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Another excellent meeting on a very warm night but disappointing to give away a league point to a team who only provided three race winners. Palm Toft looked disinterested unlike last time and Riss warmed up as the night went on. Glasgow did well changing the reserves to suit each heat with Bailey really coming on each week. I would hold off on the race suit for MBA, he needs to ride more assertively and learn quickly that he'll have to pick a line, inside or out, sitting mid track invites passes. However 1 point is 1 better than Sarj in his last 2 home meetings. Hopefully next week we will have a replacement for Starkey, r/r yielded 4 points tonight, far less than PS would have.

Being reported that Starkey is out for around 6 weeks. Being fourth in the averages means r/r with 2 reserve rides and one for the newly installed MBA, which is asking a bit. Being a crucial part of the season we may be better with a temporary injury replacement as approx 6 weeks could actually be longer. Anyone got a number for Victor or Joel?

So much for the GSPA inferiority complex some of them are advocating.

There were always going to be multiple changes with the team building average increasing during the season, something I've never seen done before and hopefully never again.

Leicester Tigers! Now operating a squad system. Dickson trying to convince that Proctor disappointed to be dropped and has a point to prove when the teams meet this weekend. Do us a favour, even the Politburo would've been embarrassed to put that out.

In place of who?

Absolutely brilliant again with points scored across the 1-7.

Do us a favour with the Sedgmen comparison from almost a decade ago. This is the guy who Ipswich couldnt get rid of in 2017, missed all of 2018 and if he hadnt of been injured early in 2019 wouldve been clubless far longer.

Which race jacket is changing?

Desperate though Sedgmen will keep the wage bill down.

Suspect Cook isnt 100% and cant hang on in the deep stuff. Not once did he head right out wide to where Wright, King, Ayres etc went. Best rider by far won the night. Dont think either Starke or Wright deserved to be excluded in that crash, neither were aware of each other or intended to wipe each other out. Hope Starkey is ok.

Its what has been wrong with the sport for decades, its just that those in officialdom have viewed the top league as being British speedway, the other tiers being an afterthought. I'm a fan of the second tier and to make the top tier look strong in 2019, degrees of separation were built in to differentiate the product of PL and CL, purposefully weakening the CL with 4.5 points taken off the team building limit and a introducing a proliferation of 2 pointers, many of whom are not ready for it and detract from the racing experience. Again the CL this year is a legacy of the decision to protect the PL at all costs. Might not be back in the CL but return to the NL IMO. Brum are struggling in an already diluted CL and have been largely uncompetitive, making change after change in a desperate bid to win meetings at home, cover for injuries and avoid the wooden spoon. When being beaten on the road their TM isn't even using the TS ride to keep wage costs down. They have probably cut their cloth however needed to be strong from the start rather than go with a few mediocre riders. Naturally it would be good if they were to continue in the CL next year, get a bit of better luck and make better choices having learned from a tough first year. I agree, excellent fans, as experienced first hand earlier this month. Agree, work together is the answer, but the historic precedent is the top league first, and nothing suggests that culture will change.

They complained that much the ref had at least one Glasgow engine checked and measured after an 0131 meeting and were within 500cc. That clamped them.

Thats a fair point and if they do get bored we know its game over for the current standard of what we have. Having suffered the best part of struggle for 20 years, the current eutopia years are all the more enjoyable and perhaps change your judgement. However despite all that is written about us we arent superstars and the last 3 visitors have all scored over 40 points and the racing has been superb. From our league of 11 there are realistically 8 teams who could make the playoffs and the standard of competition is mostly good. No need to change it IMO.

Again, what is in it for CL teams to become one league? From this years CL teams, Birmingham and perhaps Sheffield may not continue into 2020. I never mentioned all being rosey but having PL teams imposed on them in one league isnt the answer IMO. Perhaps its viewed as the answer to the PL's major issues of riding in front of empty stadiums, poorly prepared or doctored tracks, seeing the same teams multiple times a season and having a belligerent senior official who owns 3 tracks and has a my way or no way attitude that clearly the sport doesnt need. The second tier has rarely been shown any sort of significance but now the top league is in bother we've all got to pull together, like 1995 again.

If its one league there wont be any doubling up.

Twelve months ago almost to the day we went into a last heat decider at Scunny and Harris made an arse of it being picked off by both Scorps. Thankfully we now have a top 2 who now bring home the bacon more often than not.

What a season this is turning out to be. Sounds a very eventful meeting, plenty of fight from the visitors and a couple of points from the No2 jacket.

Seriously though, why are we even engaging in buying rider registrations any more. The system is widely discredited and we've had first hand experience of being burned with the Lawson and Summers signings.

Jack Thomas was allegedly not being paid. Atkins is the second Somerset rider to step down this weekend.

More to the point is why did we go to this effort for Sarjeant. At first insistence to part with cash for his registration we should have moved for Nathan Greaves, or someone else.

No one has probably stopped to ask if the CL teams want the PL to join and the answer is no. There is nothing in it for us and we dont want the politics, bulls*it and crap tracks your league suffers from. We are doing just fine on our own thanks and have no interest in rescuing the big league, as if the shoe was on the other foot it wouldnt even be a consideration.

The only odd part is this post if you followed the recent thread.

Mystery over however judging by his recent form i wish they hadnt bothered. What goes around comes around.

Did we buy his registration?