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Glad to see Jody Scott & Ashton Vale have recovered from injury

But his scores had fallen (for Birmingham), so that was my suggestion to remedy the situation. Perhaps not needed after a good performance tonight. There's still a part of me that thinks Pawlicki should be at 5 as a former GP rider. Plus I think Brennan & Cook would work well together.

I mentioned it sounded like Birmingham were unlucky (haven't seen the heat, but the consensus is Riss should've been excluded) my point is, they still could have won even with the heat 15 decision.

I said give Brennan a chance to rediscover his early season form

Great guests for Glasgow, should be a big home win.

While it sounds Brummies were unlucky, they still had it on them to win. Lindgren obviously was good but couldn't do it in the heat 15 re-run. Pawlicki didn't score enough & Flint was VERY disappointing, against probably the weakest reserve pairing in the league he could only score one point.

Nope, but surely riders build an affinity with the fans of whoever they ride for & want to win for them as well as earning a living?

I've never had that attitude when it comes to Cycle speedway lol!

We'll agree to disagree then, but personally I'd never want to use my top rider in heat 8. For Leicester as soon as I saw Sheffield had r/r at 2, think I would've moved Lawson to 3 or 4 (put Becker at 2).

Prediction: Oxford 46 Birmingham 44 Brummies should score a lot more at reserve, but I can't see them winning any more matches this season. They have the ability to keep on losing even when racing understrength teams.

Ipswich to win by 20+ points, but Stars to top 30.

Once again, don't understand why Sheffield are using r/r at 2. Means superstar number one & GP rider Holder takes his extra ride against a rising star. Feel it's a waste of a rider if his ability, would've used r/r at 3 or 4 personally.

Both to blame imo, surely when a rider goes out he'll ask what the score is, BUT he shouldn't have to, the team manager should be making doubly sure the riders know what's needed, especially when it's a last heat decider, just when I thought Ermolenko couldn't get any worse lol!

For Poole he's flying, for Birmingham he's a "third heat leader" riding in a tougher number 5 position.

Especially when you consider Poole have a Dane in their side and they ride on Wednesdays

I noticed, especially on FB, many fans saying Pijper shouldn't have been dropped (especially when Garrad didn't score well) but hardly any of them said "we should have kept Starke too" now anyone with knowledge of the rules knows they couldn't have signed Ivacic & kept Pijper. I see Plymouth's new signings Patrik Baek is a 5.00 rider, meaning if Glasgow had signed him instead of Ivacic, they wouldn't have had to drop Pijper. I wonder if he was on Glasgow's list of potential signings?

If Brummies reserves ride to their ability they could win this one. But they rarely do, so expect a narrow Oxford win.

I think I would've gone 3. Brennan 4. Cook 5. Pawlicki. As a former GP rider, tell Pawlicki to earn his keep in the tougher number 5 position, plus give Brennan a chance to rediscover his early season form. Brennan & Cook rode together for Poole for half the season, so should ride well together.

How can we be sure anymore? Poole haven't struggled for like 15 years.

Come on everyone, this has to be the most pointless argument I've ever seen in the forum, from seemingly the most innocuous of posts. If Skidder1 is happy watching Championship racing at Poole then good for him. If others think Premiership racing with Emil is better so they go watch that, then good for them. These are opinions, there is no right or wrong answer. I've seen both good & bad matches at all levels of the sport. I've seen people saying the SON at Belle Vue was amazing, I thought it was almost a bore fest & seen far better racing round there. I know someone who prefers the racing at Armadale to Scunthorpe, which I find astonishing. I just fail to see why people are arguing over this?

If they've given up on play-offs yes, just sign Baek for Covatti & run a 7 man team. But if they think they can still make the top 4, guests for Covatti are stronger than Newman. You could question the morals of not replacing a missing rider, but they're not the only club to do that.

That's his prerogative, but if that's the case, his rivals could do the same & not guest for the Aces.

That would have been a worse change than all of Oxford's combined!

It was a 5 point average! Stupid rule, but opposition clubs should have pointed out the flaws pre-season, so can't complain after Glasgow won.

As I understand the rules, when Starke didn't have a club if Glasgow needed a replacement for Smith or Pearson, Starke could say to the BSPL "can I guest for my old club, show them there's no hard feelings" to which they'd reply "nope, can't allow that". But now he's signed for Workington if the same situation occurred he could say "can I guest for my old team & try to knock my new team out of the play-offs" to which they'd reply "yes, of course".