You're the one who's debating it, with all your ifs. As I have stated several times, we will never know that would have happened if Lidsey rode, so there's no point in predicting one way or the other.

56-34 

Good Lord, yet another team tun up at Poole full of guests , shorn of their top riders. Surely they cannot fail to beat the patched up Plymouth side?   Nice move to pitch Darren Ritchings against the poor Poole pair at 6and 7. Puts t hen under some serious scrutiny, especially if Starkers fails to deliver. Depite being harbourmaster champignon he must be in danger of being another discarded Poole rider if he doesnt pick up his performances ?? Let battle commence  🙂   

Another very big crowd tonight. Nice to see a few Plymouth fans making the trip up. 

I’d tend to agree. I think at foxhall Ellis is far stronger than his poor away outings. He tends to throw it on the outside at Foxhall more than anywhere else if he is behind.

How?  Ifs buts and maybes  Lidsey has scored 5 and 10 v Ipswich this season  When he scored 5 Ellis King and Thompson all beat him …. There was no guarantee what Lidsey would do…. He may have had an engine failure in heat 12 turning a 3-3 into a 5-1 to Ipswich you don’t know  Simply Kurtz and Bewley had 6 rides which definitely helped  Reminds me of daft football fans who when the game is 1-1 see their team get a disallowed goal but then score another and win 2-1 and they say ‘if the goal wasn’t disallowed we would have won 3-1….. no you wouldn’t because the ball would have gone back to the centre circle and the game would have been played differently  No saying what Lidsey would / should have scored