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In my opinion the referee got the heat 15 call right as Tabaka was certainly not in front of Josh as he thought he was when he collided with him. Heat 11, well what did Josh do wrong other than race? Sneddon rolled the dice took a dive and won. That call was the turning point for me. You win some you lose some so Well Done to the Monarchs on getting the win. Great meeting as always from the Oak Tree Arena which looked superb again but people who only see the PL on TV must think the home team never wins! **edited for correctness**

If they had as good a racetrack then thye might! Sky's trucks have arrived and I locked them in on site for the night at 9pm when I went home. Hope the weather plays ball and the meeting is up to the usual standards from the OTA.

I was teaching last night from 3.30pm until 9pm next door and i can assure you it wasn't wet enough to flood a track as when i left there weren't even any puddles on the ground. I was there this morning again at 10am and the track wasn't under water so surprised to see the reason stated for the mid morning call off as 'track waterlogged' as opposed to the possibly truer line of 'called off due to a lousy weather forecast for later'. I was in Dorset playing a Pro Am this afternoon (and got soaked) and drove back home in steady rain so it was the right call but not the right reason given. If you played golf with me at present you would get wet as i always seem to be getting soaked. Twice now this week i have stayed dry for 16 holes and then it decides to pour down at the end of the round!

and Kyle of course!

Tell me about it Najjer! The break in fixtures has been used to good effect to put a new delivery of shale onto the track i think. Well it was in the car park last week and now it has gone so i hope it has gone in the tracks direction!

Got a Charity Golf Day on at the club tomorrow so may not reply until i'm off the course around 2/3pm i'm afraid. Heavy and localised showers today around the area and maybe more about tomorrow from what i've seen. Track certainly got a good watering about 6pm tonight though as the rain was so heavy/loud my pupil could hardly hear me from about 3 feet away in the Range!

Oh dear! Does Len Silver know so not to order as much food then????

Plenty of things have been going on at the OTA in the last couple of weeks with the main rhyne behind the terracing and clubhouse being piped, the lights finished on the driveway, main entrance tidied up and the new admission booths being constructed. It will all be looking good for the new season.

Thank you Godfrey. Great gesture!

4 if you include Morris!

That is very cruel Blindman ruining Willowman's Christmas like that already! ;-)

Looking good so far. Any ideas for number 7? Stefan Nielsen?

Kyle Newman now shown on the Rebels website!

Wouldn't have landed there this weekend! Car park was flooded and roped off to prevent people attending a Sale in the second car park field from wrecking it completely. Hopefully the cars parked there for the Christmas meeting won't harm the rice that Bill has planted!

1, Jason Doyle 2, Kyle Newman 3, Jesper B Monberg 4, Alex Davies 5, Robin Aspegren 6, Tom Perry 7, Adam Ellis + 8, Lewis Kerr Haven't worked out the averages but reckon that might fit?

Care to elaborate on which two ways?

Just seen a clip from the last race tonight at Scunny on the late Points West news bulletin, Jesper won by a mile! Not the result i wanted to hear them report but great to get some coverage! Thank you.

Heat 14 was the turning point at the Oak Tree Arena last Friday. A 5-1 from Wrighty and Kyle and we would have been 13 ahead and comfortable but i certainly didn't expect Birks and Toft to do what they did to reduce it back to 5 points. I'm afraid to say the Rebels have missed their number one much more than Scunny did in the Final(ok Howe wasn't at number one tonight but he was when he was injured). I would have thought they discussed it and maybe Hall was up for it more than Alex, Claus or Wrighty? Difficult to say whether it was right or wrong as we weren't in the pits when it was decided though. Ok it turned out wrong in the end but i can't believe from Bish and Garry it would have been a decision without major thought.

Well Done Scunny on the win tonight. Didn't think you would make it that close but you did! Thank you to the management, sponsors and promotion at Somerset for an enjoyable year in 2012. To Doyley, Alex, Jesper, Wrighty, Claus, Kyle, Tom, Craig Cook, Richard Hall,Lewis Kerr and any other guests who have donned the Rebels racejacket in 2012 thank you for your efforts and entertainment. Roll on 2013 when hopefully the Cases Rebels can go one better.

Just about the right result i think tonight but Scunny did have a few engine issues that cost them valuable points. The track seemed to catch the home boys out early on more than the visitors. Obviously the double points from Auty (about all he did all night) probably made up for the EF's as without them they wouldn't have been using the 'magic hat'. Mellgren's EF in ht5 impeded Jesper big time and potentially stopped a possible 5-1 for us so about honours even. Kerr tried hard but couldn't get out of the gate whilst Cookie rode through illness to do a good job. Heat 14 was crucial as i felt that was a potential 5-1 for Somerset which would have given them a 13pt lead with one to go but as it was that score was reversed and the lead squashed. Scunny are favourites now but suppose they were anyway as they finished above us in the League! Whatever happens thank you to the Somerset management and riders for a great season of speedway in 2012.

As poole are through does that now mean Mellgren or Masters tomorrow night? Both are ex Rebels so will be a tough proposition.

Well done to Cookie but he only did what the man he was replacing has done at Ippo twice (i think) already this season. Congrats to all the Rebels plus our injured men of Jason and Tom (who i reckon wouldn't have had three lasts either if fit). Lets hope we can build a decent lead against Scunny tomorrow night at the OTA. Bad Luck to Ipswich as well as they staged a spirited comeback in tonights meeting.

And I hope they get a mention tomorrow as they are now the Premier League Cup Champions!

They announced that they hoped it would be the League Cup Final next Friday.

Wouldn't say he didn't look fit it was more his bike wouldn't do 4 laps that was the problem for Jari. Leicester made a real scrap of it tonight and congratulations to them on a solid season in 2012. The Rebels made hard work of it to start with with missed gates on a wet but perfectly rideable track albeit a bit on the slick side due to the rain possibly due to fall. Ez had a nice easy day i reckon (!!) and didn't even make a grading appearance all night. I had been at the track a couple of times during the day and at 9 o'clock it was fine except a large puddle on the inside of the back straight which was being pumped off onto the centre green and at around 3pm it looked perfect. The car park was probably a bigger issue than the track ever was today. Doyely lost his unbeaten run but still put in a captain's performance with his partnership with Alex looking very useful at present. Jesper rode with his head making sure he scored steady points all night whilst Wrighty despite a couple of twitches at the gate rode pretty well especially alongside Kyle in ht14. I sense Claus's engine issues in ht 13 were fairly serious from his reaction but another solid showing. Kyle was another to suffer the mechanical isues but still paid for 6 wasn't bad. For me Tom was the matchwinner scoring points in every ride despite not bringing his gating gloves. I thought he was going to get by Eklof in ht 12 but just ran out of room in a clever ride by the Swede but paid 6 was a good effort again. Leicester were somewhat unlucky at times i felt and probably the final scoreline doesn't do them justice. Nieminen was good value except in the last race, Eklof was steady but Graversen always was in the thick of the action and although i don't think he would have passed Kyle in ht 14 when his bike gave up the ghost causing him to fall he was giving it 110%. Nice little 'Basil Fawlty' moment when he stood up and kicked his bike though! Karlsson was another to suffer a fall due to a chain going and did well to get up for the point and he scored steadily all night long. Makinen as i said had many bike troubles whilst i was mightily impressed with Lewis Kerr. I wasn't expecting him to do much but he was mixing it well all night and got a great cheer for his 3/4 lap push home in ht 14 for a point. He could do a useful job in the PL next year on that showing. So the Rebels secure their place in their second Final of the season and lets hope some silverware can find its way to Highbridge for the Winter months.