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After last night's performances how about Riss & Jack Smith replacing Heeps & Atkins? Oxford Sam Masters 9.05 Scott Nicholls 8.54 Erik Riss 7.68 Jordan Jenkins 5.89 Jack Smith 3.00 Ashton Boughen 2.00 Luke Killeen 2.00 Total 38.16

With a lower points limit every team should be weaker than last season. Any team that is close to last year's standard should do well.

Glasgow big favourites to qualify now. Can't see them losing by more than 12 away.

R/R should work well for Berwick, Schlein, Kemp, Hume & Borke should score as many as if not more than Jye

Smith is only guesting for Scunthorpe, could sign for a team now.

I've not seen any Oxford fans wanting him replaced because of his form. I merely pointed out with their averages going down, Riss would fit in place of Jenkins, so naturally Oxford fans would prefer Riss / a stronger team. Even if Jenkins was scoring his average, if a rider of Riss' calibre is available as a replacement & you want to win the league, easy decision to make imo

What 2.00 rider would score more than Sam? Ryan Kinsley? Jody Scott? Maybe get you an extra point per match, but find a 4.00 rider who can keep their average, that'd be a bigger improvement.

Sign Smith if Complin gets banned, no need to drop anyone else (yet)

I think if both teams win at home, they'll both go through.

You're not gonna get a better 2.00 rider than McGurk, so Liebmann is the obvious rider to be replaced if Workington want to strengthen up.

Gilkes average is far higher than Glasgow's bottom 4, so no chance of him signing. I thought the same thing too about Boughen, by getting Killeen's minimum 3 rides "out of the way" Boughen had to go in 3 out of 4 races, probably tiring man & machine, so that wasn't clever.

Redcar's reserves done their job tonight.

Think you're gonna have to take that back!

The problem with Kye is he had a good first couple of seasons with Edinburgh, but hasn't gotten any better. Had he been a 4.00 rider, then 5.00, then 6.50 people would probably talk about him more. For example his season starting average was better than Zach Cook's, but Zach may finally overtake him this season.

Workington's top 5 look really good, Redcar really need to heavily outscore them at reserve to have any chance over 2 legs.

I thought Lynn had strong reserves pre-season, but they never seem to both go well at the same time. They are well below the limit, so could attempt to strengthen up there (if there's riders available to come in).

That was a really bad decision, Cook was doing ok at the time, so put him in - more chance off the gate that Milik off 15m, or give Flint his 2nd ride? Stewart Dickson did the same at Glasgow, giving Schlein a 15m heat & not giving Hodder his 3rd ride instead. Very basic mistakes being made (though not as bad as Peter Schroeck)

To beat Kemp, job achieved.

37 points is a decent score for Birmingham I feel. Don't think much more could be expected.

Not really, there would be no reason not to be honest. Oxford would just say Klindt isn't happy / wants a change & they feel Riss is a good replacement. By dropping Riss, Oxford are the "bad guys" not giving riders enough time / not supporting them when they are struggling etc. Don't see any advantage to Oxford announcing they dropped Klindt if he wanted out.

Good result for Edinburgh, but still expecting Poole to go through on aggregate.

For Plymouth I'd look to use Schlein or Howarth for Covatti. For Poole, the same two for Brennan. Normally I'd say Poole are strong enough to run with r/r, but as Plymouth are built with strength in depth, this may be the one time you done want Thomsen, Hagon & Perry to take 14 rides between them.

Won't be at reserve for long, but at corner track Lynn, could be a match winner for Brummies. Not expecting a lot from him tonight though.

Don't know why teams nearly always move r/r to number 2, especially if it moves your top rider to meet a RS. Would've been better with r/r at 3 or 4 imo.

I get 38.32, but the limit goes up to 38.5 in May, so it fits. I used Riss' converted Prem average as that is now his "most recent" average. It is a ridiculous rule, ignoring his last 20 Champ meetings, because he's ridden ONE Prem meeting!