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Should of stuck with the original plan of Lewis Kerr guesting 😆😆 Shocker of a debut for Drew I’m afraid, especially when we’ve been getting 10 points from R/R. Glasgow were lightening out of the start early on and that was that. The racing got good once we became competitive but it was too late.

Shocker of a start today, can’t get out the gate. Said Zischke and Kemp wouldn’t be the best partnership, both looking to ride the same bit of track

The points per meeting is a pointless stat at the moment, for example Edinburgh's is skewed by the fact they've rode 3 out of 4 meetings at home (including a home draw) and already have an aggregate point only 4 meetings in.

Interested to see how Kennett goes tonight, thought he looked rather good at Northside on Saturday given his long spell away.

Kemp is a really good signing, suits our track for sure. He can be very fast on his day. Scored 12 points last season at Northside from the No.1 position. Glad he's been snapped up and in the side for this weekend. Averaged 8.57 when riding in the No.1 position last season, so obviously has the ability, he kicked on massively over the last 2 seasons. I would move Kemp to No.5 and have Batchelor ride at No.3 with Tate, but that's just my opinion.

R/R worked out again ending with 10+1. Batchelor seemed to have more speed this week while his gating remains elite as ever, whereas Jeppesen seemed to struggle out the starts Max Perry impressive again, really good signing for us. Found something surprising looking at the stats seems like Batchelor has rode in every Comets meeting since the relaunch in 2024, 61 meetings in a row. Unless I'm mistaken, can't be many riders in British Speedway on that kind of streak for one club? (Lawson, Harris maybe??) Probably used to happen all the time years ago, but not so much in modern times.

Holm Jakobsen's average changes to 3.00 wef from the 6th, so it means we have up to 9.09 to replace Cookie

Vital 3 points in the end however.

It’s R/R for Cook, the rest unchanged. Jeppesen is riding and can take a R/R ride

The new update service has all that info too with detailed comments on each heat. It isn’t just a result service. Don’t know why it wasn’t done about 10 years ago

Yep, there are 3 riders in tonights oppostion from Redcar, any one of those make them stronger for sure

Yeah at home everyone barring Dan Thompson, Lawson and Masters can guest. Away we can't have Klindt or Harris. Cookie was averaging 9.25 (9.50 with bonus) to start the season though.

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It’ll be ‘withholding services’ for sure, Comets will be fine as they’ll get a 30 day facility but a 30 day ban for Cook. The old timers at the SCB and BSPL wont have any other method in dealing with it and probably give zero support to the rider. Hope Cookie is getting help, he is still one of the best riders in the league as he showed at Glasgow in his last outing, and is irreplaceable IMO. As for who replaces him, it has to be like for like on his 8.39 average, as we are way over the 40 point limit. Whoever it is won’t be as good as what Cook produces on track and in the pits.

Jeppesen got injured in Denmark last night, misses tonight’s meeting for Northampton 😪

Max Perry came in for Etherington, not Foord. Comets won’t have a bad reserve pairing when Vinnie is back. We missed him tonight with Mickie scoring zero. No suitable guests for him unfortunately

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Probably depends on how heavy we get outscored at reserve as Comets top 5 more than matches Glasgow’s especially now that Tate is riding well again.

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Forecast looks terrible on the met office rain radar I’m afraid. Rain comes in about 15.45 and leaves at midnight

Meeting off 😥

Comets visit Ashfield tomorrow night, Cookie back for this one, not sure if he'll ride at no.3 or 5. Expected Lineups Tigers 1. Harris 2. Hausl 3. Flint 4. Juhl Pedersen 5. Howarth 6. Hagon 7. Hodder Comets 1. Jeppesen 2. Holm Jakobsen 3. Cook 4. Zischke 5. Batchelor 6. Simpson 7. Perry

With the amount of injuries we've seen this season, along with other issues such as riders missing, away riding on the continent and 6 or 8 CL teams riding on the same day the guest and R/R situation needs reformed IMO. It's something that never seems to get looked at. R/R should be made more appealing, as it stands it more often that not, makes the side instantly much weaker and racks up the zero's for the reserves, especially if those reserves are NL guests. Something like if a 5.50 average rider is missing, the team manager gets 22 points (5.50x4) from the team's averages to replace that rider. It can be any combination, i.e an 8.5 could take a ride, but that one ride uses up most of the points, and technically have to use 'weaker' riders for the other 3 rides. It would bring more strategy to the meeting for team managers. If it's deemed too strong at a vote, a 5% reduction to the 22 points figure (20.9) could be in place for R/R used at an away meeting. The 8 day guest rule should be abolished IMO, with a lack of riders, I see no need for this rule anymore. Guests should be able to be brought in from anywhere on previous or assessed averages, i.e not declared in a PL or CL team, this would probably be very rare, but if clubs want to do it let them. The 28 day rule replacement rule is nonsense.

8 teams riding this Friday, so the choice of guests is from Plymouth only in the CL Probably R/R if Cookie isn’t fit, can’t see Nicholls taking it with his schedule of Ipswich Thursday, Plymouth Saturday. Berwick have already taken Tom Spencer, so a NL guest it is for Vinnie. Which puts the pressure on Max Perry to score our likely only points from reserve. Options for Saturday are also very limited with 6/9 teams riding.

Would be a waste of time putting Bowes off 15m that’s for sure 😆 Mitch Cluff hung back and was pointing out to the referee what Barker was doing, I saw it so I’m guessing the referee did too. God knows why he waited until the 3rd/4th bend to put the red lights on too.