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I don't think Berwick were that bad, they lost by 16 points (not a thrashing) away from home, against a team expected to be amongst the favourites for the league, who were strengthened by Edwards taking 3 of Mulford's rides!

Trying to give a realistic suggestion, close enough to entice some Diamonds fans so they don't lose money. Let's be honest Bandits would get thrashed by Lynn!

Bad excuse for me, should've started with a challenge match (against Newcastle) if they were concerned about being rusty!

I'd put the riders where I think it suits the team best, which for me would be Tom at 3 & Ben at 5.

Pickering is 5th in the averages, so can't really lump him in with the "top 3". If he can ride Armadale, there's no reason why he shouldn't do better at Wolves - that being said, he's only lost to Wolves top 5, who are all flying on their home track!

Can't see that happening as Wolves top 5 are all decent. Don't see their averages dropping much, if at all!

I rate Lynn, but don't think this is a track they'll do well on, so will go for a Wolves win 8-10 points!

In Wolves case, after Masters the next 4 are pretty close in averages, so using second strings to cover Becker's rides isn't an issue, a reserve having to take one ride, probably would hurt them the most. How the averages luck out makes a big difference too, missing Schlein (7.14) and Masters gets a ride, missing Becker (7.11) and Masters does not get a ride. Makes a massive change to their r/r strength for the difference of 0.03 in the averages. Whatever the system is, it will suit some clubs more than others based on how their team is built. Lynn & Sheffield having a strong reserve would probably make them the teams most capable of covering r/r.

Scunthorpe have a 28 day facility "which can be extended" for Kennedy so in fairness Wolves MUST be allowed a 28 day facility for Becker (surely)!

Could the ref not just exclude the rider for "delaying the start" in that instance?

Watching EMTV+ & Mike Hunter was interviewing Ritchie Hawkins & they mentioned a debacle of Witches getting knocked out by Berwick in the KOC, so I thought I'd look up the matches to see what happened. A few interesting comments, most expecting Berwick to need a big lead & assuming it's over after a 4 point win (they only lost at Ipswich by 2 in the second leg). Also lots of anti guests comments, I see some things haven't changed in the 7+ years since this match!

I don't think there's any available riders who could score what Kennedy would have, any decent riders available have averages that are too high!

Don't know if you meant that as a negative comment towards Berwick, but Edwards taking Mulford's rides is the equivalent of Berwick racing a team above the points limit!

He probably won't have many options though.

What's going on with Richard Andrews in this match, 2 rides & 2 falls, odd as it's not as if he's a NL novice who's never ridden Plymouth before!

Expecting a 10-12 point lead for the Bears here.

1. Kyle Bickley - 9.58 2. Max James - 3.00 3. Connor Bailey - 8.66 4. Adam Roynon - 6.00 5. Nathan Stoneman - 8.67 6. Luke Harrison - 3.00 7. Luke Killeen - 3.00 Total - 41.91

What about the elderly, disabled, people in hospital, people away on holiday, people who are working late. There's many reasons fans might chose to stream if they can't make it to a match. Get rid of streaming & you'll lose all these payments! There maybe some who chose to stream, who would normally attend (especially in bad weather) but Speedway is always better live than on TV, so don't imagine there would be many choosing to stay at home if they could go.

With the amount of call offs we get for shared events in the UK, it would be good to have the same rule as Poland.

I was using their "actual" averages from Championship matches, as a foreigner Gino couldn't drop below 4.00 for his official average.

Manzares averaged 3.29 (3.67) for Scunny in 2018, MacDonald averaged 3.96 (4.49) for them in 2021. Think you're being a bit hard on Josh! If you don't want these two, do you have someone better in mind?

You can bet if next year starts at the end of April we'll have a dry March & first half of April, then a very wet spell as soon as the speedway starts!

Personally I wouldn't fly a reserve in for matches, be different if it was a heat leader!

I wouldn't want to fly Manzares over for matches when he didn't impress last time. If MacDonald is based in the UK, I'd go for him.

It's not an easy pick, all 3 leagues are hard to predict imo