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Diamond Edition - ENHANCED
- news - div one - div two - div three - other results - transfer list - averages - - statistics - rider search: gsa/age - rider search: name - club honours - international tables/averages - Comment now on the latest news at the Forum NO STAN-DING STILL World number one signs for Champions Coventry have celebrated regaining the league title by setting a new transfer best ahead of the SL37 campaign. A record that had stood for 26 years gone with their purchase of World Champion Herman Stanic from Nottingham for £1.8million, a deal which means the Crusaders will line up with the world numbers one and two at the head of their side, with GP series runner-up to Stanic—Angus Rogers—returning for a sixth season at Diamond Park. It’s seven seasons now under promoter Dave Hood for Anthony Collier, who will complete one of the most formidable heat leader trios ever put together. The England international has improved his GSA in every one of those seven years, having arriving with a mark of 4.94 in SL31, his SL37 starting figure is 9.01. With Stanic coming in—a rider who featured in just 12 league meetings for the Red Dogs after joining from Rhonda prior to the GP series—there is no place in the Coventry side for SL31 World Champion and current world number five John Hawke. He becomes Blackpool’s number one for a fee of £600,000, ending a 12 year unbroken spell with the Crusaders, for whom he rode in 422 league meetings for. Those two moves alone account for a big chunk of the eye-watering £9.4million—and counting- spent ahead of the SL37 season to date, although there have been plenty of other big moves, most notably Beverley’s £700,000 purchase of Hungarian Champion Pentele Kalman from Bolsover, who then went on to spend £600,000 of that windfall on a veteran of 16 Grand Prix’s, Daniel Bauer, the German leaving newcomers Bournemouth without turning a wheel for them.
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