The Bank Holiday crowds are often "bumper" around the country, however, getting these infrequent visitors to attend even semi regularly for the rest of the season always seems an impossibility... Maybe that could be due to the lack of promotion done on those days when you know you will get your largest crowds?  Seems ridiculous that such a "captured market" isn't targeted with offers to repeat more often their "one or two visits a year"... These people actually know about Speedway so surely far easier to get them to attend more often, using targeted marketing, than attracting "newbies"..? As for Ipswich's "dream team", sadly it could be the wrong time, wrong place for it... In 1998, when they had an incredible team, all other tracks also had world class riders in their teams, which meant great racing and reasonably close meetings... Nowadays it isn't like that and those teams without genuine top talent will be found wanting, and won't be attracting too many of those extra Bank Holiday attendees when these teams turn up to ride away from home..  And, as has been seen in the past at some teams, being "too successful" can hurt your own crowds (and has even closed some tracks down), as fans know a play off place is a shoe in many weeks out.. One of the few meetings I will attend this year will be, at least one, of the Ipswich matches at the NSS, as they are clearly the best team in the league.. It's just a shame that the gap from them to the bottom team is so vast, and the way the sport is ran, that bottom team can do nothing more than paper over the cracks, rather than being able to fundamentally try and "start again"... Maybe after 6 matches ridden each, the top teams average should be used for everyone else to rebuild to it should they wish? They use a max average to work to at the start of the season, therefore, use a "rolling" one through the season.. After say 6 and then 12 matches completed each you could reset your team to the team with the highest average.. After 12, that's it, you run your last 12 matches with who you have.. For decades, the team(s) cut adrift at the bottom of the league after just a few matches, simply cannot make the required changes due having to replace pretty much like for like.. When they really need to bring in much better riders than the one they started the season with.. These clubs then see their own crowds dwindle and don't attract crowd away from home, neither being good for the sport as a whole.. Obviously to do this, the seven man teams will need to go to ensure replacements are available, (unless extra "decent talent" wants to ride over here), however, that seven man set up has been in place for decades, during which the sport has hemorrhaged fans, so maybe time for a change?       

Me neither, but if Knudsen or Gilkes takes a r/r & then Killeen I'd better, he can replace them twice in their programmed rides. So for that reason I wouldn't use a reserve as r/r in heat one. I actually like r/r in meetings, more for the terrace team managers to discuss.

It seems to keep them going... And provides "subs on the bench" when injuries/clashes abroad occur... Survival for many teams globally is the objective rather than gaining any "tangible success"... With, for most leagues, that "tangible success", not resulting in any major financial returns, nor any major national publicity, (or even local publicity sometimes), to speak of...

Killeen should dominate Poole reserves  Kerr needs to find a performance but Poole should win this easily by 10-15 points 

Am I right in saying the Danes use 5 man teams yet we are having a debate whether to go from 7 a side to 6? How well does 5 work for them?

Tbf Luke Killeen is pretty good at Poole. I wouldn't be surprised if he scored better than Knudsen and Gilkes imo.