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Fresh from Tuesday night's victory over the Berwick Bandits, the Gladiators head north to Workington looking to overturn a 4 point deficit for the aggregate bonus point. Plenty of Plymouth fans travelling up for this one I believe. Looking at the two teams on paper, as with most meetings, Plymouth's reserves are going to be important here, along with the current good form of Dan Thompson and Kyle Newman was back to his best on Tuesday night as well. Workington with an impressive start to the season and with Cook and Batchelor (who's welcome at Plymouth any time after his two efforts guesting these past two weeks, what a professional!) they'll be a tough side to beat. Team wise, we know Connor Bailey is guesting for Worky in place of Tate Zischke. For the Gladiators... well two guests are required? Covatti and Barker need replacing... with no prior knowledge and just going off my own research about past results and who fits average wise, I'd suggest Kyle Howarth might be a good call to replace Covatti if he's around and willing to guest. Jake Allen, Jason Edwards, Michael Palm Toft, Leon Flint or Paco Castagna might also be reasonable shouts to replace Ben Barker.
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By hawks 1975 · Posted
Other fond memories of Friday nights at Waterden Road: Approaching from Carpenters Road, the smell! I don't know what they produced in some of those factories, but the perfume I remember thinking was mixture of cabbage boiled to death and marmite! Then as you got the the stadium entrance, it was replaced by that most delightful of aromas - Castrol R. Right up there with the smell of new mown grass and sizzling bacon! The teams marching out behind Len to The Magnificent Seven. So evocative, I remember it being played at Rye House in 2005 when Keith White, Bengt and Finn had a match race prior the Re-union and I don't mind admitting, it brought a tear to my eyes. The dulcet tones of Ted Sear Was it Len who christened him RED Ott?! I so wanted him to be star! I guess a lot of clubs had a similar chant - the fans got involved so in those day - so missed today. 2 4 6 8. Who do we apprec - ee - ate? H - A - C - K- N - E - Y Hackney - with Len always leaping into the air on the centre green with the final response. Hawkeye's often controversially one-eyed programme column, and his love of the Dons down the road, (sic). The nearest pub was the Carpenters Arms. Last time I looked it was still there, somewhat incongruously alongside the Olympic Park. We used to stop off there afterwards occasionally, and I will always remember being shocked after one meeting to find myself queuing up at the bar behind two great Swedes. Anders Michanek and Bengt Janssen had somehow beaten us to it! -
One for the rulebook experts If you have a rider called up to ride in this meeting and also have a league match the same day are the team entitled to A guest, R/R or an NDL guest not riding in the Championship
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I'm about a mile from the track and the rain is very light, been like it for an hour now and the ground isn't very wet and no puddles
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By BackInTheDHSS · Posted
Just arrived and it's raining heavily here. No way this is going to go ahead unless it miraculously clears up.
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