I can understand why JD has said what he said about the future of the comets,  the crowds need to be better, but we have some very many good sponsors big and small. But what I find strange is that their is no mention of this on the comets website or social media pages, it's all through Cumbria crack

Fair enough. That would rule out Masters' winning tac sub ride at Scunthorpe, of course...

Can read the article here on the demo pages, it is really just what JD said in his interview already. https://reader.exacteditions.com/issues/157512/spread/3 John Campbell did say all the Championship promoters will do all they can to get all 9 teams back to tapes in 2027. A couple of Premiership promotors are still not aligned with the rest of the promotors it seems, no prizes for guessing who they are!

It was the tactical substitution that lost the Cheetahs the aggregate point, it's such a cr_p rule should be dropped.

Judging from Cairns post match comments there were significant track issues, seemed to be OK at the start, but it went off by half-way. Will was riding the wide line through turn 1/2 , then after track grade/water Cairns has a look at 1/2 before his third heat (heat 8)and then rides an inside line and comes third. I'm no track prep expert but I do know about watering and to me it looked like track prep started too late, watering was only skin deep. Plenty of unwanted action in turn 1/2 tonight, Loftus looked concussed, surprised there weren't more injuries, riders lifting, must be a few bent bikes. Not a great advert for Wimborne Road, but a good result for the Pirates.

Nobody was beating Pickering so wouldn't have made a lot of difference