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A certain David Hemsley built it whilst everybody else was looking the other way!

Dave Darcy said (in his usual brusque manner) that some supporters seems to think they know more about the team than him and that Wright was signed for 28 days only and Danny King will be back for the Lions so there.

Lions very poor. No bite at all at reserve.

Surely Sarjeant has to go now and how the hell did Masters get away with that? It was blatant!

He's the best British rider of the past 10 or so years bar none and all credit to him. I think he and Lambert have done us proud. I just think, gamble and unlikely as it may have been it was worth a shot to at least try and help Robert through as we were losing regardless.

Tai had four laps to try and help Robert pass Emil. It would have been better to lose 5-1 trying to do that than lose 4-2 while he clears off. I thought that was the point of pairs riding?

Anf if Tai had tried to slow Emil down Robert might have done that! Ludicrious decision.

Why did Wofinden go for the front?!

I can see nobody wanting to hit the first bend in front lol.

Russia or Poland? I'd rather Poland probably.

The great thing is that we have two riders at the moment for Britain who don't look overawed and ride like they belong in that company. even if we don't win it we're competing on a better level than we have for a long time.

Oh yes! Lovely to stuff the Aussies!!

To be fair we could have had the Czech Republic or France and at one point Australia and Britain were looking a bit shaky.

Typical Aussie showboating like they haven't just scraped through!

Phew!

No way should Lambert have been off gate 1!

Very good crowd, beautiful weather. Appalling racing and my god the atmosphere is flat!

Surely if he rode in the British semi final he can't pull out of this one?

If that's true someone remind Rossiter to stop faffing about as it's freezing standing here.

Or David Hemsley!

Damn, I was hoping for Ilya Bondarenko, first into turn 1 and last halfway round turn 1!

I was thinking of going for only the second time this year and possibly taking a newbie with me but I can't justify the money when two of our best riders are riding against us and how do I explain that away?!

https://twitter.com/staechmanager/status/879349610401202177 RIP Ila Teromaa :-(

David Howe? Im struggling to think of anybody else we could get in.

It wasn't quite as bad as Glasgow in 2011, we didn't win any races that night if I recall. Last night wasn't far off though, I don't know if they're having trouble getting shale still but it looked quite patchy and we didn't seem to have any speed at all. Somebody told me Lasse blew an engine the other night which might account for him looking out of sorts. We had a bit of bad luck, Wolves moved twice at the start but never touched the tapes we did it three times and demolished them!