Two National Leagues in 25

[Islander15]

2 hours ago, szkocjasid said:

Would've preferred 6 man teams (5 rides each). Also a tad surprised Kent didn't enter both competitions. Wonder what the plan is if Lynn don't enter, will a league team go into the trophy? 

Delighted that riders will get more fixtures, well done to all the teams taking part, especially Championship ones as this fills sone blank dates in the fixture list.

Presumably clubs can’t compete in both as then there would become a rider clash. 

Presumably the NL will be the only form that will work towards averages and those points scored in the NT in effect won’t count towards any averages. 

[TheSmiler]

5 hours ago, Bert said:

Surely providing more competitive track time to youngsters is far more important than wondering how the averages is going to be calculated !

Just a wondering thought dude, no need to snap. 😊 

[szkocjasid]

1 hour ago, HGould said:

With respect I think you're all missing the point

The existing Teams in the NDL were happy with the exact format they had and didn't want any more meetings (can't imagine oxford could have handled any as an example)

THIS IS WHY THERE IS A LEAGUE and a TROPHY

Those in the LEAGUE did not stand in the way though of NEW entrants provided they had a separate competition...hence the TROPHY

It benefits RIDERS as they can ride for a LEAGUE team and a TROPHY TEAM so get more rides.

There is no option for any Team to ride in both!

I'll disagree, there is an option to ride in both if another club assisted them?

For example if Kent said, "we'd like to ride in both competitions to make it more worth our while, we don't want to rent a stadium for only 4 meetings a season" what's to stop Oxford for example saying, "ok in that case we'll go in the Trophy & you can take our place in the league"

Maybe they didn't ask, maybe no current team thought to offer. All they would've been doing is replacing 5 home league matches for 5 home trophy matches, helping Kent & giving riders more matches.

For the sake of new stand-alone teams etc I'd like to believe such a scenario would be a possibility.

[szkocjasid]

1 hour ago, Islander15 said:

Presumably clubs can’t compete in both as then there would become a rider clash. 

Presumably the NL will be the only form that will work towards averages and those points scored in the NT in effect won’t count towards any averages. 

My idea would be riders racing for Kent in the league would also race for Kent in the trophy, so no clashing of riders.

Imagine if Cairns made his debut in the trophy only & guested 3 times in the league, he'd be starting on a 3.00 average this season (if only league matches count).