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Who would pay for the track covers, where would they store them, will clubs have enough volunteers to cover / uncover a track? It's a nice idea, but certainly not one where you can demand every track have covers.

Obviously there's two sides to every story, but if what Cami has said is 100% true, then he has every right to say what he did. He's not even repeating himself. The first report was a complaint about (some) Poole fans. The most recent is a complaint about the Poole management's reaction after he called out their fans actions. In general I can't understand any "fan" cheering a fallen rider, even more distasteful if they wish injury or worse on the rider.

But the league positions were decided by teams using guests too? I'm not a fan of play-offs, but that's nothing to do with the guest situation.

That makes no sense, why even offer to host the match if they wanted the 2nd leg at home (as is their right)? What would they have done of the weather was perfect.

Redcar will be using a guest all season, one week shouldn't make much difference to their team.

Can you explain what you mean? As far as I'm aware this isn't the first time in history a speedway meeting has been postponed!

I can't see how this is as tactical call-off. If Poole really wanted the second leg, they simply wouldn't have offered a date till they raced at Redcar first! Besides who would make the decision on whether a call off was necessary or not? What happens if multiple play-off matches were postponed, team in 4th could become champions without having to race!

If the meeting is called off early because of a forecast for rain, which doesn't then come, can't do much about it. Imagine the meeting was called off at 19:30 with Poole ignoring a forecast of rain, they'd get lynched on the forum especially, plus stadium rental / travel expenses etc.

Especially with some clubs having large gaps in the fixture lists. How would they ever cope with 2H & 2A?

I would think the other way would make more sense, fans may turn up to the BSN / KOC finals in greater numbers of they don't know if there's a play-offs final to come or not?

Should have got the BSN series finished months ago. It's normally the same teams in the later stages of competitions, so spreading the finals out makes sense to me.

Bowtell could still have gotten 7 rides while being taken out of a heat. So replacing him in 12 isn't particularly bad. But not giving him an extra ride in another heat is where the fault lies. If the TM didn't think he could find enough heats for Bowtell to get 7 rides, then could've dropped Lambert in 12 instead.

This is the sort of comment that always confuses me, so if Mountain had a poorer season you'd want him back, but as he improved you're not so keen? Zaine Kennedy - Zaine has progressed nicely this year and deffo has potential to grow into a heat leader. On an average just over 5 I would say he needs to snapped up for next year before someone else does. I think I would prefer Mountain to Zaine tbh. Zaine scored his points in the (on paper) easier reserve position (7) & top 5 position (2). For that reason I'd prefer Declan to Zaine, first season over here put into the (on paper) harder team spots (6 & 3) in theory if say he has more improvement in him than Zaine. If I was a Scunny fan I would be happy with all 3 back. Like you, struggling to see where a new number one will come from. But there could be some heat leader movement from clubs like Poole, Glasgow & Redcar. MPT (cheap average) Nick Morris (former scorpion on a cheap average) Dan Gilkes (providing injury is ok) Anders Rowe (may be a victim of the numbers at Poole) Anti Vuolas (seems to love the place but think a few clubs will want him). Agree all of these would be good singings if available.

I'm sure this season was the first of 3 years at a 40 point limit. As the limit should average at 42, that means a weaker league. But when they vote for a 3 year plan, it doesn't always last!

I don't know if I thought they'd win every meeting, but I did think Ipswich were massive favourites. I guess that was partly based on them having 2 x near 10 point riders. That hasn't happened this year.

Maybe they feel both Doyle & Brennan wouldn't beat an opponent in heat 13, with Doyle more likely to win heat 12? Personally I'd have the top 2 at 1&5.

That won't be easy to manage as they are nearly a point over the limit. Would probably mean having to go with weak reserves.

Why have a North / South split? So few teams could easily have all teams meeting once home & away.

I would hope no team manager would ever tell a rider to throw a race to keep his average below a teammate, same with Leicester wanting Becker to be 2nd in the averages when injured. By all means tell a certain rider(s) to pick up bonus points on 5-1s / 3-3s but certainly don't tell them to drop points on purpose.

Both teams race at home in the play-offs

Agree with all of that.

Who made that decision? You'd think it would benefit both clubs to race it at Scunthorpe? Scunthorpe fans may turn up in greater numbers for one more chance to see Speedway at home before the winter break!

100% agree.

It's poor planning of end of season meetings, that should have been run earlier in the season. With so few league matches, there's no reason why clubs can't fit in BSN / KOC meetings earlier in the season. I don't remember that many rain-offs. Biggest problem is probably 4 Friday teams, who prefer not to race on their off race night. People still ask for 2H & 2A, but clubs can barely manage 1H & 1A.

I agree under the current rules a rider racing 2 home & 4 away will gain an average. But I don't remember them ever changing a legitimate average, once rules have been changed in later seasons. Not including re-assessed averages. Heck I even remember 20 years ago Ipswich having to sign Protasiewicz on an average that included bonus points, when no one else's average included them after a rule change.