DunRobin

Correct but if you re-declare, you will have be within the 42.5 limit. However if you replace like for like, i.e. if you have 2 riders that now have achieved an 8 average this season, the 42.5 limit would not apply.

All this moaning about the reserves is not justified. Rosco chose to go top heavy as did he last season. Did we finish bottom of the heap? No, we won the league. The reserves will pick up the odd point here & there, as long as the top 5 ride to their averages, that's ok with me. Zac will improve with time & will eventually prove a good signing. The majority of the side are now Swindon assets &that can only be good for the future.

Must be a home win for Poole, Rye House are really struggling away,only 97 points scored from 3 meetings. 56 - 34

We were top heavy last season with weak reserves, as were Wolves. Do I need to remind you who the teams that contested the p/off final last season. I still think that this top heavy team will be there or there-about come the end of the season.

That's not their green sheet averages, it's this season's league meetings. What is interesting is that for of those complaining about having Troy rather than Jason, Troy is outscoring Jason, as is Nick!

You must be naive if you don't believe that average fixing does not go on. It has happened so often in the past. I can remember Leigh Adams remarking on a certain team's performance in the past. I have never seen so many engine failures from 1 side in 1 meeting & when the engines didn't fail, they seemed to be running on go-slow fuel.

I think the rule is there to cover a number of options - (a) riders staying down deliberately, (b) where the remaining rider is adrift of the 2 riders in front. It only seems fair to me in these 2 options that the referee should have the discretion not to penalise the riders in front by allowing the remaining opponent to get back on level terms in the rerun.

That doesn't happen now as much as it did. Look at the p/off final last season, the 2 teams that contested it had arguably the worst reserves in the league.

That's right.

Heat 15 points count towards the averages but when the averages are calculated, the total of points are divided by the number of rides & multiplied by 4 to determine the average.

To keep their average down, It can help with team changes if they are needed. Their is no incentive in heat 15, once the match is won at home. Like someone else said, if the away's team's point was taken off the home teams points, bringing down to 2 points, then you might see a different attitude.

The reason that Swindon are alone in Thursday nights is that the original fixed nights for Premiership was going to be Mon & Thur with Sheffield coming up. However, Sheffield would not come up & then there was apparently a long debate as certain Championship sides wanted to preserve their Thursday meetings. A compromise was then made & Thurs became Wed. However it is very difficult for Swindon as both Mon & Wed, there is dog racing at the stadium, afternoons on Mon & evenings on Wed. So a concession was given to Swindon to allow them to continue in the Premiership.

You're right, only r/r for 2nd strings if only one missing, if both missing guest + r/r. Guest if doubling up rider missing.

Go away you stupid man.

And Poole have never won a meeting against a weakened side, so that means that is you win at NSS, you will be lucky. You forget how many meetings we had to ride with either a weakened or a side with an injured Jason Doyle, who has since admitted that he didn't give his all in those league meetings.

How were they lucky? They raced badly in the 1st meeting & made up for it in the 2nd. Your trouble is THAT YOU HATE SWINDON. You didn't enjoy living there & you can't forget that.

You're only jealous. We were far away the best side in the league last season. The unbeaten winning streak showed that. Why don't you admit, you keep saying that Gavin is a troll when you are no better. Your problem is that you can't see the bigger picture, all you you see is Poole.

He offered them the chance of a practice ride as the normal paraded was cancelled to speed things up, as they were worried about weather that was predicted to come in later. All the riders usually have a practice ride following the parade. It is without doubt, right that the meeting should have been called off Danny King has said that in hindsight, the meeting should never have started but agreed that he was quite happy for the meeting to go ahead at the time.

It didn't make any sense that rule, the gardening has to be done within the 2 min rule so what is the problem.

The Clerk of the Course offered the riders the chance to try the track out b4 the meeting. Nobody took up the offer.

Don't get into arguments with this no mark, just put him on ignore & let him argue with himself. He's just a deluded keyboard warrior! Bye Bye MFF

So you still think he's a temporary replacement. Let's wait & see. I get the feeling he will not be back for a while, if at all this season.

Annoyingly the set days for Premiership were set to be Thursdays but were then changed to Wednesday to appease some Championship clubs. Surely, the top league should have precedence in the matter& teams could have moved up to keep their Thursday spot.

I'm sure the original fixture is the the fixture list first published. I don't think you can make it the original fixture just by re-arranging the fixture before the other team re-arranges.

Do Swindon own Zach? He was a Lakeside asset & I must have missed that change.