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It's very hard to pick teams with an unknown points limit, but for Berwick I'd be looking at Schlein, Flint, Knudsen (x2) & Coles

Lee could have taken 4 r/r outings, which would have meant Ace having to take 5 rides, but that would never happen as Brennan & Tarasenko were always gonna get an r/r outing. Wether Complin took 2 r/r outings or Pijper took 2 (or 1 each) Ace still only needed to take 3 races.

Just looking at the programme & realise Cammi Brown must be the jammiest team manager in Speedway, after making a horrendous decision to I give Pijper a 4th ride, gets a second chance with Complin in the re-run. If Pijper has finished 4th or fallen & not allowed in the re-run the match would have finished 50-40. I can only imagine the grief Cammi would have got it Oxford win the stupid heat, he's a very lucky man.

That would make sense

Heat 8 isn't a protected heat, both number 2 & 7 could be replaced by the number 6. Sounds more like a Prem ruling? I suppose heat 8 is protected against tac subs, which is a tad pointless, as it would have been legal for Basso & Nicholls to race at number 2 (wouldn't happen I know) plus clubs don't have to put their weakest reserve at 7 & even if they do, can still drop him from that heat.

Ipswich have put themselves into a good position, but it's by no means over.

He "only" finished 5th because he was behind two top-6 GP riders. Not beating top-6 riders shouldn't be a slight on any rider. Kvech also finished in front of riders like Lebedevs who got a wild card, Fricke who didn't make the final & Woffinden who didn't enter. So he deserves his spot ahead of many in the GP imo

But that's because there are 5 wild cards, the top riders don't need to enter the qualifiers so there's more chance of a "lesser" rider qualifying for the GPs.

Poole underdogs, you're having a laugh. They've won every 7 man competition since dropping down & have twice thrashed Glasgow at Wimbourne road this year. Bearing in mind Brennan doesn't go well round Poole, r/r for Vissing weakens Glasgow imo. Poole still clear favourites for me

When you have finals raced in October, you can't expect a perfect track, especially one that was postponed the night before. Just need to get on with it unless the ref says it's too dangerous to race on. Well done Ipswich, hopefully they can complete the job on Thursday.

Ace made his comeback from injury over the weekend, so Glasgow had no choice but to use him (even if they think Smith is better)

I agree with everything you've said, but read many comments saying Glasgow are stronger without him / won't want him back?

No one "should have a say" except Vissing, if he's fit - he should ride, simple. I certainly hope clubs would have more integrity than telling a riders to stay home as they're stronger without him, maybe I'm just being nieve?

I don't know why that would have to include leaving Berwick though. Could get a new track in the Prem & race in the U24 league in Poland, so will have 3 home tracks.

I think Glasgow would be silly to drop him, racing mostly at number 5 has left him with a low average, so scope for improvement in him.

But riders like Nicol, Ruml, Wethers etc who didn't get a team spot would likely agree to one team spot rather than staying home for another season. They need to make Speedway affordable for the fans, if that means riders have to work & race (some already do) then so be it!

I hope they don't have a strict 2.00 average for the number 7, as that just hinders riders like the two you have mentioned already. A similar thing happened in 2015, Edinburgh signed 2 x 3.00 riders (Branford & Clegg) when they didn't have to, then the following year dropped them both as they reached 3.5 for a new 3.00 rider (when a new rule came in).

I'd agree with that!

There's a massive difference between numbers 6 & 7 currently. As stronger number 7 (Borke, Kemp) meets a reserve in every race, you could argue for their development he should be racing stronger riders more often. A weaker number 6 (Wood, Ablitt) meet a reserve in heat 2, then race the 1/2 & 3/4 pairings, before often getting dropped from their last ride! Riders like Ablitt, Coles, Harrison, Trigger & Pijper are more likely to improve racing at 7, so I'd like a Prem style rule, where they have to be there (& not replaced in heat 8).

In the elite league fast track format heat leaders (1,3,5) never meet reserves (6,7). Second strings (2,4) meet everyone.

Could have races where 4 reserves are out being scored 2.5/1.5/0.5/0 & 4 heat leaders scored as 3.5/2.5/1.5/0.5? This would just be used to work out averages (so they are more realistic) not used for the match scores!

Surprised Flint is as high as that

Nope, referring to the thread, don't understand people asking "does anyone have any news" if there was official news we'd all know it, anything else would just be rumours / opinions.

I don't understand why people ask "does anyone have any news" when there's news the BSPL / SCB will announce it, until then it's just people opinions & speculation - which is interesting & what the forum is for. But don't expect concrete answers till the AGM.

It made sense in the past not to include KOC matches, but not now. Prem clubs race 24 meetings, but the rolling aves only count the last 20, so that creates an imbalance where some riders will be dropping 4 tough matches, others could be dropping 4 easy matches. In the Champ clubs only raced 16 league matches, so their rolling aves will include 4 (minimum) league matches from 2022. Is it really better to count the last 4 league matches from last season than counting the BSN series / KOC matches instead?