stevebrum

yes you were poor in the A fixture, doesn't mean you will be that poor again. Nicholls has been poor all year. He scored 10 in the A and 15 in the B. King isn't keen on Monmore, and scored 4 in the A fixture. at Wolves Nicholls is always the better guest and is likely to outscore Hans most times. Only the team finishing top has any preference , and that is likely to be Belle Vue making picks completely out of our hands. This old chestnut again. There is no knockout cup bit, that's in your mind. It's simple to the vast majority that the play offs decide who wins the league. The league programme I agree decides which top 4 get to fight it out for the title.

That's the thing with predictions, one can often be wrong. It's not a crime to say the overwhelming favourites might win away and makes no difference where it was at. They thrashed wolves at home who are meant to have a huge home advantage. Poole have often won at Wolves in recent seasons so it will be no surprise if it's close on Monday. Yet many Poole fans think they will get thrashed! Poole have just beaten the favourites so are in decent form.

Hope you are right

Could see the logic of the first season of the FTR 's of protected heats but that is just messing about with the averages now. They either need to use their PL averages next season of convert their current EL averages minus the 'protected heats' and revert back to a previous heat format where everybody races everyone with no protection. It will be interesting to see what this new 6 man team heat formula is going to be as it's clear that is happening next season. One of the 6 I hope is British at 'reserve'.

That's why i said they would win then, not hard to understand is it!

It's just a prediction based on the Aces being the supposed team to beat. must make Poole the favourites again then?

I hope the 6th rider is still British edr standard. Would be crazy to let that fail now.

At least you added the caveat at the end.

As expected , the predictable tonking as forecast.

It makes no difference what anyone says on social media says. The track is regularly voted best race track, SKY love going their because meetings are usually good ones from a race track perspective. The poor fest from Swindon a couple of weeks ago had people raving about the 5 heats they showed from Wolves with the World Champion than hardly any of the racing from the featured meeting. Whether you prefer racing on a small or big track is irrelevant. The racing at wolves is often decent.

Poole have had some great results at Monmore in recent seasons. It could be a tight one if the Pirates are in form. Nicholls got 15 last time.

And if you win it you will have earned it. I agree against the Pirates I'd edge it towards them however a final against us you will be favourites given your dominance over us this season long and seemingly the only team that can own us at Monmore. It makes the semi picks interesting! I think the pathetic Bees line up has more to do with it than anything else.

Personal choice is fine. Plenty of passing opportunities at Wolves and little to do with rider error. It could be one of the main reasons why Wolves is regularly voted best race track.When was the last time a so called better bigger track was voted best race track? I prefer to watch a meeting on a track that is well prepared and offers good race lines and has enough dirt on to allow passing throughout. I couldn't care less what size or length the track is , it's all about the track prep everytime for me. Wolves mastery (or Doc Bridgett to be precise) of track prep makes it what it is. I can imagine the NSS will win the award this season, and rightly so. As for Monday Masters may not be fully fit and he has been a massive part of our success this season so his fitness could have a huge bearing on the meeting. Poole have won often at Monmore in recent seasons so don't buy this 'we generally aren't good at Monmore' line. On paper all of their riders have had great meetings at wolves so could be very dangerous if they all click. Still expect Wolves to score 50 points but Poole are a dangerous team at Wolves.

And the play offs always make speedway big time as well.

Maybe maybe not. He still picked and choose meetings for others clubs in recent seasons including being sacked for lacking commitment. My point remains that he is a different animal with a Poole jacket on.

I rarely stand up for KK but Fricke missing doesn't even itself out! KK is number 1 and more than a point stronger on his average compared to Fricke as 2nd heat leader. The Aces have their number one Zagar to use an extra ride whilst the Bees have to use everyone lower.

If you can't beat a team bottom but one all season missing there number one then there is no point in dreaming of title glory.

KK misses meetings at leisure this season. So is unlikely to be around to have his average altered. He is Poole through and through. The only time he seems to gain consistency and perform on a regular basis is in a Poole jacket. The Bees fans are going overboard about his commitment to them this season yet had missed a 6th of all their meetings! I say some but there are a few that see the real picture about his commitment.

Shame KK is missing yet another club meeting for individual glory. Should be a standard comfy home win for the Aces.

Should be a comfy home win.

Anybody would have to be crazy to suggest Lindgren is having a poor year! KK is 8.04 Lindgren 7.92.

Points difference I'd imagine.

Surprised it was such an easy win. It's like no one wants to carry any real good form into the play offs with such up and down results for all teams in contention. Wolves seem to be the only team with momentum right now.

it's a win win then. One can hope!

And depends how injured he is and if we have replaced him with Piotr Pawlicki.