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Rider with an average under 8, surprised hes not wanted by his parent club, GP rider. The options are....

 

Woffinden

 

Because the rest have averages too high, have never ridden here or their owned by a club that are not riding at present/any more.

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Rider with an average under 8, surprised hes not wanted by his parent club, GP rider. The options are....

 

Zagar fits the description too, but he hates Leicester like a fat man hates a salad.

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Doesn't Woffinden also have connections with Neil Machin ? Could very well happen this move.

 

Doesn't matter. Nothing breaks the Woffy/Adams connection.

 

Decision time for the Lions promotion now they know the rules from the conference and have MV starting average confirmed .

 

Do they push forward with top 2 they originally wanted or do they go for a more balanced side with strong reserves ?

 

Personally I don't think there is another GP rider never did due to the points limit. Think someone told you a porky pie.

 

Has to be a rider under 8 and you said its a GP rider.

 

Only 4 riders under 8 in the GP's are

 

Woffinden - Never going to happen. Wolves or no British club. Wolves wouldn't even let Leicester speak with Woffinden. Woffinden wouldn't be interested in a move to Leicester over a move to his beloved Wolverhampton.

 

Zagar - hates the track and will do anything to get out of meetings around Leicester.

 

C. Holder - Doesn't like the track either.

 

Shamek - who wasn't interested in British racing before qualifying for the GP's therefore I defo cant see him being interested now.

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Contrast the attitudes of Holder and Zagar as described above (and I think they're true) with Martin Vaculik who has stated he wants to tackle a difficult track as part of his quest to become a better rider.

These 3 are in pretty close proximity in the current GP pecking order. Let's see which one comes out on top in 2018.

Maybe he's realised how much his 2 years at Leicester helped to move Mr Jason "British tracks are crap" Doyle on in his career.

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What is the confirmed average for MV ?

As of yesterday evening the SCB weren't aware of Vaculik's average - anymore than any of the other assessed riders!!

 

The SCB have asked for the full 'independent' list of averages which they expect to receive later this week. (As advised by Gordon Pairman to me yesterday!!)

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Rider with an average under 8, surprised hes not wanted by his parent club, GP rider. The options are....

 

Woffinden

 

Because the rest have averages too high, have never ridden here or their owned by a club that are not riding at present/any more.

 

Piotr Pawlicki is 7.32. Hopefully back at Wolves tho.

 

Doesn't Woffinden also have connections with Neil Machin ? Could very well happen this move.

Woffy has stated he will always be happy to help Wolves out. If he was going to come back you can be sure if would be with Wolves. However he isn't coming back.

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As of yesterday evening the SCB weren't aware of Vaculik's average - anymore than any of the other assessed riders!!

 

The SCB have asked for the full 'independent' list of averages which they expect to receive later this week. (As advised by Gordon Pairman to me yesterday!!)

Thanks for the update Skidder :-)

 

I like many are eager to learn what the various av will come out at.

 

No easy job as will they leave 2016/17 GSA as is. What do they do about riders in 2013/14/15 (not a massive list but still a list). You have riders who were younger in those years and have improved just as maybe some haven't or are not so good as they were back then.

 

Similar as to what do they do to assess young Poles who have ridden mainly against other juniors in POL EXL plus having never done UK. How do you assess those plus young Danes and swedes that MAYBE a promoter/manager may want to sign. There are plenty of exciting youngsters out there that are not brits who may have big future sin the Sport. Not naming any as want my team to get in first if possible ;-)

 

On the youngster under 21 situation it isn't really that major a job. If you take the top 2 juniors in each POL EXL team then you have similar (maybe not so many ??) in SWE and DK. probably no more than 30/35 riders max to give an assessment on, made easier as they are 21 or under and have never ridden in UK.

 

At least an early release of all this info then gives a level playing field for all those promoters/managers who may want to approach the riders if they are interested to come to UK and get that all important experience on our smaller/more technical tracks.

 

Lets also hope its made available to all and not just the inner sanctum of promoters/managers ;-)

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Krystian Pieszczek now signed team looking good

 

Not a name I am familiar with. Averaged 1.544 (6.176 in our money) from 13 meetings in the Ekstraliga last year. Which is more than Kildemand, Sundstrom & Thorsell. Not totally representative of course as he could well have attained that average from reserve. Swedish stats unsurprisingly not as impressive, but still not bad 1,290 (5.16) from 8 meetings for Lejonen in Elitserien. Assume he starts on 4.00?

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