John Cook

Piates look to complete the 3rd part of the treble for a 2nd year running but can the Bears 🐻 go out and spoil the Pirates ☠️ party? The Bears 🐻 certainly have nothing to lose and will be giving it everything to overcome the odds starting with a 2 point lead. Teams Pirates ☠️ 1. Richard Lawson 2. Tobias Thomsen 3. Lewis Kerr 4. Zach Cook 5. Anders Rowe 6. Paul Starke 7. Will Cairns  Bears 🐻 1. Charles Wright 2. r/r Erik Riss 3. Jason Edwards 4. Jake Mulford 5. Danny King 6. Jody Scott 7. Ace Pijper 

Thought Rushen's weren't allowed in the SGPs?

Losing the RS system would not be to save money but to make way for higher average and competitive reserve. Saving money comes from doing away with the top scorer.   The RS initiative would/could be adopted by the championship as part of consolidating riders from the NDL & championship to accommodate a lower points limit in the second uk league.   

They call them "Goons" 😂

While Scunthorpe have had a couple of poor seasons, before that they were play-off qualifiers. So it's not like they've always been near the bottom. Scunthorpe did have a big name rider, Ryan Douglas, but when he went up to the Prem found it hard to find a top replacement. Similar to Edinburgh when Pickering stepped up. Poole didn't replace Ben Cook or Tom Brennan with similar standard of riders, maybe because there's not many top heat leaders to go round, luckily for them I don't see Richard Lawson moving up full time. Scunthorpe also had their own, even more successful Cairns in Luke Harrison, unfortunately sounds like he's going to be moving on.