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Your comment only makes any sense if Mark Lemon knew that Ben Cook was going to get injured in heat 10!

Maybe ask Leicester to start the game v Bournemouth a bit earlier? 😄

Tonight’s meeting in Sweden was postponed yesterday so Kurtz and Bewley (and Douglas) have a day off!

Maybe due to the European U19 Championships at Herxheim the following afternoon where Luke Killeen and Ashton Boughen (reserve) are riding? Luke Harrison is also in that meeting so I wonder if he’ll be riding for Scunthorpe at Poole on 2 October?

Yes indeed Arnie and quite easy to accomplish!

Just to clarify this meeting is actually on a Thursday afternoon at 14:00 and not a Saturday as per the title thread. October 3 is a public holiday in Germany.

I wonder if Lemon’s failure to give Mulford his third ride in heat 9 will comeback to haunt him?

Congratulations to Oxford for progressing to the final and well done to Scunthorpe for a battling display which pushed the Cheetahs all the way!

Yes indeed a 4 point deficit might have been the perfect scenario but a nice warm and sunny day usually helps and at the moment we are having one of them.

I actually agree as Oxford’s it’s on until it’s off policy unfortunately does damage goodwill to some extent on the occasions when it backfires. One only has to read the comments on social media to appreciate that. However, with the second leg now taking place on next Wednesday and the Cheetahs putting in a very good performance at Scunthorpe last night I expect a bumper crowd on Wednesday to turn up to see them advance to the final! The weather also looks pretty good next week which always helps!

A very enjoyable meeting with lots of close racing - well worth the journey up through all the Friday afternoon traffic! No doubt Oxford will be pleased with a lead to take to the second leg.

Yes she was.

No more of a cost than they had planned unless they are going to give a second free drink next week as well! The catering profits will be greater over the two weeks though! 😄

It makes even less sense doing absolutely nothing to the track until just before the start time. Looking at the track at 06:15pm I didn’t think it would be on and that’s how it played out! Also unfortunately Oxford tend to leave it as long as possible when it comes to calling off a meeting! In fairness to them they usually like give the meeting every chance of running and when it doesn’t work out you end up with a very late call off of course!

Maybe because it rather suited them for the meeting to be postponed so they can have a full team next week?

I am glad you can see some improvements. I certainly agree Speedway has multiple problems but as I said previously I see little evidence that PM is making things better not that I would envy him that task!

The whole situation is clearly ridiculous but I think Phil Morris is pretty untouchable so I would expect we'll simply just carry on with more of the same to come in future. Disappointing though as I like many others thought Phil might make a bit of a difference and avoid the sort of nonsense that we have recently witnessed. Talking of Phil, did anyone ever hear anything further about the mystery new Speedway track that he referred to during the Brandon Stadium planning enquiry? Was there anything in it or was it just a load of guff?

Looks like Pi000tr has called it a day!

1 Sheffield 2 Leicester 3 Belle Vue 4 Ipswich

P0WL0CK0?

We’ll have to wait for the answer on that one Tim.

R/R for Rohan Tungate who is recovering from a crash at the weekend.

I agree - if head to head was to conclude the entire matter it had to be Vaculik out. However, as we all know it was decided that it didn’t provide a proper precedence so it moved to the final rankings step.

I agree that if the Witches were to lose those three home matches it is likely that they will end up in 4th. Also if that did happen and depending on how other results go Leicester could be top although I think Sheffield will keep ahead of them. Maybe somewhat academic though as the play off places seem pretty well sorted apart from the final order so it will be the make up of the Witches during September that will be more important.

Yes indeed the Witches have an excellent top two but I think many would have also expected Freddie to be up around the 9 point mark which would bring him very close JD. At the moment Freddie is averaging nearer to 8 but that might move up a bit in Birmingham’s remaining four matches, two of which are against the Witches! As you say he would be very welcome at Ipswich.