After seeing everyone in the KOCUP perform, I'm very confident that this prediction is in the right ball park.   1. SHEFFIELD (Head and shoulders above everyone imo, Will wipe the floor with everyone at Home to a point where it's going to impossible to beat them over two legs imo) 2. BELLE VUE (Simply due to the Kurtz and Bewley factor, Rest of the team isn't much cop and Cook isn't a HL away from the NSS but Kurtz and Bewley put up so many points to a point where they'll see the Aces into the Grand Final imo where Sheffield will take them to the cleaners)   3-5 are all of similar standard who should win at home but they won't offer much away. 3. LEICESTER (Out of Ipswich, King's Lynn and Leicester, I think the Lions are the team that's most capable of picking up a few wins on the road and that's why I've got them in 3rd place) 4. IPSWICH (Nicholls is the weak link but overall Ipswich's 1-7 is a stronger unit than King's Lynn's who've got a very weak tail and it's effecitvely going to be a 4 Man King's Lynn team most weeks imo and that's no good because Kvech, Harris and Cook are all inconsistent these days) 5. KING'S LYNN (Got a No.1 but it's irrelevant as proven last night at Foxhall when losing by 10 Points and having to use a Tactical Ride due to the tail end not scoring any points against an opponent until Heat 14 and that should be the story of King's Lynn's season away from the AFA imo)   The wooden spoon. 6. NORTHAMPTON (No Home track advantage really and no chance of winning away from home with the side they've assembled imo)

Despite the slick track I thought the racing was ok, seen far worse than yet over the years. The stream was ok, it’s the first time so you have to allow for nerves as the lad presenting made a lot of mistakes, some down to lack of knowledge as he mentioned about Shane Parker when he was at Lynn but any long time fan knows Shane was first and foremost a Witch, and they did say they know improvements need to be made, they need better mics imo because the trackside ones couldn’t deal with the level of decibels very well.

Where does all the fellow comets fans stand? I’m coming over for the first trip watching the comets there 😂

Kevin Long was there last night, working for Rerun Videos - I'm guessing he was doing interviews for the live stream? The "new" presenter is Stephen Foster, who has done it before when Long was unavailable.  There was a big collective sigh when he was announced for 2026 - a great bloke, hugely experienced local radio presenter, but most definitely not a sports event announcer. At least Mike Western's fluent Swedish gave us the correct pronunciation of Hellstrom-Bangs - it really is an amazing language 🙂

Bewley 8.64 rowe 5.22 cook 6.39 kildemand 5.28 musielak 6.63 bangs 4.50 Edwards 

Haha refs warn all riders at Poole I can promise you.