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the BSPA statement lays the blame with Peterborough, rightly so. Sensible statement it was too!

Peterborough make their own decisions. It's up to them what they do. It may affect Poole but that's nothing for the BSPA to get involved in. Different circumstance, as discussed on another thread.

That's a issue between Poole and Peterborough then. Nothing to do with the rules being the same.

Odd comment fb. Of the 12 home matches he has scored double figures (including paid double points ) 6 times. 50%. Of those he didn't he scored 9 three times and 8 twice! I'd say that is pretty consistent! ! Post 72 explains it perfectly.

Masters has a home average of 8.53, not sure where you got hit and miss from. His last few visits have been pretty poor I agree, however he is still 10 times better than KK at Monmore.

Close then. He certainly had decent averages throughout Europe as well, without doubt his best ever season. I'd agree over here he seems to be close to that this season.

3rd in averages. So Freddie can't take a ride. No easy cover at all, not when a reserve has to take one of his rides, Poole get lucky for a 2nd time.

Looks like Poole are set for another slice of luck at Monmore. A big loss if true.

I thought he had one year when he was on fire everywhere and had an average over 9?

Time will tell of course. I've never brought this 'Poole aren't very good at Monmore' stance. I've seen too many Poole wins to ever be that confident. On paper Poole are out of form that much is true.

Absolutely. Fully agree with that. And anything can happen in a meeting.

And totally hilarious when you see the awful accidents at the real horror tracks like Poole and Leicester not to even mention the wobblers at Cardiff on and over course Kings Lynn (according to Troy and Holder). Still its good to see the nonsense usual response.

That is real. Poole won at Wolves a few weeks ago. You would have to be barking mad to suggest it will be a walkover. Perhaps have a bit of faith, no Poole fan thought they would get any points a few weeks ago at Monmore.

Anybody is an improvement on KK. Wolves win by 4.

They must be interested because they took up the rights for the World Cup that SKY didn't have for several years.

Well that was easier than I expected. Somerset have been dreadful at Monmore twice now. Don't think I've ever been so bored at a Wolves meeting before. No fight, no effort. Very poor. Maybe Wolves were just on fire as well. Worst crowd of the season, worst match at Monmore in a long time. Wolves FRED - only Heeps got close surprisingly but looked very quick too. 5/5 KYLE - how we have missed his contribution. Barely touched till heat 15 and even then rode hard and determined to get his paid max 5/5 MOTM RORY - untouchable until heat 12 when he got out gated and then when chasing lost further ground by getting out of shape on bend 4. 4/5 JACOB - never looked like being touched. 5/5 SAM - who would have known he had a big crash yesterday? 2 quick heats. 3.5/5 ELLIS - I was ready to say he is clueless at Monmore but then picked himself up after an awkward fall in heat 14, out battled Kerr and then set after Hougaard. 1/5 NATHAN - he only scored in heat 2 but was battling in the other heats. Still the better reserve. 1.5/5 Rebels Lawson - dreadful. Only beat perks. 0.5/5 Heeps - got better and quicker as the match went on. 2.5/5 Wright - disappointing. Didn't really look that interested either. 1.5/5 Hougaard - good when he gated which was once. 2/5 Allen - at least looked interested and rode well. Deserved more rides.3/5 Kerr - beat only reserves. Hardly remembered any of his heats he was that nondescript. 1.5/5 Grajczonek was a miss, thru injury in Poland.

Lindgren is in the Twilight of his career??? Really? I suggest you look at this season to see he is riding better than ever at the highest level, and not even at his peak IMHO. Seems fair to me too.

Tonight was never in the TV scheduling released from BT. Radio Times must have messed up.

You would think he has been riding well everywhere else this year! !

Thanks, hadn't seen that yet. Dodgy either way then.

I'm not sure if I've made that clear in the past.

Both Chris Holder and Jacob Thorssell have been at reserve in Sweden this year. If you aren't performing well that's the consequence.

It shut Friday.

Both teams at full strength? Masters hurt ribs in a crash today and withdrew from the meeting. Must be a doubt. Great news we have Kyle back tho. I can see a close match if it's RR for Sam. Predictions?? I will go with 49-41.

as I've said previously I always try to look at things without my Wolves head on and I fully get the point that bringing in our world champion asset for a rider who has done little wrong a bit harsh and maybe raised a few questions. And maybe the timing too. That's been addressed this season and again I have no issue with that. People saying it just wasn't fair cuts no mustard tho. no one felt sorry for us in 2014 when we had to suffer Woffy's dire form and no one questioned it as an average reduction exercise. We suffered badly that year. We had a whole season of dire from Woffy to attain that TRUE average. An average we could use again within 3 seasons (within the rules). For his average to be raised to stop other teams and fans moaning would have been a totally crazy thing to have happened! As explained above, the timing issue has been addressed this season and again no issues from me. If any one team deserved to gain from Tai's dreadfully low average it would be a wolves. It would be totally unjust for any other team to gain from that. No one team can take the moral high ground this season with everyone making changes but of course if any one team was likely to take the moral high ground last season it would be the Aces. That said winning the league with the same 7 riders would be perfect for British Speedway, it's highly unlikely in the age of the Play Offs however. It may be seen as unfair last year however Wolves won the title within the rules and (literally) played all the Aces.