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Plymouth V Birmingham Fri 12th May

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Plymouth Devils : 1. Steve Boxall. 2. Richard Andrews. 3. Lee Smart. 4. Callum Walker. 5. Benji Compton. 6. Rob Parker. 7. Henry Atkins

Birmingham Brummies : 1. Tom Bacon. 2. Kyle Roberts. 3. Darryl Ritchings. 4. Jack Parkinson-Blackburn. 5. Liam Carr. 6. Macauley Leek. 7.Layne Cupitt

 

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This is going to be a tight meeting indeed..

 

Just been on the Plymouth website why the heck cant you see what the opposition guys scored against you on the fixtures/results list very odd any moan over.

 

With Roberts and leek unlikely to score many but hopefully show improvement again puts the pressure on Layne to score the points if he can hit double figures possibly takes 6 rides i think we nick this meeting 44-46 ...

 

The key to our narrow success is getting boxall beat a couple of times and Layne to score 10+ (from 6 possibly)

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I thought this would be a relatively comfortable Brummies win until JPB's injury. He'd had been good for 11pts from 5 rides but Ritchings, Cupitt, Leek & Roberts won't get anywhere near that for R/R and it also means Leek & Roberts have to take at least 4 rides each.

 

Edit: Who's Hopwood in for?

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Hopwood us for JPB

 

Rider rep for Roberts.

 

What points we lose from JPB, we gain from ridercreo for Roberts.

 

Missing JPB, is a major blow snd takes away any chance we had if winning

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The vagaries of speedway's rules make JPB our fourth averaged rider tonight. Had the meeting been on Monday, he would have been number one and could have been replaced by any guest of our choice since from Monday he will be the highest averaged rider in the National League..

 

Don't think I am moaning about this though. Just pointing out the irony. There has to be a cut off date and it's just our bad luck that in this instance it is two days too late for us.

 

Good luck to the team tonight - and best wishes to Jack for a quick recovery.

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Hopwood us for JPB

 

Rider rep for Roberts.

 

What points we lose from JPB, we gain from ridercreo for Roberts.

 

Missing JPB, is a major blow snd takes away any chance we had if winning

Clearly a tactical move there as Hopwood in rather than JPB R/R strengthens you massively. So Roberts is missing as his family have work but the club would've known that when they put their initial team out with him riding! Whilst Roberts R/R facilitates this and Hopwood and 3 rides from Cupitt will get you way more than he would e scored in his 4 guaranteed outings. I'd be surprised if Brummies don't win this.

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Hopwood us for JPB

 

Rider rep for Roberts.

 

What points we lose from JPB, we gain from ridercreo for Roberts.

 

Missing JPB, is a major blow snd takes away any chance we had if winning

Always saying they are going to lose when they know they hardly ever do. Is it some sort of superstition?

 

Comfortable win for the Brummies as usual.

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Sat in MacDonalds over the road from circuit.Still raining. Going to be touch n go.

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Called off. So we'll never know how Drury's master plan was going to turn out.

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As a Birmingham supporter I wouldn't dispute the fact that it is highly probable that this was a "tactical" move. Why Oh why do the promoters not think things through before they introduce these kind of rules? A child of 5 could have worked it out that allowing riders to just opt out of riding in inconvenient fixtures would be abused left right and centre.

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