Edinburgh v Workington Championship KO Cup (1st Leg) 23rd May 2025 7.30pm

[Mr Blobby]

2 minutes ago, szkocjasid said:

 

I stand by what I said, my point was that Parker is far from Champ standard & I couldn't believe there weren't stronger options available for the team?

That is where I felt Monarchs weren't giving their all, for example I could never imagine a team like Poole with their winning mentality, settling for a 3.00 NL reserve in their team.

Parker did exactly what I expected, only beat a non-finisher. Well done to Mark for doing that though.

Delighted for the middle order pairing, feel some of the criticism they've received has been too harsh. Two good scores against weaker opposition, can they continue against the leagues stronger sides?

Like I’ve already said Mark is only in for the Workington matches that’s it, Mark also knows this. We only needed someone to fill the whole for the weekend as the factory was up for Max.

So your pound is irrelevant.

 

[szkocjasid]

2 hours ago, SteelShoe said:

I think with another strong heat leader in the team Tate may well be at 2 which may take a bit of pressure off him, he his finding consolidation of last seasons pre injury form difficult at the moment.. Ideally Fraser would have started at reserve like the Kennedys at Scunny and McDiarmid at Oxford which would help him find his feet.

It's obvious that the point scoring abilities provided last year by Cookie coupled with the solid away average of Claus Vissing are a big miss. Jye's away performances so far haven't been what has been  required from a rider with his experience while Antti continues to be an enigma on a lot of away tracks which is hard to fathom for a rider who often looks top notch at home.

Would've been hard if not impossible to achieve that team building with a 40 point limit. Another strong heat leader would mean weaker reserves needed. With Bowes being on a 5.00, but the Kennedy's & McDiarmid on 4.00 (or 4.27 for Zaine) it was easier for them to be at reserve.

[kevcfc]

Unfortunately we're mainly a team of riders in positions that they shouldn't be in. Tate and Anti aren't heat leaders, the same as Jay and Taylor aren't second strings. So we find ourselves with 2 second strings and 4 reserves. And Troy, who to be fair needs to pick up 15 points per meeting to even keep us competitive. Which he'll never do, unless he makes 5 worldy starts. 

[cyclone]

Whilst we filled our boots tonight,  the reverse could happen at Worky.

Leon Flint who is going through a purple patch, replacing Zischke, imo strenghthens the Comets considerably.

Remember the scores when we last met Worky in the  2018 KoC semi:-

Edinburgh Monarchs 59 Workington Comets 31

Workington Comets 61  Edinburgh Monarchs 29

No time to be complacent, with North Side being a new track to both Swedes & also a raw number  seven who is  unlikely to beat any Championship reserve, barring non finishers.

[Endeavour]

7 hours ago, GM95 said:

Rotten? We’ve won at Ashfield, ran Berwick and Plymouth close away. Every meeting bar the Glasgow (A) BSN match has been a last heat decider. We gifted Poole the win last week but we are far from rotten.

We’ve got the foundation of a great team, if we can get the Oskar and Max replacements right then we will be challenging.

Rotten is too harsh a word but we should have closed out both the Poole and Plymouth matches and one of Glasgow ones. If we want to make play offs these are matches we should be winning. Last night hopefully should help confidence wise even if Comets didn't show up. The Polis replacement and a decent no 7 will be key to the season and Paco who is  so unpredictable in each beating.