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Fantastic battling performance by the Monarchs after losing Sarj in heat 2, speedy recovery to James. Top 4 piling in with 43 points and Jacob making a couple of starts. The Bears will no doubt point to the absence of Wright as Allen never really threatened although it has to be said Charles has only ever scored double figures once at Armadale in 28 appearances so while I think he would have been good for 7 or 8 I don’t think he was the difference between a win and a loss for the visitors.

A few years ago now there was a rule where averages were split into home and away for guests so when at home you got up to their home average and sane for away. Stopped the horses for courses nonsense we get now where teams seemingly can strengthen time and again

Doesn’t get any easier for the home men as a strong looking Redcar team full of Armadale experience and pedigree head north 1 change for the home men with Lasse Fredriksen taking part in the sec qualifier r/r operates As with all Armadale matches this season, Friday's match will be Live Streamed. Details on www.edinburghmonarchs.co.uk: Friday 20th May: Edinburgh Monarchs v Redcar Bears (Championship), Armadale, 7:30pm WTF MONARCHS: Sam Masters (capt.), rider replacement for Lasse Fredriksen, Kye Thomson, Paco Castagna, Josh Pickering, Jacob Hook, James Sarjeant. AGILIA BEARS: Charles Wright, Adam Roynon, Erik Riss, Kasper Andersen, Lewis Kerr (capt.), Jason Edwards, Jordan Jenkins Following the senior match on Friday there will be a Northern Junior League match between Armadale Angels and Redcar Cubs which will be streamed also

Another tough encounter for the Monarchs with Worrall, Morris and Howarth among the better riders in the league at Armadale not to mention the Thompson boys who both impressed last year Rowe misses out with Kyle Bickley stepping in and the Monarchs at full strength looking to bounce back from that home defeat last time out Fir those that can’t make live stream can be purchased here https://www.edinburghmonarchs.co.uk/emtv/live/RFO2Dijnn Friday 13th May: Edinburgh Monarchs v Leicester Lions (Championship), Armadale, 7:30pm WTF MONARCHS: Sam Masters (capt.), Lasse Fredriksen, Paco Castagna, Kye Thomson, Josh Pickering, Jacob Hook, James Sarjeant. WATLING JCB LIONS: Richie Worrall, Dan Thompson, Nick Morris, Connor Mountain, Kyle Howarth (capt.), Kyle Bickley (guest), Joe Thompson.

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No no your right we’ll devalue and weaken the second tier in the off chance that in 3-5 years time the almighty Premiership clubs who are all doing so fantastically well at the moment will deem someone who would have gotten their chance anyway good enough Tbf I guess the way it going it’s probably the only way your team would manage to field a 1-7

Would totally agree on the last point, these things tend to be cyclical and the next real crop is a couple of years away as witnessed by the lack of riders at 500cc in the youth championships last year. The 250cc and 125cc classes were bursting with talent that should hit the NDL in the next couple of years

If you are good enough you will organically get your shot at championship level though as proven by the fact that people have been able to come up with 1 name only for a young British rider who potentially should be in the championship. Getting young British riders into the championship has and never will be an issue, getting them into the Prem and abroad is where the problem has been in the past and hopefully with rising star still in the prem, no8’s and the premiership junior league as well as the work being done by team GB on the international front then these pathways should be opening. it is not the clubs at championship level to care about teams in the premiership or team gb individually that is the job for the bspl / team gb set up so why should their clubs be damaged by having to water down the league by putting in guys that aren’t ready / not good enough just to fill a quota as happened in places last year.

4 out of the 77 riders in the Championship this year are new foreign imports hardly a worrying number I’d say. I would counter argue that the problem is that the top league is to weak rather than the championship to strong. There is a reason that many teams that could move up don’t or that those that move down stick around. The Championship imo is the best product in the UK each team has a mix of experience and youth. Geographically it’s mixed, race nights it’s mixed and the majority of innovation seems to come at championship level also. as for a ‘stepping stone’ if you include the no8’s then out of the 47 named riders so far in the Premiership 43 rode in the Championship before moving up / doubling up including Doyle, Fricke so I’d say the Championship does a pretty good job of finding and developing talent.

There’s absolutely zero need for the rising star rule in the championship young riders if good enough get their chance anyway. A quick look through the lineups would confirm that can’t really think of a single young British rider who is realistically championship standard and wanted a ride that doesn’t have one

That was Derek’s last season and Aaron’s one and only season in the UK by seasons end they were running out of puff a little. However we started the year with Steve Worrall and Justin Sedgman at reserve so there massive improvements meant the 1-5 were all heatleader standard

£18 pay at the gate with a ‘blue card’ which are completely free and available to all and even cheaper if tickets bought in advance online so no need to pay £20

Speedway Fans - we need to move forward not do the same old things also speedway fans - why did that club try something new surely a wee article on their website would have sufficed

Erik isn’t an Edinburgh asset Kings Lynn bought his registration couple of years back

Cracking rider and a lovely kid as well, glad to see he’s made his mark this year after a couple of bad knocks

No remarkably the league visit of the Pirates earlier in the season was his first ever visit.

Lewis Millar is no8 for Redcar

Wait till he finds out we have Zmarzlik guesting for Kemp in the restaging

Jason Edwards was always part of the 1-7 guesting for Nathan Greaves

Not 100% that would be the case, as far as I’m aware Poole get to choose who they face in the semi haven’t seen anywhere confirmed they would pick the Monarchs/Redcar

Yes Redcar would be 4th Edinburgh 5th

Glasgow’s statement would make a lot of the ‘I heard’ or ‘I was told’ on here seem as expected total bs https://glasgowtigers.co.uk/glasgow-and-leicester-to-try-again-on-wednesday-after-rain-off/

And most of them stink

If Birmingham are struggling financially then double headers which are generally loss making for any club running them would be suicide. 2 sets of wages and travel expenses to pay on one gate an absolute no go I’d suggest regardless of curfew

A little bit of an arrogant summary you could argue, you Edinburgh got lucky losing the toss as it gave them 1 and 3 in 13 and 15 but there is a pretty easy counter that if the Monarchs had won the toss and it was the other way round that Poole would not have had such a handy lead at that stage so all swings and roundabouts really.