[Si Coe]

The issue of people doing enough rounds is central to this. The last few years the numbers actually doing the required 4 has been rather low.

However, the problem there is one of location and weather. Southport and Bury aren't that far apart, and a large portion of the regions racers live quite near both. South Lakes, Batley and Keighley are all much further away, so for many racers the easy, cheap route to 4 rounds is to do the Southport and Bury meets, and miss out the 'away' rounds.
Then it rains like it did for Bury's round last year and people don't come - suddenly a huge chunk of racers missing enough rounds to score.

Truth is there isn't a solution to that problem unless we ran indoors!