Fourentee Posted August 11, 2021 Report Share Posted August 11, 2021 35 minutes ago, scoobydoo said: Bacon and Bates had achieved an average that made them a championship second string so the advantage was more there results or experience so far, Bates was a weird decision given the fact he had a few years experience of league racing behind him, Bacon was expected by some to be at Peterborough but Pete Adams picked him for Wolves ,when someone says there not criticising something that really means the opposite . There are flaws with the FTR system which need addressing , thats most likely because the system wasn't fully throught about before announcing its inclusion Good points well made, but I still regard the piece as “whither the rising star programme?” rather than “ooh, those naughty Panthers have pulled a fast one”! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NeilWatson Posted August 11, 2021 Report Share Posted August 11, 2021 6 hours ago, bigcatdiary said: As others have said Adams was quite happy to start this year with 28 year old Tom Bacon as a rising star, (which like Josh Bates was an utter disgrace) only to see Bacon retire and leaving Wolves with Flint. As with a lot of new ideas the Rising Star plan was in principle a good idea but damaged by poor thought out rules, some of which are not in the public domain. The fact that practically all of them now have effective GSA but these are yet to be published suggests some will take advantage as Rowe did when guesting for Bates at Sheffield recently. They should all have been given assessed averages and had them included in a team building limit as per past seasons. Many people on here wrote the Panthers off at the start of the season but the team with the help of an astute team manager has well exceeded expectations and this has clearly rattled some of the old guard who didn’t see it coming. For the record I still see Wolves as favourites as their team is very good and has a serious home track advantage but this year has caused more than its fair share of interesting results and their could be more to come. How did Anders Rowe take advantage? He’s on the RS list as a 4* rider, as is Josh Bates. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bigcatdiary Posted August 11, 2021 Author Report Share Posted August 11, 2021 1 hour ago, NeilWatson said: How did Anders Rowe take advantage? He’s on the RS list as a 4* rider, as is Josh Bates. I meant Sheffield took advantage as Rowe had a GSA of 5.49 at the time. I appreciate they are both 4* Rising Stars, but this was yet another example (if one was needed) where one rule contradicts another with Sheffield taking full advantage of having a rider at reserve who shouldn’t have been as his average was higher than other current Sheffield riders in the 1-5. 3 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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