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Quite! He’s not just been lacking points but miles off the pace. Whalley was far more competitive on Wednesday. He needs to sort himself out quickly.

No question they are but Nicholls shouldn’t be beaten by those two on any track

Nicholls has been embarrassing, with no King we would always have struggled but losing to Harrison and Ablitt is shocking. To be fair it was a massive mistake giving him the tactical. Tate has been our best rider along with Thompson

Ahhh, if ever a post reflected a nickname...Respectfully that's rubbish. The impact on his confidence finishing that far back in every heat can't be good for him and he's 26! It's not like he's a teenager who is upcoming, I'd argue 26 is far too old to be classified as a rising star anyway. Can't fault Tom's efforts and his professionalism but at this time he's clearly not ready for this level of racing. Hopefully a focus on NL for him will help him potentially secure a Championship place in the future. As for his replacement Ben Whalley, it's a brave shout bringing in an NDL 2 point rider straight into the Championship even with the amount of points he's scored. Anyone know much about him from his Edinburgh form? Either way got to be worth a try!! Good luck to him.

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.

Looking forward to watching this one tonight. Never been disappointed with the racing at Redcar, hopefully a great meeting. I feel this tie could well come down to how Grmek gets on tonight, he and Klima have never seen the place as far as I know and with Spencer unlikely to do much scoring, we'll need Anze to compete and score fairly well, hopefully he does.

Bit of both but the track was shocking. My lad was covered in dust after heat 1 and wasn't quiet about it 🤣 Plymouth barely made a gate all night and even if they made the jump the Oxford boys were generally away off bend 2. I think Oxford will be very tough to beat at home with that top 5, they were very, very good and the current form of Wood at reserve is a massive bonus, thought he was very good value and rode far better than his average. For Plymouth, King was solid enough, Nicholls went from terrible to brilliant after the interval, clearly having mechanical challenges but was far better in 13 and 15. Klima did quite well on his first visit, struggled in heat 2 but then showed some decent speed, needed to get off the white line though. The Slovenian lad looked alright in his first ride, gated but got a bit beaten up and ended up falling, after that was nowhere. Barker was poor bar one ride, Thompson deserved a little more for his efforts and sadly Spencer was way way off it and must be replaced. On last nights showing, I think Glasgow tomorrow could be a bit of a hammering, hope I'm wrong.

Great, thanks, I'll find it on the map

Hi guys, My son and I are making the trip to Sandy Lane tonight (Plymouth fans, sorry), with the car parking situation highlighted above, can anyone point me in the direction of an alternative place to park please? Thanks so much in advance.

Harsh? Maybe, but he's had 3 matches, 12 rides and scored 3+1 where every point scored was as a result of an exclusion or faller. If he was on the pace, competing, you'd have to say yeah give him more time, but he's been a mile behind and nowhere near being competitive, I mean at Poole he was 1/4 of a lap behind after the first lap in the reserves race, and even at Plymouth he's been tailed off a long way. It would be harsh, but the best teams make tough decisions no matter how early on and while the spare points are there, we should be all over a stronger number 7 especially with this new Slovenian lad who is unlikely to produce the kind of points Tobias would have got us (at least early on). Trigger isn't pulling up trees but he'd definitely be a better option at this stage imo. We've 3 cup matches this week and assuming we don't make a change prior to those, if Spencer doesn't at least get competitive he's got to be gone before the league action starts.

Based on starting 1-7's that lets face it mean nothing as hardly any will actually stay the same due to injuries / form but... 1. Poole 2. Oxford 3. Glasgow 4. Plymouth 5. Worky 6. Edinburgh 7. Berwick 8. Redcar 9. Scunthorpe Think 4th, 5th and 6th could go to any one of the three there and hope Plymouth sneak it

Very true and as much as I like Alfie, he's had plenty of chances at Plymouth to improve and while his home form has been good, away he's just not kicked on. Don't think the promotion can be knocked for that one. Tobi went really well at Plymouth last year and it would appear the promotion are being more ambitious and looking for riders that can perform away from home in 2026, fair play to them. Fully expect Barker to be back and if we can find a strong reserve we could surprise a few.

Not having Nicholls as number 1 will be crucial and I love the idea of a return for Dan, although I'd be shocked if that happened. The only reason I'd bring back Joe is if he comes with Dan, I thought Joe was disappointing last year and the amount of times I saw him give the first bend was quite telling, still young enough to improve of course but he hasn't shown the improvement I'd hoped for. I'd step away from Alfie personally, he's a top guy but he's reached his level imo. As a reserve, maybe but I'd look at other options. Klima could be interesting, would be good to have another look at him. I'd happily have Klindt back...Providing he can turn up.

He'll be back, he's been poor away but his home form continues to see him perform really well plus his connections to the promotion will see him back.

And the prize for 'How to contradict oneself in the same post', goes to... The rules at the end of the day are what they are, do most people agree with them, not really. But the reality is, Plymouth saw two riders injured less than 24 hours before staging this meeting. They also had two others injured from 7 days prior. At this point in the season to suggest they could sign replacements is a bit of a joke (as much of a joke as the guest system but hey ho). Context is everything.