 1-7 and therefore left out riders that have been replaced and not returned like Hartel, Gravesen, Rose, Hume, Jeppesen and Clegg but that's just six riders leaving you still needing 34 or 15 riders. There are over twenty riders averaging over six in the National League that don't have a place in the Championship so you only need about twelve new riders coming in from abroad to fill seven man teams at all 19 tracks. With these riders you are adding 114 to the averages making a total of 737 roughly for 19 seven man teams giving an average just under 39 points per team so a 40 point limit should be about right for one main league in 2019. Make it one NL draft per team and get riders in from Denmark, Sweden, Germany etc but keep the reserves British and number seven stays at seven. ASSESSED RIDERS - Max Fricke 10.5, Rohan Tungate 9.5, Damian Drzodz 5.0, Hans Andersen 10, Kasprzak 10.5, Troy Batchelor 10.5, Tobiasz Musielak 9.0, Adam Ellis 8.5, David Bellego 8.5, Sam Masters 10.0, Jacob Thorssell 9.5, Jack Holder 9.0 40 point limit, 7 riders per team, NL draft number seven, reduced admission, varied fixtures, reduced wages, more local derbies

Morris, Kus and Sarjeant didn't beat a single Kings Lynn rider and RR for Schlein scored 6+1 in both meetings and only beat Toft (x2), Proctor and Riss in both meetings. Maybe Belle Vue didn't want Cook or Fricke to guest as it could affect their play off hopes but surely someone like Garrity would have been a better option in a double header. Good to see they had a decent crowd even though £27 seems a bit expensive but maybe pricing a meeting at under £1 a race is they way forward. At £13.50 a meeting shows that lower admission costs can work and hopefully in one main league at Championship level next year it can be £12-14 maximum and look at increasing the attendance rather than increase the prices for the few that still go.

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Looked on Cradley website and can't see any line up anywhere, can't see anything in NTional League section and nothing here. Anyone have the the line up as people won't go if they don't know who is riding or if it's on as the only thing on website says its at 7.30 Monday night

Nightmare round for me. Pedersen less than 7, Laguta more than 10 and Doyle more than 10 ..... Thought I might get saved by Ljung on less than until his last two rides .

Doyle 8 - 10 50 More Laguta 8 - 10 50 More Pedersen 7 - 9 50 Less Ljung 5 - 7 50 Less

Teams build to Premiership averages upto around 35 and if you want to go top heavy fine as some like Berwick, Peterborough etc will go balanced with six and five point riders mainly

With only seven teams chasing the top four places, Leicester are all but out of it and both Wolves and Belle Vue need away wins to get into the play offs. With the away trips Wolves still have to ride it looks unlikely they will get those points away and Belle Vue still have to come to Monmore which could see them leap frog Wolves. Somerset, Poole, Swindon in the top four and Kings Lynn carrying on home form should complete the play off teams with only Belle Vue having a chance of stopping a Southern competition for the title . Bring on next year and one league to give some variety and affordable weekly action for both clubs and fans. Thorssell, Schelin, 5.00, Becker, Morris, Greaves, Clegg should be the sort of team all tracks should be looking at to make it viable financially.

55 points x2 is 110 and not many teams would reach that amount on aggregate. Plus if one team is getting 110 points over two meetings the other is only getting about 75 points Easier if the home track paid all the riders on that night or via bank transfers a few days after. £100 a point is far too much as many riders no where near that and the ones that are have to decide if they can afford to drop Britain offering them forty odd matches where these sort of riders can earn £1,000 a night riding for £50 a point and £50 start money and £100 appearance fee. A score of 12+1 from five rides would therefore get £650 plus £250 plus £100 = £1,000. Even a reserve scoring one point from three rides would get £300 a meeting. Any extra money can be achieved by sponsorship either through the rider or club. One league does not n mean you have to change to six rider teams as bringing in NL reserves and a few riders from Sween, Denmark, Germany etc is easily capable of getting enough riders to cover all tracks entering the league. At present we have 17 tracks with a dark cloud over a few but hopefully going to preferred race nights again can keep some running and also get Rye House back. Even with two tracks moving up from the NL to run at this Championship level, twenty teams is 140 riders which is obtainable. If you can get twenty tracks, that's 19 home and 19 away minimum giving weekly fixtures and a varied list of teams and riders coming to your track instead of the same ones repeated a few weeks after the first visit. It also gives a host of British riders a chance to progress and at least earn some money to make ends meet as they move up the skill ladder.

He wasn't officially a GP rider so escaped the ruling as he was a standby reserve plus look he he rode for Can't help thinking Belle Vue have gained the better option in getting Mark Riss who Wolves know and was popular plus they have him at reserve while Wolves have Jonas B Andersen in the main body of the team. Logistics stopped a new rider coming in to a team where Masters and Thorssell have little problem in getting backwards and forwards each week but think the main reason was they wanted Moris at reserve. 

Any GP current or recent will be reassessed at 8.00 unless they rode here in 2017 so Pawlicki (both) would be 8.00

Like I said, even if it was Pawlicki the team would be under the limit so within the rules not saying it would be Pawlicki but 8.54 Schlein, 8.13 Masters, 8.00 Pawlicki, 7.87 Thorssell, 4.37 Morris, 3.30 Greaves, 2.00 Clegg - Total 42.21 using Bjerre 7.54 or Kildemand 7.10 would make that total even lower

This change would put them under 42.5 so can happen if riders available

Pawlicki on 8.00 and a 2.00 rider would be under the limit and while he has had a mixed season, maybe some extra meetings may help him get back on form but you also have the likes of Kenneth Bjerre or Peter Kildemand more likely and can win races away which has been a problem for Wolves on away tracks. Heeps has has been the big let down as he came in as a five plus rider that needed to be pushing six to seven but is struggling to maintain a four average and his recent high scores were mainly gained by beating weak reserves To make the play offs Wolves need to really win two of their remaining away meetings especially when you see Belle Vue still have to go to Leicester and a win there would put Wolves down to sixth place in a league of just seven