Whilst we filled our boots tonight,  the reverse could happen at Worky. Leon Flint who is going through a purple patch, replacing Zischke, imo strenghthens the Comets considerably. Remember the scores when we last met Worky in the  2018 KoC semi:- Edinburgh Monarchs 59 Workington Comets 31 Workington Comets 61  Edinburgh Monarchs 29 No time to be complacent, with North Side being a new track to both Swedes & also a raw number  seven who is  unlikely to beat any Championship reserve, barring non finishers.

Unfortunately we're mainly a team of riders in positions that they shouldn't be in. Tate and Anti aren't heat leaders, the same as Jay and Taylor aren't second strings. So we find ourselves with 2 second strings and 4 reserves. And Troy, who to be fair needs to pick up 15 points per meeting to even keep us competitive. Which he'll never do, unless he makes 5 worldy starts. 

Would've been hard if not impossible to achieve that team building with a 40 point limit. Another strong heat leader would mean weaker reserves needed. With Bowes being on a 5.00, but the Kennedy's & McDiarmid on 4.00 (or 4.27 for Zaine) it was easier for them to be at reserve.

Like I’ve already said Mark is only in for the Workington matches that’s it, Mark also knows this. We only needed someone to fill the whole for the weekend as the factory was up for Max. So your pound is irrelevant.  

I think that will work against them. Many fans will have planned to go & despite the drubbling, turn up because they had no other plans anyway. If it's postponed, then may be harder to get a decent crowd due to the first leg score & wouldn't have the advantage of people having already planned to go?

I stand by what I said, my point was that Parker is far from Champ standard & I couldn't believe there weren't stronger options available for the team? That is where I felt Monarchs weren't giving their all, for example I could never imagine a team like Poole with their winning mentality, settling for a 3.00 NL reserve in their team. Parker did exactly what I expected, only beat a non-finisher. Well done to Mark for doing that though. Delighted for the middle order pairing, feel some of the criticism they've received has been too harsh. Two good scores against weaker opposition, can they continue against the leagues stronger sides?