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Both teams reporting full 1-7s tonight which is a rarity in any league, weather looks ok as well. Good practice ahead of Fridays KOC tie at Scunthorpe

It’s been raised season after season and still it happens every single year. The cup situation was raised a month ago and the QF ties are still not confirmed although the secondary outstanding Championship matches appeared to have been sorted.

It is

To be fair it’s fairly common this year that we have agreed Fixtures home and away knowing we were missing riders, as long as we are not disadvantaged we agreed to them. It’s practically impossible to arrange matches in season with both teams having a full 1-7.

To be fair Holder could make BOTH dates offered by Scunthorpe but by the time we knew for sure Holder was ok (for the 7th July) Scunthorpe had confirmed the 7th July with Newcastle. The delay was over the SWC, we were not sure whether Holder would be the Australian reserve in the SWC. Just out of interest about the time Scunthorpe offered us the 7th July, Redcar offered us the 6th, they were happy to wait for an answer and we did go to Redcar on the 6th without Harris (SWC).

Genuine question - can Newcastle only stage meetings on Sundays

As I explained to you 1. The staging promotion offer their opponents up to 3 dates What part of the above Do you not understand ? If it wasn't for Peterborough constantly reminding Scunthorpe to offer dates we would probably be doing this in October (we still might)

Scunthorpe's leg of this cup tie was rained off on the 4th June, here we are near the end of September and it's still not been staged. Up to three dates have to be supplied by the staging promotion to their opponents and the 22nd September was a Peterborough Home Reserved date which we gave up to get this KOC tie completed. Bearing in mind he isn't governed by red tape, curfews and limited alternative race nights it's surprising this wasn't arranged earlier, isn't it. Bull$hyte

No it depends whose asking

I was told by a match referee this year that a team line up could change up to 1.5 hours prior to the start of the match.

You hope Certainly will if Edinburgh win by 11 or more tonight.

He won't need a postcard he can speak to him in person, cooks been on a different planet for years.

SCB gets my vote, cracking idea for fixtures

If it transpires to be Leicester v Sheffield and it's distinctly likely it's more of a case of who rides for who.

Some unfortunately on a regular basis

Probably, It's difficult to imagine where they learnt that from.

Ipswich suggest all four will be at Edinburgh as play offs take seniority over KOC

Seems to me sensible would have ensured Championship play offs didn't clash with Premiership KOC.

Any information on when these ties are going to be raced.

It certainly makes good sense to me.

I think that's the answer to KOC ties on aggregate

We didn't turn it down you filled it with another fixture.

Scunthorpe v Peterborough second leg this coming Friday (22nd) this was the earliest date Scunthorpe provided. As far as I know Newcastle and Glasgow haven't as yet arranged their QF ties, it's clear they are waiting for Robert Lambert to become available again as he has had Polish commitments recently.

BWD always puts 100% into his racing and sometimes tries a bit too much, never had cause for concern he was dirty or aggressive in his racing.

On the basis of what he did last night he is withholding his services, that's grounds at any time.