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23 hours ago, szkocjasid said:

Seen a lot of negativity towards Danyon Hume on the Ipswich & Redcar pages.

Now I've not seen much of his races so cant comment on the number of falls he's had, but looking simply at the stats.

Hume went from 4.09 to 3.87, but as he was stepping out of the RS position, that seems a decent season to me.

Then look at the Prem aves of Rowe (3.76), Dan T (3.70), Gilkes (3.67) & Bailey (3.57).

Now Hume has a lower Champ average than all these riders, so to have a higher (non-RS) ave than all these "rising stars" seems quite an achievement to me?

He also has a lower Champ average than the top "rising stars" Jenkins (4.21), Kemp (4.04) & Flint (4.00) but is not far below them in the Prem.

Think (some) people have been too harsh on him imo

Lovely lad, 100% commitment every race. Feel like at 26 Danyon has reached his level tho, which is a good middle order rider in the second tier and reserve in prem so for me the likes of Jenkins, flint etc would be more favourable moving forward given they’ve seemed to reached a similar levels/surpassed Danyon slightly when several years younger and more scope to continue progressing next year to even higher standard.

This year if Erik had been fully back to his best and Danyon hadn’t fallen off twice in the home leg of the final in scoring positions we’d have been champions - Ellis should be a big upgrade on the Erik we saw this year and Jenkins a rider with more potential upside to grow to higher level than Danyon through the season so we’ve significantly improved our weakest two team spots in a team that came within a whisker of winning the lot this year!

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12 hours ago, Hooky said:

Who cares bout cup when you can win the league lol bottle jobs 

I would prefer to say Sheffield won the league rather than Ipswich bottled it as that implies the only way Sheffield could win was if Ipswich capitulated which in fairness they did but Sheffield still needed to ride well to overhaul that deficit, not sure Sheffield deserve to be known as champions of the league just purely because Ipswich Witches "botled it". On another note the teams so far announced look decent to me and looking forward to what should be a competitive season lets hope injuries are kept to a minimum and we see some cracking racing. 

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Why do KL get a bye in the KO Cup for being sh1te whilst the Champions have to enter the competition at the Quarter-Final stage.

Should be the other way round.

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16 hours ago, szkocjasid said:

If Jenkins is no longer eligible to be a rising star, then he'd be due a 25% reduction and signs on a 3.16 average.

That would mean a change to the RS eligibility, but I haven't seen anything announced about that?

Jenkins himself has said he's only the second rider to move out the Rising Star pool, so he must be getting the 25% discount, which means he starts at 6.

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1 hour ago, TTT said:

Why do KL get a bye in the KO Cup for being sh1te whilst the Champions have to enter the competition at the Quarter-Final stage.

Should be the other way round.

It must have been a draw surely? No other way it should be done.

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9 minutes ago, Baldyman said:

Season tickets on sale,,, think they are same price as last year,,, which can only be applauded 

£250 last year, £260 this year, but admission has risen to £23 from £22 so it means a saving of an extra 3 quid on the 13 meeting season ticket as apposed to last year. Overall a saving of £39 if you attend all 13 fixtures, or 20 quid a meeting.

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