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Jason Edwards also didn't appear in either meeting. Vatcher just throwing Connor Bailey under the bus for no apparent reason. And why is Neil Vatcher even involved in the decision making?

Connor Bailey qualifies as British on his mother's side. Has always declared he'd ride for GB not Australia and has previously ridden for GB in Europe. FYI Drew Kemp was born in Germany

Having 3 world class riders should be enough to win if the team managers use their brains and apply the Czech's policy. Move Dan to reserve and put Tom at 2. Tom & Adam take their first ride then are replaced by Dan. If we fall 6 points behind the leader then Tai or Robert can take a tactical ride. There's only 20 heats, six rides each for the top 3 only leaves two to be ridden by Adam and Tom. Challenging for Gold then maybe Tom & Adam have to take a second ride in rounds 4 or 5 ie heats 13-20

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According to Cami Tate Zishke would be on a five presumably now that he's ridden in Polish u24 had he not been out for six months with concussion think he would have started the season on a 4 point average at Glasgow NB no punctuation just 4u Cabbageman

I'll give them the trophy for worst track in the Championship. Only seen two meetings as bought the BSN Championship season pass but the worst two meetings I've seen this season.

Is that your prediction for Friday night at Scunthorpe?

Sorry 2 passes well done Anders Rowe, that'll be those Polish bikes. Probably see more passing in heat 1 at Glasgow

Thanks to Rob Godfrey blocking them using Friday nights and rain offs they had ridden two home meetings from March to June both against Glasgow. So they were around bottom of the league due to not having ridden many meetings. Then they went on a winning run winning everything. Probably rode 10 home in October and still didn't complete their league fixtures, final meeting after all the finals had been raced abandoned. Then Godfrey fined them!

Some races? Must have missed some passes or maybe it was BSN who missed them. Zach Cook down the back straight in heat 14 lap 1 was the only genuine pass on the night. Every other pass was because of hole/ridge on 1st bend

Where's this improved track? Still gate and go. Got to be the worst track in the championship - shocking! You'd think Poole could afford two ambulances. It's a final after all.

Glasgow embarrassing in a final yet again. But absolutely c**p track, heat 14 before a genuine pass and yet the Poole riders were praising the track. Glad I don't have to watch that every week Congratulations to Poole on their first trophy of the season.

There was a guest, Claus Vissing had to withdraw due to German commitments. Drew Kemp rode for Glasgow. A fan favourite not! Given he's ridden for Edinburgh, Poole and now Leicester

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He said that moving to Monday or Friday next year were the options and very surprisingly didn't rule out going Premiership. Also said they'd have a new rider for next week. However he did think that they'd constructed a competitive team for the start of season but were beset with bad luck. And still thought they could make the playoffs

Well Mike Hunter wasn't impressed

What promise did Bastion show last week? It didn't show up on the stream. He was hardly in shot as he was way back and your comms said his gating was hopeless. And they'd seen the same in Danish league

Weight of the world on his shoulders? Have Edinburgh not provided a sick note to get the guest facility in previous meetings? If there's no injury then why have they not announced he's withholding his services.

And that wasn't exactly a bad meeting 4 points from 4 rides. Lost a chain in one, last against Doyle & Sayfutdinov and two seconds. Don't know where he picked up the back injury. Packing up his bikes?

Pearson cannot drop below his 4pt assessed average so that loses you 0.62. Leaving only 8.66. Don't think you're looking for two 4 point riders. Don't think anyone available on 6.66.

So is most of your side! That's the problem

When you've lost your only 2 home league fixtures both 36-54 everyone's going to have a low league average. However over all home meetings this season Nick is averaging 9.04 (8.44 excluding bonus points) but he's been a 5pt rider away. Justin Sedgmen is the opposite cannot win races at home only averaging 5.33 (5.00) but is an 8 point rider away. You've got to hope he can turn around his home form as he scored well last year and is performing well away and in the Premiership. The problem is 3 & 4 failing to produce anything and nothing special out of reserve. Got to give the Thompson boys a chance. The best solution might be to replace Wright & Pearson for a 7 & a 2 point rider but where are you going to find a 7 point rider? Hans Anderson rides Denmark but they have a summer break coming in July so maybe he's Birmingham's best hope

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Presumably not very long going by Edinburgh being able to bring in Bastian Borke after losing to Scunthorpe on 26/05 and before their averages changed on 01/06. Seemed to have more difficulty finding a 2 point rider. I'm sure Berwick signed Jonas Knudsen on a temporary visa last year then applied for a full visa. There was a hold up in it being processed and he then had to sit out a few meeting but was back before the end of the season.

Just an estimate but I would say the crowd at Glasgow was bigger on last Tuesday night than on Friday. Don't know if Monday's or Thursday would work long term but with Poland now using Thursday's and on one occasion Monday maybe the Premiership need to scrap fixed race nights to get more team in it next year. Poole are going to want to keep Wednesdays