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Well I enjoyed myself, there were plenty of passes, riders were riding different lines, no particular gate became a graveyard. The track did deteriorate over the evening but then which track stays great all the way through? Complaining about the track seems to be some people's standard reflex post, regardless of the racing. They are of course welcome, but it never adds much interest. Poole finish top of the league, regardless of whatever other teams do. Two things are significant, first the points difference Poole's is over plus 200 while other playoff teams are around 50, the second fact is that Poole won all available bonus points. Bring on the play-offs.

By my maths Poole only need a win to top the league, because I'm thinking it then goes to points difference. Special mention to the Galdiators thanks for tonight's efforts, shame about the bonus point debacle.

Congratulations Plymouth, hard luck with the superheat, and thanks from a Poole fan.

Sure a bucket full more and we'll be nicely topped up, thanks for the kind thought.

Well IMO Plymouth should be pretty happy with that, especially if they can secure a Collosium loving guest for Nichols. Plymouth could do Poole a bit of a favour by winning this one.

When you say the population of the Poole area is the same as Cumbria, you must be including your sheep as well right? Also worth noting that Poole has many fans travelling a fair distance for meetings, hence why the recent closure of the A31 was an issue for some.

I'm definitely in two minds over the league playoffs. Logically we have a league, a knockout and a hybrid competition(BSN) three different formats kind of testing different attributes of a team. So maybe it should be left at that? BUT the playoffs give us more club speedway to watch and like TheWellBehavedWorall says has dealt up some outstanding finals, last year at Ashfield and the year before at Wimborne Road. So on balance let's carry on and enjoy the playoffs.

Well if Poole gets all three of the remaining points they end up on 30, but Glasgow can now potentially end on 31 and so top the league. See from your edit this isn't required

Well you blew that one I'm afraid, two more opportunities.

Well that's about where I'm at, pity though because it's always nice to end up top of the league and now it's advantage Glasgow.

Somebody on Facebook suggests that Lewis Kerr has injured himself this evening, can anyone confirm?

I'm thinking Nichols broke his collar bone, giving him more grief now than when he did it? Anyway my point was that broadly speaking Injuries are more likely to lead to absentees in the pairs competition than the other causes being speculated.

Likely to be a crucial match in determining who tops the League. Glasgow use two guests Anders Rowe in for Kyle Howarth and Anze Grmek for Mario Hausi. While Poole use rider replacement for Cooper Rushen. It's a great track for competitive racing, ought to be a fantastic night. But who will win on the night. Poole won 55-35 in the reverse fixture, so who gets the bonus point?

So can Workington gain at least two points from their last three matches and avoid the wooden spoon? Nine points up for grabs, Plymouth & Scunthorpe away, and Redcar at home. Where's the most like place to get those two points?

His better engine, his gating gloves, his will to win, in fact pretty much everything, he was no where last night. Only hope he can keep this form up on Friday.

Well I guess lightening don't strike twice, nice 360 spin pity there's no points for stunts mid race. All the post match commentary was about how great it was having a full team come the pointy end of the season. So much for that, who's not going to be available?

Well I guess lightening don't strike twice, nice 360 spin pity there's no points for stunts mid race. All the post match commentary was about how great it was having a full team come the pointy end of the season. So much for that, who's not going to be available?

Will lightening strick twice think (hope) not. For me it will be determined by the first seven heats, if Poole build a decent lead Oxford will fold, if it's even Cheetahs will compete till the end, if Oxford lead I'm hallucinating.

Not sure on this one, my gut feeling is that Cairns has the greatest potential, but there's no denying that Rushen stepped up another level tonight (except for gate selection). Still Rushen seems to struggle as 4 for the Pirates while Cairns flourishes at 2, sure Lawson looks after Will while Kerr seems more in competition with Cooper. But with young lads in 6 months everything could change dramatically anyway.

We don't need Harris, not unless Pirates can find a long track league.

On current rolling averages GSAs Cairns 6.06 Rushen 5.25.

Well thanks for that, certainly not as oviform(egg shaped) as I was imagining but turns do appear tight. Bit hard to see true shape unless the drone could manage 2000+ft?

Well at least we agree about that.

If it was the fastest, why didn't Brennan fall behind riding the outside? Seem like lap times were pretty much identical throughout.

It struck me when I read the predictable jibes about the blue line in heat 15, that actually what we had was a track equally good whether you rode the inside line or the outside one, as Cairns and Brennan demonstrated.