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i think Belle Vue should be banned from the play offs as it is more likely to rain in Manchester in October than anywhere else TV control all sport, it is a fact of current life unless your plotting taking over Sky and BT. Ward would not be at Poole because we can't fit him in unless we dropped Janowski and there is no chance of us letting him go to Coventry. Personally i have never been to Belle Vue because it is quite a long way from Poole and that is unlikely to change even for a vital play off meeting and i expect i am not alone in that regard.

In fairness he did get 6 points last time and rosco put him in heat 15! He has showed much improved form lately and was good at another small track recently, 16 at Wolves so not that surprising.

I dont thjnk it is a certainty that krcmar couldnt have beat lakeside reserves and score as many a Blackbird.Overall a fantastic and very surprising result for the robins.

It does look like a easy Lakeside win but you never know Zengota might suddenly decide he can ride the track and score well, Lewis Blackbird cannot do any worse than Krcmar would have done and could be a reasonable guest, Batch should score well, he and Darcy should have 6 rides so they could get 30 between them, so maybe not all doom and gloom.

Well it was a bit obvious to have so many issues on one night, he looked very quick when Poole were there and no breakdowns! I really don't know where they got the idea from!!

Belle Vue are certainly favourites, you have 6 meetings at home, Swindon only 3 and all your meetings from now until the end of the season would be meaningless without the play offs. If the play offs didn't exist there would be little point in bringing in Darcy and the excitement he brings would be lost until next season. The play offs are not only good for tv, they are good for the fans, which you will find out if you beat Swindon to 4th spot., I have been to many, even been to some when my team are not involved and they are fantastic meetings to attend. We are in a titanic end of season battle for first and the top teams racing for vital points as it does matter. I know the purists like yourself would rather there was no tv coverage and no play offs but that is the world we now live in. I go to football with matches starting at varying times on a sunday, saturday tea time, saturday lunch time and i long for the saturday at 3 kick off like it used to be but tv rules. I blame myself, if i didn't keep replying he wouldn't keep up pretending play offs are a bad thing.

Hope they arrange it before the cut off!! Wouldn't want any rain affected meetings that finish after heat 9 and can't be re-run. What happens when Swindon arrive and it's wet and are losing.

Despite what you have said on another thread it does appear by your comments that you do hate Swindon or at least dislike them. Just to add good luck to the Robins and Darcy tonight.

This battle for 4th could go down to the wire which is good for the play off system and good for speedway in general in my opinion. Assuming Belle Vue win all their home meetings and get a point at Wolves that 16 points unless they win at Wolves but can't see them getting all four so i would say max would be 18, can't see them getting anything at Poole so if Poole win monday at Belle Vue then a likely max would be 15. Swindon got 4 points at Wolves recently, so a repeat in on the cards plus 3 home meetings that's 13 and could easily pick up 2 or 3 losing bonus points so if Poole win monday the favourite for 4th would be Swindon, if Belle Vue manage to win monday then that would mean another win on the road or a couple more bonus points, either way it is certainly making the end of season more interesting.

Nothing to do with your hatred of Swindon then!

Looking at the teams that have been announced can't see any way the Robins will get anything from this meeting, i think Missing Nick Morris is a major blow for them, Lakeside certainly got the better gust in Swidders but with Darcy getting probably 16 with a tac ride they have a chance of a point.

Oh ok well he wont be riding then.

What rules have Swindon broken?

Why hopefully? Wouldn't bank on Wolves helping anyone out.

I think he can guest for the home team.

Disagree i still think the Robins will do it. Poole are at Belle Vue monday and i think we may be able to do Swindon a favour.

I hope not too i like him a real trier who has scored well lately and who could we get that's any better on his average and in my view that would be a big risk, losing North from the team is less of a risk as he clearly isn't riding well and a top PL rider like Brady Kurtz could do a better job.

As i have said previously nothing wrong with Kacper he tries so hard in every race and got a decent return last night. I believe last weeks score against Wolves flattered North and why he was in heat 15 i have no idea except we didn't need the points.In my view you should always have the strongest riders on the night in heat 15 regardless of the scoreline. Garrity and Sargeant are the strongest reserve pair in my opinion but Newman and Starke are a close second. North proved last night he is nowhere near his early season form and his average is in freefall, no idea why but it cannot continue, we need all our riders riding well in the play offs.

i have always maintained that local advertising is very beneficial, our local has the Pirates mentioned every day and regular news even in the winter, added to the close proximity the track is to town which also helps as most tracks these days are nowhere near the town they are mean't to represent. Surprising how much fight Lakeside had considering their position, we did used to have a system that included the top six or we could, like i believe Poland do which is first v bottom etc. The reason Lakeside slashed prices is to tempt people who would otherwise watch on tv, when it is on tv all clubs should reduce prices. Last night's Poole meeting was very well attended which was most likely the Darcy effect and it wasn't on tv.

I agree the margin of victory was surprising, with Zengota doing so well at wolves i was expecting a good score from him, Swindon are a decent team in my view and they will come back to make the play offs. Good to see Darcy racing again. Tonight showed Norths max against wolves was a fluke and if we win the play offs it will be in spite of him, should have dropped him by now.

And Watt

Why not? Will there be a Panthers team next year?

I hear Belle Vue are getting better attendances this season, most likely due to the improved performance of the team and of course being in contention for the play offs definately helps otherwise they wouldn't bother would they.

Doubt if many will attend this one, not anything to do with it being important for Belle Vue to win so they will be in the play offs but more to do with the lack of opposition who most likely will roll over very easily. I certainly can't see many Lakeside fans turning up expecting to get easily beaten who have no chance of making the play offs anyway.

Maybe it is for those who never make the play offs!!