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Cookie must be the exception.

Edinburgh are usually pretty loyal.

King scored 7 last time at Armadale.

That's bizarre that sky use their own race times! They never mention them either - just flash a number briefly on the screen.

Just a big humping. 3 or 4 of them not turned up it seems.

Sadly no. Their rolling greensheet averages at the moment are....... 36.01!! Cookie 10.12 / Smiler 9.13 / Agent K 8.51 / Sedgy 8.25. So under 6 and a half points to play with for 3 riders - one of whom is Erik who is on 5.05!! I suppose we could track a 5 man team - probably win a few as well!!

Errr should this not be in the Ippo 2016 thread or even 2017 or 2018? And the dream top 3 everyone would want is Cookie, Smiling Sam and either Super Agent Kevin or Sedgy the Sedgehammer. And there's only 1 PL team likely to have them!!

Don't think THJ ever finished a race at Armadale!!

Newcy Brown man I reckon!

Even if he was injured from each home meeting I doubt he would match Smiling Sam's immaculate 12 point maximum from r/r AWAY from home!!

I didn't mean only Covatti & Morris from this year's team, I meant from Christopher Cook's list of .......... Covatti with Worrall, Jacobsen, Riss, Morris, Sissis.... !!

It's a fair bet that out of that lot you'll have....................... Covatti & Morris.

Poor Rob Branford is going to be knackered. that'll be his 11th meeting in 11 days!! 6 down - 5 to go!!

Not sure a full team has raced against us at Armadale this season so we're pretty much used to it. And Sam has been missing from a big number of away matches because of his injury so their supporters haven't seen our full team either.

Thing is, it's not so easy to fly round the boards when there's someone else flying round them that is as fast as you. I'm sure Rebels would have made a lot more passes against most other PL teams.

You doing a raindance or just a simple prayer?

Don't think the track was rubbish either. Certainly there were a few ding dongs battles quite late in the meeting. And Cookie had at least 2 very quick times, though you have to be quick to see them on the Sky screen!! 56.15 in heat 4 or 5 and a 56.2something in an earlier one. Given the TR is apparently 56.08 set in 2007 and this season's fastest was 56.44 by young Kurtz only last Friday then the track can't have been that bad. Certainly heat 13 was one to remember for a long time.

Fantastic - so pleased.

I think it's much more useful than just the basic averages since the harder rides have extra value. I would like to see the table extended beyond just the top 10.

And should Ippo not be +2?

You know they've taken the word gullible out of the dictionary?

Have to say Greenwood was pants too. And kurtz was pretty mince.

Was up to Somerset to put up a fight.

Thought you were good at bets George? You'll probably get 20/1 for that. Worth a tenner or your money. Are there TR's in the league cup? (apart from Cookie being super quick obviously.) Sorry I meant 200/1.

But the great thing was.... no fallers. (Though young kurtz had a fair try - both at trying to wipe out Super Agent and then himself.)