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As Connor Mountain rode last night I am assuming he cant ride next thursday in the final due to 8 day rule.

Yes true but it seems some including myself thought there was a rule to stop a rider riding for more than one play off team but apparently that is not the case. Anyway should make a great final and is what most would want.

It seems wrong, Harris helped Ipswich get in to the final and now he is helping another team stop them winning the title.

Yep

Shocking Holder can win races in the rain!

That is the rules, dont think play offs have affected averages ever.

No play offs dont affect averages and Lambert needs a home meeting or two to get an average

He would have to ride for Tobi in the final

I agree that Matt Ford would have done and did do anything to win. I dont know if completely true but when you hear Ipswich were not allowed to use Lambert and then he rocks up for Sheffield and also not allowed Joe T when NDL riders are meant to be exempt from the 8 day it appears Ipswich aren't looked at favourably .

Glasgow reserves may be a bit suspect but the top four are top riders, the grain of comfort Poole have is that Brennan is usually poor at Poole and Basso hasnt always rode his best as an away rider, there is no doubt Tarasenko has improved the team massively.

I think Steve is being honest, having Tarasenko is a massive difference from Nowak who is usually pretty inept at Poole and we know what Harris can do, Basso has been a bit up and down as an away rider but is capable of beating anyone. All depends how we get on at Glasgow if it is them we face which is not a certainty., Oxford have a good chance of defending a ten point lead.

We can only hope the team that have done things the right way come out on top. I thought Lambert might not like Monmore but he proved me wrong, he proved that a truly top class rider can ride any track, whether he can beat the calibre of Doyle and Emil on a regular basis remains to be seen, Wolves are a solid team but they dont have any GP quality riders.

If he rides tonight I assume he cant ride at Sheffield next week with the 8 day rule.

Instead of Tai or Tobi?

Good shout has ridden for both Ipswich and Sheffield

Sheffield going to have problems who can guest for Vissing, Kemp cant as his average is to high from October , Rowe is injured not sure who else maybe available

He could possibly get the odd boo from Ipswich fans but that would not worry him. Apparently it was mentioned that Ipswich were told they could not use Lambert but who knows the truth also were not allowed to use Joe T and 8 day rule isnt meant to apply to ndl riders.

So Sheffield could use Harris at Ipswich which would farcical again as he got Ipswich in to the final and then he is trying to stop them winning it!

He wasn't great at Monmore in the dry last night.

Yes that is what I meant, when he said Benson on the right and Hedges on the left and a journo said who else is in the team Lambert and Butler!

Lambert and Lambert! Shame there isnt a Butler in speedway!

A herculean performance to get so close when nobody thought it possible especially after Lidsey's breakdown and going 22 down on aggregate, why couldn't Doyle and Emil do that in heat 13 you may ask, once Bewley got past they seemed to give up but no giving up in heat 15! Absolutely Love Doyle as a rider with his never say die attitude and he is a pretty decent bloke too.

And last night Lawson won heat 15!

I agree entirely with your comments, the racing last night was terrific and heat 15 amazing although you may have a different viewpoint as it was disappointing from a Belle Vue perspective. We have always had very diverse tracks in this country from the larger faster tracks like Peterborough and Kings Lynn to the smaller tracks like Monmore. As I have said many times there are many that have always criticised Monmore but it will be missed and last night looked very entertaining, personally it is a track I always enjoyed visiting when Poole were in the top league and I don't really see the point of slagging off certain tracks, Leicester have had their detractors in the past and so have my own team Poole.

Lawson was terrific tonight though, dont remember him having too many meetings like that for Leicester.