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Golden heats (SR 18.1.6)

Its being held as the first meeting in 2010, 19th March if I remember correctly.

From the most recent press release on the Monarchs site William Lawson Ryan Fisher Andrew Tully Matthew Wethers Derek Sneddon Thomas H Jonasson Aaron Summers Daniel Nermark Michal Makovsky David Howe Carl Stonehewer George Stancl Rory Schlein James Grieves Jason Lyons Billy Janniro (TBC)

Going by the live updates its a single semi and top 2 through stright through It should be, the 20 heat individual is a standard format also good luck to Willie Lawson

I with you, i like the 8th rider idea but not to sure how you could implement it would it be a 3 point rider or a points limit for 8 riders? I liked it when we had 18 heats but I think of the extra points scored hence pay to the riders i think kills this idea, maybe we could have it in the KO cup? its not the first time we've had different rules for it.

Ive not read the rest of the thread (yet) but this the question ive always asked. To me it was and always will be the best tactical rule. I always found that provided dissusion between the fans on the terraces, what heat are we going to use this rider, do we use him now or in the next heat etc it was fun. The double points rule make the sport look silly, I overheard a disscusion at a meeting with someone who was brought to his first meeting, he thought it was silly and im going to say its the popular view with many new and old. Although I hate comparing speedway with football etc ive had to when disscusing the subject with non-speedway followers and ive had to discribe to rule as its like if a football team was 3 goals down the team manager can decided if a goal is scored in the next 5 mins then it counts as 2 at maybe giving up a tactiacl sub, to which they said they thought I was mad. Ive had many dissusions with my dad and we find that the current rules dont actually help many teams in most cases. If you have a team thats good enough to keep the score close (ie less than 10 points) they never get the opportunity to use the tactiacl rule but usually cant get a pairing to pull the points back but under the old rules this was possible by being able to replace a stuggling with a better rider. Now on to the meetings where a team runs away with it (say 60-30) and the other team has only 2 or 3 riders that score nearly all the points even if one of those riders gets a full 6 points with a TR and in the end really just adding 3 point to the final score (now 60-33). Under the old rules they would have been able to use the riders that are going well and replace the riders who are not riding as well and even if they only gain 3 more points from what the original programmed rides would expect to have given they would have more importantly taken 3 point off the other team making the meeting closer (hence 57-33). Then there the case when a team is using r/r or a rider has to withdraw during a meeting from injury. Now it may be fine if you have a super reserve especially in the latter case but again as im sure you can work out if your in the losing side and the old tactical sub would be much more beneficial to there cause. So if I had my way the rules would be The old TS rule (when 6 points down any rider can replace any other) Sort out the averages and inculde bouns points and you get a real average after 3h+3a Also while im at it i would put the gate positions back to the way they were. Oh and might as well have the white helmet colour back too. But I cant see it happening to be honest...