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Also a great week for Antti, great performance during the week at the SON, on the podium today and was told at the track today he’s signed for Belle Vue to replace Tate.

4.00 average I believe. Would certainly be better than that figure.

Rode the NSS well during the week, good signing for BV

Back injury I was told, has had trouble with it before

I'm abit surprised with the call off, given it's probably good drying weather. However still not getting a good summer up here and had very heavy flash flooding where I am yesterday. When there's about 10 other dates on a Sat/Sun this can be re-arranged to and the alcohol addicted folk wanting to go out and watch the footy it's not a surprise.

Meeting is off again

Just seen some of those comments and they are laughable but typical of the Facebook crowd. I.e the type of people who’ve never heard of Tate or even Workington. Connor Mountain is a run of the mill 5 point Championship rider at 26 years old and they’ve just signed an 18 year old who’s already achieved a higher average than Connor ever has, who cares about nationality. Top level professional sport should be cut throat and I applaud the BV promotion for the change.

It was a disappointing meeting last night, and casual fans attending last night probably thought it was a joke that it was 1st vs 2nd in the league with our performance. Cookie proved that he is a master of throttle control, had the bike working perfectly on bends 3/4 but none of our other riders could adapt. Nothing lost though, the bonus point was never going to be achievable. Oxford are a very strong team at home. As for changes at reserve, it’s a must now. Sam’s confidence must be shot, he’s not even banging in scores in a weak NDL to keep something going. Last night Sam rode like it was his first time on a bike, that might sound harsh with difficult track conditions, but this is professional speedway now not NDL. Can’t believe I’m saying this but there’s a better 2 point rider working in the Comets pits! From what I saw of him guesting at Redcar he’s slowly improving and could fill a gap until the end of the season. I don’t think signing Jody Scott is realistic, but would like to be proved wrong. Probably not a lot of options for a 4 point reserve, but still think Celina has something to give especially at home

What a terrible spectacle this is. Guessing the heat is causing the track problems

Poor lad, was looking forward to watching him ride

Roynon injured? How did that happen! He is riding according to the Comets meeting preview sent out tonight

Was meant to be Scunthorpe at Home but was changed months ago and brought forward a week to the 22nd June instead.

Lambert at Number 1?, that's hardly inspiring to get people through the gate. He was rather poor when Scunny visited

Sounds promising for him there's no lasting damage re the scans then. 2 of those wouldn't fit, only up to 7.20 is available for a guest. Although I guess Sedgman might be there as Plymouth's No 1 (or 5) I'd go for Connor Bailey again, this time he'd be riding at No.2

It’s a brave move by Dickson judging by some of those hilarious comments on the Leicester FB page. I’m sure he knows best, and if Cookie continues his electric gating it will be a massive upgrade at reserve on a rider like Kemp, both home and away on the mainly slick tracks in the Premiership.

Kelvin gives me Alan Partridge vibes, pure car crash commentary with him being on his own tonight.

Ace Pijper is in for Celina as she is unwell 3 of last years Comets in the side today

Oxford Lineup 1. Sam Masters – 9.05 2. R/R for Henry Atkins – 4.28 3. Cameron Heeps – 4.77 4. Jordan Jenkins – 5.89 5. Scott Nicholls – 8.54 6. Ashton Boughen – 3.38 7. Luke Killeen – 4.17 8. Jody Scott R/R for Atkins must make them stronger surely as Atkins has been averaging a grand total of 0.62.

Yeah you can't hold grudges in speedway, riders are at a premium and they swap clubs nearly every season anyways. Connor hasn't kicked on this season like I thought he might, only averaging 4.50. But is still capable of a good meeting now and then.

If we can get a guest in who can score 6/7 it should be enough to beat Oxford but would maybe worry about the aggregate bonus point

I'm sure the older generation do, but you can have special interest groups for that of which there was a few like the 'Old time speedway' page. But it wasn't constant sharing of old posts by the same people, which had zero engagement that filled up the timeline which made me leave

That Speedway Friends group was the worst anyways, full of people asking the same old questions and then people spamming the page with posts about racing from about 50 years ago or more which no one cares about.

Yeah wouldn't entertain Lambert either, would be terrible. Bailey, Edwards, Castagna or Mountain the best options from the list I'd say

Antti missing next Saturday so will have to find a guest (up to 6.49) as he's riding in the GP qualifiers.

Will probably have Charles Wright guesting if Pickering isn't fit