Grachan

Why can Belle Vue not use an r/r for Zagar? Is it because the crash was apparently his fault?

Hope they do. Looks like we are going to lose this at reserve though.

Thanks for that. Yes, we wouldn't want it to sound stupid, would we!

But the Knock-out Cup was the KOC, so surely it should be the POKOC, not the POKC.

By me, yes. Not by you though, according to your own posts. Maybe now we can suddenly see how stupid all the "cheating" posts that are normally sent in their direction actually are.

If not, I'm sure they'll ride under protest.

Can you explain why riders would suddenly be put on the FTR list just to benefit Swindon, and who would have approved that? Who decides the FTR availability anyway? And who decides their eligibility?

Ah right, that thing they do in Rugby. It's good, that.

Sorry, but what's the pokc? Not sure I've heard of that.

Thankfully the BSPA management committee all want Swindon to win the league. We're lucky there!!

I guess the same baggage goes with Peter Collins for letting his brother beat him in the 1982 World Final then?

I'm sure you do, as you're a Belle Vue supporter. Why does this make a difference to though?

No more ridiculous than being able to win most games in a Wimbledon Final but still losing.

Good to see something at last. http://www.swindonadvertiser.co.uk/sport/13596627.Russell_says_Swindon_Robins_move_is_on_schedule/?ref=fbshr

The thing is, even if they had tried to stage this match the crowd would not have been good. I, for one, had already decided I wasn't going before it was called off. Surely this is better than just starting at the weather all day and wondering if speedway is going to be on or not. I gave that up as a bad job years ago.

Don't know where you are looking, but the Met Office shows it as raining all day non stop right through to midnight.

Yes. That's exactly what it allows.

I would say it's a good result for Swindon, but I suspect we'll get the same treatment next week, so I won't.

Probably because they didn't have a number one for most of that time.

Well maybe (although, knowing this forum I doubt it). But that's not to say that it wouldn't have happened, which is what you said originally.

So why wouldn't Swindon have signed Darcy Ward if there hadn't been play-offs? A signing which, by the way, has had the immediate effect of increasing Swindon crowds.

What wouldn't have happened? So Swindon wouldn't have signed Darcy Ward and would have spent the rest of the season using a 6 point PL rider at number one in front of crowds of about 500? Is that what you're saying? In that case, thank the Lord for the Play-offs. By the way, how come Belle Vue signed Ove Fundin mid season in 1967 then? They didn't have play-offs then.

Any point starting a topic on this seeing as Armageddon is predicted for tomorrow in Blunsdon? Easy win for The Bees.

You can have more than 2 riders over 7, even if you redeclare, as long as you already had more than 2 riders over 7. So if you have 3 riders over 7 you can replace one with another rider who also has an average over 7 as long as the average is lower than the rider being replaced.

It can be hard to work out what you are babbling on about at times, but if that is a reference to my post allow me to explain. Chris Harris scored 3,3,2,3 making 11. So I went through the heats dropping one place to see what the score would have been. Then dropping by 2 places. Then scoring 0. So if Nick had ridden and scored 2,2,1,2 (ie 7) it came out at 40-50 If he had scored 1,1,0,1 it came out at 42-48 If he had scored 0,0,0,0 it came out at 45-45.