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PETERBOROUGH will be without Bradley Wilson-Dean for this weekend’s Championship Shield semi-final clashes with Lakeside. The New Zealand star goes into hospital on Thursday for a pre-arranged shoulder operation, involving the removal of a plate and nine screws. And the T.Balfe Construction Panthers will be waiting until next week before discovering whether Wilson-Dean can play any further part in their trophy challenge. Promoter Ged Rathbone said: “The club were fully aware when we signed Bradley in mid-season that this operation would be taking place. “We didn’t expect the season to go on anywhere near as long as it has done – certainly, being successful and being in so many competitions has caused some other little problems! “After the operation we will re-assess Bradley next week to see whether it’s a season-ending injury, so we’ll give him a few days’ recovery time first, see how he feels and then go from there. “If he feels up for riding then he’ll continue, but we won’t know that until after the operation. “It’s not a major surgery and there should be no after-effects other than general soreness, so there is a slim possibility that he could carry on racing, and obviously he’s a vital part of the team. “We know it also affects Somerset (in the Premiership), so it’s just a waiting game, and if does turn out to be a season-ending injury then we’ll just dig deep again as we normally do. “I’ve got to stress that Bradley can’t take any blame here, both ourselves and Somerset were fully aware when we both signed him that this was planned, and whilst we have looked at sending him private, it wasn’t really an option within the timescale that we’ve got. We have to accept it and look at things in the middle of next week.” Meanwhile Panthers are also hoping that a further week will help Ulrich Ostergaard get back to speed after his long lay-off. The Dane, recently back from rib injuries, ran a last in his first ride on Sunday but improved thereafter and was involved in a hectic Heat 13 scrap with Richard Lawson and Ben Barker. Rathbone said: “We keep fully in touch with Ulrich and we support him in what he’s doing. “We all know his scores since he’s come back haven’t been up to the level that we, or he, expect and he’s working hard on the bike to sort things out. “He was out for a long time, but there were glimpses on Sunday that he’s on the way back, and hopefully that will be even more the case this weekend.” Panthers travel to Rye House for the first leg of the Championship Shield semi-final against Lakeside on Saturday (7pm) before hosting the return at the East of England Arena on Sunday (5pm).

No Steve he doesn't.

At no 4 in the averages, Bradley will be covered by Rider Replacement this weekend.

PETERBOROUGH will be without Bradley Wilson-Dean for this weekend’s Championship Shield semi-final clashes with Lakeside. The New Zealand star goes into hospital on Thursday for a pre-arranged shoulder operation, involving the removal of a plate and nine screws. And the T.Balfe Construction Panthers will be waiting until next week before discovering whether Wilson-Dean can play any further part in their trophy challenge. Promoter Ged Rathbone said: “The club were fully aware when we signed Bradley in mid-season that this operation would be taking place. “We didn’t expect the season to go on anywhere near as long as it has done – certainly, being successful and being in so many competitions has caused some other little problems! “After the operation we will re-assess Bradley next week to see whether it’s a season-ending injury, so we’ll give him a few days’ recovery time first, see how he feels and then go from there. “If he feels up for riding then he’ll continue, but we won’t know that until after the operation. “It’s not a major surgery and there should be no after-effects other than general soreness, so there is a slim possibility that he could carry on racing, and obviously he’s a vital part of the team. “We know it also affects Somerset (in the Premiership), so it’s just a waiting game, and if does turn out to be a season-ending injury then we’ll just dig deep again as we normally do. “I’ve got to stress that Bradley can’t take any blame here, both ourselves and Somerset were fully aware when we both signed him that this was planned, and whilst we have looked at sending him private, it wasn’t really an option within the timescale that we’ve got. We have to accept it and look at things in the middle of next week.” Meanwhile Panthers are also hoping that a further week will help Ulrich Ostergaard get back to speed after his long lay-off. The Dane, recently back from rib injuries, ran a last in his first ride on Sunday but improved thereafter and was involved in a hectic Heat 13 scrap with Richard Lawson and Ben Barker. Rathbone said: “We keep fully in touch with Ulrich and we support him in what he’s doing. “We all know his scores since he’s come back haven’t been up to the level that we, or he, expect and he’s working hard on the bike to sort things out. “He was out for a long time, but there were glimpses on Sunday that he’s on the way back, and hopefully that will be even more the case this weekend.” Panthers travel to Rye House for the first leg of the Championship Shield semi-final against Lakeside on Saturday (7pm) before hosting the return at the East of England Arena on Sunday (5pm).

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Lakeside v Peterborough play-off semi final on 6th October is not provisional, it’s the start time that is noted as tbc. The KOC match rained off last Saturday is still to be rearranged. http://www.lakesidehammers.co/fixtures/

The Rye House leg is OFF, Peterborough leg at 7.00pm goes ahead as planned

There’s four of each day in a 28-day period!

That’s exactly why it’s eight days not seven. As BCD said the rule is primarily there to prevent a team using the same guest week in week out (although few Clubs now have the luxury of racing consistently every week!). If Saturday is day 1, the next Saturday is day 8 not day 7

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The latter - logistics played no part in our decision.

The official Green Sheets are compiled monthly - up to 23rd - effective from the 1st of the following month. Also shown on the BSPA site are averages calculated up to the last meeting ridden by a Club. These give an indication of current form and likely future averages, but have no official meaning whatever. The Green Sheets are calculated over the last 20 meetings, League only in Premiership, League and Shield qualifiers in the Championship. So in essence the 1st October GSAs will be the final ones for 2018 and the opening ones for 2019 (unless the final PL match of the year takes place after 23rd September.

Rory's Green Sheet average is currently 8.79

Broc Nicol was ruled out under the 8 day rule. Our choice of guests did quite nicely though

It’s Duxford International Air Show next Sunday so the A1 route back to Peterborough looks favourite. ( That’s via Stevenage to avoid the M11)

http://www.speedwaygb.co.uk/championshiptable18

http://speedwayupdates.proboards.com/thread/18332/birmingham-peterborough-challenge-12-2018?page=2&scrollTo=369918 Pairings 1 and 2, 3 and 4, 5 and 6 all meet each other in first nine heats, for 10-12 the pairings split up, 13 and 14 are nominated from the four lowest scorers, Ht 15 is two top scorers from each team.

The reserve is only limited by the seven-ride rule - no other restriction.

Jordan Stewart guests for Tom. Danny Ayres does guest for Tom (subject to fitness) but for Birmingham at Coventry

3 x RR - http://www.speedwaygb.co.uk/18results/belle_vue_27.08.18_res.pdf

For the play-offs, guests cannot be drawn from the other competing teams of course.

The 8-day rule only applies to appearances as a guest, not as a member of a 1-7.

Thomas Jorgensen guests for Peterborough on Sunday

I don’t believe so - Art 16.3.4 reads: No Team changes will be allowed after 12TH August with the effective date being 15th August, except for riders returning to the Team after injury who must re-take their position, dictated by their MA with their replacement being released.