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If you converted his assessed EL 3.00 ave it would become 4.8 and including him in the declared team would exceed 42.50. There would also be the farcical situation if King's Lynn & Newcastle had fixture clashes, the Diamonds would be missing Kerr, Rose, and Lambert and would require at least two guests in their places.

Having read the public comments of the Edinburgh Promotion, it appears they were informed that the problem was not with the track and outwith the control of the Peterborough Promotion. I wonder if the two hour delay between the Showground announcing the cancellation and the subsequent confirmation by Peterborough Promotion, might have been that messrs Swales & Horton were desperately trying to have remedial H & S work carried out which would reverse the original cancellation announcement by the Showground ?

Who was proved correct re Chelsea. Looking at 2012 & 2013, Scunny & Somerset were able to bring in changes late on (Nick Morris & Chas Wright respectively) which proved crucial at the Play Offs. Doubt if Monarchs will be in that position to strengthen further prior to the Play Offs, should they even finish in the top six.

Certainly Anders Thomsen should be first choice if available, if not Oliver Greenwood worth considering as he was decent around OTA at end of last season.

Craig Cook won it for last season and was presented with Trophy at Armadale by Jim McGregor (cue a snidey comment from an envious Paulco )

Tigers really need their Danish reserves to heavily outscore the Panthers 6 & 7, to be in with a chance of winning. Thomsen looks dynamic on track, but I wonder if his bikes are up to scratch. From what I've seen of him, he reminds of Robert Branford last season, who always looked better than his final points return

Alternatively instead of spending heavily on importing another overseas rider, they offer Wolbert an advance to sort out his engines. Prior to yesterday, he has impressed at Ashfield and was certainly a class act at Armadale on Friday. Having been present yesterday, I'm surprised the Tigeratti on here did not credit Theo with being the only Tiger to lower the colours of both CooK & Masters, which was no mean feat. Also note that the Danish reserve duo appear exempt from criticism, despite both being ineffective

In addition to the air fence I thought rider safety has been improved by moving the start gate back,as there appeared to be no bunching in the race to the first bend, which also previously handicapped the rider off gate 4, who was liable to run out of space. Both teams are starting with decent reserve pairings and imo, the Tigers look like they will gain in replacing Ringwood with Nielsen, based on tonight's performance. The Armadale micro climate came up trumps tonight as the forecast rain stayed away, although ten degrees warmer would have been nice

If this match is using the standard 15 heat format, will heat 15 nominees not be selected from top three averages/match scorers for both teams ? If so, what will be strange about Tigers lineup re heat 15 ?

I was told that the ref that night, Ernie Chapman, was accompanied by his dog into the ref's box as usual. However on this occassion Fido decided to jump up and it's paw hit the tapes release button

Predictable Weegie paranoia again Take it that it was part of the "conspiracy" for Monarchs to kindly loan to their struggling near neighbours, Wolbert & Pijper to occupy the top two heat leader slots

Is Sunderland located within Europe

Would question whether a visa is actually required by any EU nationals, including Sweden, Czech Republic, Denmark, Poland, in the first place. Perhaps the GBE documentation requires updating to reflect EU employment criteria.

Obviously you don't

Always thought Michael Lee was overrated and imo was the worst culprit for continually pushing the tapes to gain an unfair advantage at the start. Was quite pleased when some refs eventually cottoned on to this and scuppered his start antics. Once this happened, his results tapered off and he resorted to being a petulant victim of these "nasty referees"

One excellent facet of the Speedway Star that is being ignored on here is the superb display of photos, both past and present. I've yet to see anything on the net that matches quality and volume of illustrations appearing in the Star on a weekly basis

Buy the Star for factual information, including authentic data directly from the various Promotions, and quite happy to continue to do so. Enjoy the gossip and diverse opinions that appears on the BSF, but I am aware that there is a mixture of fact & fiction. No-one can be certain that the views expressed on here are representative of the majority of punters that regularly attend meetings or buy the Speedway Star. If I was Philip Rising, I'd pay more attention to the circulation figures for the magazine than the inane witterings of certain posters on here

Replace Davies & Benko with Nick Morris & Damien Koppe.. Might have to move fast as Somerset will probably be sounding out Morris

Reported in this week's Star that Daugavpils have signed Franc. Don't they race on Sundays ?

Why not find out for yourself, or are you mentally incapable or just plain lazy ? Tell you what, go and check the PL Greensheets on the BSPA website and you'll discover that Rasmus Jensen still has an assessed average of 7.00.

Really ? Tell that to Kenneth Hansen, Jesper B Monberg, Rasmus Jensen, Peter kildemand, Nikolaj Busk Jacobsen, Ander Thomsen,and Mikkel Michelsen who all rode in Division 1 matches in 2013. Bloody good amateurs eh

Brady Kurtz rode in thirteen Danish League 1 matches and two Danish Elite League matches for HSK Holsted in 2013. Await to see if an unattached Danish rider with similar experience would also be given a 5pt assessed GSA. If a Dane was assessed at 7.00, I believe this could be interpreted as discriminating against EU Nationals by the BSPA.

Not true. Centre of Edinburgh to Stadium 24.3 miles Centre of Glasgow to Stadium 28.0miles Courtesy of AA

Are you now going to regularly attend meetings at Trashfield ? Surely you're not a wee Glory Hunter

Take it you guys never buy a programme at Shielfield, otherwise you would know how to spell Matthew Wethers