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You're betting on a team breaking the rules?

From the laws of Football: "A person can be sent off from the time the referee goes onto the pitch for the pre-match inspection until the referee leaves the pitch after the end of the game, including during half-time, the break before extra time, extra time, half-time of extra time and penalties." So pretty much the same as speedway where the referee takes charge from the moment he arrives. The referee was within his rights to exclude Complin from the meeting

Surely football's equivalent of being excluded from a speedway meeting is a red card? So yes, a football team would be forced to play with 10 players. They could make a substitution to change formation, but they'd still only have 10 players. Just the same as Glasgow could cover Complin's rides with a reserve, whilst still only having 6 riders.

Reading the press release and believing the press release are very different things....

Jake Mulford replaces Archie Freeman, with Elliot Kelly kicked out to make the averages fit. Middlesbrough needing another 3.00 rider now.

Any news how Craig Cook is with his injury? Looks like Workington used IRR, so he must've been signed out of the meeting injured?

Bit dubious using a guest for a rider missing an official fixture to go to a practice day, but within the rules I guess. Anything goes these days.

Because the meeting has been postponed!!!!! They have to declare the team 72 hours before a fixture. That would have been 7pm tonight, but the meeting has been postponed. It's now a deadline of 7.30pm on 7 April

But like I said Saturday's meeting is now postponed.

Plymouth have now cancelled their first 2 meetings. They don't race until 10 April now, so at least that gives them another 10 days or so breathing space to find a new rider.

What a bizarre take.

That's OK then Are you suggesting that a drug dealer like Courtney, couriering tens of thousands of pounds worth of drugs, is not as bad as (say) Richie Worrall snorting a line of coke at a party? Seems a strange take!

Someone who has become free and will cause about 50 pages of discussion on here.

Nope.

Spot on. He had a good point, that a certain level of handbags and a bit of stage-managed fisticuffs is good for business as it causes controversy and excitement and publicity. But Woffinden's foul mouth meant that the point was lost. He just comes across as an unprofessional moron. Surely Phil Morris has something in the contracts that anyone swearing in interviews is heavily fined just as professional footballers are. Woffinden was the low point on what was otherwise a good media day.

I reckon they'll have 7 riders, and the news will fill about 50 pages on here.

The Premiership promoters of course

181 now...

But Craig Cook hasn't...

Good to see that Birmingham got 7 riders for Press Day

Workington Comets Lager - The cans are 85% full, and rather weak.

If they don't have a facility, (and they shouldn't have) they can only use a rider up to 75% of the average of the missing rider.

In an attempt to rank the teams, I've compared all the No.1s, and the same for every team spot, down to the No.7s. In each category I've awarded 6 points for what I believe to be the strongest rider, down to 1 point for what I see as the weakest rider. No.1s Hagon BV (4), Coles EDI (2), Thompson LEI (6), Killeen OXF (3), Phillips RED (1), Ablitt S/S (5) No.2s Hodder BV (4), Perry EDI (6), Spencer LEI (1), Scott OXF (2), Trigger RED (3), Harrison S/S (5) No.3s Marson BV (4), McGurk EDI (5), James LEI (3), Spooner OXF (2), Freeman RED (1), Pijper S/S (6) No.4s Muff BV (3), Wood EDI (6), Butcher LEI (2), Clouting OXF (5), Halder RED (1), Simpson S/S (4) No.5s Wirtzfeld BV (4), Watson EDI (5), Foord LEI (2), Garrad OXF (3), Kelly RED (6), Davies S/S (1) No.6s McGurk BV (5), Parker EDI (1), Crang LEI (6), Summers OXF (4), Rathbone RED (3), Dicken S/S (2) No.7s Shimelt BV (3), Lyden EDI (6), Springer LEI (5), Vale OXF (4), Hojcaniuk RED (1) Pijper S/S (2) Totals Edinburgh 31 Belle Vue 27 Leicester 25 Scunthorpe/Sheff 25 Oxford 23 Redcar 16

I'd say zero chance of it not being staged, since it is Belle Vue v Edinburgh. Belle Vue always complete their fixtures at the NSS, and as BV and Edinburgh are 2 of the stronger NDL teams, there's a good chance that one of them will be in with a chance of winning the league.

The original Sky deal was £5M over 5 years. Terry Russell took 20% finders fee. So a cool £1M over the 5 years. The remaining £4M (£800k per season) was split with each team getting £55k-ish each (which basically they used to pay for their No.1 rider) and then a couple of grand for staging each match. Some went to BSPA running costs. The current TV deal is worth very little to the clubs.