The gradings have been released for this season's Conference League Riders and four of the current Glasgow team have been allocated grades.

The two most likely to be looking for CL berths in addition to riding for Glasgow are obviously James Cockle and Adam Roynon. James has been graded a 9 whilst Adam is graded a 6.

Also listed are David McAllan and Lee Dicken who have been graded 11 whilst Glasgow assets Gary Beaton and James McBain have been graded 5 and 2 respectively.

Of course for Lee and David the grading is academic as whilst in a declared 1-7 for a PL side they are inelligible to ride at Conference League level. Adam definately can ride Conference League but the situation regarding James Cockle is a little vague. The rules state that riders with an PL average of over 4.50 cannot ride CL at the same time as PL but there is no clarification as to whether this is the average with or without bonus points. If with bonus points, James is over the limit.

Conference League teams this season will build to a 40 point limit.

One thing that is clear from a quick glance at the gradings is the lack of cohesion between PL and CL on certain riders abilities. Whilst most riders in the A or B reserve brackets for the Premier League appear in the top grades for CL, Adam Roynon and Ben Barker stand out as perhaps unlucky at PL level, both being graded 6 by the Conference League where they have mostly plied their trade. However, no fewer than 8 of those graded C by the Premier League are graded above them by up to three gradings in the Conference League.

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