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One could argue that Tim Sugar single handedly won Racers the KO Cup in 1990 (Belle Vue fans will know what I mean), so team managers can make a difference. My bugbear is ex-riders who have never read or struggle to understand the rulebook. Appoint them as a coach by all means, but (as with Wayne Rooney in football) they should be nowhere near the manager position.

Looking at the stats I'd say Sheffield's problem is two riders with absolutely massive (Exeter sized) home/away differentials. 4.8 (Pickering) and 4.7 Rowe Unless that can be sorted the Tigers are never going to do much away.

But with the 5% uplift there are better guest options at home [notably Zac Cook]

Piraterna have the begging bowl out, threatening to withdraw from Elitserien if they don't raise £120k by the end of the month.

As the last 20 matches count surely he should have started on 5 May.

Bournemouth FC?

Indeed

The Australian places were allocated on clearl criteria published prior to Australian Championship. Top 2 in Aussie Champ (Kurtz and J Holder) + Oceanic Champ (Tungate) C Holder [3rd in Aussie Champ] replaced injured Brady Kurtz in a late change

My preferred source currently shows heavy rain on Friday night. Obviously some cause for concern. However I'm not going to pretend I have a greater insight than anyone else.

'Who's Grant Henderson, he must be very important as the camera keeps focusing on him' says my husband!

Would be a good time to suggest that Sam Masters try and pick up as many bonus points as possible [I'd be tempted to move him to 3 or 4 and put Dougy at 5]

On my preferred forecaster it's the other way round https://www.yr.no/en/forecast/daily-table/2-2643123/United Kingdom/England/Manchester/Manchester Either way there is clearly a genuine threat of rain. We also know that Belle Vue drains well and that Phil Morris will pull out all the stops to make it happen (cf last year's SON2)

Sounds to me like you only want about four riders in the GP. After all Kubera, Vaculik, Thomsen and Lebedevs have hardly disgraced themselves.

Seven days, so 13th

So wildcards: Nagel or Pedersen + Zischke or McDiarmid + Dan or Joe Although I wouldn't put it past the FIM to put Kaulins in.

They've already got six six pointers - what do they need another one for? And at 31 he's probably not got much improvement in him.

Six - a very decent performance. It was a 'lively' match.

So GP points are at stake and the public are not allowed to attend. Pathetic

Also Alfie Bowtell was allowed to ride against Kent on Sunday in an NDL level meeting.

Stands back to await response from Scottish fans ...🫣

One phone call to Paul Starke - doesn't sound that difficult 🥱

In a word - yes

Who does Zach ride for in Poland?

As far as I can see Zach is not down for any of the FIM meetings so I'm a bit puzzled too

There are also SGP qualifiers (at Zarnovica, Lonigo and Abensberg)