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Not enough riders for one league plus NDL. Fortnightly only works with a fixed racenight, like in Sweden. In the Championship, it's not fortnightly, it's 6 meetings in eight weeks, 1 I four, 4 in fiive , then 1 in about six.

How about six riders in the main body get four programmed rides, one reserve gets two which gives 13 heats, plus one nominated riders heat making fourteen for the league meeting BUT with two second half races featuring both reserves and home team juniors - so reserves get four rides in total. This establishes a path for number eights and nines to get into the team and they woukd be used to replace an absent reserve.

It's got nothing to do with wanting to return to the 70s and 80s. We need to downgrade the importance of the reserve, whether in the way suggested or some other way, so that he gets replaced by your number eight and not a guest from another team, without seriously weakening your team.

October 12, 1973 in the Tigers v Reading meeting, the last BL meeting ever held in Scotland as the Tigers sold their licence to Hull that winter. Run on a match race basis with only four riders Heat 1 Wattie Robertson beat Johnny Rodgers 77.0 Rodgers replaced the programmed Jim Beresford Heat 2 George Wells beat Harry Maclean 73.4 Final George Wells beat Wattie Robertson 73.8

Lawson plus a 5.00 pointer and a 2.00 reserve looks a better alternative.

Isn't Basso 8.33? That's the figure on the BSPL site. And Brennan is given as 6.85 - 6.67 once reduction is applied. If these figures are correct then the first selection would have 4.03 to fill.

Hume's home figure of 7.04 includes bonus points. 19 of them. His GSA figure is 5.39, lower than his away figure, which surely makes him a more valuable rider, as it gives his team a better chance of an away win. Away points win prizes! Just a pity is overall average is too high.

SGP2 is an U21 competition so Basso and Brennan would be too old next year.

Would expect Bailey to be the senior reserve at number six. It'll be interesting to see who the seventh man is. Complin, Bickley or an NL graduate seem the only possibilities.

Sept 29 , 1972 at Hampden - the tragic night when Svein Kaasa was killed Heat 1 Alan Mackie, Kenny Omand, John Wilson, Harry Maclean 78.2 Heat 2 Andy Meldrum, Wattie Robertson, Jim Beresford, George Beaton fell 77.4 Final Alan Mackie, Andy Meldrum, Wattie Robertson, Kenny Omand 78.2 Will need to go up into the attic for the 1973 details of the meeting at Coatbridge

Where are the riders going to come from to allow 50 point teams? Right now the Premiership is going to have a problem finding seven extra riders to staff the addtional team (Leicester)

The simpler solution would be for both teams to track the seven they would have done had the final been raced. The simplest solution is just to forget aabout biut the whole thing!

From memory only Leicester and Redcar have Newcastle meetings in tbeir last ten meetings.

Not sure that Blodorn would be good value at an assessed average of more than eight.

League winners or play off winners? Poole have a GSA total of a bit over 42 while Leicester are well over 44 . Glasgow over 46, so not all teams would be improving their squads. Monarchs about the same figure as Poole, so keeping their big two might not be a problem. Wages limit was tried in the 80s. Don't remember it working, with sponsorship being the way around it.

Are we talking about Cami Brown? Craig Cook heat15 v Poole! Possibly other times too.

So where is Danyon going? As he's got a better away average than his home figure, I would have thought he was one to keep.

They come up with effusive quotes from the Team Manager when the team wins, but barely acknowledge a defeat - Plymouth being the most recent example - and no mention of Cooks absence, for which it seems he has received a suspension, something unlikely to be recorded on the clubs FB page. Similarly no statement about the Jubilee Final.

How do you think the owners will react if Glasgow get fined? That could be a can of worms.

Did Cami Brown really say that they didn't know what was going to happen with the Jubilee Cup and that this could be the last meeting.

Tomorrows meeting must be in severe doubt, what are the possible options regarding a new date? Does Ben Basso have Swedish or Danish commitments next week? Poole are at Redcar in the KO Cup next Friday so that's ruled out.

A lot to be considered this winter. Tigers team GSA looks to be over 46 so probably two changes needed just to meet a 42 limit....and there is talk of a lower limit. Hard to know if things need refreshed or whether its just the enforced gap in home meetings that has dragged things down. The big question is whether Tom and Ben would come back if we race in the Championship. Would we need to go top division to retain them? Whether Edinburgh manage to squeeze another year out of Armadale is another factor. Interesting times!

Isn't that what happened on Sunday night when Glasgow were winning at heat six?

This sums up how a growing number of supporters are now feeling. Only the truly committed will accept these kind of delays. A lot took the offer of a refund at the Scunthorpe meeting and possibly didn't go along last night, perhaps explaining the low turn out. It will be interesting to see how many attend the restaging whenever It is and it is to be hoped we can find a dry night. Another repeat of last night would be disastrous.

Are you sure it was just the riders and the management weren't involved?