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KO Cup Semi-Final - Bears v Gladiators Fri 12th and Sat 13th


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I'm curious, do start marshalls not get riders up to tapes anymore? Klindt and Lambert especially sat miles back in most of their heats and weren't ushered to tapes. In general there were a number of obvious unsatisfactory starts that the ref let go. 

I think it'll be close tonight. Hopefully the Glads sneak through but please can we replace Spencer, he's so far off the pace it's actually not fair on him.

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23 minutes ago, torpointfanatic22 said:

I'm curious, do start marshalls not get riders up to tapes anymore? Klindt and Lambert especially sat miles back in most of their heats and weren't ushered to tapes. In general there were a number of obvious unsatisfactory starts that the ref let go. 

I think it'll be close tonight. Hopefully the Glads sneak through but please can we replace Spencer, he's so far off the pace it's actually not fair on him.

King paticularly cant seem to sit still at tapes also. 

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46 minutes ago, torpointfanatic22 said:

I'm curious, do start marshalls not get riders up to tapes anymore? Klindt and Lambert especially sat miles back in most of their heats and weren't ushered to tapes. In general there were a number of obvious unsatisfactory starts that the ref let go. 

I think it'll be close tonight. Hopefully the Glads sneak through but please can we replace Spencer, he's so far off the pace it's actually not fair on him.

Nichols is the same.

Good meeting with some great racing and 1st Class coverage from BSN.

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3 hours ago, torpointfanatic22 said:

I'm curious, do start marshalls not get riders up to tapes anymore? Klindt and Lambert especially sat miles back in most of their heats and weren't ushered to tapes. In general there were a number of obvious unsatisfactory starts that the ref let go. 

I think it'll be close tonight. Hopefully the Glads sneak through but please can we replace Spencer, he's so far off the pace it's actually not fair on him.

I think that’s a fair comment, he’s 26 been riding for quite a few seasons and doesn’t look like he could ever be more than a very average second division reserve, if only the sport had a bigger crop of teenagers vying for places, it would benefit everyone, it can’t be fun travelling hundreds of miles knowing it’s likely your going to be switched around and score nothing.

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Pleased for Gary May and Plymouth. A shame BSN didn’t cover both legs of the semi. Was almost tempted to buy the stream tonight.

Should imagine the final against Poole is going to be packed out. Looking forward to it already.

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The only negative tonight is Ben barkers injury and hopefully it’s not serious but if it is it’ll be interesting to see if the may make two changes. 
 

I don’t know off the top of my head if there is someone on a 7.57 that can replace Bens points at home. I’m not sure how far Riss would be away but he could be a straight swap.
 

However you could possibly make 2 changes with barker and Spencer and that could cover the points. Would have 9.57 to cover for two riders. 

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37 minutes ago, Steve Shovlar said:

Pleased for Gary May and Plymouth. A shame BSN didn’t cover both legs of the semi. Was almost tempted to buy the stream tonight.

Should imagine the final against Poole is going to be packed out. Looking forward to it already.

I agree about BSN, especially as I've bought a season pass. But I am pleased to say that I bought the stream and enjoyed the conclusion of this 2 leg semi final. It was a bit strange to see riders you'd expect to see scoring a few points, top scoring and established heat leaders really struggling. But that added to the drama. Some out-and-out committed riding in a "true" knock out competition. 
Well done to both sides on both nights. A real racing competition.

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9 hours ago, Hawk127 said:

Well done to the Gladiators and that heat 15 result. Onwards and upwards with two of UK speedways ultimate professionals. Take a bow Scott and Danny. From the updates it seemingly was a great meeting on the best night of the week to run. Well done to all involved.

Hopefully a few more nights like this will be a fitting end Scott N riding career I bet the promotion wish he was even 5yrs younger but all good things come to an end . 

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4 minutes ago, redlead said:

5 points from the 2 top riders isn't good enough. But that apart, if Lamberts tyre had lasted for another half lap it would have been different.

 

 

Yeah , comes down to such incidents in tight matches. Klindt getting some stick,whether deserved or not it is a team sport and the best team usually wins. In the home leg the combined points from the bears 2,3,4,& 5  (14) was only one more than Nikolai's score. Completely agree he can be brilliant or underwhelming which is not what you want from your No1 where consistency is required .

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