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Start of 1975. Davis had been allocated to Reading, and Oxford had AN Other in their line up as putative replacement for Davis, for whom they could use a guest - and they chose Davis!

All he had to do in the final was beat Madsen and extend his lead even further. Could have it won with two GPs to spare. How we miss the Russians.

Can we go back to Oxford for SGP2 tomorrow?

Are 't all speedway meetings fundamentally pointless?

I don't care whether it is Ellis, Miskowiak or Brennan but I'd rather have a proper competitor taking five rides than a rider taking the piss, pulling out after half a lap and leaving us with reserves.

A fit Cook is better than Kerr... Definitely makes you weaker imo But an unfit Cook or unreliable r/r is surely another matter

But wouldn't he come in on an average of over 11. (See rules set out in 10.2.1). You use most recent established MA, which is 2019 Prem (times 1.5) and NOT 2018 CL average. That would surely be prohibitive.

Not sure that one page in a month largely devoted to Batchelor's inconsistency really constitutes "lots of negativity" Rob. And Batchelor has been ... err ... inconsistent. What has struck me is that pretty much every meeting I've come away thinking that was a good meeting (and in a couple of cases great) something I can't say about most of the tracks I've attended regularly.

Then given it is a major development site I suggest establishing what positions the three main Parties are taking on it.

I think the get out is the phrase "other than for injury". Allen was injured when replaced by Sedgmen (change 2) so only changes 1 & 3 count.

What is he planning to watch?

When JK signed for Berwick they had 9 matches (that count) left. But Jonas would have been absent for two of them (last night and clash with Wroclaw GP2) so barring rearrangements would never have ridden 8 matches.

Only regular league matches 6 (3 home, 3 away) for Prem But 8 for Champ (home/away minimum no longer in rule book)

If the only determining factor in choosing wildcards was position in the qualifying round you would simply have top 5 instead of top 4 qualifying. So other factors DO matter, and in that respect Brennan was unlucky. Salonen and Basso were good picks, but picking a second Swede (Grahn) over Brennan looks even more of an odd choice after SON2.

There are 3 Berwick riders with a bigger home/away differential: Etheridge, Flint and Pijper.

Disappointing, was looking forward to seeing Salonen again.

And we've both overlooked SoN for Gusts last year.

Of more interest will be the rare opportunity to see the likes of Gusts, Salonen, Kvech and the young Poles who will be making rare UK appearances (can't recall any of them over here before, but something may have escaped my notice.)

Probably true

Still only one away win so far.

Doubt it. Has never been the case before and anyway 30 riders in the pits would be a tight squeeze.

So now that the group matches are done what are the views on crowd levels. Historically secondary competitions have often proved unattractive and delivered poor crowds. I get the Impression that they've been pretty decent. Thoughts?

They did for the SoN, ...and look how that turned out!

Bit like the first Buxton. But who got max in their first meeting?

130kr for each of first three days, 330kr for final. That's £14.44 and £36.67