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Can't see Monarchs having much of a chance of making the top 6 tbh. Once Sarjeant goes into the top 5, whilst using r/r Fredriksen & Hook would need to take 11 rides between them!

Totally agree with you, any rider who comes in to replace an injured rider, could have been picked in the first place, so no advantage gained.

If 4-3-2-0 is used for pairs events to encourage team riding, why is it not also used in league matches? Teams ride as pairs in that too!

Last year they changed the guest rules, so you had to use an unattached rider, but that was abandoned after one season & are allowing guests again.

Should that not be weather forecast permitting?

It's a bit of an odd choice as Jenkins certainly hasn't been scoring well for Redcar do far this season, averaging 2.57 (3.43).

If you draw lots, they could come out in Alphabetical order

I was wondering the same thing, have any matches been raced yet?

But not the second part lol!

I can't say that should make a difference. Ostergaard has the 2nd highest average in the team so could easily be the number 5 rider, Basso can wins heats in the Prem so should be able to handle number 3 and number 4 was easier than number 2 with Ben Cook scoring 0. I think Glasgow are very strong & should be good enough to beat any team (Poole included) at home. They just needed to stops Poole's lower order from scoring so many (easier said than done) as Poole's top 3 are the best on the league.

Yeah that's not a bad idea tbh,

As Poole are the best team in the league by far, you have no worries about being beaten at home this year now surely?

Not sure why that would be the case? Riders race for different teams in different countries, so a change in riding order shouldn't affect them much!

If a referee has lots of re-starts fans complain he's trying to be the star of the show, no restarts & he has somewhere to be, sounds like refs can't win lol!

Surely clubs can swap fixtures if they both agree to it?

Not sure it's wise Rowe leaving Leicester. If he doesn't perform in Poland, won't get much racing if only at Ipswich (till they realise Hume is better)?

Weren't Glasgow also missing Brennan & Basso for their last home meeting? They seen to race when they have riders missing, but have blank Fridays either side of these fixtures! 6th May - Brennan & Basso missing 13th May - no fixture 20th May - Brennan missing 27th May - no fixture

At the moment you can use a guest at home with +5% added to their ave and a guest away up to their ave. Simple change would be at home use missing riders ave, away use missing riders ave -5%? It's easier to strengthen up away using "horses for courses". I have no issues with guests, but feel the biggest issue is team being stronger using guests!

No reason at all, just copying the stupid (in my view) SON rules from last few years!

Is that not what normally happens when a rider is injured? He recovers!

I can believe Newcastle are struggling to find a new number one (not needed in my view, as long as they're allowed guests) but find it hard to believe they can't get anyone stronger than Congreve, no offence meant to the lad, but he's clearly the weakest rider in the league & the obvious one to replace!

I must admit when I saw McGurk get 4 rides despite not scoring, I wondered what the Atkins camp made of that, given that apparently the reason for them leaving Plymouth was Henry not getting 4 rides? Almost makes me think May did it to spite them lol!

"sensible guest options" Jason Edwards, Henry Atkins, Nathan Ablitt, Harry McGurk, Danny Phillips, Tom Woolley, Greg Blair, Luke Crang, Connor Coles, Tom Spencer, Nathan Stoneman, Jake Mulford, Alex Spooner, Sam McGurk & Joe Alcock. Plenty out there, not likely to score many, but neither was Kinsley tbh, so not a great loss to the teams strength in my view If they were going to sign an injury replacement I'd have gone with Jake Mulford!

My point is, even if Sedgmen goes back to scoring 4/5 points a week, that's still far more than Congreve is scoring. By not strengthening up, it appears Newcastle have accepted another wooden spoon?

After Sedgmen's start for Birmingham, are we gonna get people admitting they were wrong? Imagine Sedgmen had replaced Congreve, pushing Wright to reserve - team would look quite decent!