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My opinion on play-offs is we need them with 1 home 1 away but if it was 2H2A we can scrap them, teams at the start and end of the year can be very different even if they don't have any rider changes the form of the riders can vary quite a bit so can be a bit of luck when you face another team. Weather and other things like dodgy refs can also play a part and there are too little meetings with 1H1A to negate some luck factor (not that it disappears with 2H2A). If they can't fit 2H2A then maybe even something similar to 2011s format where the top 4/5 do another round robin with the top of the overall table at the end winning. The premiership this year would have come down to a last meeting decider in Sheffield naturally had there been no playoffs but instead we got a nothing meeting to put Sheffield top which didn't matter as they'd already lost in the playoffs. Teams do agree to do play-offs though as it makes them the most money so they can't complain, at the very least the team that finishes top should get some form of trophy.

Think Victor packed up after the red lights came on so was still under power. Not sure why the red lights came on though, I thought there was maybe power issues in the ref box but not sure as it took a while for Hugh in the box to come back on.

Well done Max saved us tonight after Villads' mare, massive improvement from the last few meetings and looked more like he was before his crashes. Hope Villads can get some more of that intensive physiotherapy, didn't look particularly comfortable before the meeting and that crash definitely didn't help, credit to him though for limping round for the Ben fund collection, some fit riders skip out on it so doing it while he was obviously in pain was nice to see. Dan and Leon have come alive these last few meetings and Bomber and Kyle looking rapid. Happy the referee's blunder didn't end up mattering as that would have been a horrible way to lose for either side.

Kerr and Bowes out, Luke Killeen and Ben Trigger replace them

Well done to Poole, Cairns man of the match and the reason they are through, amazing for all his 7 rides. For Glasgow Dan and Leon were fantastic as was Bomber as usual. Kyle a duff night, not quite enough power off the bends to get the passes done unfortunately and could tell he was frustrated by it. MPT was MPT. Perry struggled for pace but well done Hodder for keeping us in with a chance, fighting (sometimes too hard) every race. JJ a great guest, Lawson wouldn't have been able to get many more points. Kerr looked like his chain snapped maybe, hopefully he's alright. While not quite enough very encouraging from most of the Tigers for Friday night if they can replicate the form with maybe Villads back we have a very good chance of overturning the 14 points.

Heat 8 might have saved the pirates

Bomber actually chose gates for heat 1, very serious business tonight

If all riders are on form it will be very difficult to claw back 14 points as all Poole riders can score big. Think the Leon and Dan pairing will be very important in determining our chances and obviously which Palm Toft shows up.

Sounds extremely ambitious for British speedway but just might work. Think of all the fans who love the colour green that that would attract.

Good they are doing it but a bit late notice to get the most watchers, you'd think they'd have advertised this at least a few days in advance?

Website's been pretty poor for a while, wouldn't be surprised if they copied in an older line up and didn't check it

Glasgow has just put an update on social media saying MPT in for Villads. Maybe they had MPT on standby to see how Villads was but they obviously had an inkling that he'd be missing.

Jeppesen a good guest but huge loss for Poole, no one would be able to equal Richard's scoring potential

Did Masters try and get Pico to jump the tapes there?

Was great to see passionate away fans making some noise on the back straight, Redcar did what they needed to do, all their riders chipped in, special shout out to Ace he has been on some form recently and showed his improvement in that excellent heat 14, can't imagine him doing that last year. Dan seemed low on power all night and Harris and Villads needed a few heats to get their equipment sorted (Villads seemed to find a rocketship between heat 6 and 8) which gave the Bears the advantage which was hard to claw back with the class of Wright and King. Hopefully this is a bit of a kick up the backside for the tigers and they can show why they finished top of the league in all the return legs.

Think maybe Fricke to go, far too late to put the red lights on though there was 0 chance of Flint clearing the track

As long as they've factored in fastest heat times on their table its a last heat decider for the title

Does Phil sponsor the water bowser or something, why is he always soaking the track and removing any chance of a decent meeting?

Big shoutout to Freddy, held 2nd well for both our 5-1s and has kept this alive. Hopefully Leon and Kyle can get a heat advantage to give us a good chance of turning it over.

Just the quali at the moment to protect the track surface, actual meeting still going ahead later today.

Not intentionally I don't think, looked very disgruntled coming off from his races and even did a few laps after heat 15 and came off shaking his head. One to forget for him.

There is a noticeable drop in crowd levels whenever BSN are in town no matter how far travelled the opposition are. Might just be us Glaswegians are tighter than anyone else or we just have more competition in the offered sports in the area I don't know but I can see why they decided to drop their streaming. The promotion is trying to get a lot of new fans interested in speedway and in my opinion, a big crowd is just as important in retaining them as good racing is. Half of sport is the atmosphere and if a new fan showed up to an empty back straight would they really stick around long?

I've definetly seen the Workington track better but I've also seen this Glasgow team much better, both together will give a bit of a poorer meeting than expected (though I'm sure the Comets fans are enjoying it much more). There have been some good races, heat 12 there was excellent, I've seen much much worse meetings than this so I don't really understand the complaints.

Don't think Harris ever choses gates for heat 1.

Really happy to see Ace doing really well, good to see how he's bounced back after a dip in form last season.