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It might be their own house, but certainly isn't a Polish track. Which is good for the neutral. You wouldn't see Wright, Flint and Ellis score any pts on a big, flat-out normal Polish track. This is a tiddler, like Cardiff, so it evens itself out. We have an outside chance of a medal, going by the first four heats.

It shows how weak the league has become. Year upon year, 2nd strings become heat leaders, reserves become 2nd strings, and 3rd division riders become reserves in the 2nd. And next season will be the same. Everything watered down, except the admission prices!

Having just been on the Glasgow thread, it seems me saying Edinburgh could be your opponent, was wrong. 2nd and 3rd play each other, which means likely you'll have Scunthorpe, which I imagine will be a tougher draw.

Thank you

Thank you

You've been unlucky, with Howarth pulling out. You had a trio of heat leaders who, imo, were a match for anyone. Now that you have had to rely on guests, it has put the rest of the team under the cosh, and quite frankly, they haven't been up to the job. Juhl Pedersen has been a disappointment; Hagon and Hausl have been a disaster. Hodder has improved a little. Yet you still Finished second! So its not all been a complete failure. As you say, ( you've limped over line), but on Edinburgh's showing at Scunthorpe tonight, that must give you hope of making the final. Thats of course if you go on and meet the Monarchs in the semi-final

Do Poole as top of the league, get to pick their opponent?

Yes, it seems, looking at the updates, Battye won his 1st. He was leading till the last bend in his 2nd ride, another 2nd in h8, so you would have thought he would have taken Hodder's ride in h12. Very strange decision by Brown.

Cami Brown won't say anything about the elephant in the room!! He must have been told not to mention the H word 🙈 “Thankfully, Chris and Leon have been outstanding, and they kept us in the meeting and forced it to a Super Heat to decide the aggregate bonus point. “Our guest Vinnie Foord was also excellent, and Freddy Hodder is contributing, which is good to see.”

Thank you for confirming the rules 👍

Someone will tell me differently, but could they replace Hagon with a 2-pointer and use his extra 1.95 saved and add it to a new rider to replace Howarth?

Maybe Garry May had a premonition, that Barker was going to turn back the clock and be the hero of the night !!!! Alas it was never going to happen.

Maybe if they went with Thompson in h15. There wouldn't have been any need for a super heat!

He's not a one off though is is, Hagon and the lad up your way Kyle Bickley. have and had workshops full of bikes

The British final field comprised three riders who double up between the NDL & Championship Leagues; in Scott’s case, RS in the top league as well. Ten riders who double up between the Championship & Premier League Two riders who ride only the Premier League One world-class rider who does not ride in the UK Conclusion: Yes, compared to the old British Finals, a very weak line-up indeed, but the BSPA have wanted to water down both leagues to make them as close together in standard as possible. Well, I think we can safely say that they have achieved that. So we can't moan at the quality of the line up. It is what it is.

To be fair to the lad. His gating wasn't too shabby tonight. 7 wins out of one. One off of three (Lambert). If Coops had taken one, I think he would have had a good chance of a rostrum.

One point from William Cairns' rides. I think if he had ridden, it might have swung the result in Poole's favour, but then again, you could say that, with Kennett at reserve, it kinda evened things up.

Unfortunately for the Bears, due to a lack of heat leaders, they will always be vulnerable away from home. Six-point lead with four heat to go, and to get beat by six is pretty dismal, but to be fair, The two young lads, Scott and Pijper did you proud. Lambert, less said the better!

And the name of the league itself. Development League!! Maybe Lambert and Kennett are slow burners!!

Plough Lane packed to the rafters👍

I think you'll find he's talking about Kyle Newman, not Howarth. 👍

It also doesn't help, if Hagon has to stay at No2 for the rest of the season. It would have been much better to have him down at reserve.

Does that mean the Tigers can use guests for both riders for the rest of the season? If so, they will have a good choice of riders for Howarth.

Which will be Kennett 😂

or ITV4 !!!